Surrey Murders

Surrey Murders is an examination of some of the county''s most notorious and shocking cases. They include the ''Wigwam Girl'', Joan Wolfe, who lived in a tent built by a Cree Indian Soldier before being brutally slaughtered; the infamous stabbing of Frederick Gold by ''the Serpent'', Percy Lefroy Mapleton; the poisoning of the entire Beck family with a bottle of oatmeal stout, laced with cyanide; and the sailor butchered at the Devil''s Punch Bowl, later immortalised in Charles Dickens'' Nicholas Nickleby. John Van der Kiste''s carefully researched, well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to all those interested in the darker side of Surrey''s history.