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Book SynopsisIn Stephen Wade's personal casebook, he gazes back over favourite investigations in his home county Yorkshire - rich with villainous acts, painstaking detective work, injustice and the allure of the unsolved case; including Leeds's most notorious female killer Louie Calvert and why Wade believes her conviction and hanging a travesty.
Table of ContentsPreface ................................................................................ix 1 Writing Crime and the Fascination of Deviance..........1 2 Famous Hangmen and Other Characters...................23 3 Growing Up in Dark Leeds...........................................37 4 Revisiting My Favourite Yorkshire Tales ....................47 5 A Most Infamous Murderess ........................................79 6 Times Behind Bars........................................................109 7 The Strange World of the Criminal Courts...............133 8 Inside the Criminal Mind............................................151 Select Bibliography..........................................................159
