Murder in the Family: The Dr. King Story

by Dan Buchanan

As the old saying goes, "You can pick your friends, but not your relatives." In tranquil Northumberland County, Ontario, two families are well acquainted with the grim truth of that innocuous-sounding expression. They are the descendants of the first, and only, man executed in Northumberland's history. In a sordid true-crime tale of poison and philandering in 1850s Ontario, the respected Dr. William Henry King astonished the countryside with the sinister...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1459730763
• ISBN13: 9781459730762
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"