Murder Houses of Edinburgh

by Jan Bondeson

Which of Edinburgh’s most gruesome murders has happened in your street? And were they committed by Burke and Hare, by the Stockbridge Baby-Farmer, by the Demon Frenchman of George Street, by the Triple Killer of Falcon Avenue, or perhaps by one of the Capital’s many faceless, spectral slayers, whose name and misdeeds has long since disappeared from the public eye? This book deals with Edinburgh’s architecture of capital houses inside which celebrated murders have been committed. In that tall Royal Mile tenement, a woman fell from a top-floor window in 1912 – but was she thrown out by a sinister male presence inside the house, as many witnesses thought at the time? In that old house in Candlemaker Row, not far from Greyfriars Bobby, a woman was brutally murdered by a man without arms in 1919. In that flat in Rose Street South Lane, a horrible triple murder in 1917 wiped out an entire family. That peaceful little bungalow in busy Glasgow Road is home to one of the Capital’s most impenetrable murder mysteries, which has baffled the police for 54 years. In that stairway in South Clerk Street, a woman was found battered to death in 1995, and her killer has never been brought to justice. And read about Edinburgh’s many forgotten murders, where only the murder house remains to tell the tale.

Genres: Nonfiction

Kindle Edition

Published October 25, 2020

About the author

Outside of his career in medicine, he has written several nonfiction books on a variety of topics, such as medical anomalies and unsolved murder mysteries.

Bondeson is the biographer of a predecessor of Jack the Ripper, the London Monster, who stabbed fifty women in the buttocks, of Edward 'the Boy' Jones, who stalked Queen Victoria and stole her underwear, and Greyfriars Bobby, a Scottish terrier who supposedly spent 14 years guarding his master's grave.

He is currently working as a senior lecturer and consultant rheumatologist at the Cardiff University School of Medicine.


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Reviews

[Blair · Rating 2 out of 5]

Really interesting book and I enjoyed reading it but it was let down by the slightly sexist/misogynistic language. Do better Bondeson to stop victim blaming. Came across as slightly classist too. A disappointment to an otherwise really cool book.

[Audrey Whitehead · Rating 4 out of 5]

Intresting read

Intresting read if your local or know Edinburgh I remember a few of the murders from less than 30 yrs ago.

[Cellardoora Maar · Rating 2 out of 5]

2,5 Sterne.

[tam lang · Rating 5 out of 5]

Other Edinburgh

A very good read .having live in Edinburgh for 40years and can remember some of these murders in the evening news