UNSOLVED LONDON MURDERS: The 1920s & 1930s

Selects over 20 haunting cases from the period between the two world wars, including the shooting of PC James Kelly in Gunnersbury, violent deaths associated with Fenian Conspiracies, the stabbing of the French acrobat Martial Lechevalier in Piccadilly and more. Oates's case studies shed light on the lives of the victims and sometimes the lethal character of London itself. Illus.