WARWICKSHIRE MURDERS

Paperback. A look at a series of horrid crimes which took place in the county over the last 400 years. They range from well-documented 17th century murders to 20th century crimes which called upon the most sophisticated police procedures. There was the murder in 1954 of the 45yr. old midwife whose double life led to a violent end. Superstition and rumour of witchcraft hampered modern police methods in a still unsolved case in 1945. The convenient disappearance of Captain Richard Hill in 1693 remained undiscovered for over a century. And in 1897, a guilty secret drove Nurse Brandish to murder, in her struggle to conceal the truth. The author recreates the lives of the murderers and their victims together with the attempts to bring them to justice. Illus., Select Bibliog. and Index. 127pp. paperback. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F.