William Calcraft

Executioner Extra-ordinaire!

• Author(s): Geoffrey Abbott,
• Publisher: Eric Dobby
• Pages: 194
• ISBN_10: 1858820588
  ISBN_13: 9781858820583
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General , Social Science / Criminology , Social Science / Penology ,

Description:... Geoffrey Abbott examines the life and practice of William Calcraft, the hangman with the longest career and shortest rope. As with other books by the author, he combines a wealth of research with his own black sense of humour, giving us an eminently readable biography of this 19th-century hangman.