ONE MORNING IN MAY. The Mary Ashford Mystery

Softcover. The year is 1817 and a young girl, Mary Ashford is looking forward to the annual Whitsun dance, which is held at a local Coaching Inn. She attends the dance with her friend, Hannah Cox. She meets a local farmer, Abraham Thornton. They dance the night away and leave at the stroke of midnight to begin their walk home on a fresh May night. Mary is never seen alive again. Although dramatised, this book is an accurate historical account of what happened in Erdington that year and is packed full of photographs taken by Michael Madden and superb illustrations by Mandy Farrar. 65pp. softcover. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.