Murder on the Bluff
Neil Wilson Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-897784-52-5 (ISBN)
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In a small white house by a remote Welsh cove, a 90-year-old woman died, full of secrets, on June 27, 1958. What no one ever guessed was that the dignified and distant old lady, who kept a liveried chauffeur and bred Bedlington terriers, was a convicted murdress. More than half a century before, in Yokohama, Japan, she had been sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of her husband. Molly Whittington-Egan attempts to uncover the answers to such puzzles as the identity of the "woman in black" who bought arsenic from the Japanese chemist; the "mysterious visitor", who stood crying at the door of the House on the Bluff, and would not give her name; of who wrote the strangely-worded anonymous letters which said that "dead men tell no tales, nor dead women either". The author has succeeded not only in obtaining rare documentation from Japan, providing full data about the arrest and trial in Yokohama, but has also traced the hitherto hidden aftermath history of the murderess. She also presents Edith Carew's diary for 1896, the year of the murder.
Molly Whittington-Egan is a leading true-crime writer whose credits include The Murder Almanac, The Bedside Book of Murder, The Story of Mr George Edalji, Khaki Mischief: The Agra Murder Case; Classic Scottish Murder Stories, Scottish Murder Stories, The Stockbridge Baby Farmer and Murder on File.
List of plates Acknowledgements Chapter 1 A Glastonbury Romance Chapter 2 Blight O'er Eden Chapter 3 The Plains of Heaven Chapter 4 A Life So Drear Chapter 5 'Le Moment est Arrive' Chapter 6 'Plenty Deadly Poison' Chapter 7 Mr Boag's Funeral Chapter 8 'Bamboozled' Chapter 9 The Woman in Black Chapter 10 The Epsilon Letter Chapter 11 Divers Opinions Chapter 12 Twin Souls Chapter 13 The Christoffel Letter Chapter 14 Lighter than Dust Chapter 15 The Birthday Book Chapter 16 The Emperor's Amnesty Chapter 17 The Governess Chapter 18 A Gleam of Mercury Chapter 19 Incarnate Fiend? Chapter 20 The Cove
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.6.1998 |
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Zusatzinfo | b&w illustrations |
Verlagsort | Glasgow |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 214 mm |
Gewicht | 340 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
ISBN-10 | 1-897784-52-X / 189778452X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-897784-52-5 / 9781897784525 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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