Berkshire Murders
Author | : John Kiste |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2012-02-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780752484013 |
ISBN-13 | : 075248401X |
Rating | : 4/5 (01X Downloads) |
Download or read book Berkshire Murders written by John Kiste and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berkshire Murders is an examination of some of the county's most notorious and shocking cases. They include Hannah Carey, beaten to death by her husband at Warfield in 1851; young Hannah Gould, whose throat was cut by her father in a frenzied attack at Windsor in 1861; Nell Woodridge, murdered by her husband in 1896 and later immortalised in Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol; Annie Davis, killed by her lover in 1912; and Minnie Freeman Lee, whose body was discovered in a trunk in 1940. John Van der Kiste's carefully researched, well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to all those interested in the darker side of Berkshire.