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Yorkshire is the largest county in the country. Steeped in history this normally peaceful area has occasionally been gripped by some of the most horrifying crimes of the nineteenth century. 'Bloody Yorkshire' chronicles thirteen of the vilest murderous acts which frame Yorkshire's sinister past. From the triple murders in Mirfield 1847, the ruthless slaying of innocent children John Gill in Bradford 1889, and Barbara Whitian Waterhouse in Horsforth, Leeds 1891. To the shocking death of William Swann brutally murdered by his wife and her lover in 1903 This carefully researched illustrated book will appeal to historians, and those interested in true crime.