Crime and True Crime books are very popular and should carry a warning as they are true stories of horrific inhumanity and cruelty. Truth is often stranger than fiction.
ALISON EATWELL Book Number: 90354 |
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The National Archive in Kew holds thousands of petitions from prisoners, their families, employers, supporters and even prosecutors written after the prisoner had been sentenced in the hope of gain...
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CLAIRE HARMAN Book Number: 90377 |
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Relish the gruesome details of this impressively researched historical account of a celebrated Victorian murder with a literary twist. In the early morning of 6th May 1840, on a highly respectable...
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EDDIE RICHARDSON Book Number: 90300 |
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'On the day there were seven of Bill's boys all masked up and they snatched what in modern cash would be around eight million quid. They boxed in the PO van with two cars, took off with about 30 ma...
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MARY CREIGHTON Book Number: 90831 |
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'You're all fallen women. You've sowed the seed of Satan. You are nothing.' When Mary Creighton found herself pregnant at just 15 out of wedlock in 1960s Ireland, she dreamed of a happy life with ...
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CARL CHINN Book Number: 88247 |
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The BBC TV series Peaky Blinders was a hit from its first showing in 2013. Transforming our perception of Birmingham of a century ago with swagger, glamour and extreme violence - not to mention a v...
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MIRRORPIX Book Number: 91004 |
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Manchester Arena, Finsbury Park Mosque, the Bunch of Grapes bar at London Bridge, the 7/7 bombings, the nail bomb which ripped through the Admiral Duncan pub April 1999, the 1988 Omagh car bomb in ...
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PROFESSOR PATRICIA WILTSHIRE Book Number: 90827 |
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'The Memoir of A Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator', Professor Patricia Wiltshire takes us into a fascinating edgeland where nature and crime are intertwined. Through woodlands, hedgero...
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R. BUSCHMANN & M. WULZINGER Book Number: 91149 |
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Reading like a Cold War thriller, this is probably the biggest story in football of the last decade, the shocking ugly underside of the beautiful game. One anonymous football fan, 18.6 million con...
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HENRY MACRORY Book Number: 91179 |
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Whitaker Wright has been dubbed the world's most shameless swindler. He was one of the great characters of the Victorian age - Methodist, minister, businessman, swindler and symbol of excess, whos...
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WALTER SHAPIRO Book Number: 90789 |
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Journalist Walter Shapiro always assumed that the stories about his great uncle Freeman Bernstein, particularly the one where he conned Hitler's war effort out of a valuable shipload of scrap metal...
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DAVID HOFFMAN Book Number: 91452 |
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An unforgettable journey into Cold War espionage, this is a breakthrough book in intelligence writing, drawing on CIA operational cables. Hoffman reveals CIA tradecraft tricks and chilling insight...
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WARREN FELLOWS Book Number: 91457 |
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In 1978 Warren Fellows was convicted in Thailand of heroin trafficking and was sentenced to life imprisonment. This is his story of an unthinkable nightmare in a place where sewer rats and cockroa...
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MARK BOWDEN Book Number: 91330 |
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The Incident At Alpha Tau Omega, Why Don't U Tell Me Wht You're Into?, The Case of the Vanishing Blonde, ...A Million Years Ago, The Body In Room 348 and Who Killed Euhommie Bond? were first publis...
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DAVID KING Book Number: 91408 |
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Sub-titled 'The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany', this has been described as 'The definitive book on the Hitler trial in English, German or any language.' The book tells the true sto...
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SAMANTHA PRIESTLEY Book Number: 91580 |
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We know our Bibliophile readers very well and this gruesome history of Britain's most brutal punishment will sell out fast. The history of gibbeting is the story of hanging of criminals in a body ...
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ROBERT HUTCHINSON Book Number: 91600 |
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Colonel Blood was the spy who stole the crown jewels and became the king's secret agent. One morning in May 1671, this man daringly attempted to seize the crown jewels from the Tower of London. A...
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IAN HERNON Book Number: 91620 |
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From the New York Times, 4th July 1857: 'Brick-bats, stones and clubs were flying thickly round, and from the windows in all directions, and the men ran wildly about brandishing firearms. Wounded m...
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JENNIFER REES & R. STRANGE Book Number: 91821 |
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Libby Purves in the TLS said, 'God, I love these women! Their breeziness, compassion, humour and resilience are a tonic.' In February 1919, London's first women police officers took to the streets...
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LEE SERVER Book Number: 91716 |
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'No one knew more about the mob, Hollywood, and Las Vegas than Johnny Rosselli.' Gentleman gangster, Hollywood producer, CIA assassin, Johnny Rosselli was at the centre of the 20th century's darke...
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JONATHAN GILL Book Number: 91720 |
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Sub-titled 'The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film Producer Turned Cold War Spy', here the Golden Age of Hollywood is the background to this story of a remarkable career. Boris Morros was a major fig...
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PATRICK PESNOT Book Number: 91867 |
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A mixture of detailed research coupled with the insider revelations of "Mr X", these gripping mini-biographies of 23 agents of various nationalities includes members of the DGSE, KGB, CIA and MI6. ...
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NAOMI CLIFFORD Book Number: 91873 |
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By the middle of the 18th century there were 160 capital crimes, many of them reflecting the period's obsession with protecting property. You could be hanged for stealing goods worth five shilling...
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MARK LEE GARDNER Book Number: 91912 |
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The 10th anniversary edition featuring a new afterword, this is the untold story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. Billy the Kid, aka Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim and William Bonney, was a horse th...
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CLAIRE ORMSBY-POTTER Book Number: 92066 |
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Dinner party, escape room, solve the case, follow the clues and puzzles, find out who saw what to find the killer. Could it be the widow, the cold and forbidding Lady Anne? Or perhaps the victim's...
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DAVID BERRIDGE Book Number: 92078 |
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Gangsters, psychopaths, terrorists, assaults, riots, cell fires, medical emergencies, understaffed wings, suicides, hooch, weapons - it's all in a week's work at Her Majesty's Prison Parkhurst. Af...
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DANIEL SMITH Book Number: 92106 |
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Subtitled 'Little-Known Facts About the World's Greatest Detective', a new dimension is brought to the enduring fictional sleuth in this perfect crime and history fan book. Learn of Dr Watson's da...
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RACHEL REAR Book Number: 92181 |
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Unsolved for over two decades, this is the gripping story of a young woman's murder brilliantly investigated and reconstructed by her stepsister. Growing up, Rachel Rear knew the story of Stephani...
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RONAN FARROW Book Number: 92000 |
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The newly updated edition. In 2017, a routine network TV investigation led to a story only whispered about - one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth an...
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CHARLOTTE GREIG Book Number: 92002 |
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Why did flight MH370 fall from the sky, lost without a trace? Was Donald Trump elected President of the United States with the help of Russians? What are the theories surrounding the 9/11 terrorist...
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ROBERT STEDALL Book Number: 92027 |
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Sub-titled 'The Life and Murder of Henry, Lord Darnley' this engaging and well researched biography re-examines the famous murder and brings new light and compelling confusions to a story surrounde...
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