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Pamela Coventry

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   On a cold winter's day in January 1939, nine year old Pamela Coventry came home from school for her midday meal as usual and then set off for the walk back to school for her afternoon lessons.  Somewhere along that journey she disappeared and her naked and violated body was found in a ditch the next day. Scotland Yard led the investigation into her murder, and after a couple of weeks 28 year old Leonard Richardson, a married man and father of two young children, was arrested and charged. The South Croydon Poisonings - "How strange are the coincidences which have harmed my family. It has been said that we must have an enemy who has done all this". So said the beguiling Grace Duff as members of her family died one by one. Was she right, or was the truth closer to home? Read this intriguing true crime mystery and decide for yourself.   The Rotherham Trunk Murder - When she was a child, the author’s grandma told her a secret about a murder committed by somebody that she kn