Cover of Capital Crimes

Book 2013

Capital Crimes

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Publisher
Penguin Random House
Language
English
Published
2013
  • Criminology
  • Punishment
  • Murderers
  • History
  • Murder, great britain
  • Punishment, great britain

Capital Crimes tells the shifting story of crime and punishment in London through vivid recreations of a series of murders that stretch from the killing of the Lord Chancellor Roger Lyett during the Peasants' Revolt in 1381 through to the hanging of Syllou Christofi in 1953.