In vivid and dramatic style, Mr. Moiseiwitsch has retold the stories of four famous trials during the last hundred years.
Three of them were trials for murder: Florence Maybrick, accused of poisoning by arsenic a man who had been dosing himself heavily with arsenic for years; George Joseph Smith, triple murderer, the macabre depravity of whose crimes has made him one of the most infamous of killers; and William Herbert Wallace, whose mildness of manner was in odd contrast to the brutality of the murder for which he stood in the dock.
In the fourth section-the story of Charles Stewart Parnell-Mr. Moiseiwitsch is less concerned with the trial than with the background story of the famous Irish leader whose career was finally shattered by one of the most sensational divorce cases of all time.
Mr. Moiseiwitsch's reconstructions are absorbing and psychologically acute, and Lord Birkett's commentaries are, as one would expect from so distinguished a judge, both pithy and authoritative.
4 Famous Trials
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1963
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Maurice Moiseiwitsch, Lord Birkett
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