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  • THE MURDER OF THE WHITECHAPEL MISTRESS
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    THE MURDER OF THE WHITECHAPEL MISTRESS
    NEIL WATSON
    This is the true story about a respected businessman, Henry Wainwright, who had everything he needed in 1871. A wife and 5 children and a delightful London townhouse home. But in 1872, Henry fell in love with attractive Harriet Lane. He then embarked on a risky affair with Harriet coupled with gambling and flirtations with ballet girls from the Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel. Ha...

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • KILLERS, KIDNAPPERS, GANGSTERS AND GRASSES
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    KILLERS, KIDNAPPERS, GANGSTERS AND GRASSES
    DICK KIRBY
    In his latest thrilling book, much published crime author Dick Kirby draws on his fast moving policing service, much of which was with Scotland Yard’s Serious Crime Squad and the Flying Squad. As if that was not enough he brings in accounts of fellow coppers during the final decades of the 20th century to add a fresh dimension. It quickly becomes clear to the reader that Kirby ...

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  • KILLERS, KIDNAPPERS, GANGSTERS AND GRASSES
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    KILLERS, KIDNAPPERS, GANGSTERS AND GRASSES
    DICK KIRBY
    In his latest thrilling book, much published crime author Dick Kirby draws on his fast moving policing service, much of which was with Scotland Yard's Serious Crime Squad and the Flying Squad. As if that was not enough he brings in accounts of fellow coppers during the final decades of the 20th century to add a fresh dimension. It quickly becomes clear to the reader that Kirby ...

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  • THE BLACKOUT RIPPER
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    THE BLACKOUT RIPPER
    STEPHEN WYNN
    Stephen Wynn's The Blackout Ripper is the true story of a serial killer who stalked London during World War II. Two days before the outbreak of the Second World War, the British government imposed blackout regulations across the nation as it was believed that in the event of war, Germany would very quickly begin conducting air raids on British towns and cities. The measures inc...

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  • THE BLACKOUT RIPPER
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    THE BLACKOUT RIPPER
    STEPHEN WYNN
    Two days before the outbreak of the Second World War, the British government imposed blackout regulations across the nation as it was believed that in the event of war, Germany would very quickly begin conducting air raids on British towns and cities. The measures included covering windows in a dark, thick material at night to ensure no light could be seen from the outside. The...

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  • JACK THE RIPPER - THE POLICEMAN
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    JACK THE RIPPER - THE POLICEMAN
    ROD BEATTIE
    Imagine you were a police officer and had been dominated as a child by an abusive mother who didn’t really want you and as an adult had been served bastardy orders twice, firstly by a woman in whose house you lived and then by a woman you had a relationship with. Then, to top it all after you had become a police officer in another city you arrested a woman you thought was a pro...

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  • THE MOORS MURDERERS
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    THE MOORS MURDERERS
    CHRIS COOK
    A deep dive into the lives and crimes of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley—featuring newly released photos from a collection called "The Tartan Album." In the mid-1960s, the serenity of Saddleworth Moor was forever interrupted, even if people didn't yet know it, as the area became a grave for the innocent child victims of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. The couple's vile torture and killi...

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  • HISTORY'S MOST DARING ROGUES AND VILLAINS
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    HISTORY'S MOST DARING ROGUES AND VILLAINS
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    Gathered together within the pages of this book is a roguish array of artful tricksters, fantastic fakers, rascally fraudsters and cunning conmen. They all bend the rules and usually the law. Yet however reprehensible their misdeeds, these thoroughly rotten scoundrels often display the very essence of enterprise and adventure. It would be wrong to condone their antics, of cours...

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  • LONDON SERIAL KILLERS
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    LONDON SERIAL KILLERS
    JONATHAN OATES
    An historical true crime accounting of London's notorious serial murderers and their victims, spanning the Victorian era to the mid-twentieth century. Murders and murderers fascinate us—and perhaps serial killers fascinate us most of all. In the twentieth century the term came to be used to describe murders committed by the same person, often with similar methods. But, as Jonat...

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  • INVESTIGATING THE ALMOST PERFECT MURDERS
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    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...

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  • CHARLIE PEACE
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    CHARLIE PEACE
    BEN W. JOHNSON
    The true crimes of one of nineteenth century England's most notorious thieves and killers, whose exploits still capture the public's imagination.   Once immortalized in Madame Tussauds's Chamber of Horrors, and brought to life in two silent films, his gnarled and prematurely aged features would be the last image his victims ever saw, yet ironically, he was known by the name of ...

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  • CRIME AND CORRUPTION AT THE YARD
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    CRIME AND CORRUPTION AT THE YARD
    DAVID I. WOODLAND
    A Scotland Yard insider blows the whistle on police corruption in "a book . . . that everyone concerned with law and order should read" ( Crime Review).   During David Woodland's nineteen years of service with the United Kingdom's Metropolitan Police, the 'thin blue line' came under intense pressure. In addition to the routine caseload of gang crime, murder, and armed robbery, ...

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  • DONALD HUME
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    DONALD HUME
    JONATHAN OATES
    From the bestselling author of John Christie of Rillington Place. "If you have an interest in post war crime and criminals this is one for you!" —Robert Bartlett, author of Blood Royal The trial of the year in 1950 was of Donald Hume, a North London petty thief accused of stabbing car dealer Stanley Setty to death, of cutting up his corpse and dropping his body parts from an ai...

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  • THE CASE OF STEPHEN DOWNING
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    THE CASE OF STEPHEN DOWNING
    STEPHEN DOWNING
    The memoir of a man wrongfully convicted of murder and his 27 years spent in the U.K. prison system until his conviction was overturned. On September 12, 1973, seventeen-year-old, naïve gardener Stephen Downing returned from his lunch break to discover the badly beaten, unconscious, thirty-two-year-old Wendy Sewell lying on the footpath of Bakewell Cemetery close to Catcliff Wo...

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  • KENT MURDER & MAYHEM
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    KENT MURDER & MAYHEM
    ROY INGLETON
    This true crime history reveals the dark side of England's bucolic southern countryside with centuries of havoc along the English Channel.   With its bountiful apple and cherry orchards, Kent is known as "The Garden of England." But in Kent Murder and Mayhem, readers are taken on a tour of local crime and conspiracy through the ages, meeting villains of all sorts along the way....

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  • MISSING PRESUMED MURDERED
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    MISSING PRESUMED MURDERED
    DICK KIRBY
    Murders in any form, and the more gruesome the better, hold a morbid fascination to the British public but never more so than when the bodies of the victims are never found. Aside from the lack of closure for relatives and friends, this factor creates problems for police and prosecutors and has macabre appeal for the public. Muriel McKay, wife of a senior News of the World Exec...

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  • HISTORY’S MOST DARING ROGUES AND VILLAINS
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    HISTORY’S MOST DARING ROGUES AND VILLAINS
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    Gathered together within the pages of this book is a roguish array of artful tricksters, fantastic fakers, rascally fraudsters and cunning conmen. They all bend the rules and usually the law. Yet however reprehensible their misdeeds, these thoroughly rotten scoundrels often display the very essence of enterprise and adventure. It would be wrong to condone their antics, of cours...

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  • LONDON SERIAL KILLERS
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    LONDON SERIAL KILLERS
    JONATHAN OATES
    Murders and murderers fascinate us – and perhaps serial killers fascinate us most of all. In the twentieth century the term came to be used to describe murders committed by the same person, often with similar methods. But, as Jonathan Oates demonstrates in this selection of cases from London, this category of crime has existed for centuries, though it may have become more commo...

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  • THE MOORS MURDERERS
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    THE MOORS MURDERERS
    CHRIS COOK
    Meticulously researched by C.G.C. Cook, ‘The Moors Murderers’ gives readers a rare and fascinating look into the lives of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley – often known as the evillest couple in British history. After a torture and killing spree that lasted two years and left five innocent children dead, many aspects of their lives have been kept hidden from the public. Cook’s new re...

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  • THE BERMONDSEY MURDER
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    THE BERMONDSEY MURDER
    ANGELA BUCKLEY
    When Patrick O'Connor went missing in August 1849, his friends were suspicious. The London dock worker was last seen in the company of Swiss-born Maria Manning and her husband in Bermondsey. By the time police officers discovered his remains under the kitchen floor, the couple had fled. This shocking crime sparked a race against time to bring these cold-blooded killers to justi...

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  • PETER SUTCLIFFE
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    PETER SUTCLIFFE
    CHRIS COOK
    This book gives the most up-to-date story of the serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, AKA the Yorkshire Ripper. His confessions to police in 1981, and his later confession in 1992 to two further attacks, are gone into in greater detail than ever before, as are attacks on women that the police later felt they had enough evidence to charge him with. We also delve deep into the police i...

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  • THE MURDER OF THE WHITECHAPEL MISTRESS
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    THE MURDER OF THE WHITECHAPEL MISTRESS
    NEIL WATSON
    This is the true story about a respected businessman, Henry Wainwright, who had everything he needed in 1871. A wife and 5 children and a delightful London townhouse home. But in 1872, Henry fell in love with attractive Harriet Lane. He then embarked on a risky affair with Harriet coupled with gambling and flirtations with ballet girls from the Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel. Ha...

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