Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Southend-On-Sea

221 Pages·2013·5.59 MB·English

by  Dee Gordon

TRUE CRIME FROM
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First published in Great Britain in 2007 by
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© Dee Gordon 2007
9781783408443

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Table of Contents
TRUE CRIME FROM WHARNCLIFFE
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 - Medieval Crimes
CHAPTER 2 - Murderers, Paedophiles and the Marian
Martyrs
CHAPTER 3 - An Eighteenth-Century Enigma
CHAPTER 4 - Highwaymen
CHAPTER 5 - Witches
CHAPTER 6 - Smugglers
CHAPTER 7 - Wilful Murder, 1847
CHAPTER 8 - ‘Fratricide at Leigh’
CHAPTER 9 - Goings-on at Shoeburyness Garrison
CHAPTER 10 - Two Unsolved Murders
CHAPTER 11 - Two Attempted Murders
CHAPTER 12 - The Wife Beater
CHAPTER 13 - The 1894 Prittlewell Murder
CHAPTER 14 - Peculiar People – and Peculiar Finds
CHAPTER 15 - Double Tragedy
CHAPTER 16 - Rural Double Murder
CHAPTER 17 - Holiday Murders
CHAPTER 18 - The McIlroy Mystery
CHAPTER 19 - Arson, Poison, and a Cut Throat
CHAPTER 20 - Patricide in Rayleigh
CHAPTER 21 - Double Murder in Leigh-on-Sea
CHAPTER 22 - Jealousy in Thorpe Bay
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