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  • FAILED JUSTICE
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    FAILED JUSTICE
    M J TROW
    Uncovers the wrongful conviction of Derek Bentley, revealing new evidence that challenges his unjust execution in 1953. On 2 November 1952, two teenagers, Derek Bentley and Christopher Craig, tried to break into a warehouse in Croydon, Surrey. The police were called and in the minutes that followed, Craig wounded one policeman and shot another dead. At 16, Craig was too young t...

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  • DODGING THE BULLET
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    DODGING THE BULLET
    M J TROW
    Explores the most remarkable assassination attempts throughout history, highlighting the chaotic intersection of fame, danger, and the human psyche. Everybody remembers where they were the day John F. Kennedy died. The president’s assassination shocked the world and raised questions that have still not been answered today. Almost as shocking is attempted assassination – the bul...

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  • SCANDALOUS LEADERSHIP
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    SCANDALOUS LEADERSHIP
    M. J. TROW
    An exploration of the moral blemishes that have dogged the leaders of Great Britain and the United States. Before Britain had a prime minister – and before they invented America – the dictator Oliver Cromwell urged the artist Lely to paint him 'warts and all'. This book deals with some of the 'all', but is mostly about the warts, the moral blemishes that have dogged the leaders...

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  • THE MEON HILL MURDER, 1945
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    THE MEON HILL MURDER, 1945
    M. J. TROW
    In the closing months of the Second World War, an old hedger was found bludgeoned and hacked to death in a Warwickshire field. His name was Charles Walton and the place was the little village of Lower Quinton, under the shadow of Meon Hill. They called in the local CID; they called in Scotland Yard; they interviewed hundreds of people; they asked thousands of questions. But som...

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  • THE WIGWAM MURDER
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    THE WIGWAM MURDER
    M. J. TROW
    Nobody expected a corpse in the tranquil Surrey countryside near Godalming, even though there was a war on and tanks churned the soil on maneuvers. The body belonged to 19-year-old Joan Pearl Wolfe, a sweet, convent-educated girl who, according to her own mother, had gone bad. It was 1942 and England was swarming with British, Canadian and American troops building up to what wo...

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  • THE HAGLEY WOOD MURDER
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    THE HAGLEY WOOD MURDER
    M. J. TROW
    Astonishingly, The Hagley Wood Murder is the first book solely on the subject (other than a selection of privately printed/self published offerings) ever written on this murder, which too place eighty years ago. In April 1943, four teenaged boys discovered a corpse stuffed into the bole of a wych elm in a wood in the industrial Midlands. The body was merely bones and had been i...

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  • FAMOUS HORSES AT WAR
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    FAMOUS HORSES AT WAR
    M. J. TROW
    In dreary, doubtful waiting hours Before the brazen frenzy starts, The horses show him nobler powers;- O patient eyes, courageous hearts.' Into Battle, Julian Grenfell, 1915 In the days of horsed cavalry, a soldier's mount was a living, breathing companion. It galloped into the jaws of death at the sound of the bugle and the nudge of spurs. It carried its rider over arid desert...

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  • ELEVENTH HOUR
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    ELEVENTH HOUR
    M. J. TROW
    Christopher Marlowe plays the role of sleuth to discover who killed the queen's spymaster in this "bawdy, witty . . . historically informed" Elizabethan mystery ( Kirkus Reviews).   April, 1590. When the queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, dies of a stroke, the sudden event leaves a dangerous power vacuum in her majesty's court. Walsingham's former right-hand man, Nichol...

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  • THE ANGEL
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    THE ANGEL
    M. J. TROW
    Enquiry agents Grand & Batchelor are called upon to investigate the suspicious death of Charles Dickens in this "arch and witty" Victorian mystery novel ( Publishers Weekly).   June, 1870. The world-famous author Charles Dickens has been found dead in his summer house where he had been hard at work on his final, unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Did he die of natura...

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  • CRIMSON ROSE
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    CRIMSON ROSE
    M. J. TROW
    When small-time actor Will Shakespeare is arrested for murder, Kit Marlowe must find the real killer in this "intricately plotted" Elizabethan mystery ( Publishers Weekly).   March, 1587. Christopher Marlowe's play Tamburlaine, with the incomparable Ned Alleyn in the title role, has opened at the Rose Theatre, and a new era on the London stage is born. Yet the play is almost sh...

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  • SCORPIONS' NEST
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    SCORPIONS' NEST
    M. J. TROW
    Playwright and spy Christopher Marlowe is sent to France to locate a convicted traitor to the English crown in this Elizabethan mystery.   October, 1586. Known across London as a poet and playwright, Christopher "Kit" Marlowe, is also at the service of Sir Francis Walsingham, the queen's spymaster. Now Walsingham has dispatched Kit to the English College in Rheims, France, wher...

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  • RIPPER HUNTER
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    RIPPER HUNTER
    M. J. TROW
    True crime writer and novelist M. J. Trow's Ripper Hunter is a revelatory biography of Frederick Abberline, the man assigned to catch Jack the Ripper. Who was Inspector Frederick Abberline, the lead detective in the Jack the Ripper case? Why did he and his fellow policemen fail to catch the most notorious serial killer of Victorian England? What was he like as a man, as a profe...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT
    M. J. TROW
    Discover the darker side of this scenic destination with over twenty true-crime tales, accompanied by photos and illustrations.   Its natural beauty attracts countless visitors—but notorious cases of murder, deceit, and pure malice have marked the long history of this apparently peaceful island. From crimes of passion to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of mu...

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  • ENEMIES OF THE STATE
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    ENEMIES OF THE STATE
    M. J. TROW
    On 1 May 1820, outside Newgate Prison, in front of a dense crowd, five of the Cato Street conspirators—Arthur Thistlewood, William Davidson, James Ings, Richard Tidd and John Brunt—were hanged for high treason. Then they were decapitated in the last brutal act of a murderous conspiracy that aimed to assassinate Prime Minister Lord Liverpool and his cabinet and destroy his gover...

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  • THE ADVENTURES OF SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER
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    THE ADVENTURES OF SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER
    M. J. TROW
    Sir Samuel White Baker is one of those larger-than-life heroes only the Victorians could invent. For too long, the British Empire has been denigrated and equated with arrogance at best and racial bigotry at worst. Samuel Baker transcends that. He was an explorer and naturalist, recording new species on his many travels; a big game hunter with huge expertise across continents; a...

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  • THE POCKET HERCULES
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    THE POCKET HERCULES
    M. J. TROW
    William Morris was in the front rank during the Charge of the Light Brigade. He was one of the first horsemen to reach the Russian guns. This is his story. M.J. Trow's vivid biography of this typical Victorian soldier gives a fascinating insight into the officer class that fought the Crimean War. In recording Morris's experiences during a notorious campaign, the author reveals ...

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  • WAR CRIMES
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    WAR CRIMES
    M. J. TROW
    The Second World War was a defining experience in British history. It shaped us, made us what we are, and we are still fascinated by it. And one of the most extraordinary aspects of this unique war was the effect it had on crime - and this is the focus of M.J. Trow's compelling survey. He does not write solely about servicemen who committed crime - although there were many of t...

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  • RICHARD III IN THE NORTH
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    RICHARD III IN THE NORTH
    M. J. TROW
    This enlightening biography examines the life and short reign of England’s most controversial king and his relationship to the region he loved. Was Richard III the world’s most wicked uncle, or is he merely the victim of historical slander? Forever associated with the murder of his nephews, he was the last king to die in battle, in 1485. His life was as spectacular as the disco...

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  • THE KILLER OF THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER
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    THE KILLER OF THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER
    M. J. TROW
    The disappearance of two boys during the summer of 1483 has never been satisfactorily explained. They were Edward, Prince of Wales, nearly thirteen at the time, and his brother, Richard of York, nearly ten. With their father, Edward IV, dying suddenly at forty, both boys had been catapulted into the spotlight of fifteenth-century politics, which was at once bloody and unpredict...

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  • INTERPRETING THE RIPPER LETTERS
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    INTERPRETING THE RIPPER LETTERS
    M. J. TROW
    This true crime history examines the media frenzy surrounding Jack the Ripper—and what the so-called Ripper Letters reveal about Victorian society.   In the autumn of 1888, a series of grisly murders took place in Whitechapel in London’s East End. The Whitechapel murderer, arguably the first of his kind, was never caught, though the police and local press received hundreds of l...

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  • THE ENGLISH BOWMAN IN THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR
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    THE ENGLISH BOWMAN IN THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR
    M J TROW
    Reveals the brutal lives, battles, and legacy of England’s feared longbowmen during the Hundred Years War. They were often half-starved, marching through an alien land with few signposts and no maps. They were often suffering from dysentery, their legwear rolled down and they sometimes fought naked from the waist down. They were paid 6d a day – the same as a civilian craftsman ...

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  • THE JFK ASSASSINATION
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    THE JFK ASSASSINATION
    M. J. TROW
    The JFK assassination stirs enduring conspiracy theories and questions of accountability, justice, and governmental transparency. The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy is one of the milestones of history. Everyone, it is said, remembers where they were when they heard the news. Because the official investigation, the Warren Commission, set up by Kennedy's successor in th...

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  • THE JFK ASSASSINATION
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    THE JFK ASSASSINATION
    M. J. TROW
    The JFK assassination stirs enduring conspiracy theories and questions of accountability, justice, and governmental transparency. The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy is one of the milestones of history. Everyone, it is said, remembers where they were when they heard the news. Because the official investigation, the Warren Commission, set up by Kennedy's successor in th...

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  • HISTORY VS HOLLYWOOD
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    HISTORY VS HOLLYWOOD
    M. J. TROW
    Film studios have been making historical movies now for over a century. In that time, thousands of films have been made covering not just centuries but millennia. Did Neanderthal woman really look like Raquel Welch in her bearskin bikini? Did 6,000 rebellious slaves claim that they were Spartacus? Did Berengaria complain to her husband, Richard the Lionheart, 'War, war; that's ...

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  • SCANDALOUS LEADERSHIP
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    SCANDALOUS LEADERSHIP
    M J TROW
    An exploration of the moral blemishes that have dogged the leaders of Great Britain and the United States. Before Britain had a prime minister – and before they invented America – the dictator Oliver Cromwell urged the artist Lely to paint him ‘warts and all’. This book deals with some of the ‘all’, but is mostly about the warts, the moral blemishes that have dogged the leaders...

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  • THE MEON HILL MURDER, 1945
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    THE MEON HILL MURDER, 1945
    M J TROW
    In the closing months of the Second World War, an old hedger was found bludgeoned and hacked to death in a Warwickshire field. His name was Charles Walton and the place was the little village of Lower Quinton, under the shadow of Meon Hill. They called in the local CID; they called in Scotland Yard; they interviewed hundreds of people; they asked thousands of questions. But som...

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  • THE WIGWAM MURDER
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    THE WIGWAM MURDER
    M J TROW
    Nobody expected a corpse in the tranquil Surrey countryside near Godalming, even though there was a war on and tanks churned the soil on maneuvers. The body belonged to 19-year-old Joan Pearl Wolfe, a sweet, convent-educated girl who, according to her own mother, had gone bad. It was 1942 and England was swarming with British, Canadian and American troops building up to what wo...

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  • THE HAGLEY WOOD MURDER
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    THE HAGLEY WOOD MURDER
    M J TROW
    Astonishingly, The Hagley Wood Murder is the first book solely on the subject (other than a selection of privately printed/self published offerings) ever written on this murder, which too place eighty years ago. In April 1943, four teenaged boys discovered a corpse stuffed into the bole of a wych elm in a wood in the industrial Midlands. The body was merely bones and had been i...

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  • FAMOUS HORSES AT WAR
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    FAMOUS HORSES AT WAR
    M J TROW
    'In dreary, doubtful waiting hours                                                                                Before the brazen frenzy starts,                                                                                  The horses show him nobler powers;-                                                                      O patient eyes, courageous hearts.'            ...

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  • THE CIRCLE
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    THE CIRCLE
    M. J. TROW
    Intrepid nineteenth-century enquiry agents American Matthew Grand and Englishman James Batchelor bring their investigation skills to Washington, DC.   July, 1868. On receiving a commission from Matthew's cousin Luther to look into the suspicious death of Lafayette Baker, Head of the US National Detective Police, private investigators Matthew Grand and his business partner James...

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