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THEIR DEADLY TRADE: MURDERS IN MONMOUTHSHIRE

Written by Roger Williams
Published by Gomer in 2004
ISBN: 1843233894

THEIR DEADLY TRADE: MURDERS IN MONMOUTHSHIRE
Written by Roger Williams.
Stock no. 1822171
1st. 2004. Softcover. Nearly fine condition.

Roger Williams demonstrates these gruesome and gripping chronicles. The thoroughness and immediacy of the accounts is enhanced by the inclusion of significant archive material. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 1843233894. Slight crease to top corner of front cover. Contents fine.

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THEIR DEADLY TRADE: MURDERS IN MONMOUTHSHIRE
Written by Roger Williams.
Stock no. 1821982
1st. 2004. Softcover. Nearly fine condition.

Roger Williams demonstrates these gruesome and gripping chronicles. The thoroughness and immediacy of the accounts is enhanced by the inclusion of significant archive material. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 1843233894.

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Front cover

Cover of THEIR DEADLY TRADE: MURDERS IN MONMOUTHSHIRE by Roger Williams

Contents

  • CHAPTER ONE
  • Crimes of Fearful Character
  • 1878: The Llangibby Massacre
  • 1892: Death of a Woman of the Town
  • 1909: The Tank Cottage Murders
  • 1921: The Drumming-Up Tin Murder
  • CHAPTER TWO
  • The Infamy of Youth
  • 1920: The Rose Cottage Staying
  • 1921: child Killer of Abertillery
  • CHAPTER THREE
  • Unsolved Murders
  • 1925: The Baffling Case of Renee Watkins
  • 1939: The Murder of a Well-to-do
  • 1959: Death on the Mountain
  • CHAPTER FOUR
  • Modern Murders
  • 1990: The Mystery of the Body in the Bag
  • 1994: The Risca Taxi Murders
  • 1996: Death of a Small-Time Gangster
  • CHAPTER FIVE
  • Monmouthshire Miscellany
  • Housed of Correction
  • They Plied Their Deadly Trade in Gwent
  • Penny Dreadfuls
  • APPENDICES
  • Chronology of Capital Punishment
  • Crimes Punishable by Death
  • The Long Drop method of execution
  • Bibliography and Notes