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  • DEATH ON THE BEAT
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    DEATH ON THE BEAT
    DICK KIRBY
    A former member of London's MP Flying Squad pays tribute to his fellow officers in a gripping and emotional true crime chronicle of duty and sacrifice.   Dick Kirby of London's Serious Crime Squad shares ten stories of courage spanning fifty years of crime enforcement in the Metropolitan Police. In honoring the selfless men and women who gave their lives, Kirby sheds light on t...

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  • DNA CRIME INVESTIGATIONS
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    DNA CRIME INVESTIGATIONS
    STEPHEN WADE
    A crime historian explores groundbreaking cold-case investigations, the advent of DNA evidence, and its role in long-delayed convictions and exonerations.   When geneticist, Professor Alec Jeffreys worked with Leicestershire police on the 1986 case against Colin Pitchfork—the first person convicted of murder based on DNA evidence—a revolution started in the application of foren...

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  • DEADLY DERBYSHIRE
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    DEADLY DERBYSHIRE
    SCOTT LOMAX
    A collection of historical British true crime stories, with illustrations included.   From the murder of Hannah Hewitt in 1732 to John Cotton's killing in 1898, Deadly Derbyshire gathers dramatic, atmospheric true tales of murder and manslaughter in this county in England's East Midlands.   Read about the "fiery" circumstances of the death of John McMorrow; a farm tragedy at St...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS AROUND WORCESTER
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS AROUND WORCESTER
    ANNE BRADFORD
    True tales of betrayal, robbery, and murder across Worcestershire, from Redditch to Upton-on-Severn—includes illustrations and photographs!   Though the Battle of Worcester brought an end to the English Civil War in 1651, it was not the end of the bloodshed for the West Midland county of Worcestershire. Known for its rolling hills and abundant farmland, it has also been fertile...

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  • FOUL DEEDS IN KENSINGTON & CHELSEA
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    FOUL DEEDS IN KENSINGTON & CHELSEA
    JOHN J. EDDLESTON
    London's most exclusive neighborhoods sit on sites of the some of the most sinister and scandalous crimes in British history.   Stories of violent death will always hold us in a grim but thrilling grip. The dreadful crimes related in Foul Deeds in Kensington & Chelsea are shocking examples of murder cases that readers will never forget. Crimes of passion, opportunistic killings...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN READING
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN READING
    JOHN J. EDDLESTON
    True-life tales of bloody killings and brutal crimes wind through the dark past of this historic town on the Thames.   John J. Eddleston's latest selection of notorious criminal cases takes the reader through a sequence of sensational episodes that have marred the history of Reading. His book, based on original research, recalls many grisly events and sad or unsavory individual...

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  • CRAFTY CROOKS & CONMEN
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    CRAFTY CROOKS & CONMEN
    NIGEL BLUNDELL / SUE BLACKHALL
    From Clifford Irving and his Howard Hughes hoax to the great imposter Frank "Catch Me if You Can" Abagnale—a fascinating history of the art of the con.   They're shrewd, cunning, devious—and charmingly trustworthy. While the criminal exploits of these tricksters, frauds, and swindlers can't be condoned, it's near-impossible not to be awed by their audacity and ingenuity.   Take...

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  • NOTORIOUS PRISONS OF THE WORLD
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    NOTORIOUS PRISONS OF THE WORLD
    STEPHEN WADE
    A captivating history of doing time throughout the centuries: from England's medieval dungeons to America's supermax detention facilities.   The first prisons were castle hellholes, places of neglect, oblivion, and slow death. Every civilization has had its dissenters, deviants, and political offenders, and so prisons became essential to the retention of power. As the centuries...

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  • JOHN CHRISTIE OF RILLINGTON PLACE
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    JOHN CHRISTIE OF RILLINGTON PLACE
    JONATHAN OATES
    The bestselling criminal history author provides "compelling insight" into the life and crimes of one of England's most notorious serial killers ( Buckinghamshire Life).   Sixty years ago, the discovery of bodies at 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill, London, led to one of the most sensational, shocking, and controversial serial murder cases in British criminal history: the ca...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN SOUTH YORKSHIRE
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN SOUTH YORKSHIRE
    GEOFFREY HOWSE
    The author of The A-Z of London Murders delves into the long and storied past of South Yorkshire to reveal infamous crimes and killings.   Geoffrey Howse explores the darker and sinister side of South Yorkshire's history in this diverse collection of true crime tales—from Victorian to modern times.   Read about a shooting and "mob rule" in Doncaster; sensational murders in Darf...

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  • JACK THE RIPPER
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    JACK THE RIPPER
    M. J. TROW
    The definitive investigation, "full of colorful details and sensational speculations—for those who enjoy whodunits with a bit of real history" ( Book News).   For more than a hundred and twenty years, the identity of the Whitechapel murderer known to us as Jack the Ripper has both eluded us and spawned a veritable industry of speculation. This book names him. Mad doctors, Russi...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS AROUND UXBRIDGE
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS AROUND UXBRIDGE
    JONATHAN OATES
    This west London town has its own character—and its own deadly criminal history—from the author of Unsolved Murders of Victorian and Edwardian London.   Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Uxbridge takes the reader on a sinister and sad journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting victims and villains of all sorts along the way. There is no shortage of har...

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  • FOUL DEEDS AND SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN & AROUND THE FENS
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    FOUL DEEDS AND SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN & AROUND THE FENS
    GLENDA GOULDEN
    Discover this coastal plain in England—and the crimes that have taken place there over the centuries.   The Fens of England, thinly populated with isolated farmsteads, has been the setting for a number of popular crime novels—but it has also been the actual site of many horrific, bloody, and bizarre incidents. This book takes a gripping look at the darker side of the area's his...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS AROUND SOUTHPORT
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS AROUND SOUTHPORT
    GEOFF WRIGHT
    "A grim catalogue of killings and suspicious deaths that have darkened 130 years of Southport history is laid bare" ( Southport Visitor).   Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Southport takes the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting villains of all sorts along the way—cutthroats and poisoners, murderous lovers, baby-farmers and...

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