ESSEX MURDER CASEBOOK

Softcover. A book, describing in detail, 15 cases of particular interest from the County's past. The physical brutality involved is always apparent. Motives are often complex. In some instances, they are criminal greed. Others are occasioned by tragic circumstances, passion and sheer mental anguish. The cases are drawn from around the County and include the unusual killing of a burglar, whose body was forwarded to a grateful surgeon with a simple covering letter - "Dear Dr Paget, I have shot a burglar. N. Perry". There is the sad case of the younger son whose revenge upon his bullying father took the form of a grenade-mine concealed beneath the seat of the old man's invalid chair. And there is the grisly story of Stanley Setty, whose headless and legless corpse floated ashore onto the Essex marshes in 1949. Here too, are the local men of the Essex Police Force, spending their lives fighting crime, and sometimes paying the highest price.' Illus., Index. 128pp. softcover. With previous owner's name insc. inside fr. cover o/w Nr. F. with no creasing to covers.