WORLD FAMOUS GASLIGHT MURDER

Softcover. From the age of Jack the Ripper, the most brutal crimes from murder's classic era. Includes a chapter dedicated to Jack the Ripper. Also features : The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, Thurtell and Hunt, Murder in the Red Barn, Burke and Hare. Crime in France (Vidocq and Lacenaire). Criminal trials : John Paul Forster, Anna Zwanziger, Andrew Bichel. Notorious American Cases : Prof. Webster, the Bender Family, Charley Ross. Poisonings and Railway Murders : the First Railway Murder, John Tawell, Dr Palmer of Rugeley, Dr Pritchard. Infamous Australian Cases : The Man they Couldn't Hang, The Kinder case, Frederick Bailey Deeming. The Science of Detection : Bertillon, Fingerprinting, The Stratton Brothers, the murder of PC Cole. 119pp. trade size soft cover. From the library of Paul Daniel, ex-editor of the 'Ripperologist' magazine (December 1996 No. 8 - February 2000 No. 27) with his name rubber stamp and green felt-tip date to bep. Lightly browned pp., o/w Vg+ with no creasing to covers.