MURDER IN BIG CITIES

Hardback. In the author's third volume of gripping true-crime dramas, the author returns to the cement jungles of the world's neon-lit cities, where crime is a social disease and the fear of violence is a shadow as chilling as the promise of death. The cases featured shocked millions when they made headlines across the world. Features amongst others : Liverpool: Arsenic and New Lace (Maybrick); New York: First Night Murder (Harry Thaw); Dusseldorf: A Year of Terror (Peter Kuerten); London: The Raincoat Clue (The D'Antiquis Case); Kansas City: Slaughter at Union Station (Pretty Boy Floyd); In the Shadow of the Taj Mahal (Agra Double Murder); Glasgow: Three Scrubbed Floors (Jesse McLachlan) + others. Illus. 190pp. 8vo. h/back. Nr. F. in frayed and G. only rubbed dw which has part of fr. cover picture erased away (see image).