Book description
Built by the Romans, looted by the Danes and conquered by King William
I (who devastated the town to build a castle and a cathedral), the city
of Lincoln has had a long and most dreadful history. Containing medieval
child murder, vile sieges of (and escapes from) the castle, the savage
repression of the Lincolnshire rising by King Henry VIII (who had the
ringleaders hanged, drawn and quartered) and plagues, lepers, prisons,
riots, typhoid, tanks and terrible hangings by the ton, you'll never see
the city in the same way again.
Douglas Wynn is an expert on true crime with books including
Murder & Crime in Lincoln and Murder & Crime in Lincolnshire
to his name. He has given talks at literary festivals including the
Halifax Literary Festival and Dead on Deansgate (the Manchester Crime
Festival), as well as to many local groups. Formerly chairman of the
Grimsby Writers' Circle, he now leads a writing group for the Louth U3A.
