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Crime Scenes | |||
| A Collection of Modern Mystery Stories | Miscellaneous | |||
| David Stuart Davies (Edited by) | ||||
| Wordsworth 2008 354 pages | ||||
| Paperback 1840220937 | ||||
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| Crime, Death and Debauchery | Miscellaneous | |||
| Giles Brindley | ||||
| Sutton 2006 216 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 075093820X | ||||
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Jack the Ripper | |||
| Letters From Hell | Miscellaneous | |||
| Stewart P Evans; Keith Skinner | ||||
| Sutto 2004 306 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 075093770X 263x195mm | ||||
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Wanted Man | |||
| The Forgotten Story of Oliver Curtis Perry, an American Outlaw | Miscellaneous | |||
| Tamsin Spargo | ||||
| Bloomsbury 2005 241 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0747577072 | ||||
| Published Price £8.99 | Our Price £3.99 | |||
| By the end of the 19th century New Yorkers believed that armed train robbery was something that only happened in the lawless western states. The exploits of Oliver Curtis Perry were to change their minds. Charismatic and audacious, he became a celebrity criminal whose prison escapes, hunger strikes and poetry fired the public imagination. This biography tells the remarkable story of a romantic anti-hero who brought the 'Wild West' to the east. | ||||
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Women and the Noose | |||
| A History of Female Execution | Miscellaneous | |||
| Richard Clark | ||||
| Tempus 2007 252 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0752444891 | ||||
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| In 1733 Sarah Malcolm murdered three women during the course of a robbery. Over 200 years later, Ruth Ellis was arrested, holding a smoking gun over the body of her dead lover. They were just two of over 600 women who were executed, between the Georgian period and the mid 20th century. In examining the lives, crimes and motives of 70 women who died on the gallows, this book provides a sympathetic, often moving history of female capital punishment. | ||||
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Walter Dew | |||
| The Man Who Caught Crippen | Miscellaneous | |||
| Nicholas Connell | ||||
| Sutton 2005 212 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 075093803X | ||||
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| Walter Dew began his police career investigating the Whitechapel 'Ripper' Murders that horrified the country between 1888 and 1891. Although Jack the Ripper was never caught, in 1910 Dew arrested a murderer of almost equal notoriety: Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen. This biography recounts the extraordinary life of one of the 20th century's most celebrated detectives - a man whose intelligence and determination earned him a place in British criminal history. | ||||
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The Crooks Who Conned Millions | |||
| True Stories of Fraudsters and Charlatans | Miscellaneous | |||
| Linda Stratmann | ||||
| Sutton 2006 244 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750942436 | ||||
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| A time of new wealth and new opportunities, the 19th century also offered rich pickings for rogues and charlatans. This book tells the stories of ten of the most audacious and extensive frauds of that century. If Princess Carabou was a relatively harmless hoax, others resulted in political disgrace, financial ruin, intellectual humiliation or suicide. Among these momentous swindlers are Thomas Cochrane and the Omnium stock exchange fraud; the 'Viscount of Canada'; and John Sadleir, banker, MP and 'national calamity'. | ||||
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Jack the Ripper | |||
| The Whitechapel Murderer | Miscellaneous | |||
| Terry Lynch | ||||
| Wordsworth 2008 369 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1840220775 | ||||
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| Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of Whitechapel, East London in 1888, slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police: his identity remains an enigma. This book presents a comprehensive account of the murders, the suspects and the police investigation. | ||||
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Stand and Deliver | |||
| A History of Highway Robbery | Miscellaneous | |||
| David Brandon | ||||
| Sutton 2004 219 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0750935286 | ||||
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| How did highwaymen get a reputation as swashbuckling heroes, when the reality was so often very different? This entertaining history looks at the economic, social and technological factors that made highway robbery so lucrative and at the emergence of effective law enforcement that heralded its decline. Featuring biographical details of Dick Turpin, Jonathan Wild and Jack Sheppard, it also examines the legacy of the highwayman on pub signs, in films and in fiction. | ||||
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Strange, Inhuman Deaths | |||
| Murder in Tudor England | Miscellaneous | |||
| John Bellamy | ||||
| Sutton 2005 246 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750938633 | ||||
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| A survey of murder in Tudor England and the widespread public interest resulting from incidents such as the murder of George Saunders, killed by his wife's lover in a conspiracy involving three others, putting such awareness in the context of the rise of Protestantism. | ||||
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The Shrigley Abduction | |||
| A Tale of Anguish, Deceit and Violation of the Domestic Hearth | Miscellaneous | |||
| Abby Ashby; Audrey Jones | ||||
| Sutton 2005 234 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 075093297X | ||||
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| The story of the abduction in 1826 of 15-year-old heiress Ellen Turner b British diplomat Edward Wakefield, who after his three-year-sentence founded the New Zealand Company and became chiefly responsible for the colonization of the country. | ||||
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A Scottish Murder | |||
| Rewriting the Madeleine Smith Story | Miscellaneous | |||
| Jimmy Powdrell Campbell | ||||
| Tempus 2007 256 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 075244008X | ||||
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| In 1857 Madeleine Smith stood in Edinburgh's High Court accused of murdering her French lover. The public believed her to be guilty but the jury passed a verdict of 'Not Proven', creating a mystery that was to last for 150 years. In this true-life detective story, the author draws on forensic discoveries and unpublished letters to turn the case on its head. He proves Madeleine's innocence and rewrites one of the most intriguing murder trials in Scottish history. | ||||
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A Grim Almanac of Suffolk | |||
| Miscellaneous | ||||
| Neil R Storey | ||||
| Sutton 2004 176 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750934980 263x194mm | ||||
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| Exploring the dark side of Suffolk's history this almanac of macabre and strange occurrences includes Matthew Hopkins exploits as Witchfinder General, the last executions in the county, and tales of highwaymen, murderers, footpads and rebels. | ||||
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Criminal London | |||
| A Pictorial History from Medieval Times to 1939 | Miscellaneous | |||
| Mark Herber | ||||
| Phillimore 2002 208 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1860771998 274x203mm | ||||
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| Crime has always been an integral part of London life and the capital has seen more than its fair share of murder, rape, theft, conspiracy and confidence trickery. With illustrations ranging from engravings of beheadings to modern police mugshots, all with detailed explanatory texts, Mark Herber's book examines the history of London's criminal world in chapters on criminals in action, thieftakers and police, riots, the courts, the criminals and their victims, famous executions, punishments and London prisons from the Clink to Borstal. | ||||
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A Death in Belmont | |||
| Fear, Murder and Justice in the Shadow of the Boston Strangler | Miscellaneous | |||
| Sebastian Junger | ||||
| Harper Perennial 2007 298 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0007200064 | ||||
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| This non-fiction novel tells of three strangers whose lives collided in Boston in March 1963. By the end of the day one of them had been raped and strangled, another arrested on suspicion of being the Boston Strangler, and the third, the real Strangler, returned home undetected. | ||||
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