GRAVES, ROBERT — They Hanged My Saintly Billy

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1957. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has one semi-closed tear to the top front spine joint. "He returned to his home town of Rugeley to practice as a doctor, and, in St. Nicholas Church, Abbots Bromley, married Ann Thornton, also known as Brookes (b.1827) in 1847. The marriage took place on 7 October, 1847. Their first son, William Brookes Palmer, was born either in 1848 or 1850. He would long outlive his father, dying on 29 April, 1926. The first of several suspicious deaths connected to Palmer was that of his mother-in-law. On 18 January, 1849, Ann Mary Thornton died while visiting her daughter at Palmer's house. She was about 50 years old. On 10 May, 1850, Leonard Bladen died. He was a 49-year-old house guest of the Palmers." (from Murderpedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .