About the Author(s)

Brian Lane is an expert in the field of true crime, and is the author of The Encyclopedia of Forensic Science (Headline l992); The Encyclopedia of Women Killers (Headline, 1994) and (with Wilfred Gregg) The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers (Headline, 1992). He founded The Murder Club in 1987, and compiled the formidable six-volume series of Murder Club Guides to Great Britain.

Brian Lane came to writing via fine art, theatre, and experimental music and also spent a number of years with the United Nations in Geneva and Vienna. Now living in London, he continues to research, write and lecture on true-crime subjects and is currently embarked on a series of Murder Yearbooks.

Born in Sunderland, Wilfred Gregg is now retired from a thirty-seven career in Personnel Management. His home houses one of Britain’s largest private libraries of books, magazines and newspaper cuttings on the history of murder from around the world. He lives in Middlesex and when not involved with the Murder Collection assists his wife in collecting bulldog artefacts and looking after their two dogs. The Encyclopedia of Mass Murder is his second book.