The Hagley Wood Murder: Nazi Spies and Witchcraft in Wartime Britain (Trow M. J.)(Pevná vazba)

Astonishingly, The Hagley Wood Murder is the first book solely on the subject (other than a selection of privately printed/self published offerings) ever written on this murder, which too place eighty years ago.

In April 1943, four teenaged boys discovered a corpse stuffed into the bole of a wych elm in a wood in the industrial Midlands. The body was merely bones and had been in the tree for up to two years. The pathologist determined that she was female, probably in her thirties, had given birth and was just under five feet tall. The cause of death was probably suffocation.

Six months after the discovery, mysterious messages began to appear on walls in the area, variants of 'Who Put Bella Down the Wych Elm - Hagley Wood'. And the name Bella has stuck ever since.

Local newspapers, then the national press, took up the story and ran with it, but not until
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