A Companion to Murder: A Dictionary of Death by Poison, Death by Shooting, Death by Suffocation and Drowning, Death by the Strangler's Hand, 1900-1950. With a Note on the British Judicial SystemKnopf, 1961 - 303 páginas |
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... months later . On 17th July 1942 , a workman engaged in tidying up the damaged site prised up a large paving stone at the far end of the chapel cellar and discovered under it a scorched skeleton . The remains being removed to the ...
... months later . On 17th July 1942 , a workman engaged in tidying up the damaged site prised up a large paving stone at the far end of the chapel cellar and discovered under it a scorched skeleton . The remains being removed to the ...
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... months sentence for a jewellery theft , he took his mother away from St. Mary's Hospital , Portsmouth , to which she had been admitted as an indigent person twelve months before . A few months later , mother and son set out upon a ...
... months sentence for a jewellery theft , he took his mother away from St. Mary's Hospital , Portsmouth , to which she had been admitted as an indigent person twelve months before . A few months later , mother and son set out upon a ...
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... months of his eightieth birthday ; in spite of increasing deafness , he retained his keenness of intellect to the last . A serious illness compelled him to retire in May 1937 , and , fourteen months later - on 25th July 1938 - he died ...
... months of his eightieth birthday ; in spite of increasing deafness , he retained his keenness of intellect to the last . A serious illness compelled him to retire in May 1937 , and , fourteen months later - on 25th July 1938 - he died ...
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