Dimensions
160 x 230 x 20mm
Serial poisoners, crimes of passion, brutal slayings and infanticide; this new book examines the stories and subsequent trials behind the most infamous cases of British female killers between the early part of the nineteenth century and the 1950s. Among the cases featured here is that of Sarah Dazley, hanged in Bedfordshire in 1843 for poisoning her second husband; Mary Ann Cotton, who is believed to have murdered up to 21 people, including ten of her own children, before she was hanged at Durham Gaol in 1873, Londoner Edith Thompson, hanged in 1923 with her lover Frederick Bywaters for the murder of her husband. Other infamous murderesses here include Dorothea Waddingham, Charlotte Bryant and the notorious Ruth Ellis, who gunned down her boyfriend outside the Magdala public house in Hampstead in 1955 and was the last woman to be lawfully executed in Britain. Paul Heslop's carefully researched, well- illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to everyone interested in Britain's criminal history.
