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Maylower dell, 1965. 1st printing. Jack Ketch, public hangman of England in the mid-seventeenth century. Paperback. very good paperback, some rubbing to spine.

London: Mayflower-Dell, 1965.. A name to conjure with, a name to dread... Jack Ketch, public hangman of England in the mid-seventeenth century. And suddenly, in the England of the mid-twentieth century, an England where hanging has been abolished, the terrifying figure of Jack Ketch returned. The Jack Ketch Society meant the noose for killers whom even the courts had found innocent. For the Jack Ketch Society was its own court. And it provided its own savage executioner". Pp.139/5(publisher's catalogue), pages toned. Paperback, slightly rubbed with minor sunning to spine. G+.** Arthur Athwill William Baker wrote under the pen names W.A.Ballinger, William Howard Baker, John Long, Desmond Reid, Richard Williams, Peter Saxon, and John Saxon.