LANCASHIRE TALES OF MYSTERY & MURDER

Softcover. Each county holds within it a store of amazing mysteries and chilling murders. Lancashire is no exception. This collection includes the fascinating stories of Ella Staunton who was murdered in the brothel she ran in her Liverpool manicure salon; a Fylde witch who was exhumed and reburied head-first to prevent her from digging herself out; the poisoning of the Bingham family at Lancaster Castle; 16 ghosts who haunted Chingle Hall in Goosnargh; and Walter Rowland from Manchester who was said to have been reprieved for a murder he did commit and hanged for one he did not. Other tales include a murder in Blackburn that led the police to fingerprint every male over 16 in the town that night; the case of John Simpson who slit the throat of his young bride-to-be; the little boy who haunted part of the Bolton to Blackburn railway line where he had died under a train; the mysterious human remains found in a furnace near Wigan; and the murder in Aigburth of James Maybrick, once suspected of being Jack the Ripper. Illus. + Map. 127pp. trade size softcover. Vg.