Bristol and Bath whodunnit

Reference Number: PP/2486
Level of Description: Item
Title: Bristol and Bath whodunnit
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Kidd-Hewitt, David: Author
Countryside Books: Publisher

Newbury

3 Catherine Road, Newbury, Berkshire
Date: 2007
ISBN: 978 1 84674 052 7
Extent: Pages: 158
Description: Includes the following accounts of Bath murders: The 'Chocolate Box Murder' (the 1929 murder of Marjorie Bartlett by her husband William. The couple lived in a flat above their sweet shop, 'The Chocolate Box' in Monmouth Street), pp. 33-37; How not to murder your father-in-law (the 1933 murder of 81-year-old James Pullen by his son-in-law Reginald Hinks), pp. 66-80; The terrible deeds of John Straffen (the 1950s murders of Brenda Goddard and Cecily Batstone of Bath and Linda Bowyer of Berkshire by John Straffen), pp. 108-117; 'It's a puzzler' (the unsolved murder of 52-year-old Beryl Culverwell in the garage of her home at Widcombe Hill, Bath in 1978), pp. 127-135.
Subject: Crime
Homicide