Exhumation of A Murder is a comprehensive study of the case of Major Armstrong, the celebrated Hay Poisoner, one of the most notorious murderers of the twentieth century and the only solicitor ever to hang.  It is one of those classic old-fashioned English murders, which hail from the heyday of the courtroom drama when, with the hangman lurking in the pine-and-panel wings and the black cap an object of horryfyingly alarming currency rather than mere symbolism, the loser in 'the black dock's dreadful pen lost all'.  And the Armstrong case was unquestionably one of the best; right up there in the grand tradition of Dr Palmer of Rugeley, Neill Cream, Mrs Maybrick, Dr Crippen, Seddon and George Joseph Smith. Contains a wealth of original photographs and documentation.

Exhumation of a murder: The life and trial of Major Armstrong

Biographies & Memoirs

ODell, Robin

True Crime

Harrap

The New Murderers' Who's Who

Politics & Social Sciences

Gaute, J. H. H.

Social Sciences

Virgin Books

Exhumation of a Murder Life and Trial

Souvenir Press Ltd.

Recounts the case of Armstrong, a British solicitor who murdered his wife using arsenic

Exhumation of Murder: The Life and Trial of Major Armstrong (Classic Crime Series)

St Martins Pr

A look at forensic medicine and forensic science as used to solve a variety of criminal homicides discusses such areas as ballistics, toxicology, and fingerprints

Murder Whatdunit: An Illustrated Account of the Methods of Murder

Book by Wilson, Colin, Odell, Robin, Gaute, J. H. H.

Jack the Ripper: Summing Up and Verdict

Wilson,Colin

Bantam Dell Pub Group

Criminologist Robin Odell has complied this gruesome gallery of cases from all over the world, revealing the growth in serial slayings, contract killings and middle-class murders and investigating what motivates people to commit the ultimate crime. As well as gangsters and ordinary felons, "Murder: The Book" includes doctors, millionaires, housewives, children, lawyers, accountants, officers and gentlemen who have succumbed to the killing instinct. Behind the sensational names concocted by the tabloid press - 'Boston Strangler', 'Dracula Killer', 'Night Stalker', 'Granny Killer' - lurk real murderers committing acts of violence in circumstances often more bizarre than fiction. Arranged in an easy-to-use A-Z format, the book contains over 500 cases from serial killers such as Dennis Nilsen and Ted Bundy, to those such as Jeremy Bamber and Stevn Benson who dispatched their parents for money; from murderous New Zealand teenagers whose story made a successful film, to the many doctors and nurses who took life instead of saving it; from unsolved murders such as the murder of Little Gregory in France to the paid assignments of John Waynes Hearn, a Vietnam veteran who killed to order. The result is a new classic of true crime, a definitive work on murder as a worldwide phenomenon.

Murderer's Row: An International Murderers Who's Who

History

Gregg, Wilfred

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Sutton Pub Ltd

The development of forensic medicine is chronicled through the cases of five great pathologistsThe development of forensic pathology in Britain is told here through the lives of five outstanding medical pioneers. Spanning 70 years, their careers and achievements marked major milestones in the development of legal medicine, their work and innovation laying the foundations for modern crime scene investigation (CSI). Bernard Spilsbury, Sydney Smith, and Professors Glaister, Camps, and Simpson were the original expert witnesses. Between them, they performed more than 200,000 post-mortems during their professional careers, establishing crucial elements of murder investigation such as time, place, and cause of death. This forensic quintet featured in many of the notable murder trials of their time, making groundbreaking discoveries in the process.

Medical Detectives: The Lives & Cases of Britain's Forensic Five

The History Press

The Mammoth Book of More Bizarre Crimes returns with a brand new A-Z compilation of true crime stories, spanning the globe and traversing the centuries. Filled with over a hundred rediscovered cases, it will shed light on advances in crime detection, law enforcement, and forensic science while retelling some of history's most gruesome and grisly crimes.

The Mammoth Book of More Bizarre Crimes (Mammoth Books)

Donnelly, Paul

Running Press Adult

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