Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Southport.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Geoffrey.

Series:

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crimes.

Local Subjects:

Crimes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

: Wharncliffe, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Southport takes the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting villains of all sorts along the way - cut-throats and poisoners, murderous lovers, baby-farmers and baby-killers, burglars, fraudsters and the so-called 'doctor of death'. The book records crime and punishment in Southport in all its shocking variety. Among the many acts of wickedness Geoff Wright describes are the shoemaker murder, the disappearance of Alfred Brewer, the unsolved murder of William Rhodes, the drugging of Councillor Fletcher, the wif

Contents:

""TRUE CRIME FROM WHARNCLIFFE""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Bibliography""; ""Chapter 1 - Pub Brawl at The Shake Shakespeare Hotel 1870""; ""Chapter 2 - The Suave Wife-Killing Doctor The Promenade 1947""; ""Chapter 3 - Who Killed Draper Harry? Bootle 1958""; ""Chapter 4 - Little Girl Under a Porter�s Bed Palace Hotel 1961""; ""Chapter 5 - Murder of the Religious �Pink Lady� Derby Road 1971""; ""Chapter 6 - Death of a Lonely Moneylender Alexandra Road 1975""

""Chapter 7 - Bathtub Murder of Gay Shopkeeper Abram�s Fold, Banks 1986""""Chapter 8 - Sex Demands Row Led to Murder Sangness Drive, Kew 1992""; ""Chapter 9 - An Evil Beast�s Masquerade Stamford Road 1999""; ""Chapter 10 - Notorious Hard-Men in Double Horror Attack Derby Road 2002""; ""Index""

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-78340-849-9

OCLC:

855504511