
Way of Transgressors
by Edward Brown
Title:
Way of Transgressors
Author:
Edward Brown
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
282 pages
Publisher:
Tidewater Press
ISBN-13:
9781990160486
EAN:
9781990160486
Publication Date:
03/06/2025
Classifications:
Crime and Mystery
Weight (g):
492
Dimensions (mm):
215 x 139 x 20
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Fifteen murderers buried in the yard of the jail where they were hanged. A detective haunted by their crimes. The facts are true. Their stories might be.The miscreants and murderers who live in the underworld of 19th century Toronto said that George Porter has a heart as black as a sweeps face. Even his colleagues at the Toronto Detective Force considered him a hard case. He hadnt started out that way. He had been an eighteen-year-old constable, full of idealism until he brushed the dirt from the face of a newborn babe, buried alive. How does that not change a man? Over the years, hes recorded the faces of the guilty in pen and ink, sketching them as compulsively as he investigated their crimes. After the murderers were hanged, their skulls were split open with a bone saw and their brains autopsied, then their bodies were unceremoniously discarded.In September 2007, a backhoe uncovered a mass grave while excavating what had been the exercise yard of the old Toronto Don Jail. A total of fifteen bodies were discovered, the remains of inmates hanged on the prisons gallows between 1872 and 1930. Mysteries to be solved, lives to be imagined, crimes to be dissected.










