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  • UNSOLVED MURDERS OF THE UK
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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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  • AMANDA KNOX
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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...

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  • THE CRIMINAL CLASSES
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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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  • DICK TURPIN
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    DICK TURPIN
    JONATHAN OATES
    Why does the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin have such an extraordinary reputation today? How come his criminal career has inspired a profusion of often misleading literature and film? This eighteenth-century villain is often portrayed as a hero – dashing, sinister, romantic, daring, a Robin Hood of his times. The reality, as Jonathan Oates reveals in this perceptive, carefull...

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  • FROM THE KRAYS TO DRUG BUSTS IN THE CARIBBEAN
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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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  • THE NEW MILLENNIUM SERIAL KILLER
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    THE NEW MILLENNIUM SERIAL KILLER
    BETHAN TRUEMAN / CHRIS CLARK
    In March 2011, a major police investigation was opened in the search for missing Swindon local, Sian O'Callaghan. When taxi driver Christopher Halliwell was arrested, Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher didn't expect what happened next. After the body of another missing girl, Becky Godden-Edwards, was uncovered, the police had two murders on their hands and one suspect, bu...

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  • THE BLACKOUT MURDERS
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    THE BLACKOUT MURDERS
    NEIL R STOREY
    Nostalgic recollections of wartime Britain often forget that when the blackout was enforced at night in an attempt to foil Nazi bombers a crime wave, cloaked by the inky black darkness, ensued on many of our streets. There were petty crimes, robberies, sexual assaults and, as The Blackout Murders reveals, some horrific murders took place on our home front during the Second Worl...

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  • CONVICTING THE MOORS MURDERERS
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    CONVICTING THE MOORS MURDERERS
    CHRIS COOK
    The second book published in this series carries on from where The Moors Murderers left off and continues the horrific story of the crimes perpetrated by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley and tells of what happened at their trial in 1966. We see how Brady and Hindley turned on David Smith, the 17-year-old who witnessed them murder Edward Evans and shopped them to the police the follow...

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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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  • THE RETURN OF THE RIPPER?
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    THE RETURN OF THE RIPPER?
    KEVIN TURTON
    In the early hours of a cold February morning in 1891, the murdered body of Frances Coles was discovered beneath a railway arch in London’s Swallow Gardens. The nature of her wounds, the weapon used to inflict them, and the murder site itself were clear indicators for many that London’s most famous serial killer, Jack the Ripper, had returned. But just how does Whitechapel’s no...

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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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  • FOOD AND CRIME
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    FOOD AND CRIME
    CHRIS GARCIA
    Anyone alive, and wanting to stay that way, must deal with food. Crime is, and always has been, present. Food and Crime examines the crossroads of these two universal forces, how hunger can lead to theft, fraud, and murder, and how the well-fed will sometimes do anything to keep their bellies full. From the one-timers to the career caper-planners, food criminals are a wide-rang...

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  • EXECUTED: BUT WAS JAMES HANRATTY INNOCENT?
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    EXECUTED: BUT WAS JAMES HANRATTY INNOCENT?
    ROBERT HARRIMAN
    In 2002 the Court of Appeal, in London, proclaimed that James Hanratty’s guilt, in the infamous A6 Murder case, had been proven by the DNA evidence from the now disbanded Forensic Science Service; thereby finally, after 40 years of controversy, hoping to have put an end to the doubts in the case. However, this didn’t remove the inconvenient fact that tireless campaigners such as...

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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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