The Black Widower by Charles Lavery

The Black Widower by Charles Lavery

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He drugged his first wife and staged a fireball car crash, collecting a £200,000 insurance payout. In this chilling book, award-winning journalist Charles Lavery documents the Black Widower’s life and crimes, giving a compelling insight into the mind of a man who killed for money and attempted to cover his tracks with drugs and fire.

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The Black Widower by Charles Lavery

He drugged his first wife and staged a fireball car crash, collecting a £200,000 insurance payout. He cheated his second wife of her life savings and attempted to kill her in a copycat crash. He faked cancer to dupe his third victim into a bigamous marriage, plotting her murder to steal her inheritance. He is Malcolm Webster: The Black Widower. After seventeen years of deception and brutality, Webster was finally jailed for thirty years in July 2011 at the climax of one of the longest trials in Scottish legal history. In this chilling book, award-winning journalist Charles Lavery documents the Black Widower’s life and crimes, giving a compelling insight into the mind of a man who killed for money and attempted to cover his tracks with drugs and fire.
Charles Lavery has spent more than 20 years working as an investigative journalist. He was formerly the chief reporter at the Sunday Mail and now writes for several national publications on a freelance basis. He was named Reporter of the Year at the 2009 Scottish Press Awards.
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ISBN 13 9781780575315
ISBN 10 1780575319
Title The Black Widower
Author Charles Lavery
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
Year published 2012-07-05
Number of pages 272
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.