In this brief volume of Murder Tales, H. N. Lloyd explores those killers who have used cakes and chocolates as a means of dispatching their nemeses. Like any good box of chocolates this collection contains just enough to sate your hunger, yet not enough to gorge yourself to sickness. A few favourite choice morsels of delicious crime, containing all the best ingredients, sex, heartbreak, betrayal, vengeance and murder. The cases discussed are:
Christina Edmunds: Did a mental illness cause a woman to attempt to poison a whole town, or were they simply the cruel and sadistic actions of a woman wanting revenge on the lover who had spurned her?
Dr George Henry Lamson: When a doctor who courted foreign royalty and dignitaries amongst his personal friends was accused of using sleight of hand to murder his brother-in-law, it led to the President of the United States personally attempting to intervene to stop his execution.
Cordelia Botkin: Discover how a bicycle ride in the sun led to a sex scandal, which in turn led to Cordelia Botkin using chocolates to try and murder her love rival and her children.
Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong: The only solicitor in British legal history to hang for murder. Yet it was an unnecessary act of professional jealousy that led to the uncovering of his wife’s murder, and his own undoing.
Containing four of the best true crime stories in the annals of criminal history, this compact collection will sate your appetite for murder.