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1 online resource (160 pages) |
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
Surrey Murders is an examination of some of the county's most notorious and shocking cases. They include the 'Wigwam Girl', Joan Wolfe, who lived in a tent built by a Cree Indian Soldier before being brutally slaughtered; the infamous stabbing of Frederick Gold by 'the Serpent', Percy Lefroy Mapleton; the poisoning of the entire Beck family with a bottle of oatmeal stout, laced with cyanide; and the sailor butchered at the Devil's Punch Bowl, later immortalised in Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby. John Van der Kiste's carefully researched, well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to all those interested in the darker side of Surrey's history. |
| System Details |
System requirements: Adobe Digital editions. |
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Print version record. |
| Subject |
HISTORY / General.
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Murder -- England -- Surrey -- History.
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Murder -- England -- Surrey -- Case studies.
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Electronic books.
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Freading.
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| Related To |
Print version: Van der Kiste, John. Surrey murders. Stroud : History Press, 2009. 9780750951302 (pbk.) (DLC)2009366574 |
| ISBN |
9780752483931 (e-pub) |
| Standard No. |
9780752483931 |
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