Softcover. A fascinating chronicle of our murderous past. The content by some eminent contributors, are more than a "rogues gallery", it's a series of minutely researched and at the same time thoroughly gripping accounts of the most famous West Country murder cases. Chapter headings include : Bristol Boxer (Ted palmer); Midnight Poachers at East Coker (murder of PC Nathaniel Cox); Christmas Eve Crime at Falmouth (Horace Trenoweth); Three Graves for a Child on Exmoor (Anna Burgess); Hotel Mystery at Bude; Death on the Exeter Road; Double Hanging for £4 at Constantine (William Rowe); John 'Babbacombe' Lee; Poison in Dorset (Charlotte Bryant); Miles Giffard of St Austell. Illus. 143pp. softcover. G++