num_pages: 243
description: "Little Ease" - a cell only four feet square and nine feet high, in which it was impossible to lie down. "The Duke of Exeter's Daughter" and "Skeffington's Gyves" - two of the many excruciating versions of the rack. This text offers an account of instruments of torture through the ages.
language: English
title: Rack, Rope and Red-Hot Pincers: A History of Torture and Its Instruments
titlecomplete: Rack, Rope and Red-Hot Pincers: A History of Torture and Its Instruments
genres: True Crime, History, Crime, Reference, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 110
publisher: Headline Book Pub Ltd