Self Published Works

Below you will find all the publications which are done as either a low-cost kindle eBook, or a free downloadable document (in MS Word format).

Remember if you have a relatively recent smart phone, or tablet PCs you can get the kindle app, free for your device.

Rotherham Crimes
(Amazon / Kindle download)
This is another book of true crimes in Rotherham which took place in the 19th century. Some of these cases have been published in Margaret Drinkall’s weekly column in the Rotherham Advertiser but they have been expanded to include more details and the actual statements made by the witnesses and those accused of crimes.
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Messengers of Death: Poisonous 19th Century Women
(Amazon / Kindle download)
It was easy to kill someone in the 19th century, much easier than it is today… Access to arsenic could be gained for pennies and it’s effects mimicked such diseases as cholera, dysentery and typhoid, all of which, at the time, were common illnesses. Other killers, such as laudanum, sulphuric acid and a rare poison called colchicum were used by the women in this book
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More 19th Century Rotherham Murders

(Amazon / Kindle download)
Twenty gruesome murders around the town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom! The horrible cases present in here include a girl shot down by her lover at Bradgate, poaching on the Fitzwilliam estate, a man trying to imitate Jack the Ripper at Parkgate, a fatal affray in College Street and two cases of Fratricide.
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The Other Whitechapel Murder
(Amazon / Kindle download)
Years before the “Jack the Ripper” crimes, an equally gruesome murder took place in Whitechapel. A respectable businessman, Henry Wainwright was found with the chopped up remains of his former mistress, in the company of his new mistress, Alice Day. For a whole year the body remained hidden and Wainwright nearly got away with it.
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Women on The Gallows
(Amazon / Kindle download)
These are some of the cases of women who died at the end of an executioners rope for varied crimes from infanticide, murder of a grandchild and an uncle, to a woman charged with being a resurrectionist a few years after the exploits of Burke and Hare. Included are an horrific tale of a woman who took children from a workhouse and starved and beat them until some of them died.
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The Case of Esther Dyson
(free link only, click to view)
This is a case of infanticide where the mother of the child is deaf and dumb and unable to communicate, Most people in the nineteenth century who were disabled in this way were labelled as ‘idiots’ and consigned to the workhouse insane wards. This is a rather upsetting case, so be warned!
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Miscreants and Murders In Victorian Rotherham
(Free web link) – (Amazon / Kindle download)
Who would have thought that on the bridge which still holds an ancient chapel, a man was murdered for no reason at all. There is the case of a respectable farmer who impregnated his housekeeper and yet denied all knowledge of it, despite her statement to the contrary. But the most terrible of all these, is the case of the brutal neglect of a father towards his daughter, who in his eyes, brought the ultimate shame to his door.
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Rotherham’s Rogues and Villains
(Free web link) – (Amazon / Kindle download)
This book has six new cases, which have never been written about before concerning some of the rogues and villains of the town of Rotherham. Also at the end you will find excerpts from a new book we intend to bring out in 2015. It is an Almanack of Crime in Victorian Rotherham which includes crimes for every day of the year. Find out if anything gruesome happened on YOUR birthday!
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Margaret Drinkall