Author: [GEORGE JOSEPH SMITH]
Title: The Brides in the Bath.
Description: Felix MacGlennon, c. 1930. 4to. pp. 8> illustrations. Green wrappers, split, browned and rather fragile. George Joseph Smith [1872 - 1915] was a serial killer and bigamist, hanged for the murder of his three 'wives' who all died from drowning in the bath. Sir Bernard Spilsbury and the application of forensic pathology and detection were paramount in solving the method used in the murders. One of the "Sensation" Series and scarce. A typical cheap railway publication of the period whose poor materials and production has led to few copies surviving> this title not represented in any U.K. institution.

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