VIOLENT MURDERS A Riveting Collection of Horrific Murders

Hardback. Reprint - 1st pub. 1977 by Harwood-Smart as 'Truly Murderous'. Intro' by Colin Wilson. The truth is far stranger - and more frighteningly brutal - than any fiction. Here is a chilling account of 15 of the 20th century's most violent - and remarkable - murders, each one dramatically reconstructed with painstaking accuracy and in terrifying detail by a leading historian of crime. Chapter headings include : The Fatal Orgy, Frozen Stiff, Mad Dog!, the Passionate Paramours of Portsmouth, The Insatiable Wife, Ladykiller, Ghoulish Practices etc. 248pp. 8vo. h/back. With the usual browned pp. o/w Nr. F. in F. protected dw.