MURDER IN THE WESTCOUNTRY

Softcover. Intro' by Colin Wilson. A collection of 10 fascinating chronicles of the West Country's murderous past. More than a "rogues gallery", it's a series of minutely researched and at the same time thoroughly gripping accounts of the most famous West Country murder cases. Contents include : Bristol Boxer (David Foot); Christmas Eve Crime at Falmouth (D.F.M. Hocking); Three Graves For a Child on Exmoor (Jack Hurley); Hotel Mystery at Bude (Brian Inch); Death on the Exeter Road (Barbara James); Double Hanging for £4 at Constantine (David Mudd); John 'Babbacombe' Lee (John Pike); Poison in Dorset (James Turner); Miles Giffard of St Austell (Colin Wilson). Illus. 143pp[. trade size softcover. Sl. sunned o/w Vg+ with no creasing to covers.