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Rotherham murders : a half-century of serious crime, 1900-1950 / by Margaret Drinkall

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Drinkall, Margaret
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Barnsley : Wharncliffe True Crime, 2011.
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1 online resource (197 pages).
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TRUE CRIME FROM WHARNCLIFFE; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 -- He Died Like an Englishman 1900; CHAPTER 2 -- 'I Have Gone Mad' 1914; CHAPTER 3 -- Attempted Murder at Hoober Stand 1916; CHAPTER 4 -- Murder of a Neighbour 1915; CHAPTER 5 -- Murder at Maltby 1918; CHAPTER 6 -- Death of Annie Fellows 1919; CHAPTER 7 -- Attempted Murder at Mexborough 1920; CHAPTER 8 -- Post-natal Depression 1916 and 1919; CHAPTER 9 -- Death of a Showgirl 1921; CHAPTER 10 -- A Mother's Right to Defend Her Child 1922; CHAPTER 11 -- Death on Gerard Road 1922; CHAPTER 12 -- Till Death 1936. and CHAPTER 13 -- The Gamekeeper's Revenge 1936CHAPTER 14 -- The Rotherham Trunk Murder 1936; CHAPTER 15 -- Malice Aforethought 1939; CHAPTER 16 -- The Body in the Ditch 1940; CHAPTER 17 -- The Unfaithful Wife 1941; CHAPTER 18 -- The Wicked Stepmother 1945; CHAPTER 19 -- A Sexual Pervert 1950; Index.
Summary
Set in a social backdrop of recovery from two world wars, Margaret Drinkall's Rotherham Murders concentrates on killings that took place in and around the town during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Most of her cases have not been written about in recent years, but are now investigated and told by a modern crime historian. Read about the brutal death of a policeman, a sensational 'body in a trunk' murder which resulted in Scotland Yard detectives coming to Rotherham and the very first wireless appeal for helping catching the culprit. Other sad and foul deeds include mothers kil.
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9781783408849 (electronic bk.)
1783408847 (electronic bk.)
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