MUTINY AND MURDER

Hardback. The author relates some of the most notorious instances of piracy, mutiny and murder that have occurred during the previous 3 centuries. Reaching ashore, the tentacles of crime embrace the brutal killing of Captain Joseph White and the savage axe murders of the Lizzie Borden case. Chapter headings include : Dixie Bull; The "Judicial Murder" of Six Pirates; Isle of Terror; A Case of Petit Treason; Murder in the Well; America's Last Woman Pirate; The Fairbanks-Fales Murder; Circumstantial Evidence; An Utterly Depraved Rascal; Heaven-Forsaken Samuel; Doctor Webster Gets Two Bodies; Murder in Salem; The Bay State's Last Pirate Execution; Murder at Harvard; The 'Wanderer', Fastest Afloat; The Lizzie Borden Murder Case. Appendices + Index. 306pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned pp. Vg+ in vg+ dw.