MURDEROUS PLACES

Hardback. Every day, hundreds of people unwittingly follow in the footsteps of evil. Unknowingly, they sleep in a room, where a particularly heinous murder was committed, or admire the serenity at the scene of a massacre, or enjoy a picnic at a beauty spot that was once a killer's playground. But when one returns knowingly to 'murderous places', the horror of the original event that inspired your macabre pilgrimage can be overwhelming. the more familiar and commonplace the locations are to us, the more spine-chilling the discovery of that tainted past. This book takes you to 10 such places and recreates the hideous events which made them infamous. Contents include : Room 4 (Pembridge Court Hotel/Heath); Whitechapel, London, E1 (The Ten Bells/Jack the Ripper); No. 16, Wardle Brook Avenue (Brady/Hindley); The Thames Towpath (Whiteway); Burgate House (Cleaver family); Deadman's Hill (Hanratty); No. 105, Onslow Gardens (Padola); The Blind Beggar (Krays); The Magdala Tavern (Ruth Ellis); No. 195, Melrose Avenue and No. 23 Cranley Gardens (Nilsen). Illus. + Index. 128pp. small 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned pp. o/w Nr. F. in F. dw.