By William Roughead. From Time Magazine's Book Notes in May 1943: 'Excellently written studies of eight famous 17th-and 18th-Century murders, including Pennsylvania's notorious Châpman murder (with arsenic: 1831) and the sensational French killing of the Duchess of Praslin by her husband (sharp and blunt instruments: 1847). Author Roughead's calm, intelligent, slightly old-worldly accounts (Twelve Scots Trials, Enjoyment of Murder) have made him, in Dorothy Sayer's words, "the best showman that ever stood before the door of a chamber of horrors."'
I've added a wrap to the jacket, which is a bit gnawed-looking but still in good enough shape to show off the fab design; inside, mild toning, some foxy bits, but nothing out of the ordinary for its age. No dog-ears or writing that I can discern. A nice gift for the true-crime historian.