THE NEWGATE NOOSE An Account of Some Famous Crimes in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Hardback. Chapter headings include : The Secret of the Well (murder of Daniel Chater); Fea v. Gow; Turpin and Sheppard; A Tale of Escapes; the Blonde Bandit (Jenny Diver); Master Criminal (Jonathan Wild); The Burnworth Gang; Drama on the Scaffold; The Worst Woman (Elizabeth Brownrigg); Wealth and Office (Captain Porteous); Unsolved Still (Elizabeth Canning); They Outdid Casanova; Trial by Combat; Rogues of Rank (Earl Ferrers, M'Naughton)); Poisoned Innocence (Mary Blandy. Illus. 176pp. 8vo. h/back. V.v. lightly browned pp., sl. sunned sp. Vg+