Trial of Madeleine Smith (Notable British Trials Series)

Author(s): Jesse, F Tennyson

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Very Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	No Jacket
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	William Hodge and Co
Publication Year:	1949
Publication Place:	UK
Book ID:	000570
Catalogue(s):	Crime, True Crime and Conspiracies

(xii), 413 pp + plates & including appendices. Occasional plate illustrations throughout. Strong red cloth-covered boards (slightly rubbed at edges). Internally tight, crisp and clean barring occasional spotting. Classic account of the trial in Edinburgh of Madeleine Smith in 1857 for the murder, by arsenic, of her lover, Pierre Emile L'Angelier, which resulted in a verdict of not proven. (First published 1905, edited by A. Duncan Smith, in the Notable Scottish Trials series, first Notable British Trials edition in 1927.)

Keywords:

murder true crime trials scottish justice courts