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The Last Woman to Be Hanged: The Ruth Ellis Story

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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert HancockPublish date:2/8/2022Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Seven DialsISBN-13:9781841884479ISBN-10:1841884472UPC:9781841884479Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, True CrimeBook Subcategory:Criminals & Outlaws, Murder, Sexual AssaultSize:8.58 x 4.36 x 0.87 inchesWeight:0.3109Product ID:SC0DXCTR1V

The Last Woman to Be Hanged: The Ruth Ellis Story

On the eve of her hanging, Ruth Ellis wrote to a friend: 'I must close now but remember I am quite happy with the verdict, but not the way the story was told, there is so much that people don't know.' Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Britain. This is her story.

In July 1955 Ruth Ellis was sentenced to death for the shooting of her lover, motor-racing driver David Blakely. Barely...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Seven DialsISBN-13:9781841884479ISBN-10:1841884472UPC:9781841884479Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, True CrimeBook Subcategory:Criminals & Outlaws, Murder, Sexual AssaultSize:8.58 x 4.36 x 0.87 inchesWeight:0.3109Product ID:SC0DXCTR1V
Robert Hancock, the pseudonym of Douglas Howell, was born in Surrey in 1920 and educated at Monmouth School and Queen's College, Oxford. During the Second World War he was a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery and was taken prisoner at Tobruk. He was a POW in Italy and then Germany until the end of the war.

After the war he entered journalism and became a reporter for the Daily Mirror until 1953,...
Publisher: Seven Dials

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Robert Hancock

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