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The Executioner Always Chops Twice
Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold
Geoffrey Abbott
Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
Illustrated
Hardbound: 240 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
March 1, 2004
Geoffrey Abbott is a former Yeoman Warder who worked many years at the Tower of London
and author of quite a few books on torture and death. Mr Abbott gives us famous last words
and a crash course in ancient (and modern) modes of execution. The book begins with
decapitations gone terribly wrong in the mid-1500s on up to electrocutions that didn't quite
have enough juice.
Morbidly gory and blood-drenched, the author describes these bungles blunders with wonderful
gallows humor that makes the read that much more interesting. Read about the flirty
admonishments that Mary, Queen of Scots, gave to her executioners, or Sir Thomas More's
famous assertion that his tormentors had the right to behead him but no right to harm his beard;
and how Henry Thompson blithely jumped off a chair to show how his hanging would proceed.
Book is clean and bright, gently read, nearly mint condition.
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