FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN COVENTRY.

A book which takes the reader on a sinister journey from medieval times to the 20th century, meeting villains, cut-throats, traitors, witches, martyrs and suicidal lovers along the way. The author records crime and punishment in the city in all its shocking variety. Among the many awful episodes he recalls are the brutal execution of a regicide as well as martydoms and a witchcraft murder in the medieval period. He retells the story of a triple execution at Gibbet Hill, chronicles poisonings and drownings in the Georgian and Victorian eras, and describes a murderer's lonely suicide in much more recent times. Illus., Selected Sources + Index. 156pp. New softcover.