Fit to be tied: Ontario's murderous past

By Terry Boyle

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1896757154
• ISBN13: 9781896757155
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Polar Bear Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.4" x 5.8" x 0.7"

Customer Reviews

Stories of murders from Ontario's past

Terry Boyle has written several books on Ontario history and lore geared towards a general reading audience. In this volume, he turns his attention to once sensational murders that have now been forgotten. There are eight in all, Elizabeth Tilford, age 50, who poisoned her 31 year-old husband Tyrell, to the brutal murder of young Lizzie Anderson at the Goderich Fair. Boyle states that one of the reasons he wrote this book is to show that crimes back when capital punishment existed in Canada were just as heinous as they are now, and he certainly has proven that to be the case. The book is well written, and each chapter nicely developed with detail, yet not tedious and/or gruesome. My only complaint is the occasional poor proof-reading--in particular the first chapter where Sidney (or is it Sydney?) Murrell's name is not consistant (in some cases it is spelled both with an "i" and a "y" in the same paragraph). But overall this is a good book, and look forward to others by the author.