MURDER, MYSTERY AND THE LAW

Hardback. Foreword by Senator The Hon. H.A. Fagan, QC, former Chief Justice of South Africa. Featuring 48 sketches from real life, as revealed by the searchlight of court trials, gathered by Judge Blackwell from the legal records of England, the USA and, primarily, South Africa. The author spent nearly one-half of his working life in the Parliament of South Africa, most of the time under the leadership of General Smuts. In 1943 he was raised to the Bench of the Transvaal Supreme Court, where he remained until his retirement in 1955. Chapter headings include : The Body through the Porthole; The Mummy in the Cupboard; The Portsmouth Murder Case; A Celebrated Cape Town Murder Case of 1938; The A6 Murder Trial; The Case of Two Cannibals; The Case of "Gypsy" Smith; The Hanging of Duncan Moodie; The Case of the Malayan Police Inspector; The Trial of Sir Roger Casement; Modern Views on Capital Punishment; Sir Charles Dilke; Charles Stewart Purnell; Baron de Villiers; The Strange Case of Doctor Kenealy; Felix Frankfurter; Helmuth James von Moltke + much, much more. Illus. 199pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. V. lightly browned pp. o/w Vg+ in sl. sunned Vg+ dw.