William Roughead
Born: 1870
Died: 1952 (aged 82)
Bio: William Roughead was a well-known Scottish lawyer and amateur criminologist, as well as an editor and essayist on "matters criminous". He was an important early practitioner of the modern "true crime" literary genre.
Known for:
- Trial of Mary Blandy (1914)
- Trial Of Oscar Slater (1910)
- Nothing But Murder (1946)
- The Murderer's Companion (1941)
- The Rebel Earl And Other Studies (1926)
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