Contents
Chapter 1 Smugglers and Pirates on the Humber
Chapter 2 Captain Cobbler and Robert Aske, 1536
Chapter 4 Crime and Cruelty in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 5 Poisonings in Epworth, 1790s
Chapter 6 Arsenic and Mary Milner, 1847
Chapter 7 A Fatal Stabbing in Kirton, 1847
Chapter 8 Six Months for Manslaughter, Barton, 1851
Chapter 9 Ralph the Prison Houdini, 1854
Chapter 10 Convict Stories, c 1800–1860
Chapter 11 Arson in the Villages, 1861
Chapter 12 Attempted Murder by Civil War Veteran at Barton, 1869
Chapter 13 The Landlord Kills his Wife, Owston Ferry, 1883
Chapter 14 Indecent Assault – or Lies? 1890
Chapter 15 Poisoning at the Newcastle Arms, 1892
Chapter 16 A Fight in the Schoolroom, 1892
Chapter 17 Broughton Attacks, 1892
Chapter 18 Brutality to his Wife, 1898
Chapter 19 The Murderer’s Suicide Note, 1901
Chapter 20 A Tragic Suicide, Brigg, 1905
Chapter 21 The Brute of Manley Street, 1911
Chapter 22 Murder Talk in the Talbot, 1920
Chapter 23 Death Sentence for a Teenager: Waddingham, 1931
Chapter 24 An Attack in Ashby, 1938
Chapter 25 The Black-Out Terror, 1940–41
Chapter 26 The Neighbour Thief, 1941
Chapter 27 Unexplained Death of a Doctor, 1948
Chapter 28 Murder on Queensway, 1948
Chapter 29 Robbery with Violence, Laughton, 1953
Chapter 30 Mother Kills Her Daughter, 1953
Chapter 31 Arson at Midnight, 1953
Chapter 32 A Street Stabbing, 1953
Chapter 33 Terrible Neglect by a Brigg Couple, 1954
Chapter 34 A Baffling Brigg Drowning, 1954
Chapter 35 Two Attacks on Police Officers, 1954
Chapter 36 A Frenzied Killing on Winterton Road: Roberts Case, 1955
Chapter 37 A Neck-Tie Attack, 1960
Chapter 38 A Killing in the Steelworks, 1966
Chapter 39 Armed raider at Bigby Road Post Office, 1968
Chapter 40 The Unsolved Stephenson Case, 1969
Chapter 41 Father Attacks Son, 1971
Chapter 42 The Killer Constable, 1971
Chapter 43 Double Murder in Grosvenor Street, 1971
Chapter 44 The Mystery of Christine, 1973
Chapter 45 Masked Raid by Dangerous Men, 1974
Chapter 46 The Unsolved Park Murder, Ashby, 1978