OUTRAGES - FATAL & OTHER. A Chronicle of Cheshire Crime 1612-1912

Softcover. Cheshire: famous for its picture-postcard villages and black-and-white country houses: an aristocratic county once dubbed 'the seedplot of Gentility'. But there's a darker side to this traditional picture. Murder and brutality, witchcraft, highway robbery, body-snatching...they're all in this fascinating, true-crime anthology that recalls a period in Cheshire's past when the shadow of the gallows lay heavily across the land. Read about : the crooked country 'Squire'; the mad butcher's assistant; the axe-slaying of a Victorian tyrant; passion (and poison) among the Quakers; the Cheshire link with Jack the Ripper (George Chapman otherwise Severin Antoniovich Klosowski). Illus., Bibliog. + Index. 233pp. trade size softcover. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.