MURDER WILL OUT

Hardback. Featuring 29 of the most famous American murder cases which took place during the previous century. Includes amongst others : Mattie Hackett and the tramp whose confession made one of the greatest sensations a Maine courtroom ever knew; Theodore Durrant who killed his sweetheart and her chum in a San Francisco church; Christie Warden whose murderer hid for 6 weeks in her father's barn and went out nightly to put flowers on her grave; Lieut. Becker, victim either of the "rats of the underworld" or of New York police corruption at its lowest depths; H.H. Holmes, "the resurrection man"; Mate Bram; Charlie Tucker etc., etc. 291pp. small 8vo. h/back. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Browned pp., small closed tear to lower edge of tp, tiny label to fpd, patchily faded covers, in very poor but scarce dw. which has lge. piece missing from fr. cover, and lower 'blurb' detached. Nr. Vg. in poor dw.