Classic Crimes

By: William Roughead

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Paperback | 31 August 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Dorothy Sayers called William Roughead "the best showman who ever stood before the door of the chamber of horrors," and his true crime stories, written in the early 1900s, are among the glories of the genre. Displaying a meticulous command of evidence and unerring dramatic flair, Roughead brings to life some of the most notorious crimes and extraordinary trials of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and Scotland. Utterly engrossing, these accounts of pre-meditated mayhem and miscarried justice also cast a powerful light on the evil that human beings, and human institutions, find both tempting to contemplate and all too easy to do.

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'Reminds me how challenging crime investigation can be, helping me relish the task.' Stephen Wade, lecturer on the history of crime, University of Hull. Times Higher Education

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Introduction	p. vii
Katharine Nairn	p. 3
Deacon Brodie	p. 35
The West Port Murders	p. 85
To Meet Miss Madeleine Smith	p. 129
Constance Kent's Conscience	p. 171
The Sandyford Mystery	p. 217
The Balham Mystery	p. 263
Dr. Pritchard Revisited	p. 303
The Arran Murder	p. 347
The Ardlamont Mystery	p. 379
The Slater Case	p. 465
The Merrett Mystery	p. 517
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