SURREY MURDERS

Softcover. Reprint. The author looks at a series of 'horrid crimes' which took place in the county over a period of 150 years. Against a background of great social change, he has gone back into Surrey's past to find stories of violent death. They range from the unknown sailor who was hacked to death on the lonely heathlands of Hindhead in 1786, to a poisonous crime of passion in respectable Byfleet in 1924, and the last fatal duel to be fought in England. Here too are the men who spent their lives fighting crime. Inspector Donaldson paid the ultimate price when he was killed by railway navvies in 1855, while Inspector William Biddlecombe was a man ahead of his time in the art of criminal detection. Illus. + Index. 128pp. trade softcover. Nr. F. with no creasing to covers.