STATE CRIMES.

Hardback. Featuring 8 famous political crimes. The trials with which the author is concerned are 6 English trials : Sir Walter Raleigh, the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, Charles the First, James Naylor (the Quaker), the Regicides, the Cato Street Conspiracy. There are also 2 French trials - the first concerning the Marquis de Maubreuil and the more celebrated Dreyfus Case which rocked and sundered French society. In addition to a description of each of the 8 trials, there is a straightforward narration of the crime for which the prisoner was put on trial. Illus., Index. 162pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned pp., tiny name insc. to fep, o/w Vg+ in sunned and sl. creased G++ dw.