True Confessions of William Owen - Smuggler, Privateer and Murderer, The

The writing of this book became a detective story. It began as a straightforward modernised transcription of a condemned murderer’s confession, but contradictions had to be explored. Along the way, we become acquainted with the rogue John Lilly, Owen’s adversary then accomplice, whom Owen killed to escape a hue and cry on Lilly’s horse. – Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru