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""Murder, Mystery And Execution"" - Volume 11 - looks at another 30 [Thirty] more capital cases of murder in Britain and Ireland from 1800 to the effective end of the death penalty in these islands in 1964 .... Once again the motives ranged from anger/revenge; passion & jealousy; robbery, sexual et al to those who had no motive .... But all of them had as their last sight - the rope on the gallows and the hangman and his white hood .... This time there are included seven cases where women were executed, including the last of a woman in Scotland (1923); a policeman hanged; the last execution at Exeter (1943) and the last woman hanged in public at Dorchester (1856); murder in an asylum, the first murder in a railway-train; cases from London, Surrey, Suffolk, Dorset, Northamptonshire, Scotland, Wales and Ireland et al .... Also there is a list of the cases in the previous 10 volumes (300 cases) ....

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