STAFFORDSHIRE TALES OF MYSTERY & MURDER

Paperback. Each county holds within it a store of amazing mysteries and chilling murders. Staffordshire is no exception. This collection of fascinating stories includes the kidnap of a teenage girl and her murder in Bathpool Park, Kidsgrove; the mysterious origins of the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance; the tale of Sir Gawain, the Green Knight and Lud's Church; the brutal killing of Christina Collins on the Trent & Mersey canal in 1839; and the capture of Germany's Enigma cipher book during the Second World War by Tamworth hero, Colin Grazier. Other tales recount the dreadful murders carried out by Rugeley's Dr William Palmer; the intriguing details of Leek's double sunset; the once secret assignments given to an SAS officer from Codsall; the fears behind the terrible destruction caused by an explosion of ammunition deep in Fauld's gypsum mine in November 1944; and the mystery of the inscriptions on the Shepherds' Monument in the grounds of Shugborough Hall. Illus., Bibliog. 110pp. paperback. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F.