TWENTIETH-CENTURY MURDER. A Year-By-Year Account of the World's Most Pitiless Crimes.

Hardback. An authoritative and compelling account of the 20th-century's most infamous murders, villains and their victims, from the turn of the century to the 'present day'. Unfolding page-by-page in a news-sheet format, it traces the development of detection techniques; the growth of policing to the modern Scotland Yard and the FBI; the careers, arrests, deaths and sentences of some of the world's most notorious criminals. The infamous and the forgotten rub shoulders in these shocking tales. Includes : organised crime, "Brides in the Bath" (G.J. Smith), "twin" murderess Marie Hilley plus prostitutes, burglars, forgers, kidnappers, drug-traffickers, cannibals and serial murderers, Dr. Crippen, Charles Manson, Peter Sutcliffe, Jeffrey Dahmer. Profusely illus. + Index. 128pp. 4to. F. pictorial glazed covers in vg. dw. This book weighs approx, 800g.