Paperback. Scotland has its share of notorious and nefarious characters - from the almost mythological Sawney Bean and his cannibalistic family, Burke and Hare the body snatchers, Jessie King the child murderer, to the still as yet unidentified 'Bible John'. A book presenting a catalogue of murders and murderers - instances where someone, somewhere has felt that death was the only answer - to which we can only ask: Why? Index. 192pp. p/back. V. lightly browned pp. o/w Nr. F. with no creasing to covers.