Famous and infamous cases.
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 1950
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Trials -- Great Britain
Table of contents: title: Balbus built a wall.-  Bluff King Hal and the trial of Anne Boleyn.-  The Tudor queens.-  The trial of Sir Walter Raleigh.-  The vicissitudes of the Church.-  The Stuarts and the trial of Charles I.- Judge Jeffreys and the Bloody Assize.-  Young blood in the days of Queen Anne.-  Piracy and the trial of Captain Kidd.-  Matrimonial troubles in the seventeenth century.-  The doldrums of the early Hanoverians.-  The divorce case of Queen Caroline.-  Picture in shortand.-  The Tichborne claimant.-  Victorian days: the baccarat case and the trials of Oscar Wilde.-  The gangsters of Berchtesgaden.-  L'envoi.