Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Reading

Reeks: Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths

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  • True-life
  • tales
  • of
  • bloody
  • killings
  • and
  • brutal
  • crimes
  • wind
  • through
  • the
  • dark
  • past
  • of
  • this
  • historic
  • town
  • on
  • the
  • Thames.John
  • J.
  • Eddleston’s
  • latest
  • selection
  • of
  • notorious
  • criminal
  • cases
  • takes
  • the
  • reader
  • through
  • a
  • sequence
  • of
  • sensational
  • episodes
  • that
  • have
  • marred
  • the
  • history
  • of
  • Reading.
  • His
  • book,
  • based
  • on
  • original
  • research,
  • recalls
  • many
  • grisly
  • events
  • and
  • sad
  • or
  • unsavory
  • individuals
  • whose
  • fate
  • has
  • hitherto
  • been
  • forgotten.
  • Among
  • the
  • shocking
  • crimes
  • he
  • reconstructs
  • are
  • those
  • of
  • the
  • baby-farmer
  • Amelia
  • Dyer,
  • the
  • unsolved
  • murder
  • of
  • Alfred
  • Oliver,
  • the
  • suffocation
  • of
  • Beatrice
  • Cox,
  • the
  • red
  • Mini
  • murder
  • of
  • June
  • Cook,
  • and
  • the
  • attempted
  • murder
  • of
  • a
  • family
  • of
  • five.
  • This
  • chronicle
  • of
  • the
  • dark
  • side
  • of
  • Reading’s
  • long
  • history
  • will
  • be
  • fascinating
  • reading
  • for
  • anyone
  • who
  • is
  • interested
  • in
  • the
  • town’s
  • rich—and
  • sometimes gruesome—past.
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