ESSEX CRIME AND CRIMINALS

Paperback, 1st edn. High treason and body-snatching; pinching church candles and highway robbery; murder and non-attendance at communion: how these (and other) crimes were detected and punished and who meted out that punishment are brought out of Essex records from all over the county. Poaching in Southend; intrigue in Maldon; hanging in Walthamstow; robbery in Epping; and so on through a kaleidoscope of crime, major and petty, funny and tragic, across Essex and across the centuries. Illus. + Biographical Index. 92pp. p/back. From the library of truie crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned pp. o/w F. with no creasing to covers.