Northumberland Murder & Crime features twelve historic criminal cases that not only shocked the North East, but made headlines throughout the country. Spanning a period of nearly one hundred years, this book opens with the killing of Thomas Hamilton, whose body was discovered lying at the foot of the town’s walls at Berwick-upon-Tweed.

We have the wicked conspiracy by police officers at Edlingham, near Alnwick, resulting in two innocent men serving ten years’ imprisonment; the case of John Dickman, hanged for shooting a man on the railway; Jocker Amos, who shot three people dead at the Sun Inn, Bedlington; Evelyn Foster, who burnt to death on the Ottercaps; and Albert Edward Matheson, who murdered 15-year-old Gordon Lockhart and buried his remains under the boxing ring at St James’s Boxing and Wrestling Hall, Newcastle.

Drawing on a wide selection of sources and illustrated with more than fifty images, this collection will appeal to everyone interested in true crime and the shadier side of Northumberland’s past.



Format Häftad Omfång 128 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag The History Press Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2011-10-01 ISBN 9780752458724