THE CHRONICLE OF CRIME The infamous felons of modern history and their hideous crimes

Author: Fido (Martin)
Year: 1993
Publisher: Limited Editions
Edition Details: 1st Edn.
Book Condition: NrF/Vg
ISBN: 9781858681429
Price: £6.00
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Hardback. Featuring two centuries of authentic true crime presented in a year-by-year format, providing an authoritative and compelling account of the history of the world's most infamous murderers and villains from the beginning of the 19th century. Murderers Do you know : Who sold her victim's fat as dripping? Who sold his minced wife as sausages? What Christie collected in a tobacco tin? Gangsters Can you tell : Why Luciano was "Lucky"? Who exposed "Murder Inc."? What happened to the Mafia in 1897? Who was known as "the Prime Minister of the Underworld"? The Wild West Do you recognize : "The Fighting Pimps"? "Duck Bill Hickock"? Henry Antrim? Martha Cannary? Vice Racketeers Have you ever seen : The Messina brothers? Hayley Morris "the White Slaver"? "Red Max Kassell"? Also includes : Burke and Hare; Jack the Ripper; Ned Kelly; Lizzie Borden; Al Capone; Albert Fish; Dr Crippen; Myra Hindley and Ian Brady; Charles Manson; Peter Sutcliffe - The Yorkshire Ripper; Theodore Bundy; and Jeffrey Dahmer. Profusely Illus. + Index. 320pp. 4to. h/back. Nr. F. in Vg. dw. A heavy book which will require additional postage if shipped overseas.

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