THE THURTELL-HUNT MURDER CASE The Sensational Crime that Scandalized Regency England.

Hardback. In October 1823 labourers found a knife and a bloodstained pistol in a dark and dismal country byway; a week later the corpse of William Weare was recovered from a nearby pond. Weare's murder and the subsequent trial of 3 men, John Thurtell, Joe Hunt and William Probert roused enormous public interest. The accused men came from the shady fringes of London's underworld, and had been involved in prizefighting and gambling. The case, one in which fair trial and free press collided, had an impact on British legal history. Illus., Maps, Notes, Selected Bibliog. and Index. 304pp. 8vo. h/back. With previous owner's small name/address label to fpd, o/w Nr. F. in Nr. F. dw.