When the Hangman Came to Galway: A Gruesome True Story of Murder in Victorian Ireland by Dean Ruxton

When the Hangman Came to Galway: A Gruesome True Story of Murder in Victorian Ireland

Dean Ruxton

304 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction true crime dark informative reflective slow-paced
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The paths of a secret paramour, a jilted lover, and a reluctant hangman cross in one fateful winter week in Galway, 1885. James Berry was the notorious hangman who ended the lives of over 130 criminals in Victorian Britain and Ireland. Tortured by...

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