Vile Crimes
The Timaru Poisonings
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Canterbury University Press
Published:30th Nov '07
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
On a drizzly Monday morning, 16 August 1886, the inhabitants of Timaru woke to astounding news. Tom Hall junior, a well-known local businessman and man about town, nephew of former New Zealand Premier Sir John Hall, had been arrested for attempting to murder his wife, Kitty, by poisoning. Also charged was Margaret Houston, Kitty Hall's lady-help. It was without doubt the most extraordinary thing that had ever happened in Timaru, if not the whole colony...So begins Vile Crimes, a riveting and fast-paced examination of one of New Zealand's most sensational court cases.
ISBN: 9781877257599
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
Weight: 331g
164 pages