New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Summersdale Pub
06 April-June
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Summersdale Pub
APRIL-JUNE 06
Geoffrey Abbott
Amazing True Stories of Execution Blunders
Pbk published June 2006 by Summersdale Pub at £7.99
ISBN: 1840245034
The business of death can be seriously absurd, and nothing illustrates this better than these gruesome true tales. This gory compendium details the frankly ridiculous ways in which a number of ill-fated unfortunates met (or failed to meet) their maker at the hands of lamentably inept executioners. With black and white illustrations, this book brings together a mixture of bungled executions, strange last requests and classic one-liners from medieval times to the present day.
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Geoffrey Abbott
Amazing Stories of Female Executions
Pbk published May 2006 by Summersdale Pub at £7.99
ISBN: 184024500X
In these grisly tales from the gallows, guillotine and gas chamber the fairer sex get it in the neck. You have been warned. From the Yorkshire Witch, who was accused of murder when a potion for good health turned out to be fatal, to the woman who survived the gallows and took her empty coffin away with her, this book is brimming with macabre true stories of executed women from around the world. Interspersed with quirky last requests, and with black and white illustrations throughout, this is history at its most morbidly fascinating.
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