DERBYSHIRE TALES OF MYSTERY & MURDER

Softcover. Each county holds within it a store of amazing mysteries and chilling murders - Derbyshire is no exception. The stories in this book include the case of the Glossop man, Albert Burrows, who for 3yrs escaped detection for the murder of his common-law wife and her two children until he struck again; the mysterious deeds of government agents which led to the hanging and posthumous beheading of three men from Pentrich in 1817; and the 18yr battle fought by Flo Siddons of Sinfin to seek justice for the murder of her granddaughter. Some events and sightings defy all rational explanation and make gripping reading. Was it really the Jacobite ghosts of Bonnie Prince Charlie's soldiers that local man Alan Henton heard crossing Swarkestone Bridge in 1960? Is it possible that more than one person was present at the murder of Wendy Sewell in Bakewell, and that neither of them was the 17yr old gardner Stephen Downing? And what was a World War II Lancaster bomber doing flying over the Lady Bower Reservoir on an October night in 1982? From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.