THE MINISTER AND THE CHOIR SINGER The Hall-Mills Murder Case

Hardback. 1st UK edn. The murder in 1922 of the Rev. Edward Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, a member of his choir and the wife of the church sexton, was one of the most astonishing causes celebres in the annals of crime. The trial 4-yrs. later of Hall's wife and her 2 brothers was a tremendous battle; it lasted 5 weeks, 178 witnesses were called and the testimony filled 5088 pages. Since the acquittal of the accused, a verdict with which the author agreed, the crime has remained one of the great unsolved mysteries. Illus. + Dramatis Personae, 344pp. 8vo. h/back. Foxed and browned edges o/w Vg. in G. only protected dw. which has large piece missing from lower cover (see images)