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Crime
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.
| ADRIAN JOHNS Book Number: 85025 |
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The story starts in 1966 with a confrontation that ended in manslaughter between two pirate radio station owners, the weapon being a twelve-bore shotgun. Pirate radio was a signature phenomenon of...
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| LISA APPIGNANESI Book Number: 85072 |
Published price: $28.95
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Lively accounts of three trials, one each in Britain, France and America, set between 1870 and 1914, a time when psychiatry was beginning to be taken seriously and emotions were discussed. Not only...
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| DAVID THOMAS Book Number: 85595 |
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"The greatest cheats have hit upon some great truths about human nature". Sooner or later all of us are going to fall victim to some scam or fraud, though most are wise to the African millionaire w...
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| David Tremain Book Number: 85763 |
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The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 has ensured that most of the Continent was in the grip of ruthless, totalitarian dictators who were determined to enslave the surviving democracies. This was th...
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| DON JORDAN & MICHAEL WALSH Book Number: 84876 |
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Sub-titled 'Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History', several months after the execution of Charles I in 1649, his elder son Charles, the Prince of Wales, wrote from exile in Holland...
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| ROY INGLETON Book Number: 85924 |
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Take a drive through the delightful countryside of the Garden of England - who would have thought that a crime as terrible as murder would happen in a place of such natural beauty? Ingleton has wr...
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| MITCH PEEKE ET AL Book Number: 85926 |
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Unlike most other books on the subject of the opulent passenger liner Lusitania, which was sunk by a German submarine in 1915, this also researches the liner's beginnings, her innovative advances i...
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| STEPHEN WADE Book Number: 85935 |
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Intriguing, dramatic accounts of Yorkshire women who felt the need to kill. The trauma of childbirth, especially when the baby was illegitimate, frequently led to the child's murder, such as in the...
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| ALLAN SCOTT-DAVIES Book Number: 85991 |
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The tragic ways that the victims contained within these pages met their ends include deaths in canals and rivers, quarries and pools and even the seemingly innocent bath tub. There are grisly tale...
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| CARLOS DE LA HUERTA Book Number: 86008 |
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The French Revolution threw the whole of Europe into turmoil, with no country more alarmed than Britain. As Napoleon established his iron grip on France, the British government was in a fever of su...
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| HOWARD MARKS Book Number: 86229 |
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Howard Marks is Britain's most famous drug smuggler having served seven years in a US penitentiary before becoming the bestselling author of Mr Nice. A former Oxford physics graduate, he was relea...
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| MARK BLAKE Book Number: 86654 |
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Working as a bouncer in London's theatreland, the mountainous and moustachioed Peter Grant was a doorman at the club where Christine Keeler worked as a showgirl, and for a time he strong-armed for ...
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| EDIT BY STEPHEN BRENNAN Book Number: 86551 |
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Catherine Hayes was burned alive for the murder of her husband; Thomas Lympus executed for robbing the mail; Reverend Wheatley sentenced to public penance for adultery; John Everett sentenced to de...
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| RICHARD WHITTINGTON-EGAN Book Number: 86790 |
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A collection of macabre true crimes, the grand doyen of Ripperology Richard Whittington-Egan accesses the murderous brushwork of the painter William Hepper, the poisonous machinations of the widow...
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| ANDREA PITZER Book Number: 86587 |
Published price: £25
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Here for the first time is a chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps. Beginning with 1890s Cuba, Andrea Pitzer documents concentration camps from the Philippines and Southern...
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| FASTFORWARD MUSIC Book Number: 87050 |
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US Prosecutor Robert Jackson summed up the responsibilities of Hitler's minions in an historic speech: "I admit that Hitler was the chief villain. But for the defendants to put all blame on him is...
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| LINDA GORDON Book Number: 87091 |
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Sub-titled 'The Rise of The Ku Klux Klan In The 1920s: A Warning from History'. Boasting four to six million members, the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s dramatically changed preconceptions ...
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| ORMOND SACKER Book Number: 87219 |
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Solve the puzzles to escape the pages! Disappear among riddles, codes and a Sherlock Holmes story. In this 'paper Escape Room', solving mysteries will take you on a journey through London, where Mo...
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| JACK HOLLAND Book Number: 87234 |
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"My father loved history and he loved women. These are the two factors that brought him to the topic of misogyny, one substantially different from northern Irish political matters on which he had b...
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| T. J. ENGLISH Book Number: 87246 |
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The story of Cuban organised crime in America has its roots in what would become known as the Bay of Pigs invasion. Eisenhower and the CIA had a goal to take back Cuba and the invasion would becom...
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| BETTINA STANGNETH Book Number: 87248 |
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In 1962 Adolf Eichmann was convicted and hanged in Jerusalem for crimes against humanity. After his career as a manager of the Holocaust he had escaped to Argentina, but was finally captured and t...
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| EDITED BY JON E. LEWIS Book Number: 87282 |
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First-hand accounts of the Holocaust from the rise of power of Hitler to the Nuremberg trials. During the Holocaust, as many as two million Jews were shot in the open air, in streets and forest cl...
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| JOEL DIMSDALE Book Number: 86892 |
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A riveting narrative of the Nuremburg Trials, the Nazi criminals and the psychologists who analysed them. In a gripping and haunting narrative, a renowned psychiatrist sheds new light on the psych...
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| JACK NADIN Book Number: 87376 |
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In October 1879 seven men plunged to the bottom of a 400 yard deep mine shaft. This was caused quite simply by the 'forgetfulness' of the shaft engine winder. The cause of the Pemberton Colliery ...
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| SCOTT LOMAX Book Number: 87381 |
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From Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, "Truth will come to light, murder cannot be hid long, a man's son may, but at the length truth will out." Killers could get away with their crimes in 159...
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| SHEELAGH MAWE Book Number: 83999 |
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It was a sunny day in 1940, Britain was at war, and Sarah age five and her brother James, six, were sitting at the table watching their mother pour the tea. Suddenly she broke the news. 'It's your ...
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| JIM HEIMANN Book Number: 84159 |
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Warning, some very bloody, gory and graphic murder scene photos. Glamorous Hollywood legends like Marilyn Monroe shared a dirty mean city with 'Juvies' ready to wreak havoc on the streets or the W...
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| DANIEL SCOTT Book Number: 87645 |
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Charles Manson, Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger, O. J. Simpson, Woody Allen v. Mia Farrow, Neil and Christine Hamilton, Jeffrey Archer, Princess Anne, Michael Jackson, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Amy Winehouse, Joss S...
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| GORDON CARR Book Number: 87558 |
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The "Stoke Newington Eight" were tried in December 1972 and following an appeal for clemency four of them were acquitted, with the sentences reduced for the others. The author Gordon Carr has rese...
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| KATE WINKLER DAWSON Book Number: 87568 |
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While a deadly, thick smog held London hostage for five days in December 1952, a killer stalked the streets under the cloak of polluted darkness, John Reginald Christie. Kate Winkler Dawson is a se...
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