Murderous TynesideAuthor: John J. EddlestonMurderous TynesideThe city of Newcastle upon Tyne and surrounding towns like Gateshead, Jarrow, North and South Sheilds have seen some of the most intriguing murder cases of the twentieth century. Perhaps the most infamous of all is the murder of John Innes Nisbet by John Alexander Dickman, for which the latter was hanged in August 1910. Yet within the pages of the book there are others whose stories are equally fascinating. There are the two Millers, hanged ninety minutes apart on the same day for what was a senseless crime. There is Thomas Craig, a man determined to avenge himself on the woman who had spurned him, And William Ambrose Collins, who brutally murdered a WAAF during two years of World War Two. Capital punishment is a very emotive subject and this book is not intended to argue the case either for, or against. The facts are put before the reader and it is for them to decide for themselves whether the hanging of these killers served any purpose beyond judicial revenge. Whatever the decision, Murderous Tyneside makes absorbing reading about a darker side of this city and its surroundings. PublisherDB Publishing ISBN978-185983-082-X Price in GBP£14.99 |
About The Author
John Eddleston was born in Lancashire in 1952. After a brief exile in Peterborough, he now lives on the South Coast, but hopes to move to the West Country in due course. Having earned his living in banking, finance and sales for a number of years, he became a mature student at a college in Cheshire where he obtained his B.Ed degree in the rather unusual combination of history and mathematics.He has had a number of articles on British crime published in various continental magazines, mainly in Sweden, but the present series of books are the first works he has had published in this country. His interest in the executed of the twentieth century came about because when he was an infant in Wigan, a kind stranger handed him a newly-minted penny as a souvenir of the 1953 Coronation. John still has the penny. The stranger turned out to be one Norma William Green. The following year he was hanged for the murder of two small boys.
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