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More Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Chesterfield

出版	Wharncliffe Books, 2004-09
ISBN	19034256899781903425688
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=C06rAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Wives battered or slashed to death by brutal, jealous husbands. A young woman butchered in broad daylight on a Chesterfield street, another done to death with a billhook in a rural barn. A mother's poisoning of her sons in order to buy drink with the insurance payments and the respectable Mosborough tradesman prepared to butcher his family rather than admit to the stigma of debt. These are some of the twenty-six violent crimes covering a period from the Victorian 1880s to the Pottery Cottage massacre of 1977, which show all too plainly that cruelty and greed have been a danger to life in Chesterfield and North Derbyshire through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing on a number of sources, this book presents an account of Derbyshire's darker past which combines detailed research with a lively insight into characters and events. Selling Points * The first Foul Deeds Chesterfield sold extremely well and proved to be very popular with local people * Readers always have a thirst for grisly tales of past misdemeanors in their local area. * A well illustrated book using local sources and articles. Author Details Geoffrey Sadler, who has worked as a librarian in Chesterfield Local Studies Library for the past eighteen years, has produced several books on local history. His Chesterfield History & Guide was the first popular history of the town since the 1970s and he has since edited the recently-published Aspects of Chesterfield for Wharncliffe. His first book in this series, Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in and Around Chesterfield, was published by Wharncliffe in 2003.