Búsqueda de Editorial : PEN & SWORD TRUE CRIME (ORIM)

28 resultados

PEN & SWORD TRUE CRIME (ORIM) Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • LONDON UNDERGROUND SERIAL KILLER
    ebook
    LONDON UNDERGROUND SERIAL KILLER
    GEOFF PLATT
    The full story of the life and times of Kieran Patrick Kelly, the London Underground Serial Killer, who wandered up and down the Northern Line of the London Underground between 1960 and 1983, pushing innocent people that he had never met under trains, and who finished up killing over thirty people. The book provides a full biography of Kelly, discussing the details of his crime...

    $119.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE AWFUL KILLING OF SARAH WATTS
    ebook
    THE AWFUL KILLING OF SARAH WATTS
    MICK DAVIS / DAVID LASSMAN
    A true crime account of a murdered teen in Victorian-era England, the Scotland Yard sergeant sent to investigate, and the gripping events that followed. Before Road there was Frome . . . before Whicher there was Smith . . . before the heartless slaughter of four-year-old Saville Kent, there was the brutal rape and murder of fourteen-year-old Sarah Watts. Taking place nine years...

    $279.00

    Ver detalle
  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN & AROUND FROME
    ebook
    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN & AROUND FROME
    MICK DAVIS / DAVID LASSMAN
    The Somerset town of Frome might top national polls as a great place to live and enjoy a reputation as the epitome of cool, with Hollywood A-listers regularly spotted on its street and global rock-stars playing its venues, but the place hasnt always been so chic and behind this modern-day faade lies a more sinister and foul past; full of murder, kidnapping, rioting, witchcraft ...

    $179.00

    Ver detalle
  • OPERATION COUNTRYMAN
    ebook
    OPERATION COUNTRYMAN
    DICK KIRBY
    In the summer of 1978, rumors emerged from the underworld that huge sums of money had been paid to the City of London Police to water-down evidence and arrange bail in cases of armed robbery. Then it was suggested that Scotland Yards Flying Squad was also involved.The Home Secretary appointed the Dorset Police to investigate but it became clear to the criminals upon whom they r...

    $119.00

    Ver detalle
  • SCOTLAND YARD'S GANGBUSTER
    ebook
    SCOTLAND YARD'S GANGBUSTER
    DICK KIRBY
    In the late 1960s the Richardson Torture Gang and the Kray Twins were removed from the London scene by ACC Gerry McArthur and DS Nipper Read respectively.Predictably it was not long before the vacuum this left was being filled. With McArthur retired and Read moved on, who was to sort out the new gangland threat.Step forward Detective Chief Superintendent Bert Wickstead. Having ...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN AND AROUND NEWCASTLE
    ebook
    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN AND AROUND NEWCASTLE
    MAUREEN ANDERSON
    A true-crime tour of this historical British coal town, with photos and illustrations.   Historically, Newcastle was a town of great wealth because of the abundance of natural resources. Certainly by the eighteenth century, Newcastle and its surrounding towns made up the most important commercial center in the north of England. But alongside the wealth of the merchants and the ...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • 19TH CENTURY BARNSLEY MURDERS
    ebook
    19TH CENTURY BARNSLEY MURDERS
    MARGARET DRINKALL
    Discover the darker history of this South Yorkshire town with these true crime stories and photos.   This book takes you on a journey into England’s past, and into the gritty industrial town of Barnsley. With a variety of true-crime tales, it reveals not only the poverty and squalor in which many people of the time lived, but also the deep-rooted prejudices and double standards...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE RACETRACK GANGS
    ebook
    THE RACETRACK GANGS
    DICK KIRBY
    “So if you’re a fan of Peaky Blinders and want to read the true stories behind those characters and tales . . . this is the book for you.” —Britain’s Gangland Magazine Between the two World Wars, there was a dramatic upsurge of violence as rival criminal gangs vied for rich pickings from bookmakers at racetracks throughout England. With ready access to cash, “bookies” were a ma...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • FACING THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER
    ebook
    FACING THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER
    MO LEA
    Decades after her brutal attack by the notorious serial killer, an artist tells her story of survival and recovery in this uplifting memoir. Mo Lea was a young art student in Leeds when her life was changed forever by a deadly assault. On October 25th, 1980, serial killer Peter Sutcliffe attacked her with a hammer and stabbed her with a screwdriver. Surviving with a fractured s...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • SCOTLAND YARD'S FLYING SQUAD
    ebook
    SCOTLAND YARD'S FLYING SQUAD
    DICK KIRBY
    A history of the famed London police unit, by a former member and author who “knows how to bring his coppers to life on each page” (Joseph Wambaugh, New York Times–bestselling author of The Onion Field).   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 ...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • ON THE TRAIL OF THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER
    ebook
    ON THE TRAIL OF THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER
    RICHARD CHARLES COBB
    “An outstanding analysis of Peter Sutcliffe, his crimes, his victims and the reasons for the failure of the police investigation.” —North Yorks Enquirer   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...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • UNDERCOVER POLICING AND THE CORRUPT SECRET SOCIETY WITHIN
    ebook
    UNDERCOVER POLICING AND THE CORRUPT SECRET SOCIETY WITHIN
    GARRY ROGERS / KEITH POTTER
    A former police officer reveals all in a shocking autobiography “detailing his time undercover amongst some of the UK’s toughest criminals” (Daily Mirror). Garry Rogers played a key role in one of the UK’s most successful undercover policing operations, targeting the football hooliganism which blighted the domestic and international game. From Old Trafford to Turkey and Sweden ...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • IRA TERROR ON BRITAIN’S STREETS 1939–1940
    ebook
    IRA TERROR ON BRITAIN’S STREETS 1939–1940
    DICK KIRBY
    It is little known today that, in January 1939, the IRA launched a bombing campaign, codenamed The S - or Sabotage - Plan on mainland England. With cynical self-justification, they announced that it was not their intention to harm human life but in just over a year, more than 300 explosive devices resulted in 10 deaths, 96 injuries and widespread devastation. London, Birmingham...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • INVESTIGATING THE ALMOST PERFECT MURDERS
    ebook
    INVESTIGATING THE ALMOST PERFECT MURDERS
    ANTHONY NOTT
    A British detective superintendent recounts a remarkable ten-year investigation, and other compelling murder cases he worked in his long police career.   Anthony Nott joined the Metropolitan Police in 1971, in a very different world from that of today. In this memoir he describes his early experiences in the Met, including the arrest of a man for murdering a prostitute in Kings...

    $249.00

    Ver detalle
  • POISON PANIC
    ebook
    POISON PANIC
    HELEN BARRELL
    True crime that “will appeal to readers interested in gaining an insight into the lives of women accused of murder in the mid 19th century” (Essex Family Historian).   For a few years in the 1840s, Essex was notorious in the minds of Victorians as a place where women stalked the winding country lanes looking for their next victim to poison with arsenic. Though that terrible ima...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • MURDER, WITCHCRAFT AND THE KILLING OF WILDLIFE
    ebook
    MURDER, WITCHCRAFT AND THE KILLING OF WILDLIFE
    STEPHEN R. MATTHEWS
    A former British police officer’s memoir of his assignment in Northern Rhodesia where he encountered black magic, cannibals, human trafficking, and more. Stephen R. Matthew’s first police posting near the Northern Rhodesian border with the Congo coincided dramatically with a time of horrific ethnic cleansing in the Belgian Congo area. At just twenty-one years old, Stephen was k...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE HOSTAGE RESCUER
    ebook
    THE HOSTAGE RESCUER
    DARREN FRANKLIN / MARTIN PHILLIPS
    The gripping true crime story of a child abducted by his father from his mother, and the international race to rescue him against dangerous odds. Two close encounters with death convince Darren Franklin that his career in global private security is not the healthiest. Meanwhile Scottish nurse Diane is on a life-changing journey of her own after a Shirley Valentine-style romance...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • FROM THE FLYING SQUAD TO INVESTIGATING WAR CRIMES
    ebook
    FROM THE FLYING SQUAD TO INVESTIGATING WAR CRIMES
    RON TURNBULL
    “Looks at more recent genocide through the eyes of a British detective who spent time investigating Bosnian war crimes . . . fascinating insight.” —Firetrench For over ten years he was first detective on the scene when a murder was committed in south London. In the confusion and horror of the crime scene he identified the forensic clues that would later be needed to convict the...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • WHO WAS JACK THE RIPPER?
    ebook
    WHO WAS JACK THE RIPPER?
    MEMBERS OF H DIVISION CRIME CLUB
    An international organization of Jack the Ripper experts reveal the most likely suspects in this ultimate true crime guide.   Jack the Ripper is the ultimate cold case. While the Whitechapel Murders of 1888 have remained unsolved for more than a century, hundreds of theories have been suggested as to the killer's identity. Despite numerous books claiming to unmask the infamous ...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • INTERPRETING THE RIPPER LETTERS
    ebook
    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...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • BRITAIN'S FORGOTTEN SERIAL KILLER
    ebook
    BRITAIN'S FORGOTTEN SERIAL KILLER
    JOHN LUCAS
    This true crime biography reveals the full story of a remorseless serial killer once proclaimed the most dangerous man in Britain—and where he is now.   For a few days in the winter of 1975, it looked as though police had unmasked a serial killer whose reign of terror was unprecedented in British crime history. Convicted of three killings, suspected of another eight, Patrick Ma...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE MAYFAIR MAFIA
    ebook
    THE MAYFAIR MAFIA
    DICK KIRBY
    This true crime history reveals the shocking career of the London mafia family that ran a thriving prostitution empire for decades.   From the mid-1930s into the 1950s, one immigrant Italian family ran London’s thriving vice trade. The five Messina brothers imported prostitutes from the Continent on an industrial scale, acquiring British citizenship for the women by phony marri...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE SECRET SERIAL KILLER
    ebook
    THE SECRET SERIAL KILLER
    ROBERT MULHERN
    This true crime investigation into the notorious case of Kieran Kelly reveals “new twists that add further intrigue to the mystery” (Irish Post).   On the evening of August 21,1983, Metropolitan Police detectives raced to London’s Clapham Police Station to find a prisoner dead. His cellmate sat quietly in the corner. Kieran Kelly, a laborer from Ireland, calmly confessed to str...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • SCOTLAND YARD'S MURDER SQUAD
    ebook
    SCOTLAND YARD'S MURDER SQUAD
    DICK KIRBY
    Get a behind-the-scenes look at fourteen historic cases from the Murder Squad of Scotland Yard in this collection perfect for true crime fans. In 1906 the Metropolitan Police Commissioner was asked by the Home Office to make available skilled investigators for murder inquiries nationwide as few constabularies had sufficiently skilled—or indeed, any—detectives. Thus was born the...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • BRITAIN'S UNSOLVED MURDERS
    ebook
    BRITAIN'S UNSOLVED MURDERS
    KEVIN TURTON
    This true crime history spans a century of murder, exploring 13 of the UK’s most notorious cold cases from the Victorian Era to the 1950s.   This book examines some of the most horrifying, mystifying, and fascinating murder cases in British history. Expertly researched by true crime author Kevin Turton, these stories have endured and confounded both police and law courts alike....

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • SCOTLAND YARD’S CASEBOOK OF SERIOUS CRIME
    ebook
    SCOTLAND YARD’S CASEBOOK OF SERIOUS CRIME
    DICK KIRBY
    Real-life stories of cops vs. criminals from a veteran of the Metropolitan Police and author praised for his “engaging style” (Joseph Wambaugh, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Harbor Nocturne).   Dick Kirby, former long-serving Met officer and bestselling author, recounts the policing of the twentieth century, when uniformed officers were visibly part of the community, ...

    $249.00

    Ver detalle
  • OPERATION COUNTRYMAN
    ebook
    OPERATION COUNTRYMAN
    DICK KIRBY
    In the summer of 1978, rumors emerged from the underworld that huge sums of money had been paid to the City of London Police to water-down evidence and arrange bail in cases of armed robbery. Then it was suggested that Scotland Yards Flying Squad was also involved.The Home Secretary appointed the Dorset Police to investigate but it became clear to the criminals upon whom they r...

    $119.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY AND THE METROPOLITAN POLICE FLYING SQUAD
    ebook
    THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY AND THE METROPOLITAN POLICE FLYING SQUAD
    GEOFF PLATT
    The amazing true story of one of Great Britain’s most notorious heists and the crack team that brought the perpetrators to justice.   On August 8, 1963, a group of fifteen men dressed in military uniforms stopped the Royal Mail train running between Glasgow and London at Sears Crossing in Ledburn. The gang uncoupled the engine and first two cars, drove them to a different locat...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle