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Berkshire Murders is an examination of some of the county's most notorious and shocking cases. They include Hannah Carey, beaten to death by her husband at Warfield in 1851; the young Hannah Gould, whose throat was cut by her father in a frenzied attack at Windsor in 1861; Nell Woodridge, murdered by her husband in 1896 and later immortalised in Oscar Wilde's 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'; Annie Davis, killed by her lover in 1912; and Minnie Freeman Lee, whose body was discovered in a trunk in 1948. John Van der Kiste's carefully researched, well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to all those interested in the darker side of Berkshire's history. John Van der Kiste has published over 20 historical biographies and has also written at length on local history, including Devon Murders and Cornish Murders. He has contributed reviews to national and local publications and to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and was consultant for the BBC documentary The King, the Kaiser and the Tsar.