Author: ANONYMOUS
Title: The Severed Hand, or The Howard Mystery.
Description: Christchurch, Capper Press. 1974, Facsimile. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) dust jacket spine sunned, inscription to the page with the drawing of the found severed hand has been covered over with correction fluid, otherwise tidy copy, first edition thus hardcover, 71pp. With portraits of Mr and Mrs Howard, The Messrs Godfrey, and the mysterious hand. Photo offset from one of only two original pamphlets known to be extant. The true story of the bizarre events following the finding of a severed hand at Taylor's Mistake, Christchurch in 1885, which led to the exhumation of bodies in the Wairarapa, Wellington and from Sunnyside Hospital's graveyard. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: New Zealand True Crime Murder Mystery Howard Mystery Severed Hand Rare Facsimile Capper Press


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