CRIPPEN The Mild Murderer.

Softcover. Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen poisoned his wife (known by her stage name Belle Elmore), mutilated and buried her remains in the coal cellar and fled London with his mistress-secretary, Miss Ethel Le Neve. Their capture after a breathtaking chase across the Atlantic, was credited to wireless telegraphy, used for the first time in fighting crime. Illus., Appendix + Notes on Sources. 224pp. trade size softcover. V. lightly browned pp., Penguin Books rubber stamp to fep o/w Vg+