Again, a mix of solved and unsolved cases covering 1850-1952, starting with the unsolved murder of Lydia Atley, 1850 at Ringstead, the book covers 14 historical cases from across the county; the Daventry murder of Elizabeth Pinckard (1851); Benjamin Cheney, Rothwell (1855); Mary Addington, Holcote, (1871); John Newitt, Towcester, (1873); Mary Ann Tite, Stoke Bruerne (1885) and the locally famous body in the bag murder of Annie Pritchard, East Haddon(1892).
Others include murders at Sulgrave, Northampton, Kettering, Higham Ferrers and the Ashton Village double murder in 1952.