Geoffrey Abbott

What a Way to Go

Geoffrey Abbott
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Griffin

A gruesomely, hilarious and fascinating pop-history account of methods of execution from around the world and through the ages

In this wickedly humorous book, Geoffrey Abbott describes the...

Execution

Geoffrey Abbott
St. Martin's Publishing Group
St. Martin's Press

In his own darkly humorous style, Geoffrey Abbott describes the instruments used and their effectiveness and reveals the macabre origins of familiar phrases such as "gone west" or "drawn a blank,"...

The Executioner Always Chops Twice

Geoffrey Abbott
St. Martin's Publishing Group
St. Martin's Press

A morbidly fascinating mixture of bungled executions, strange last requests, and classic final one-liners from medieval times to the present day.

Sometimes it's hard to be an executioner, trying...