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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Rymour Books

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9780954070489

RRP: £11.99

PAGES: 230

PUBLICATION DATE:
August 1, 2020

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The Goatfell Murder

Calum Smith

In 1889, the year Jack the Ripper committed his last murder, another sensational story hit the press. This is the story of a famous murder on a Scottish mountain and its aftermath. A chilling tale of crime and retribution.

This is the true story of an infamous murder in the Scottish mountains. Taking place in 1898, the year Jack the Ripper committed the last of his murders, the murder of an English tourist, Edwin Rose, on Goatfell, in the Isle of Arran, was a sensation of the time.

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July 1889, and Jack the Ripper has just committed the last of the Whitechapel murders. The Scottish press, however, are more interested in a sensational local case. The body of an English tourist, 32-year-old Edwin Rose, has been found battered and bloody and hidden beneath a boulder on the slopes of Goatfell, a mountain on the Isle of Arran. This is the story of the Goatfell tragedy of 1889 – the only murder, if it was a murder, ever committed on the Scottish mountains- including hitherto unpublished letters from John Watson Laurie, subsequently convicted for the crime, who became the longest serving prisoner in Scotland.

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