Surrey Murders

Surrey Murders
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Publisher : The History Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-13 : 9780752483931
ISBN-10 : 0752483935
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Surrey Murders by : John Van der Kiste

Download or read book Surrey Murders written by John Van der Kiste and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrey Murders is an examination of some of the county's most notorious and shocking cases. They include the 'Wigwam Girl', Joan Wolfe, who lived in a tent built by a Cree Indian Soldier before being brutally slaughtered; the infamous stabbing of Frederick Gold by 'the Serpent', Percy Lefroy Mapleton; the poisoning of the entire Beck family with a bottle of oatmeal stout, laced with cyanide; and the sailor butchered at the Devil's Punch Bowl, later immortalised in Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby. John Van der Kiste's carefully researched, well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to all those interested in the darker side of Surrey's history.


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