Scottish Murders
Series: Murders; Murders
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780752494128; 9780752450087
Subjects: Murder; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Criminology
Description: This chilling collection of murderous tales brings together a diverse range of cases spanning three centuries and all of which were committed in Scotland. Featuring fifty-two cases that shocked the country, the early chapters describe crimes which occurred against the turbulent political backdrop of the eighteenth century, including the infamous lynching of Captain John Porteous in Edinburgh in 1736 and teh assassination of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure in the sprint of 1752. Also included is the case of an Edinburgh baby famer hanged in 1889; the brutal murder of a wealthy spinster in Gl.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Case One 1814 Death of a Seaman; Case Two 1818 Raising the Dead; Case Three 1820 The Deadly Gaol Break; Case Four 1823 The Madam and the Phrenologist; Case Five 1829 The Abbey Murders; Case Six 1829 Giving the Doctor; Case Seven 1830 The Gilmerton Outrage; Case Eight 1830 Touched by Evil; Case Nine 1835 Death of a Sergeant Major; Case Ten 1839 The Thorter Row Murder; Case Eleven 1853 The New Vennel Outrage; Case Twelve 1855 The Body in the Loch; Case Thirteen 1857 The Oldmeldrum Murder; Case Fourteen 1862 A Dutiful Daughter.; title: Case Fifteen 1862 Slaughter at Sandyford PlaceCase Sixteen 1865 The Killer Doctor; Case Seventeen 1868 The End of an Era; Case Eighteen 1868 Truly Mad or Simply Bad?; Case Nineteen 1869 Robbery and Murder at the Blackhill Toll Bar; Case Twenty 1870 Murdered by her Pimp; Case Twenty-one 1871 Kleptomania, Murder and Attempted Suicide; Case Twenty-two 1883 A Deadly Poaching Affray; Case Twenty-three 1888 The Baby Farmer; Case Twenty-four 1889 Did they Hang Jack?; Case Twenty-five 1889 Murder on Goat Fell; Case Twenty-six 1890 Death at the Wedding; Case Twenty-seven 1892 Death by the Sword.; title: Case Twenty-eight 1892 The Dismemberment of Elizabeth O'ConnorCase Twenty-nine 1893 The Mysterious Death of Cecil Hambrough; Case Thirty 1900 The Body in the Gladstone Bag; Case Thirty-one 1903 The House of Death; Case Thirty-two 1906 The Case of the Poisoned Shortbread; Case Thirty-three 1907 The Deserter; Case Thirty-four 1908 The Oscar Slater Case; Case Thirty-five 1913 Failed by the Parish; Case Thirty-six 1920 The Queen's Park Murder; Case Thirty-seven 1921 The Prison Van Raid; Case Thirty-eight 1921 The Whiteinch Horror; Case Thirty-nine 1923 Addicted to Meths.; title: Case Forty 1923 The Murder of a Coatbridge NewsboyCase Forty-one 1925 A Racist Murder; Case Forty-two 1927 A Case of Matricide; Case Forty-three 1928 Duke Street's Last Execution; Case Forty-four 1928 The Gang Fight; Case Forty-five 1944 A Nazi Atrocity; Case Forty-six 1947 The Bolfracks Tragedy; Case Forty-seven 1950 Murdered by a Motorcar; Plate Section; Copyright.