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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Colchester.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Denney, Patrick.
- Series:
- Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colchester (England)--History.
- Crime--England--Essex--History.
- Homicide--England--Essex--History.
- Murder--England--Essex--History.
- Local Subjects:
- Colchester (England)--History.
- Crime--England--Essex--History.
- Homicide--England--Essex--History.
- Murder--England--Essex--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (243 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- : Wharncliffe, 2005.
- Summary:
- Colchester historian Patrick Denney takes the reader on a sinister journey from the religious persecutions of Queen Mary's time to the twentieth century, meeting villains, cut-throats, arsonists and lunatics along the way. The book is based on original research and recalls many grisly events and sad or unsavoury individuals whose fate has hitherto been forgotten. This fascinating chronicle will prove to be a valuable - if gruesome - addition to the historical record of the town. It will be of great interest to the casual reader and committed historian alike.
- Contents:
- ""FOUL DEEDS AND SUSPICIOUS DEATHS Series""; ""Title Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""CHAPTER 1 - Hanged, Drawn and Quartered 1557""; ""CHAPTER 2 - A Deadly Secret 1788""; ""CHAPTER 3 - Highway Robbery at Manwood Hill 1789""; ""CHAPTER 4 - The Murder of Thomas Patrick 1827""; ""CHAPTER 5 - A Tale of Murder at Wix c.1840""; ""CHAPTER 6 - Who Killed John Harding? 1870""; ""CHAPTER 7 - A Curious Case of Stabbing at Brightlingsea 1871""; ""CHAPTER 8 - The Fordham Double Murder 1875""
- ""CHAPTER 9 - Killed by a Raging Bull 1875""""CHAPTER 10 - A Shocking Case of Burning 1886""; ""CHAPTER 11 - Drowning at Middle Mill 1887""; ""CHAPTER 12 - Tragedy at Wakes Colne 1888""; ""CHAPTER 13 - A Moment of Madness 1891""; ""CHAPTER 14 - The Colchester Fire Murder 1893""; ""CHAPTER 15 - Death in a Sandpit 1926""; ""CHAPTER 16 - The Riddle of the Fingringhoe Skeleton 1939""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-78340-823-5
- OCLC:
- 854974949
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