NOTTINGHAMSHIRE MURDER CASEBOOK

Softcover, 1st edn. Featuring 15 local crimes, all distinguished by the common thread of violence and untimely death. When Henry Westby, a clerk in a Nottingham solicitor's office planned the coldblooded murder of his father, he decided to practise his technique on someone else first. The random and unlucky victim was a 14yr. old office boy, William Onions. However, there was nothing premeditated about the murder of PC Christopher McDonald in Worksop one night in May 1978. He responded to the sound of a burglar alarm at one of the town's jeweller's shops and ended up dead in the river Ryton. But perhaps the most notorious and wicked crime to take place in the county was the abduction and murder of Julie Dart in the Castlegate area of Newark in July 1991. When the case was heard at Nottingham Crown Court, Michael Sams was sentenced to life imprisonment. Illus., Index. 128pp. trade size p/back. From the library of true crime writer Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. o/w F. with no creasing to covers.