WELSH MURDERS Volume 1: 1770-1918

Hardback. In their selection of famous murder cases from Wales and the Marches the authors have been careful to retell without embellishment or over-sensationalism, some of the grimmest, most heartless and intriguing examples in the genre. Wales seems to have specialised in the ''orrible murders' - ones characterised by naivite and whose motives are frequently obscure. Chapter headings include : The Dolgellau Tragedy; The Terrible Double Murder at Cuckoo Lane; The Glanareth Conspiracy; The Llangibby Massacre; The Death of Lieutenant Walker; Profile of a Hangman (James Berry); The Brandy Cove Skeleton; Yr Hwntw Mawr; A Shilling's Worth of Arsenic; The Dolaucothi Murder; The Two Stories of Roblin; Will Cefn-Coch; The Life and Times of Edward Higgins; The Swansea Pier Murder. Illus., List of Sources + Appendices. 190pp. small 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. V. sl. slanted sp. o/w Vg+ in Vg+ dw. which has sl. faded sp.