London Murder & Crime

Description

Murder and Crime is caused by greed, need, jealousy, desperation and insanity. London, the financial and capital city of england, is no stranger to the excesses of its turbelent citizens – their past misdemeanours enrich the fabric of this great city.Here are some of the of the most infamous crimes committed in the capital in its long history.

Tales are included from the tumultuous seventeenth to the turbulent eighteenth century with its nascent press and the ‘great’ Victorian age where pleasures and vices ran hand-in-hand, where excesses dominated the London scene and social and economic extremes were the norm. The early twentieth century is also treated with some of the most high-profile cases that have necessitated changed in the law.

This book will appeal to everyone interested in true-crime and the shadier side in London’s past.