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Bill Campbell at Mainstream has acquired world rights to the chilling biography of Peter Manuel, an American-born serial killer who was hanged 50 years ago after going on a murderous rampage in the suburbs of Glasgow. His roller-coaster trial, billed as the “trial of the century”, was headline news across the world. Manuel was convicted of seven murders and sentenced to death, aged 31. Written by Hector MacLeod and Malcolm McLeod, Peter Manuel: Serial Killer will be published in February 2009.