100 Great Criminal Stories of the XVII-XVIII Centuries

The XVII and XVIII centuries... In those distant times, whimsical and often completely astonishing laws and expert opinions were in effect, there were robber raids, and persecutions of witches and sorcerers. There were many class rights and prejudices, which were often justified by the origin and high status of titled individuals. The right of the strong mattered back then. Criminalistics was experiencing not just a child but rather an infant period, and investigations were often accompanied by torture. Therefore, some condemned individuals were brutally executed without guilt, while others were acquitted due to lack of evidence of a crime.

The next book in the series tells about one hundred of the loudest criminal stories of the XVII-XVIII centuries.