Which of Edinburgh's most gruesome murders has happened in your
street? And were they committed by Burke and Hare, by the
Stockbridge Baby-Farmer, by the Demon Frenchman of George Street,
by the Triple Killer of Falcon Avenue, or perhaps by one of the
Capital's many faceless, spectral slayers, whose name and misdeeds
has long since disappeared from the public eye? This book deals
with Edinburgh's architecture of capital crime: houses inside which
celebrated murders have been committed. In that tall Royal Mile
tenement, a woman fell from a top-floor window in 1912 - but was
she thrown out by a sinister male presence inside the house, as
many witnesses thought at the time? In that old house in
Candlemaker Row, not far from Greyfriars Bobby, a woman was
brutally murdered by a man without arms in 1919. In that flat in
Rose Street South Lane, a horrible triple murder in 1917 wiped out
an entire family. That peaceful little bungalow in busy Glasgow
Road is home to one of the Capital's most impenetrable murder
mysteries, which has baffled the police for 54 years. In that
stairway in South Clerk Street, a woman was found battered to death
in 1995, and her killer has never been brought to justice. And read
about Edinburgh's many forgotten murders, where only the murder
house remains to tell the tale.
General
Imprint: |
Matador
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
October 2020 |
Authors: |
Jan Bondeson
|
Dimensions: |
216 x 138 x 170mm (L x W x H) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
432 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-80046-067-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
True stories >
Crime
Promotions
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LSN: |
1-80046-067-8 |
Barcode: |
9781800460676 |
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