BLOOD ON THE SEA. The Terrible Story of the Yawl

Hardback. The case of Capt. Thomas Dudley, Edwin Stephens and Edmund Brooks, of the yawl Mignonette, on trial for their lives. Their crime - murder and cannibalism. Sensational enough in Victorian England, but fantasy was added to the trial when it was discovered that the victim of the horrifying act, the cabin boy, bore the same name as that of an Edgar Allan Poe character, who was also killed and eaten in similar circumstances and about whom Capt. Dudley had been reading during the ill-fated voyage. Illus., Bibliog. and Index. 158pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. V. lightly browned pp. o/w Nr. F. in vg. dw. which has a small closed tear on fr. cover and tiny yellow 'spot' sticker on sp.