Middlesex Murders

Author : Linda Stratmann
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752484037

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Middlesex Murders by Linda Stratmann Pdf

Middlesex Murders brings together numerous murderous tales, some of which were little known outside the county, and others which made national headlines. Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Middlesex. They include the murder of John Draper, whose body was found in a well at Enfield Chase in 1816; 15-year-old John Brill, found beaten to death in a wood in 1837 after giving evidence against two poachers; and Claire Paul, killed with an axe at her home in Ruislip in 1938. Linda Stratmann’s carefully researched and enthralling text includes much previously unpublished information and will appeal to everyone interested in the shady side of Middlesex’s history.

Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-28
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781784629748

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Murder Houses of Greater London by Jan Bondeson Pdf

Which of Greater London’s most gruesome murders happened in your street? And were they committed by Graham Frederick Young (the poisoner of the North Circular Road), by the murderous Donald Hume, or by that monster Dennis Nilsen? Sometimes quiet suburban terraces hide the most terrible secrets... Read about the ‘Hampstead Triangle’ – home to a surprising number of celebrated murders – as well as another triangle of violent deaths in Kensal Rise and ponder some very mysterious unsolved murders. Armed with this book and a good London map, you will be able to do some murder house detection work of your own.

Author : George Joynson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614234357

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Murders in Monmouth by George Joynson Pdf

Why do people kill? In the case of the young and mentally unstable Frank Zastera, the rationale was as simple as the act was brutal: he wanted William Sheppard's money. In other homicides, such as the still-unsolved 1913 murder of George Harris, the motive for committing the ultimate crime remains obscured for eternity. In Murders in Monmouth, author George Joynson unflinchingly assembles the who, what, when, where and why surrounding twelve high-profile killings perpetrated by various individuals in early twentieth-century Monmouth County.

Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,6 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.

Author : Linda Stratmann
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780750955096

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An Appetite for Murder by Linda Stratmann Pdf

The sudden death of overweight 49-year-old Thomas Whibley sparks off an acrimonious furore in Bayswater, and sparks fly between rival diet doctors, vegetarians and the extremist Pure Food Society. Young sleuth Frances Doughty is engaged to discover the author of anonymous libels, when a former colleague of Whibley's, Hubert Sweetman, who has served fourteen years in prison for a violent robbery he claims he did not commit, asks her to trace his estranged family. Before she can start, however, the police arrive and arrest her client for the murder of his wife. There will be more murders and a vicious attack on Frances before she finally resolves a number of knotty questions. Is Hubert Sweetman really innocent? Where are his missing children? And who wielded the poisoned pen? The fourth book in the popular Frances Doughty Mystery series.

Author : Linda Stratmann
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780750987363

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Murder at the Bayswater Bicycle Club by Linda Stratmann Pdf

London1882: In this, her most demanding case, Frances Doughty goes undercover for Her Majesty's Government to investigate some disturbing information regarding the apparently innocuous Bayswater Bicycle Club. Before long, she is plunged into a murky world of deadly secrets, a suspicious disappearance and a brutal murder, and the Lady Detective is forced to do the unthinkable to avoid becoming the next victim. With a new and exciting future before her, is there anything the dauntless Miss Doughty cannot do?

Author : William Moses Kunstler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Law
ISBN : 0813509122

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The Hall-Mills Murder Case by William Moses Kunstler Pdf

Factual account, based in part on new evidence, of the still unsolved murder case of Rev. Edward Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills which occurred in New Jersey in 1922.

Author : John Little
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781773058450

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The Donnellys: Powder Keg by John Little Pdf

A violent family living in violent times. In the 1840s, the Donnelly family immigrates from Ireland to the British province of Canada. Almost immediately problems develop as the patriarch of the family is sent to the Kingston Penitentiary for manslaughter, leaving his wife to raise their eight children on her own. The children are raised in an incredibly violent community and cultivate a devoted loyalty to their mother and siblings, which often leads to problems with the law and those outside of the family. The tensions between the family and their community escalate as the family’s enemies begin to multiply. The brothers go into business running a stagecoach line and repay all acts of violence perpetrated against them, which only worsens the situation. Refusing to take a backwards step, the Donnellys stand alone against a growing power base that includes wealthy business interests in the town of Lucan, the local diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, law authorities and a number of their neighbours.

Author : Linda Stratmann
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780750982016

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A True and Faithful Brother by Linda Stratmann Pdf

London 1882: When a wealthy philanthropist disappears from a locked and guarded room, Frances Doughty is reluctantly drawn into a case that tears the veil of mystery from her own past. Can London’s very own Lady Detective solve this sinister new case before a murderer catches up with her and she becomes the next victim?

Author : Linda Stratmann
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780750969253

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Royal Ghost by Linda Stratmann Pdf

Brighton, 1871: a book by two respectable spinsters claiming to have seen the ghost of the Prince Regent in Brighton Pavilion shocks the town and attracts the attention of spiritualist Arthur Wallace Hope. Young Mina Scarletti, a writer of horror stories and investigator of psychic phenomena, suspects fraud. As the summer heat rises and hearts flutter dangerously, Mina and her associates delve into the mystery and, in doing so, they soon discover that nothing is as it seems.

Author : Linda Stratmann
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780750964418

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The Children of Silence by Linda Stratmann Pdf

The fifth in a series of Victorian murder mysteries set in London with a clever and determined female sleuthLondon 1881: When a body is found in the Paddington canal basin, a woman with a hearing impairment claims that the remains are those of her missing husband, who disappeared three years ago. Unable to prove her case, she appeals to Frances Doughty, the lady detective, to investigate. In this, her fifth case, Frances soon learns that the missing man has secrets of his own, and, when another body is discovered and a witness is viciously attacked, it becomes clear that she must choose her allies wisely.

Author : Linda Stratmann
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780752463919

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The Poisonous Seed by Linda Stratmann Pdf

The first in a new Victorian murder mystery series set in London, featuring a clever and determined young female sleuth When a customer of William Doughty's chemist shop dies of strychnine poisoning after drinking medicine he dispensed, William is blamed, and the family faces ruin. William's daughter, 19-year-old Frances, determines to redeem her ailing father's reputation and save the business. She soon becomes convinced that the death was murder, but unable to convince the police, she turns detective. Armed only with her wits, courage, and determination, and aided by some unconventional new friends, Frances uncovers a startling deception and solves a 10-year-old murder. There will be more deaths and a secret in her own family will be revealed, before the killer is unmasked and Frances finds that her life has changed forever.

Author : Linda Stratmann
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780752477312

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The Daughters of Gentlemen by Linda Stratmann Pdf

The second book in the series of Victorian murder mysteries set in London, with a clever and determined female sleuth Frances Doughty is a young sleuth on her first professional case, trying to discover who distributed dangerously feminist pamphlets to the girls of the Bayswater Academy for the Education of Young Ladies. Armed with only her wits, courage, and determination, she finds that even the most respectable denizens of Bayswater have something to hide, and what begins as a simple task soon becomes a case of murder. As election fever erupts and the formidable ladies of the Bayswater Women's Suffrage Society swing into action, Frances’ enquiries expose lies, more murders, and a long-concealed scandal—and she makes a powerful new friend.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1784 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : UVA:X004717835

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The Boston Globe Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lionel Rose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317370628

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Massacre of the Innocents by Lionel Rose Pdf

Before contraception was generally available, and when abortion was fraught with danger, infanticide was a common solution to the problem of unwanted children. Massacre of the Innocents, first published in 1986, shows the causes and consequences of the high tide of infanticide in Victorian Britain. Lionel Rose describes the ways in which unwanted and ‘surplus’ infants were disposed of, and the economic and social pressures on women to rid themselves of their burdens by covert criminal and sub-criminal means. He discusses the activities of infanticidal and abortionist midwives, and shows how the practices of wet nursing and baby farming were closely related to infanticide. Unscrupulous insurance salesman even turned infanticide into a profitable business, in their reckless grab for commissions. Infanticide declined with the growing practice of contraception, the lessening of pressure of unmarried mothers, and as adoption was made easier. This is a hard-hitting, scrupulously documented piece of social history. This title will be of interest to students of history and criminology.