John Van Der Kiste

Surrey Murders (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Surrey Murders is an examination of some of the county's most notorious and shocking cases. They include the 'Wigwam Girl', Joan Wolfe, who lived in a tent built by a Cree Indian Soldier before being brutally slaughtered; the infamous stabbing of Frederick Gold by 'the Serpent', Percy Lefroy Mapleton; the poisoning of the entire Beck family with a bottle of oatmeal stout, laced with cyanide; and the sailore butchered at the Devil's Punch Bowl, later immortalised in Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby. John Van der Kiste's carefully researched, well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to all those interested in the darker side of Surrey's history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780752483931
• Artikelnr.: 38222874

Autorenporträt

John Van der Kiste has published over 20 historical biographies and has also written at length on local history, including Devon Murders and Cornish Murders. He has contributed reviews to national and local publications and to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and was consultant for the BBC documentary The King, the Kaiser and the Tsar.