TRAIL OF BLOOD

Hardback. The author will never forget the sight of May Bannister as she sat with regal poise, her masculine features a picture of sinister defiance, awaiting trial for the murder of a young mother and her baby. He still shudders when he thinks of little Martha McCullough, bludgeoned and then strangled to death by her maniacal parents in the delirium of their religious fervor. And then there was Old Joe Sifton, felled by an axe when his son saw no other way to safeguard his inheritance. And the fastidious Albert Guay, who murdered his wife - and 22 other people as well. The author has compiled these and 18 more stories in a book which takes the reader on a coast-to-coast journey to the locations of some of the most notorious murders in Canadian history. With research based on trial transcripts, newspaper accounts of the day and interviews with anyone having a connection with the crimes, his stories provide a comprehensive overview of the murders in terms of the circumstances in which they took place and the personalities involved. Illus. 228pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. With tiny name insc. o/w Vg+ in sl. sunned vg+ pcdw