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Original Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition. Jacket chipped at head, small stain at foot. Notable British Trials Series.

First Edition. Notable British trials Series No. 78. Bookplate to front pastedown and a few light marks to covers. Name to fep. VG-.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Condition of Hardback Book and Dust Jacket: Very Good The cover has small tear on front Photo attached Few trials have aroused such public interest as that of John George Haigh at the Lewes Assizes, before Mr. Justice Humphreys on 18th July 1949, for the murder of Mrs. Olive Durand-Deacon, a wealthy widow. For months before, the country was aghast at rumours that a series of monstrous crimes had been committed by Haigh, and the excitement was little diminished when the editor of the Daily Mirror was charged with contempt of Court for publishing material closely associating the prisoner with crimes for which he was not being prosecuted. Severe censure was passed by the Lord Chief Justice, who sentenced the editor to three months' imprisonment and fined the paper £1,000. The prosecution at Haigh's trial, in the formidable hands of the Attorney-General himself, charged him with the shooting of Mrs. Durand-Deacon and the disposal of her body in a drum of acid. Haigh's counsel did not dispute the facts, but he put forward the defence that his client was suffering from paranoia and thereby was not responsible for his actions. In support, eight other murders were disclosed which Haigh alleged he had carried out, in which he said he had performed the shocking ritual of drinking a cupful of blood. Stress was laid on the accused's strict upbringing, the effect on his mind of his change of religion, and his vivid dreams in which blood predominated. 271pp.…

Original Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. First Edition. Jacket stained at lower part of spine, and chipped at top.

8vo. pp. 271. 25 illus. cloth. dw. (little chipped at edges). First Edition. Notable British Trials Series.

First Edition. Notable British trials Series No. 78. VG in VG dustjacket which has the price on the flap clipped and a new price sticker.