Dorothy Sayers called William Roughead "the best showman who ever stood before the door of the chamber of horrors," and his true crime stories, written in the early 1900s, are among the glories of the genre.
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Trial of Deacon Brodie
Within lie twelve vintage tales of true crime by master essayist William Roughead.
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