MIDDLESEX TALES OF MYSTERY & MURDER

Softcover. Each county holds within it a store of amazing mysteries and chilling murders. Middlesex is no exception. This collection includes the fascinating stories of the Camden Town murder of 1907, claimed by some to have been the work of artist Walter Sickert; the mystery of the BEA Trident aeroplane which dropped out of the sky alongside the Staines by-pass; George Smith, the 'Brides in the Bath' murderer who was caught after drowning his third victim in Highgate; Peppi the cat who spontaneously combusted at an old folk's home in Stanmore; and the discovery of an inscribed cross that seemed to suggest that King Arthur's mystic Isle of Avalon was located in Enfield. Other tales include 'The Nudes in the Thames' killings perpetrated by a mystery man dubbed 'Jack the Stripper'; the accountant who tried to sell his bungalow in Shepperton but was hampered by the ghosts of two beautiful young women; claims that the grave of the Warrior Queen Boadicea lies beneath platform 10 at King's Cross station; and the last two women to be hanged for murder in Britain, Mrs Christofi and Ruth Ellis, who both committed crimes in South Hill Park, Hampstead. Illus. + Map. 127pp. trade size softcover. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.