8vo. 8pp. Original publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Leaves browned, some chipping to margins.

A tawdry account, produced for popular consumption, of the trial in 1857 of Madeleine Hamilton Smith (1835/6-1928), a Glasgow socialite accused of the murder of her former lover Pierre Emile L'Angelier through the use of arsenic, issued by Felix McGlennon as the third number in his 'City Garden' series.