The Hangman Is Never Late: Three Centuries of Newfoundland Justice by Fitzgerald, Jack - 1999

Creative Book Pub, 1999. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. No markings or inscriptions. Text clean. Binding tight and square. Spine uncreased.

St. John's, Newfoundland: Creative Book Publishing, 2001. Book. Illus. by Maurice Fitzgerald;. Very Good+. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo. (xiii) 229 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Maurice Fitzgerald. A trunk shipped C.O.D. from Toronto to Argentia turns out to contain a human body. A newspaper editor is ambushed and both his ears are cut off. A ship sinks and seventy-six passengers are believed to be victims of fate - until a diver discovers the grisly truth. The history of Newfoundland is full of chilling tales of murder and mayhem... The Chapters are: The Eighteenth Century: The Murdering Cobhams; A Harbour Main Murder; Murder at Fermeuse; Court Judge Murdered; Hanged for Killing a Cow; Harbour Front Murder; Mutiny at St John's. Early Nineteenth Century: Treason in St. John's; Murder on Southside Rd; Murderer with a Conscience; Whatever Happened to Mary James; Child Murdered at Harbour… Read More

Saint Johns: Creative Book Pub, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Dj. 8vo. pp. xiii 229.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.