FIT TO BE TIED Ontario's Murderous Past

Softcover. These are true, but unbelievable, stories about murder and hangings. Villains, bored lovers, thieves who goofed, and even the innocent suffered - each bizarre story ends badly, and draws a huge crowd. What characters they were: the charming, poetic Lord; the female bluebeard who entranced and then poisoned her young husbands; and the handsome doctor who decided he needed a more comely wife - after she'd put him through medical school. And there were those unjustly accused who were convicted, just the same, and so suffered a terrible fate. They were victims of the harsh times in which they lived. Gossip could convict the accused before a trial was over. Families travelled for miles and took picnics to hangings. Courtroom drama and public hangings were the best entertainment of the day. You will be as enthralled as the public was all those years ago - by shocking courtroom revelations, rudimentary autopsies, groupies who swooned over the accused, lurid press accounts, the horror of the crimes themselves and, most of all, the ghoulish fascination people had for murder both private and public. Illus., Bibliog., Notes and Index. 192pp. 8vo. softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F.