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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Croydon

Author : Caroline Maxton
Publisher : Wharncliffe
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781845630072

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Croydon by Caroline Maxton Pdf

We are all drawn to understand the circumstances that lead others to commit unforgivable acts of violence - the moment that turns a caring human being into a killer, the series of events that drive ordinary people to murderous acts of inhumanity, or the slow, premeditated steps of the callous criminal. And the circumstances - and the twisted motivation - behind such violent acts are the subject of Caroline Maxton's fascinating investigation of individuals whose misdeeds have tarnished the history of the Croydon area. She investigates a wide range of murders and unexplained deaths, some of which are truly stranger than fiction. The events cover a span of several centuries, and the locations will be chillingly familiar to the inhabitants of Croydon. Local crimes that hit the national headlines, like the Bentley case of 1952, are covered in fresh detail, but the author concentrates on less well-known but equally intriguing, and shocking, episodes - the bizarre 'mustard and cress' murder of 1870, the brutal murder of Eliza Osborne in 1877, the Kenley Stud Farm mystery of 1921, the Birdhurst Rise poisoning of the late 1920s, the notorious unsolved murder of 11-year-old Miles Vallint of 1959.

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Guildford

Author : Caroline Maxton
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781903425787

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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Guildford by Caroline Maxton Pdf

Foul Deeds and Suscipcious Deaths in Guildford - True Crime BooksThe twin fascinations of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Guildford the chill is brought close to home as each chapter investigates the darker side of humanity in cases of murder

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Barking, Dagenham & Chadwell Heath

Author : Kathryn Abnett,Linda Rhodes
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781783037322

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Barking, Dagenham & Chadwell Heath by Kathryn Abnett,Linda Rhodes Pdf

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Barking, Dagenham and Chadwell Heath takes the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting villains of all sorts along the way murderous husbands and lovers, cut-throats, police-killers, highwaymen, Gunpowder Plotters and even a Nazi collaborator sentenced to death for High Treason. Luckless individuals who came to cruel or unjust ends are also recalled, from martyrs and witches to the fishermen who perished in the Great Storm of 1863 and the passengers who lost their lives when the pleasure steamer the Princess Alice sank in the Thames in 1878. There is no shortage of harrowing and revealing tales of accident and evil to recount from the history of this part of Essex to the east of London. The human dramas the authors describe are often played out in the most commonplace of circumstances, but others are so odd as to be stranger than fiction. Their grisly chronicle of the hidden history of Barking, Dagenham and Chadwell Heath will be compelling reading for anyone interested in the dark side of human nature.

Murder Houses of South London

Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-28
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781784629755

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Murder Houses of South London by Jan Bondeson Pdf

South London has a long and blood-spattered history of capital crime and many of its murder houses still stand today. There are many forgotten murders in South London, where only the murder house remains... Murder mysteries fill the pages of this book – some of them celebrated crimes, like the murder of Charles Bravo at Balham in 1876. Others remain forgotten tragedies, like the murder of Jane Soper in the Borough in 1875. This book will take you on a journey through some of the most notorious crimes in South London, including the Brixton Matricide, the Battersea Tragedy and the Tooting Horror.

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in London's East End

Author : Geoffrey Howse
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781903425718

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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in London's East End by Geoffrey Howse Pdf

London's East End has been associated with some of the worst elements of human depravity, where foul deeds and murder were commonplace; and the area's notoriety was added to by the horrific murders committed by Jack, the Ripper. For centuries the East End's notoriety for foul deeds has remained unsurpassed in the annals of crime in this country.

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in London's West End

Author : Geoffrey Howse
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781781596616

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in London's West End by Geoffrey Howse Pdf

London's West End is associated with fashion and glamour but for centuries it has had a far darker side. Geoffrey Howse has uncovered an astonishing catalogue of sinister deeds, some of them famous but others long forgotten. Read about spying, treason, embezzlement, regicide, robbery, forgery, religious persecution, suicide, murder and mutilation; and 'witness' horrendous punishments such as drawing, hanging, disemboweling, quartering, castration, beheading and burning. Earlier cases include the execution of Scottish patriots (1305/6) and three monks who dared to question the supremacy of Henry VIII in 1535. Such events attracted great public attention, as did the extraordinary execution of Charles I in 1649 and, in 1820, the hanging and mutilation of the Cato Street Conspiritors. The foul murder of the famous actor William Terriss, by a madman, in 1897, is featured as are several notable cases from the twentieth century including the horrific wartime murders of Gordon Cummins, the strange disappearances of the socialist MP Victor Grayson and Lord Lucan, the Charing Cross Trunk Murder as well as the mysterious death of boxer Freddie Mills.

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Lewisham & Deptford

Author : Jonathan Oates
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-19
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781783037353

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Lewisham & Deptford by Jonathan Oates Pdf

The twin fascinations of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Lewisham and Deptford the chill is brought close to home as each chapter investigates the darker side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit and pure malice committed over the centuries in this area of London. From crimes of passion to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of murder, the full spectrum of criminality is recounted, bringing to life the more sinister history of Lewisham and Deptford from the sixteenth century onwards. For this journey into the bloody, neglected past, Jonathan Oates has selected over 20 notorious episodes that give a fascinating insight into criminal acts and the criminal mind. The story of one of the most famous unsolved murders in history, of the great playwright Christopher Marlowe in Deptford in 1593. is followed by a catalogue of heinous crimes of every description—political conspiracies, gang killings, murders of policemen, suicide pacts, multiple poisonings, a husband who killed his wife and four children, the suicide of a crooked councillor, a motiveless murder and two unsolved murders that are as intriguing today as they were 80 years ago. The human dramas Jonathan Oates describes are often played out in the most commonplace of circumstances, but others are so odd as to be stranger than fiction. His grisly chronicle of the hidden history of Lewisham and Deptford will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the dark side of human nature.

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Uxbridge

Author : Jonathan Oates
Publisher : Wharncliffe
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781783408726

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Uxbridge by Jonathan Oates Pdf

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 harrowing—and revealing—incidents of evil and despair to recount from the earliest recorded history of the Uxbridge district up to the present day. Jonathan Oates’s fascinating research has uncovered some grisly events and unsavory individuals whose conduct throws a harsh light on the history of this suburban area west of London. His book records crime and punishment in all its dreadful variety. Among many acts of violence and wickedness are the burning to death of five Protestant martyrs and the execution of a turbulent priest in Tudor times, a family massacred at Denham in 1870, and several brutal murders that have never been solved or explained. Cases that stand out as particularly shocking or bizarre include a son who was killed by his mother, a woman who died after an illegal operation, the Uxbridge tea-shop murder of 1951, and a man tried for manslaughter and later murder in West Drayton, who committed suicide two decades later. This chronicle of Uxbridge’s hidden history will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the local history of the area and in the dark side of human nature.

Victorian Murders

Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781445666310

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Victorian Murders by Jan Bondeson Pdf

This book features fifty-six Victorian murder cases from the files of the Illustrated Police News.

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Jersey

Author : Glynis Cooper
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781783035496

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Jersey by Glynis Cooper Pdf

In a superb companion volume to her best-selling book Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Guernsey, Glynis Cooper turns her attention to the dark side of the past in Jersey. And there is no shortage of shocking stories to tell—crimes of passion and despair, cases of murder, deceit and pure malice, opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of wickedness that are as disturbing today as they were in their own time. For this journey into a neglected area in Jersey's history she has selected a revealing series of cases dating from the medieval period to the present day. She recalls the torture and execution of four female witches, the murderous outcome of a clash with Norman sheep stealers, a woman who married her husband's murderer and wreckers who preyed on Spanish treasure ships. And among the sensational episodes from more recent times are a schoolboy who raped a woman, the suicide of a jilted bride, the murder of French political refugees, a French general who was ruined by his lady love and corrupt officers who disgraced the Victorian police force.The human dramas Glynis Greenman describes are often played out in the most commonplace of circumstances, but others are so odd as to be stranger than fiction. Her fascinating account of Jersey's secret history will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the flaws in human nature.

Foul deeds & suspicious deaths in Guernsey

Author : Glynis Cooper
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845630089

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Foul deeds & suspicious deaths in Guernsey by Glynis Cooper Pdf

Contains chapters that investigate the darker side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit and pure malice. From crimes of passion to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of murder, this work recounts the spectrum of criminality, bringing to life the sinister history of Guernsey from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Wigan

Author : Mike Fletcher
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-23
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781473872806

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Wigan by Mike Fletcher Pdf

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Wigan is a detailed guide to the town's darker side, exploring, often in gory detail, Wigan's more sinister heritage, by examining accounts of murder and suspicious deaths from the middle ages through to the twentieth century. Victorian Wigan was a town seemingly overflowing with criminals, and some of the most gruesome cases, recounted from the reports taken from the Wigan Observer and Wigan Examiner, occurred in the second half of the nineteenth century. Many of the cases are without motice or provocation. Domestic crime features highly, often involving Wigan's colliers savagely beating their wives to death, and some of the cases remains unsolved. Each of the cases are covered in detail, documenting the crime, the investigation and inquest, and culminates with the eventual court case and punishment.

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Shrewsbury and Around Shropshire

Author : David J. Cox
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781783401208

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Shrewsbury and Around Shropshire by David J. Cox Pdf

Sixteen true crime cases with a connection to two West Midlands English towns from the Middle Ages to the early decades of the twentieth century. Criminal cases give us a fascinating, often harrowing insight into crime and the criminal mind, into policing methods and the justice system. They also tell us much about social conditions and attitudes in the past. And such cases make absorbing reading. David Cox’s graphic account of 16 notorious cases in Shrewsbury and around Shropshire is a particularly strong and revealing study of this kind. Using newspaper reports, census returns, and court records, he reconstructs each case in vivid detail. At the same time, he looks into the background of the crimes and into the lives of the criminals, and he describes the methods of detection and the punishments that were imposed. The cases he’s chosen range in date from the medieval period to the twentieth century. Included are the case of the forger who had his ear nailed to a post, the father who killed his infant son with vitriol, the transportation of a seventy-year-old woman, the murder of an inmate in a lunatic asylum, a twentieth-century highway robber and a VC winner involved in bigamy. The personal dramas David Cox explores in this book will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the sinister side of human nature and human weakness.Criminal cases give us a fascinating, often harrowing insight into crime and the criminal mind, into policing methods and the justice system. They also tell us much about social conditions and attitudes in the past. And such cases make absorbing reading. David Cox's graphic account of 16 notorious cases in Shrewsbury and around Shropshire is a particularly strong and revealing study of this kind. Using newspaper reports, census returns and court records, he reconstructs each case in vivid detail. At the same time he looks into the background of the crimes and into the lives of the criminals, and he describes the methods of detection and the punishments that were imposed. The cases he's chosen range in date from the medieval period to the twentieth century. Included are the case of the forger who had his ear nailed to a post, the father who killed his infant son with vitriol, the transportation of a 70-year-old woman, the murder of an inmate in a lunatic asylum, a twentieth-century highway robber and a VC winner involved in bigamy. The personal dramas David Cox explores in this book will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the sinister side of human nature and human weakness.

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths around Northampton

Author : Paul Harrison
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781526713841

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths around Northampton by Paul Harrison Pdf

Twenty true tales of violence and villainy in this area of England’s East Midlands—includes illustrations. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Northampton investigates the darker side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit, and pure malice committed over the centuries in this picturesque part of England. For this journey into Northampton’s bloody past, Paul Harrison has selected over twenty notorious episodes that give a fascinating insight into criminal acts and the criminal mind. He reinvestigates some of the most intriguing cases, introduces new evidence, and questions verdicts that were reached many years ago. Among the cases are two old people who were bludgeoned to death for no apparent reason; the murder of a mistress and her child; a philandering salesman who faked his own death; a promiscuous woman who came to a cruel end; a shoemaker who brutally attacked his wife; and the disappearance of Lydia Atley, whose remains were never found. These human dramas are often played out in the most commonplace of circumstances—while others are so odd as to be stranger than fiction.

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In Bath

Author : Kirsten Elliott
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-19
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781783037742

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Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In Bath by Kirsten Elliott Pdf

True crime tales from this ancient British city and tourist spot—photos included. Take a journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting villains of all sorts along the way—cut-throats and poisoners, murderous lovers, assassins, prostitutes and suicides. Among the many tales of wickedness and despair the author records in this fascinating book are: Robbery and revenge in Roman times The brutal uncertainties of Bath in the dark ages The highwaymen, gamblers, and duelists of the Georgian period The Victorian underworld and its notorious cases of prostitution, infanticide, and murder Outbreaks of mob violence Political corruption Kirsten Elliott’s chronicle of the history the town would prefer to forget is compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the dark side of human nature.