Title: United in crime.
Authors: Hyde, H. Montgomery 1907-
Publisher: Heinemann
Year: 1955
Subjects: Trials Great Britain; Crime Great Britain; Criminals Great Britain
Contents: Foreword on crime -- I. Sir Travers Humphreys and his cases. 1. Sir Travers Humphreys -- 2. The great pearl robbery -- 3. The button and badge murder -- 4. The black book trial -- 5. The case of the forged telegrams -- 6. The end of Horatio Bottomley -- 7. The Thompson-Bywaters murder -- 8. The Mr. 'A' case -- 9. The shooting of P.C. Gutteridge -- 10. The honeymoon mystery -- 11. The trial of Mrs. Barney -- 12. The fire raisers -- 13. The double confession murder -- II. Lord Simon and his cases. 1. Lord Simon -- 2. The man who libelled King George V -- 3. The 'Titanic' disaster -- 4. The Kuepferle spy trial -- 5. Count de Borch and the unwritten law -- 6. The Bath Club case -- 7. The Portuguese banknote case -- III. Law and crime. 1. Sir Patrick Hastings -- 2. The last of the serjeants -- 3. The crime doctor -- 4. Were they wrong to find him guilty? -- 5. Metropolitan policewoman -- 6. The I.R.A. Coventry explosion -- 7. The strange disappearance of Mr. Bathurst -- 8. Why do they confess? -- 9. Crime in the United States -- 10. How safe are the mails? -- IV.. The enigma of the multiple murderer. 1. Multiple murders in history -- 2. Poisoner, and ripper? -- 3. The brides-in-the-bath case -- 4. The French Bluebeard -- 5. The 'lonely hearts' murders -- 6. The acid bath killer -- V. The case for and against flogging -- VI. The problem of the young offender. 1. Changes in the law -- 2. Juvenile courts -- 3. Corrective treatment -- 4. Punishment and the home background -- 5. What is the best cure?