Criminal Women: Famous London Cases

by John J. Eddleston

Women have sometimes been seen as less criminally inclined than men. But, as John Eddleston shows in this revealing anthology of female crimes in London, this image is hard to mesh with reality, for the city's history is crowded with cases of women who broke the law. In vivid detail he reconstructs a series of dramatic, often harrowing cases in which women were involved and puts their acts in the context of their times. Taking episodes from the eighteenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845631110
• ISBN13: 9781845631116
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Wharncliffe
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"