Author: James, P. D. & T. A. Critchley,
Title: The Maul and the Pear Tree: the Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811.
Description: NY, Mysterious Press, (1986). Reprint. VG in VG DJ. A sinister dock neighborhood where pirates were hung at low water mark and left for the tides to roll over them. The first. victims were a household of four, two shopkeepers, their baby, and a shop boy. 12 days later a few blocks away a pubowner, his wife, and servant with an apparent lack of motive. The crimes provoked widespread panic and a call for reform of the police.

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