William Roughead: 2 books
by William Roughead
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Within lie twelve vintage tales of true crime by master essayist William Roughead. Henry James himself once urged Roughead: “Keep on with them all please, and continue to beckon me along the gallery that I can’t tread alone and where, by your leave, I link my arm fraternally in yours: the gallery...
by William Roughead, Editor
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
"Mary Blandy (1720 – April 6, 1752) was a female murderer in 18th century England. In 1751, she poisoned her father, Francis Blandy, with arsenic. She claimed that she thought the arsenic was a love potion that would make her father approve of her relationship with William Henry Cranstoun,...