A Vintage Casebook of Cheshire Crime

Garage red std: DB Publishing, 2012. Paperback. Used: Acceptable. Condition good, clean. Cheshire: a county famous for its picture-postcard villages and venerable black-and-white country houses, for its cheese and salt and a certain smiling cat of classic children's literature; an aristocratic county once dubbed 'the seedplot of Gentility'. But there's a darker side to this traditional image. Over the centuries, a steady procession of rogues, ruffians and cutthroats has left a black, and often bloody, imprint on the pages of Cheshire's history. Murder and brutality, witchcraft, highway robbery, body-snatching...they're all in this fascinating, fully-documented true-crime anthology that recalls a turbulent period in Cheshire's past, a period in which the shadow of the gallows lay heavily across the land. There's the remarkable story of the crooked country 'squire' and his amazing doublelife; the gruesome episode of the mad butcher's assistant (an 18th Century chiller with cannibalistic overtones); the horrific axe slaying of a Victorian tyrant. Here, too, are un-holy tales of magical murder and of passion (and poison) in a Quaker community; the 'Death House' secrets of a fashionable residential town...and the intriguing evidence that points to a Cheshire link with Jack the Ripper. A Vintage Casebook of Cheshire Crime is a revised and expanded edition, with many new illustrations, of the author’s first book published in 1991 under the title Outrages — Fatal & Other: A Chronicle of Cheshire Crime 1612-1912.