Book description
Herefordshire Murders brings together twenty-eight murderous tales,
some which were little known outside the county and others which made
national headlines. Herefordshire was home to one of Britain's most
infamous murderers, Major Herbert Rowse Armstron, who, in 1921, poisoned
his wife and attempted to poison a fellow solicitor in Hay-on-Wye.
However, the county has also experienced many lesser known murders. They
include the case of two-year-old Walter Frederick Steers, brutally
killed in Little Hereford in 1891; eighty-seven-year-old Phillip
Ballard, who died at the hands of two would-be burglars in Tupsley in
1887; Jane Haywood, murdered by her husband near Leominster in 1903; and
the shooting of two sisters at Burghill Court, near Hereford, by their
butler in 1926. Nicola Sly's carefully researched and enthralling text
will appeal to everyone interested in the shady side of Herefordshire's
history.
Nicola Sly has a Masters Degree in forensic and legal psychology and
currently teaches criminology to adult learners. She is the author of
Bristol Murders, Wiltshire Murders, Hampshire Murders, Shropshire
Murders, Worcestershire Murders and Murder by Poison, and co-author of
Cornish Murders and Somerset Murders.
