Foul Deeds And Suspicious Deaths In Hampstead Holburn And St Pancras

Author : Mark Aston
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1903425948
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Hampstead, Holburn and St Pancras written by Mark Aston and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths In Hampstead, Holburn and St Pancras the chill of evil is brought close to home as each chapter investigates the darker side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit and pure malice in this corner 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 sinister history of this part of the capital over the last 400 years.

Author : Geoffrey Howse
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1781596611
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in London's West End written by Geoffrey Howse and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jonathan Oates
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783037350
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Lewisham & Deptford written by Jonathan Oates and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stephen Wade
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1845630238
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yorkshires Murderous Women written by Stephen Wade and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents stories of murder by women in all parts of Yorkshire - tales of marital tension and tragedy and sad accounts of infanticide while under mental duress. This work also explores the uneasy relationship between social change and the criminal law, so the courtrooms as well as the murder scenes have their absorbing and dramatic stories.

Author : Martin Baggoley
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1781596638
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strangeways written by Martin Baggoley and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strangeways Gaol opened in 1868, and replaced the New Bailey Gaol, where public executions had taken place before their abolition that same year. Strangeways was to be a major location of execution for murders commited in the Northwest of England, for the next 100 years. Between 1869 and 1962 exactly 100 people were hanged, several women included in this number.

Author : Martin Easdown
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1845630114
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths/Folkeston written by Martin Easdown and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Folkestone takes the reader on a sinister journey through the annals of crime in Folkestone, Hythe and the surrounding area. Along the way we meet villains, murderers and victims of many kinds, including cut-throat soldiers, a 'baby farmer', a Jack the Ripper imposter, two inexplicable suicides and five individuals who died violent deaths in the 'House of Horror'. There is no shortage of harrowing and revealing incidents of evil to recount, many of which will be unfamiliar to the reader. Infant murders were once so rife in Folkestone it was termed the 'infanticide capital of Kent'. This fascinating book recalls many such grisly events, as well as sad or unsavoury individuals who have darkened this otherwise pleasant corner of the Garden of England.

Author : Nick Billingham
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1903425999
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stratford Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths written by Nick Billingham and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foul Deeds and Suspicious Death in Stratford and South Warwickshire is an exploration of the darker history of the area. Behind the famous tourist industry of Shakespears everyday life on farms and factories carried on just like anywhere else. Ancient superstitions and curious legends provided inspriation for the great bard and other authors but real life was punctuated by sudden death, jealousy and ruthlessness. This book examines some of the most dramatic incidents in detail. Dranw from contemporary sources, newspapers, legal documents and coroner's records; each case provides a glimpse into life and death in its historical setting. The changes in the town, both in its architecture and social values from the background to the lives and deaths of its citizens.

Author : Glynis Cooper
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1845630084
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foul deeds & suspicious deaths in Guernsey written by Glynis Cooper and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Caroline Maxton
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1845630076
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Croydon written by Caroline Maxton and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stephen Wade
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783037415
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Liverpool written by Stephen Wade and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disturbing, criminal history of Britain’s “World Capital City of Pop”—home of murderers, thieves, bodysnatchers . . . and The Beatles. The city of Liverpool, England, was like every other city energized by the Victorian boon in industry and trade. It is best known today as the home of the British Invasion and music that changed the world. But Liverpool’s history has a less harmonious side, and a dark past that reaches back centuries. True crime historian, Stephen Wade, goes there. In Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Liverpool, Wade reveals the city’s most shocking crimes: a notoriously deadly duel in 1806; gang wars and the infamous nineteenth-century “Cholera Riots”; a killer butcher and a terrorist bombing; grandma killers and sinister sisters; swindlers and crimes of passion; poisonings, bodysnatchers, and serial killers; a murderer who claimed to be possessed by demons; and a terrifying hunt for the fiend behind the Ripper murders. Wade invites readers into the shadowy backstreets of a fabled city in this criminally fascinating chronicle of misdeeds, madmen, and real-life mysteries.