|
|
SMITH, A. Duncan Editor ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
|
|
|
|
1 |
SMITH, A. Duncan Editor TRIAL OF EUGENE MARIE CHANTRELLE
William Hodge, Edinburgh. Notable British Trials. 1928 Second Edition Hardcover VG No Dj
243pp+illus. Red cloth with gilt titles. First edition in Notable British Trials, formerly published in Notable Scottish Trials in 1906. The story of the 44-year-old Frenchman who came to England in 1862, eventually taking up a teaching post at a private academy in Edinburgh. He seduced a 15-year-old pupil, Elizabeth Cullen Dyer and married her in 1868, having made her pregnant. After three more children he took to ill-treating his wife and as his career failed, boasted that he could kill her and avoid detection. Shortly after insuring her life, Elizabeth was found unconscious. apparently from a gas leak, but a post-mortem revealed poison.
Price:
35.00 GBP
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
SMITH, A. Duncan, Editor TRIAL OF MADELEINE SMITH.
Edinburgh William Hodge. Notable Scottish Trials. 1905 First Edition 1st Reprint Cloth VG No Jacket
xi+371pp+illus. Green cloth with gilt titles, little rubbed at extremes. Top-edge-gilt. The trial of the respectable 21-year-old woman for allegedly poisoning her foreign paramour, Pierre L'Angelier, took Glasgow by storm and shocked England when her frank love letters were revealed. When she tried to end the affair, L'Angelier threatened to send her letters to her father, who had forbidden the liaison. In March 1857 L'Angelier died in agony and an autopsy revealed poison by arsenic. Madeleine was arrested and although she admitted buying the poison for cosmetic purposes, denied administering it to her lover.
Price:
30.00 GBP
|
|
Add to Shopping Cart |
|
|
|
