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  • THE MURDER OF SARAH DORMER AND THE TRIAL OF ANN HEYTREY
    DAVID JOHN EASON
    At 7:15pm on Sunday August 29th 1819, the village of Ashow, Warwickshire was shook to its core by a young girl's scream at Dial House Farm. Thirteen-year-old Mary Dormer found her mother, Sarah Dormer's, slain body lying in Sarah's bedroom. Sarah's 21-year-old maidservant, Ms Ann Heytrey was charged, arrested, and imprisoned at the County Town Gaol at Warwick, where she would r...

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  • CRIME SCENE LONDON
    MIKE HUTTON
    Chronicles London’s 1500-year history of crime, from poverty-driven acts to notorious figures and scandals shaping the city’s dark legacy. London has a history that emerges from the mist of time some 1500 years ago and is one that evolves yet never ends. It has always been a breeding ground for crime as people from around the world are drawn by its numerous attractions and oppo...

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  • GOING UNDERGROUND
    ANDREW CLARK / JONATHAN MICHAEL CHARTERS-REID
    A retired criminal and his son lead a diverse crew in a high-stakes heist of the Bank of England. In the heart of London, where the whispers of wealth and power echo through the cobblestone streets, a daring plan unfolds to pull off the ultimate heist: stealing from the prestigious Bank of England without plunging the nation into chaos. Going Underground is a gripping crime thr...

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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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  • BRITAIN'S GREATEST PRIVATE DETECTIVE
    NELL DARBY
    Explores Henry Slater’s rise and fall as Britain’s leading private detective, revealing the golden age of detection and its dark side. From his offices at Basinghall Street in the City of London, Henry Slater presided over Britain's best-known private detective agency, king of all he surveyed. In the late Victorian era, and into the twentieth century, his name was synonymous wi...

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  • A DICTIONARY OF TRUE CRIME
    STEPHEN WADE
    A comprehensive A-Z guide to notorious and lesser-known extreme crimes, criminals, and legal cases from the 17th century to today. A Dictionary of True Crime is a guide to the most compelling cases of extreme and violent crime in the writing files, from the 17th century to present day. Amongst notorious criminals like Jack the Ripper and the Moors Murderers, lesser-known but pr...

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  • THE MURDER OF JUDITH ROBERTS
    TANITA MATTHEWS / CHRIS CLARK
    The wrongful conviction of Andrew Evans for Judith's 1972 murder is reexamined, revealing Peter Sutcliffe as the true culprit. In the Summer of 1972, 14-year-old Judith Roberts took off for a bike ride within the vicinity of her Staffordshire home. Her body was discovered after a three-day manhunt, concealed from view in a thick privet having been brutally attacked. The communi...

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  • BRITISH GANGS
    PAUL DETTMANN
    Explores the first half of the 20th century, uncovering the thrilling yet exaggerated tales of infamous gangsters and their impact on working-class life across Britain. British Gangs covers the first fifty years of the twentieth century, a time of upheaval and war during which the public came to fear groups of young men. Much of this fear was whipped up by an expanding newspape...

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  • THE MOAT FARM MURDER
    ANTHONY PAYNE
    Samuel Herbert Dougal had a successful military career lasting over 20 years in the Royal Engineers, where he rose to the rank of Quartermaster-Sergeant. But he was also a forger, embezzler, thief, arsonist, serial womaniser and murderer. After leaving the army he preyed on well-off older women and one of them – Camille Cecile Holland – would become the central figure and victi...

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  • FROM THE KRAYS TO DRUG BUSTS IN THE CARIBBEAN
    IAN BROWN
    Ian Brown spent almost thirty years in the police force, rising through the ranks to work on some of the best-known crimes of the twentieth century. From witnessing the brutality of the Kray twins to chasing the spoils from the Brink’s-Mat gold bullion robbery, Brown was never too far away from someone's illicit deal or a hardened crook. Renowned for being one of the luckiest m...

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  • ON THE TRAIL OF THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER
    RICHARD CHARLES COBB
    Peter Sutcliffe, The Yorkshire Ripper, remains the most infamous serial killer in British criminal history. His reign of terror saw 13 women brutally murdered and the largest criminal manhunt in British history. Just like Jack the Ripper, his Victorian counterpart of 1888, he remains a killer of almost mythical proportions, yet the locations and circumstances surrounding his fo...

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  • SCOTLAND YARD'S FLYING SQUAD
    DICK KIRBY
    Since 1919 Scotland Yard’s Flying Squad has been in the forefront of the war against crime. From patrolling London’s streets in horse-drawn wagons, it has progressed to the use of the most sophisticated surveillance and crime-fighting equipment.Between the Wars, the Squad targeted protection gangs who infested British racecourses and greyhound tracks. The highly eff...

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  • WARTIME LONDON'S 'BONNIE AND CLYDE'
    MELISSA GANENDRAN / PRASH GANENDRAN
    How did a petite dancer from a Welsh mining town become a killer in wartime London? Set against the chaos of the Second World War, Wartime London's 'Bonnie and Clyde' unravels the gripping true crime story of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten, whose crime spree led to tragedy and infamy. Betty’s life, shaped by poverty, upheaval, and trauma, took a dark turn when war erupted. After s...

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  • THE CRIMES THAT INSPIRED AGATHA CHRISTIE
    JONATHAN OATES / ANNA-LENA BERG
    Did you know that many of Agatha Christie’s best-selling detective stories have their basis in reality? ‘Who killed Charles Bravo and why?’ asks retired Superintendent Spence in Elephants Can Remember. He refers to an unsolved Victorian murder mystery, one of many allusions to real life crime and criminals in Agatha Christie’s fiction. The infamous Dr Crippen, Jack the Ripper, ...

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  • SCOTLAND YARD’S BRAVEST AND BEST
    DICK KIRBY
    During the 20th Century, Scotland Yard detectives and their uniform counterparts, rarely armed, needed to be physically tough and brave given the ruthless criminals they confronted. In this thrilling book the Author draws on his and his comrades’ experiences. Among the incidents vividly described is that of a detective known as ‘Pat the Cat’ who was awarded British Empire Medal...

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  • TALES OF A NINETEENTH CENTURY HANGMAN AND THOSE HE CONDEMNED
    NICK KEVERN
    In October 1835, Samuel Burrows was slowly dying. Suffering from liver disease, the 63-year-old knew he had little time left to confess his sins. The Reverend William Clarke offered Burrows some religious guidance so he could attempt to salvage Burrows’s soul before the eyes of God. He knew the struggle that fell before him; after all, it was not every day that Clarke had to pr...

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  • CRIME IN THE VICTORIAN BLACK COUNTRY
    TRACEY BLUNDELL
    Whilst the Black Country had been the cradle of the industrial revolution, towards the end of nineteenth century, the prosperity of the region was at an end, and crime was on the increase. A mainly working-class population was having laws imposed upon it remotely, influenced by middle class morality and ethics. Crime in the Victorian Black Country looks at the crimes actually b...

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  • INVESTIGATING CHARLES LECHMERE: WAS HE JACK THE RIPPER?
    NEIL NORMAN
    Presents a compelling case for Lechmere as Jack the Ripper, challenging long-held theories with modern analysis. Investigating Charles Lechmere: Was he Jack the Ripper? takes readers on a journey back to the chilling Autumn of 1888, when the streets of London were gripped by fear as Jack the Ripper stalked his victims through the shadows of the East End. But amidst the fog of h...

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  • THE PEASENHALL MURDER
    NEIL NORMAN
    In May 1902, a great storm hit the small village of Peasenhall, Suffolk. The following morning, the body of Rose Harsent was found in the house where she worked. while originally believed by the doctor to have been suicide, her brutal injuries, alongside evidence of an attempted fire, told a different story. When looking for a murderer, there were very few suspects, but as more...

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  • THE MURDERS OF ANNIE HEARN
    JONATHAN OATES
    In the quaint seaside town of Bude, Cornwall, a seemingly innocent afternoon tea in 1930 unravels into a sinister tale of arsenic poisoning and mysterious disappearances. When one of the three tea companions succumbs to the deadly toxin, suspicions arose, and the plot thickens as Annie Hearn, one of the remaining survivors, vanished without a trace. As the press dug into Annie'...

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  • UNSOLVED MURDERS OF THE UK
    PHIL DRAKE
    Unsolved Murders of the UK: Cold cases from 1951 to Present Day delves into the mysterious and haunting cases of individuals who were brutally taken from this world, yet their killers were never brought to justice. From mysterious disappearances to seemingly motiveless killings, as well as other cases that continue to perplex law enforcement, this book takes a closer look at th...

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  • THE CRIMINAL CLASSES
    BARRY GODFREY / ALEXANDRA GODFREY
    We explore why the idea of the criminal class came into being. Starting with garrotters lurking in dark Victorian alleyways, the fiend Jack the Ripper stalking London’s streets to the menace of violent gangs, the ‘Scuttlers’, Peaky Blinders, and Liverpool’s High Rip, all the way through to 1970s joyriders, 1990s ravers, and the modern drug trade that brings guns and knives to o...

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  • AMANDA KNOX
    HELEN SAXTON
    In November 2007 the body of British student Meredith Kercher was discovered in her bedroom in Perugia, Italy. She had been brutally killed. Over the course of the next eight years one man, Rudy Guede, would be convicted of her murder and two other suspects, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, would be convicted, acquitted and convicted again for their part in the crime, before...

    $216.99