Cornish Murders

by Nicola Sly and John Van der Kiste

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Cornish Murders brings together numerous murderous tales that shocked not only the county but also made national news. They include the cases of Charlotte Dymond, whose throat was cut on Bodmin Moor in 1844, and Emily Tredrea, strangled at St Erth in 1909, both by their jilted suitors; Mary Ann Dunhill, murdered in a Bude hotel in 1931; shopkeeper Albert Bateman, battered to death on his premises in Falmouth on Christmas Eve 1942; Charlie and Elizabeth Giffard, savagely beaten and thrown over the cliffs near St Austell by their son in 1952; and William Rowe, brutally killed at his farm near Constantine for the sum of GBP4 in 1963.
  • ISBN10 0752484478
  • ISBN13 9780752484471
  • Publish Date 29 February 2012 (first published 1 October 2007)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint The History Press Ltd
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 160
  • Language English