Mike Sheridan
ASIN: B00M20HOPU
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 238
Saville’s Spinney is a tragic tale. A seemingly unconnected set of events will spark the bloodiest murders ever known in Nottingham. A marriage in trouble, a town embroiled in a strike, a doomed love triangle will lead to four savage and brutal deaths, a Coroner's inquisition followed by a long Assizes trial in which the accused is sentenced to death. Yet more death and mayhem will follow. The public hanging attracts an enormous and rowdy crowd but in the seconds following the drop the crowd panics and more innocents lose their lives. Twelve spectators die at the scene and over one hundred are badly injured. Another Coroners Inquisition is called, the Police make an investigation. Questions are raised in Parliament but many questions remain unanswered……..Who really killed the babes in the wood and why?Who threw the bloody shirt in the canal?Was a man hung for murders he did not ...