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The Maul and the Pear Tree: Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811

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The Maul and the Pear Tree: Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811 - Critchley, T.A., and James, P. D.
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This is an account of seven bloody, apparently unprovoked killings in East London in the weeks before Christmas, 1811. Known collectively as the Ratcliffe Highway Murders, they caused such revulsion in the community that the corpse of the alleged killer was buried with a stake through his heart.

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The Maul and the Pear Tree: Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811 1990, Penguin Books Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780140131864

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