Tom Slemen's first book relates seventeen accounts concerning the murders and murderers of Merseyside. What was Jack the Ripper's connection with Liverpool? Who was the Victorian found encased in an iron tube in Great Homer Street? Was John Lennon's assassin trained by the CIA? These and many more grim scary tales are encompassed in this compelling book, including the case of the Man from the Pru which divided the nation and set the world's greatest detectives at loggerheads... the heinous Old Curiosity Shop murder... the demonic Frederick Deeming who wiped out his own family and danced upon their graves with his next unsuspecting victim...plus many more chronicles of the dark side of human nature.