SHOCKING HAMPSHIRE MURDERS

Softcover. Featuring sixteen gruesome murders, all Hampshire based and ranging in date from 1628 to 1964. Drawing largely from reports of the inquests, magistrates' proceedings and trials printed in the local press, the author ranges from the murders of Galley and Chater, and James Parker, to Mrs Chapman and Yvonne Laker, all nothing if not shocking in their depravity, whilst the murder of Fanny Adams must rank as the most horrible of all Victorian crimes. The murder weapons were as varied as the motives for committing the deeds: guns, razor, broken bottle, hammer, knife, iron pipe, woodworking tool, lead stick, dagger, bill-hook, bayonet and sheer brute violence. In most of the cases the verdict of guilty was a foregone conclusion, in some the evidence was circumstantial and in one the murderer was never found. Illus. + Bibliog. 117pp. trade size p/back. F. with no creasing to covers.