TRIAL OF ALFRED ARTHUR ROUSE. This item is unavailable.TRIAL OF ALFRED ARTHUR ROUSE

Pp. xii+lviii+316, frontispiece portrait, 8 plates, folding plan, the title page printed in red & black, appendices; demy 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper board decorated in blind; dust wrapper, faded and lightly browned, edges slightly worn and split; some occasional foxing; William Hodge & Company, Limited, Edinburgh, 1931. First edition. Notable British Trials series. *Trial at the Northampton Assizes, for the murder of an unidentified man, 1931. The murder case became known as "the Blazing Car Murder" due to the fact that Rouse, seeking to fabricate his own death, burned to death an unknown hitchhiker whom he had rendered unconscious inside his car.