In this compelling study of true crime, Liverpool's most popular author Tom Slemen recounts some of the most intriguing and baffling murders of Merseyside such as: - The baffling case of the Victorian canned corpse - The magistrate's beautiful granddaughter who was killed by a crazed admirer - The condemned man who was hanged twice - Frederick Deeming - the Rainhill psychopath who wiped out his own family and danced on their grave with his next victim - The bizarre link between a South Seas cult and the housewife who was ...
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In this compelling study of true crime, Liverpool's most popular author Tom Slemen recounts some of the most intriguing and baffling murders of Merseyside such as: - The baffling case of the Victorian canned corpse - The magistrate's beautiful granddaughter who was killed by a crazed admirer - The condemned man who was hanged twice - Frederick Deeming - the Rainhill psychopath who wiped out his own family and danced on their grave with his next victim - The bizarre link between a South Seas cult and the housewife who was stabbed fourteen times in her Knotty Ash home by a killer who struck under the cover of a fog - The unsolved case of the superintendent and his son who died of gunshot wounds under mysterious circumstances - in a police station - The enigmatic murder of Julia Wallace - and a very credible solution - The only assassination of a British prime minister - by a Liverpool businessman Plus many more fascinating murder cases. This fascinating book is a must for all readers of true crime in general and Liverpudlians and Merseysiders in particular.
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