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| Title: | Exhumation of a Murder
: The Life & Trial of Major Armstrong |
| Author: | Robin Odell |
| ISBN: | 186992892X : 9781869928926 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos & illus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 284 |
| Weight: | .425 Kg. |
| Published: | Mandrake of Oxford - July 2006 |
| List Price: | 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | True crime |
The case of Major Armstrong, the celebrated Hay Poisoner, the only solicitor ever to hang, is one of those classic, old-fashioned English murders which hail from the heyday of courtroom drama when, with the hangman lurking in the pine-and-panel wings and the black cap an object of horrifyingly alarming currency rather than mere symbolism, the loser in 'the black dock's dreadful pen' lost all. It comes straight out of the pages of George Orwell's essayed nostalgia.
Foreword; No Wine for the Major; Excuse Fingers; The Major Holds Court; Exhumation of a Murder; Motive and Malady; Rex v Armstrong -- The Prosecution; Rex v Armstrong -- The Defence; Appeal and Execution; Lives and Legends; Bibliography; Index.
