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The Ordeal of Philip Yale Drew
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Richard Whittington-Egan |
An examination of the murder of Reading tobacconist, Alfred Oliver and the inquest into his death. Popular opinion was that the prime murder suspect was Philip Yale Drew, a flamboyant, eccentric acto… |
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Love and Madness
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Martin Levy |
On a spring evening in 1779, as she emerged from London's Covent Garden Theatre, a beautiful young woman was shot in the head at point-blank range by a man in a black suit. The brutal murder was even… |
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The Italian boy
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Sarah Wise |
Describes the 1831 murder of a young vagrant and the sale of his body to a London medical college, a case that led to the arrest of his killers, "resurrection men" who acted to satisfy the demand for… |
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A Different Class of Murder
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Laura Thompson |
On November 7, 1974, a nanny named Sandra Rivett was bludgeoned to death in a Belgravia basement. A second woman, Veronica, Countess of Lucan, was also attacked. The man named in court as perpetrator… |
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Bus Stop Killer
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Geoffrey Wansell |
1 volume : 20 cm |
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The suspicions of Mr. Whicher
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Kate Summerscale |
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironicall… |
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The invention of murder
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Judith Flanders |
In this exploration of murder in the nineteenth century, Judith Flanders explores some of the most gripping cases that fascinated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction. She ret… |
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Did she kill him?
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Kate Colquhoun |
"In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick. The "Maybrick Mystery… |
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Murder by candlelight
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Michael Knox Beran |
"In the early nineteenth century, a series of murders took place in and around London which shocked the whole of England. The appalling nature of the crimes: a brutal slaying in the gambling netherwo… |
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The acid bath murders
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Gordon Lowe |
TRUE CRIME. The Acid Bath Murders. |
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The Sleep of Reason
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David James Smith |
xviii, 318 pages ; 20 cm |
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Shepherd's Bush Murders
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Nick Russell-Pavier |
1 volume ; 20 cm |
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The musical milkman murder
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Quentin Falk |
"Long before the picturesque village of Little Marlow became a well-known location for filming episodes of popular television crime shows such as Inspector Morse, Miss Marple and Midsomer Murders, th… |
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The Moat Farm mystery
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M. W. Oldridge |
"Samuel Herbert Dougal was intelligent, talented, and the recipient of a military medal. Outwardly, he seemed to embody all that Victorian England valued most. But he was also a career criminal whose… |
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Murders of London
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David Long |
"Taking 60 of the city's most fascinating and most infamous murders from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, David Long visits the scene of each crime and tells the story of what happened to whom… |
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The blooding
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Joseph Wambaugh |
Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains … |
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Royal Blood
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Bertram Fields |
In this comprehensive, meticulously researched new book, renowned litigator Bertram Fields goes back more than 500 years to offer a compelling look at the case of Richard III. Applying the same moder… |
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Victorian murderesses
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Hartman, Mary S. |
This riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen cases from the 1800s involving thirteen French and English women charged with murder. Each incident was a cause célèbre, an… |
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In the Dark
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Simon Read |
In 1942, London faced a reign of terror unknown since Jack the Ripper.The nightly air raids had darkened London's neon dazzle but not its urge to live it up. With death a daily possibility, drinks an… |
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The Riddle of Birdhurst Rise
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T. Whitting |
286p.,[2]p. of plates : 20 cm |
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