Contents
Chapter 1 An Unkind Man: Mary Newell, 1858
Chapter 2 The Reading Baby-farmer: Amelia Elizabeth Dyer, 1896
Chapter 3 Executions at Reading
Chapter 4 A New Life: Ada Jane Cook, 1918
Chapter 5 Avoiding the Noose: Edith Agnes Loader, 1919
Chapter 6 A Gentleman of the Theatre: The Murder of Alfred Oliver, 1929
Chapter 7 Too Good to Live: Queenie Pennington, 1929
Chapter 8 Behind Closed Doors: Ernest Hutchinson, 1932
Chapter 9 The Airman: Eric Stanley Pocock, 1946
Chapter 10 A Blue Silk Scarf: George Russell, 1948
Chapter 11 Fire! Donald Zombie Batholomew Walton, 1963
Chapter 12 Fingerprints: Benjamin Frank Achilles Comas, 1966
Chapter 13 The Red Mini Murder: Raymond Sidney Cook, Eric Jones, Valerie Dorothy Newell, 1967
Chapter 14 The Gravel Pit Murders: David Burgess, 1967