Out of Print
To many people now living the name of Rugeley, a small town in Staffordshire, at once associates itself with the career of William Palmer, Surgeon, and the many victims he poisoned, now nearly seventy years ago.
A few books and copies of the trial and pamphlets have been written about him and his crimes. Sunday papers, monthly magazines, have articles periodically, and almost fables, about him and his career, and the interest is still very great wherever the English language is spoken.
Even within the last few months an article has appeared in the Sunday Times, and in two different books published lately on various murders and motives (by Miss Tennyson Jesse and Harold Eaton), a chapter is given in each book with a slight sketch of Palmer the Poisoner, and will repay the reading.
But no connected history of his life and career and various murders has ever been published since the year of his execution, though many short extracts appear from time to time in magazines and newspapers, chiefly about his trial, and only a few lines alluding to his previous career.
But this book is meant to give a history of Palmer's early life and general career, as well as a full account of his murdering Cook, and only a very slight account of his trial, as that can be read easily elsewhere. George Fletcher from Chapter 1
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