Foul Deeds And Suspicious Deaths In Cardiff

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Cardiff takes the reader on a sinister journey through the history of local crime & conspiracy, meeting villains of all sorts along the way
- casual or calculating killers, murderous husbands & lovers, gangsters, robbers, poisoners & suicides. There is no shortage of harrowing & revealing episodes in Cardiff's past, & Mark Isaacs' fascinating book recalls many grisly events & sad or unsavoury individuals whose conduct throws a harsh light on the history of the city. Among the many shocking
- & revealing
- cases the author describes are the murder of a Welsh Protestant by an Irish Catholic that provoked rioting; the double life of a respectable widow poisoned with arsenic; the exploits of a ' Jack the Ripper' killer in Cardiff's back streets; the throat-slashing revenge of the Cardiff Race Track Gang; the still-mysterious wartime murder of Alice Pittman; the case of the Somalian sailor arrested for the brutal slaying of an elderly shopkeeper; the demise of Granville Jenkins who was cut to ribbons by a machete, & the accidental or deliberate electrocution of Mrs Darling. Mark Isaacs' chronicle of Cardiff's hidden past
- the history the city would prefer to forget
- will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the dark side of human nature.