Published by Harrap, London, 1975
ISBN 10: 0245524002 ISBN 13: 9780245524004
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, crease to inside front flap, back top corner scuffed and split, not price clipped (£5.50), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy. 250pp. An examination of the life and crimes of Herbert Rowse Armstrong (1869-1922), an English solicitor and convicted murderer, the only solicitor in the history of the United Kingdom to have been hanged for murder. He was living in Cusop Dingle, Herefordshire, England and practising in Hay-on-Wye, on the border of England and Wales, from 1906 until his arrest on 31 December 1921 for the attempted murder of a professional rival by arsenic poisoning. He was later also charged and tried for the murder of his wife.