The Murders of the Black Museum, 1870-1970

4to, Black boards gilt lettering. Gifted front free page. Many photos. 297 pages. New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police, also houses the Black Museum, a unique collection of exhibits, photographs and other items connected with some of the most famous crimes and criminals of the last century. Fifty of those crimes, committed between 1870 and 1970, were murders, and these are the murders that are described in this book.