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Leonard Piper's Murder by Gaslight compiles ten shocking murder cases from the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Drawing on exhaustive research, the book reconstructs each crime scene, follows the police investigations step by step, and documents the ensuing trials with remarkable detail.
First publish date: 1991
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Leonard Piper
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