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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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SERIAL KILLERS: MURDER WITHOUT MERCY

NIGEL BLUNDELL

Charles Manson, Aileen Wuornos, Burke & Hare, the Boston Strangler, the Zodiac Killer, and other remorseless serial murderers whose crimes made history. From Victorian era graveyards to a rented room in Paris to an isolated Indian farm and the California hills, the shocking murders collected in this true crime anthology span the century and the continents. The motivations are...

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SERIAL KILLERS: BUTCHERS & CANNIBALS

NIGEL BLUNDELL

The body snatcher who inspired Psycho, the noblewoman known as Countess Dracula, Jack the Ripper, and other killers for whom murder was just the beginning. From Gilles de Rais' castle in fifteenth-century France to "the Bloody Benders'" eighteenth-century Kansas farm to Jeffrey Dahmer's quiet apartment in twentieth-century Milwaukee, history is littered with serial murderers ...

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SERIAL KILLERS: THE WORLD'S MOST EVIL

NIGEL BLUNDELL

One hundred years of the most depraved criminal minds—from H. H. Holmes and Ted Bundy to John Wayne Gacy, Ian Brady, and Myra Hindley. Their monikers have become part of the true crime lexicon: among them, the Moors Murders; the Hillside Strangler; Killer Clown; Son of Sam; the Love Slave Killers; the Scorecard Killer; and the BTK Strangler. On a scale of evil, they are the w...

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GREAT TRAIN CRIMES

JONATHAN OATES

"Oates charts train crimes from the Victorian period to the present day, from casual murder to calculated robbery. . . . A must for true-crime addicts" ( Practical Family History). Murder and robbery committed on the railways have long held a special place in British criminal history. Railways and trains create special conditions—and opportunities—for criminal acts. Two legen...

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CRIMINAL WOMEN

JOHN J. EDDLESTON

Shocking portraits of women who have committed capital crimes in England's capital city—from the author of Jack the Ripper: An Encyclopedia. Women have sometimes been seen as less criminally inclined than men. But, as John J. Eddleston shows in this revealing anthology of female crimes in London, this image is hard to mesh with reality, for the city's history is crowded with ...

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HANGED IN LANCASHIRE

MARTIN BAGGOLEY

"A detailed account of crime and capital punishment . . . from the days of the 1700s when felons were publically hanged outside the walls of Lancaster Castle." —Friends of Real Lancashire This account of executions in Lancashire spans two centuries and begins in the era of the Bloody Code. In the closing years of the eighteenth century, there were over 200 capital crimes and ...

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FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN CARDIFF

MARK ISAACS

Discover the Welsh city's history of crime with these true stories and photos. This book will introduce to you villains of all sorts—casual or calculating killers, murderous husbands and lovers, gangsters, robbers, poisoners, and suicides. There is no shortage of harrowing episodes in Cardiff's past, and this fascinating book recalls many grisly events and sad or unsavory ind...

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FOUL DEEDS AND SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN SHEFFIELD

GEOFFREY HOWSE

The author of A History of London's Prisons reveals the ugly criminal past of one of England's most beautiful cities. It hardly seems surprising that what has become England's fourth city has within its rich history a sinister and darker side. Take a journey to discover cases of petty crime, riots, burglary, robbery, assault, suicide, unlawful killing, manslaughter, and murde...

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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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A HISTORY OF LONDON'S PRISONS

GEOFFREY HOWSE

The author of The A-Z of London Murders takes readers behind the bars of the city's numerous jails and tells the tales of their most infamous inmates. London has had more prisons than any other British city. The City's "gates" once contained prisons but probably the most notorious of all was Newgate, which stood for over seven hundred years. The eleventh-century Tower of Lond...

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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

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

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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UNSOLVED LONDON MURDERS

JONATHAN OATES

The real-life murder mysteries that rocked London between two world wars—from the author of Unsolved Murders of Victorian and Edwardian London. Unsolved crimes have a special fascination, none more so than unsolved murders. The shock of the crime itself and the mystery surrounding it, the fear generated by the awareness a killer on the loose, the insight the cases give into o...

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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

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

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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