SQUARE MILE OF MURDER

Hardback. Four of the most famous murder cases in the world took place within one square mile of the city of Glasgow - and not in the Gorbals or the East End, as most people would imagine, but in the Victorian respectability of the West End. Ranging from 1857 to 1908 the cases are those of Madeleine Smith, found Not Proven of poisoning her French lover; Jessie McLachlan, sentenced to death for murdering her best friend, though someone else did the deed; Dr. Edward William. Pritchard, "the Human Crocodile", hanged in public for poisoning his wife and mother-in-law; and Oscar Slater, who was also sentenced to death and spent nearly 20yrs in prison for a murder he did not commit. There is new material in the book concerned with all these cases. In the Oscar Slater case the author reveals what the experts believe really happened in Miss Marion Gilchrist's flat on the night of December 21, 1908. Illus. 253pp. 8vo. h/back. With neat name insc. to ffep, lightly browned edges, sl. sunned sp. o/w Vg+.