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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Coventry
David McGrory
出版Casemate Publishers, 2004-01-01
主題Social Science / CriminologyTrue Crime / General
ISBN19034255739781903425572
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BhwMsaaO7H4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Coventry takes the reader on a sinister journey from medieval times to the twentieth century, meeting villains, cut-throats, traitors, witches, martyrs and suicidal lovers along the way. David McGrory records crime and punishment in the city in all its shocking variety. Among the many awful episodes he recalls are the brutal execution of a regicide as well as martyrdoms and a witchcraft murder in the medieval period. He retells the story of a triple execution at Gibbet Hill, chronicles poisonings and drownings in the Georgian and Victorian eras, and describes a murderer's lonely suicide in much more recent times.