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Published by Sigma Leisure, Cheshire
The tales in this book recall the reality of life in 19th century London. In a city reeking pestilence, five hundred people went weekly to an early grave - victims of disease. The fears of violence and plunder were always in mind, with the evil hearted infesting the narrow courts and alleyways.
Villainy and vice abounded and the highwayman, housebreakers, cardsharp and counterfeiter hatched their plots in the capital's alehouses.
Two hundred offences were punishable by death, and the law in its severity terrified all who fell foul of it. Justice was severe. Even the petty criminal of the period faced the threat of the hangman's noose or, if spared, penal servitude or transportation for life.
Punishment was swift, with a condemned man of those times not permitted to see the sun set for a secondtime before execution.
CONTENTS
- Attempt To Assassinate The Queen
- Captain Montgomery's Acid Alternative
- A Doomed Conspiracy Hatched In Cato Street
- The Morn The Theatre Roof Fell In
- Woeful End Of A Whitechapel Washer Woman
- Murderers Of Muswell Hill
- A Fatal Lambeth Fireworks Explosion
- Catastrophe On The River Thames
- The Chelsea Murderer Shows No Remorse
- On A Foggy February Night In Greenwich
- On The Trail Of The London Bodysnatchers
- A Cruel Captain And The Cabin Boy
- Park Lane Murder Of Lord Russell
- Ten Fold The Victims Of A Newgate Day
- East End Misery And Mutilations
- Suffering End For Soho Murderer
- A Couple Of Peculiar Parcels In Whitechapel
- Little Ada Murdered In Acton Town
- To Disappear In London's Crowded Streets
- A Desperate Intruder At Highfield House
- A Fatal Passion For Sightseeing
- Mary Baked A Poisoned Cake
- All At Sea, On Board The Flowery Land
- Mutilated Remains In Minerva Place
- Long Was The Wait Until Justice Called
- A Shocking Chelsea Suicide Shooting
- Park Lane Killing Of Madame Riel
- Covent Garden Theatre Reduced To Ashes
- Insane Attack Upon His Majesty
- Killing Time In Kentish Town
- The Arsonist's Atrocity In Oxford Street
- Assassination Of Prime Minister Perceval
- Ghostly Goings-on In Hammersmith
- Calamity At The Christmas Pantomime
- Innocent Victims Of Red Lion Square
- An Appalling Incident Upon The Regent Park Ice
- Pistol Shots In Finsbury Park
- Cruel Killing Of Constable Cole
- Poisoner Elizabeth's Cry Of Innocence
- Calamity On The Hampstead Junction Line
- Shocking Shooting Of Isaac Blight
- Drury Lane Thatre's Real Life Drama
- A Poisoner Preys On Lambeth's Prostitutes
- Robbery And Violence On The Aldgate Line
- Dreadful Dark December Deeds
Book Reviews
Hounslow Chronicle:
Lock all your doors, draw closer to the fire and let Keith Johnson lead you into the bleakest aspects of London's past. This book gives the human stories behind the nineteenth century headlines. All of the telling details help to recreate the atmosphere of the teeming alleyways of the capital. Truth proves stranger than fiction.
Sport And Leisure Monthly:
A book to titillate and whet the ghoulish appetite, for those who enjoy a shiver or two. This book, from the Sigma stable, is with it's murder trials, Guilty of being value for money.
Third Stone Magazine:
Nicely produced collection of tales of Victorian turpitude. Johnson paints a thoroughly gloomy picture of nineteenth century London that is grisly but engrossing.
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