Yorkshire's Murderous Women
The criminal history of Yorkshire has its share of nasty and brutal murders and the majority of these killers have been men. Statistics show that most homicides are men. But the records over the centuries have tales of women killers and in these tales the murders are often cases of poisoning. Stephen Wade has investigated records across the country to find out stories of women in the years between the middle of the eighteenth century and the mid twentieth century who have taken lives through jealousy, hatred or sheer desperation. Some of the tales are sad, melancholy accounts of infanticide committed in hard times often when women were under…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78340-858-0
- EAN: 9781783408580
- Produktnummer: 22581882
- Verlag: Wharncliffe
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'857 KB
Über den Autor
Stephen Wade is a biographer and social historian, usually associated with crime and law, but here he turns his attention to a place he has known for forty years, as he has lived and worked in Scunthorpe all that time. His most recent books have been Going to Extremes, The Justice Women and three volumes in the Your Town in the Great War series (all Pen & Sword), and :No More Soldiering (Amberley).
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