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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. A very clean, bright, tight copy. DJ unclipped. Boards as new. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Zustand: Good. Publisher's printed white paper stapled tabloid. 12½" x 10". Monochrome photographs throughout. New short stories and articles by: H. E. Bates - Full Short Story 'Mr. Penfold'; Gerald Bullett 'Mr. Wells Rejects Marx - The New Liberalism in a Reawakened World - with photograph of H. G. Wells'; Geoffrey Bles 'How I Met Vicki Baum'; Herbert E. Palmer 'Humbert Wolfe'; Princess Antoine Bibesco 'Novel Reviewed'. Cheap paper browning and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATES, H. E. (1906-1974).

Hardback in DJ. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 9 by 6 inches in brown cloth with embossed titling to the spines. Vol 1 bottom corners bumped and worn- vol 2 bottom edges slightly worn. Contents clean and tight. Dj's worn and soiled but whole. Many maps and illustrations throughout.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. No dust jacket. Has heavy wear to the cover and pages.

London: Geoffrey Bles, [1928]. (illustrator). London: Geoffrey Bles, [1928]. Rhode, John, [1884-1964]. Constance Kent, [1844-1944], Defendant. The Case of Constance Kent. London: Geoffrey Bles, [1928]. viii, 278 pp. Frontispiece. Famous Trials Series. General Editor: George Dilnot. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt stamped spine and blind title to front cover. Moderate shelfwear. Fading to spine. Small nick to front board. Foxing to pages, otherwise internally clean. A good copy. $125. * Examines the infamous 1860 Road Hill House murder providing the details of the events surrounding the murder of three-year-old Francis Saville Kent, who was discovered with his throat cut in an outdoor privy on his family's property in Wiltshire, England. The local police were initially unsuccessful in their investigation, so Scotland Yard sent Detective Inspector Jack Whicher to assist. Rhode's account covers how Whicher's suspicions fell upon Francis's older half-sister, 16-year-old Constance Kent. Whicher built a case against Constance based on slender clues and had her arrested, but the public outcry and press agitation at the time led to the charges being dropped. Five years after the murder, Constance, under intense religious influence, confessed to the crime and was tried and convicted. The case became a sensation that fascinated authors like Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens, influencing their own work. Rhode's account revisits the case, delving into the police procedures and motivations of the key players. He expresses his contempt for the Victorian-era class privilege that shielded the Kent family and led to Whicher's humiliation. The book offers an analysis of the evidence and the social factors that complicated one of the 19th century's most notorious criminal cases.