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Ruth Ellis | |||
| Crime Archive | Miscellaneous | |||
| Victoria Blake | ||||
| National Archives 2008 112 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1905615191 | ||||
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| Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in England, shot her lover David Blakely dead outside a London pub: the crime a tragic consequence of passion, jealousy and abuse. | ||||
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Mrs Maybrick | |||
| Crime Archive | Miscellaneous | |||
| Victoria Blake | ||||
| National Archives 2008 112 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1905615183 | ||||
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| The Alabama belle who married a member of Liverpool's commercial elite, Mrs Maybrick was either a vile poisoner or a Victorian victim falsely accused of killing her husband with arsenic in 1889. | ||||
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The Krays | |||
| Crime Archive | Miscellaneous | |||
| James Morton | ||||
| National Archives 2008 112 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1905615310 | ||||
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| The 'evil twins', kings of London's underworld, Ronnie and Reggie's crimes of fraud and extortion eventually led to three murders and their imprisonment in 1969. | ||||
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John Christie | |||
| Crime Archive | Miscellaneous | |||
| Edward Marston | ||||
| National Archives 2007 112 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1905615167 | ||||
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| The serial killer, necrophile and liar of 10, Rillington Place, John Christie escaped the law for over ten years while bodies lay hidden in his house and another man was hanged for two of his murders. | ||||
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Jack the Ripper | |||
| Crime Archive | Miscellaneous | |||
| Val Horsler | ||||
| National Archives 2007 112 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1905615140 | ||||
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| Despite Scotland Yard's greatest manhunt of the era, the serial killer who terrorized the prostitutes of London's Whitechapel in the late 19th century was never caught. | ||||
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The Great Train Robbery | |||
| Crime Archive | Miscellaneous | |||
| Peter Guttridge | ||||
| National Archives 2008 112 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1905615329 | ||||
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| In the heist of the 20th century, 15 petty crooks, including Buster Edwards and Ronnie Biggs, seized £2.6 million from the Glasgow to London mail train in August 1963. | ||||
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Dr Crippen | |||
| Crime Archive | Miscellaneous | |||
| Katherine D Watson | ||||
| National Archives 2007 112 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1905615078 | ||||
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| After the remains of his wife were found in their Camden Town house, Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen became the first internationally known fugitive from justice as he attempted to flee to Canada with his young mistress. | ||||
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Burke & Hare | |||
| Crime Archive | Miscellaneous | |||
| Alanna Knight | ||||
| National Archives 2007 112 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1905615132 | ||||
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| Burke and Hare were the most notorious killers of the 1820s, stalking the streets of Edinburgh in search of fresh 'merchandise' for the doctors' dissecting tables. | ||||
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The Encyclopedia of Crime | |||
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| Oliver Cyriax | ||||
| Andre Deutsch 2005 542 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0233002669 | ||||
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| Ideal for anyone curious about how many heads were found in Jeffrey Dahmer's freezer, the straight facts of the OJ Simpson case, or the best vessel for smuggling drugs through customs (previous failed attempts include false legs, hollowed-out jacket buttons and a hapless Saint Bernard), The Encyclopedia of Crime is an absorbing exploration of mankind's tendency to transgression, covering every kind of crime and criminal from safecrackers and blackmailers to Satanists and cannibals. Some disturbing content. | ||||
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The Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir | |||
| Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI | Miscellaneous | |||
| Colin Evans | ||||
| Icon 2007 326 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1840468637 | ||||
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| At the beginning of the 20th century many murders went unsolved as crime scene investigation was usually very basic. But then a young physician, Bernard Spilsbury, began to uncover overlooked evidence, providing scientific proof which convicted the likes of Dr Crippen. This book tells the stories of the charismatic Spilsbury, beloved by Fleet Street, and of some of the cases he solved. | ||||
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Murderous Methods | |||
| Using Forensic Science to Solve Lethal Crimes | Miscellaneous | |||
| Mark Benecke | ||||
| Columbia University Press 2005 242 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0231131186 | ||||
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| Mark Benecke, a leading forensic scientist, explains the scientific methods and intuition which help investigators to gather and analyse evidence. Taking the reader behind the scenes of challenging cases including those against OJ Simpson and the cannibal serial killer Karl Denke, he also explores the unreliability of witnesses, the minds of murderers, the ways we punish criminals and the public fears and prejudices which can lead investigators in the wrong direction. | ||||
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Murder in Shakespeare's England | |||
| Miscellaneous | ||||
| Vanessa McMahon | ||||
| Hambledon & London 2004 286 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1852854227 | ||||
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| Murder was not the most heinous crime on the statute book in Elizabethan times - treason and heresy were considered more serious by the state - but for ordinary people murder was the most interesting and involving. Examining how murder cases ranging from brawls to infanticide, and including sex crimes and serial killings, were investigated and the perpetrators pursued and prosecuted, McMahon explores 'ordinary lives through the extraordinary lens of violence and death'. | ||||
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Enduring Spirit: Convicts or Colonists | |||
| The True Story of Henry Kable and Susannah Holmes | Miscellaneous | |||
| Len P Hedges | ||||
| Old Forge 2009 260 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1906183082 | ||||
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The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits | |||
| Miscellaneous | ||||
| Mike Ashley (Edited by) | ||||
| Carroll & Graf 2006 498 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0786717300 | ||||
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| The Jacabean era was a time rife with murder, anarchy, war, and political and religious intrigue. From the English Civil War to the early days of New York, these mysteries from the age of gunpowder, treason and plot bring alive such historical characters as Guy Fawkes, Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare and Nell Gwynn. | ||||
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Oscar Slater | |||
| The 'Immortal' Case of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Miscellaneous | |||
| Thomas Toughill | ||||
| Sutton 2006 260 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0750945737 | ||||
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| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did much for the cause of British justice through tireless work on behalf of Oscar Slater, a German Jew who had been wrongly convicted in 1909 of murdering a wealthy Glasgow spinster. Toughill shows not only how Conan Doyle secured the personal intervention of the Prime Minister but also that Slater was the victim of an Establishment cover-up. | ||||
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