Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Wigan

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Wigan
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Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Total Pages : 165
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ISBN-10 : 9781473872806
ISBN-13 : 1473872804
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Book Synopsis Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Wigan by : Mike Fletcher

Download or read book Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Wigan written by Mike Fletcher and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2007-08-23 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Wigan is a detailed guide to the town's darker side, exploring, often in gory detail, Wigan's more sinister heritage, by examining accounts of murder and suspicious deaths from the middle ages through to the twentieth century. Victorian Wigan was a town seemingly overflowing with criminals, and some of the most gruesome cases, recounted from the reports taken from the Wigan Observer and Wigan Examiner, occurred in the second half of the nineteenth century. Many of the cases are without motice or provocation. Domestic crime features highly, often involving Wigan's colliers savagely beating their wives to death, and some of the cases remains unsolved. Each of the cases are covered in detail, documenting the crime, the investigation and inquest, and culminates with the eventual court case and punishment.


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