EXHUMATION OF A MURDER The Life and Trial of Major Armstrong (SIGNED)

Softcover. New p/b edn. SIGNED. Researched by Gaute and Trumper. Foreword by Richard Whittington-Egan. The full story of Major Armstrong's life and times - the only solicitor ever to be hanged in Britain. Some of the great men in legal and forensic history feature in the Armstrong case. The Major was defended at his trial by Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, Judged by Lord Darling and doomed by the expert testimony of Dr. (later Sir) Bernard Spilsbury and Sir William Wilcox. Illus., Appendix, Bibliog. and Index. 283pp. trade size soft cover. With tipped-in label SIGNED BY ROBIN ODELL. F. with no creasing to covers.