Annals of Crime - Some Extraordinary Women by W.H. Williamson

Hardback with red cloth boards in VG+ used condition, no d/w. Mild foxing of prelims. First edition published by Routledge (1930). 286pp. Happy to combine purchases for post.

This title, first published in 1930, examines the events about eleven female criminals and the conditions that surrounded their crimes. Annals of Crime also explores the possibility whether the women mentioned would have committed these crimes if their circumstances had been different. This book will be of great interest to students of history, criminology and gender studies.

Contents:

1. Jeanne de la Cour
2. Mrs Maybrick
3. Madame Lafarge
4. Christiana Edmunds
5. Marie de Morell
6. Helene Jagado
7. Madeleine 8. Marie Michel
8. Constance Kent
9. Celestine Doudet
10. Madame Joniaux

When this book was published (1930) there was a great public interest in Criminology, it was a time when papers worldwide were full of the latest exploits of legendary mobsters... Al Capone was leading in the Chicago gang wars, Lucky Luciano was openly plotting to overthrow his rivals in New York and a multitude of Italian mobsters, like Joe Masseria, were carving out their empire within most towns of the U.S.A.