Pretty Jane And The Viper Of Kidbrooke Lane

Author : Paul Thomas Murphy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784081904
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane written by Paul Thomas Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling reconstruction of a brutal Victorian murder, in which Paul Thomas Murphy identifies, after 144 years, the killer responsible for the slaying of Jane Maria Clouson.

Author : Paul Thomas Murphy
Publisher : Pegasus Books
ISBN 13 : 9781605989822
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane written by Paul Thomas Murphy and published by Pegasus Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the first unsolved murder case of the Victorian Era, which involved a pregnant maid in the house of the renowned Pook family.

Author : Paul Thomas Murphy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681771209
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane written by Paul Thomas Murphy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 26th, 1871, a police constable walking one of London’s remotest beats stumbled upon a brutalized young woman kneeling in the muddy road. She stretched out her hand to him, collapsed in the mud, muttered, “Let me die,” and slipped into a coma. Five days later, she died, her identity still unknown.Within hours of her discovery, scores of Metropolitan Police officers were involved in the investigation, while Scotland Yard sent one of its top detectives to lead it. On the day of her death, the police discovered the girl's identity: Jane Maria Clouson, a sixteen-year-old servant to the Pooks, a respectable Greenwich family. Hours later, they arrested her master's son, twenty-year-old Edmund, for her murder.An epic tale of law and disorder, Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane is the story of the majesty—and the travesty—of the nineteenth-century British legal system. Using an abundant collection of primary sources, Paul Thomas Murphy creates a gripping narrative of the police procedural and the ensuing legal drama, and, applying contemporary forensic methods to this Victorian cold case, reveals definitively the identity of Jane Clouson's murderer.

Author : Paul Thomas Murphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781851980
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shooting Victoria written by Paul Thomas Murphy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During her long reign, Queen Victoria was the target of no fewer than eight assassination attempts. In seven of these cases her life was saved by poor marksmanship or misfiring weaponry, but one assailant managed to strike her with a finely wrought cane. Remarkably, all eight of her attackers lived to tell their tales, and were variously incarcerated in asylums, deported to Australia, or in a few cases eventually released into society again. Paul Thomas Murphy shows how these obscure would-be assassins effected a change in history. Their attacks on Victoria galvanised her to face them down by presenting a more public face than her forebears, thereby laying the groundwork for the monarchy as we know it today. SHOOTING VICTORIA opens up a new window onto Victorian England. In exploring contemporary attitudes to madness, crime and criminality, it reveals a wealth of little-known and often surprising aspects of 19th-century British society and monarchy.

Author : Stephen Jakobi
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1526709732
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Mind of a Female Serial Killer written by Stephen Jakobi and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four turn-of-the-century fiends whose “crimes, even by today’s standards, are still shocking—because they were committed by women” (Yorkshire Magazine). Their names may not be as familiar as such notorious female serial killers as Aileen Wuornos, Myra Hindley, Martha Beck, or Belle Gunness. But more than a century ago they made headlines and enthralled a bloodthirsty public. Now, venturing into the darkest side of human behavior, journalist Stephen Jakobi unearths the life and crimes of four of history’s most twisted women: Agnes Norman, a London servant girl whose victims of choice were children, including three infants. Most startling is that Agnes was a child herself—only fifteen-years-old. Louie Calvert, a prostitute condemned for only one murder. But her unique death cell autobiography revealed much more to her story. Kate Webster committed one of the sickest slayings of the Victorian era. Was she also responsible for the Thames Torso Murders which rivaled Jack the Ripper? Finally, the mysterious Mrs. Willis, an English “baby farmer” whose services included foster care, wet-nursing, and infanticide. Using original research based on family-owned primary sources and government files only recently made available, In the Mind of a Female Serial Killer delves into to the grisly psyche of these infamous murderesses.

Author : Susan Dexter
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780002232289
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mountains of Channadran written by Susan Dexter and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1987 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction. Sequel to T̀he ring of Allaire,' and T̀he sword of Calandra'.

Author : Michèle Mendelssohn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198802366
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Oscar Wilde written by Michèle Mendelssohn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with new evidence, "Making Oscar Wilde" tells the untold story of a local Irish eccentric who became a global cultural icon. This must-read book dramatizes Oscar Wilde's remarkable rise in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Michele Mendelssohn interweaves biography and social history to reveal a life like no other.

Author : Lorraine Gamman
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448209714
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gone Shopping written by Lorraine Gamman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voted one of The Guardian's top 10 best crime books of all time and one of the best true crime books ever written according to Stylist Shirley Pitts, the eldest of six children was born upside down on 24 November 1934. Her 'career' began by thieving bread off doorsteps and coal from coal carts. Her father's bungled attempts at black marketeering and her dipsomaniac mother's inadequacies made Shirley resolve not only to be a first-class thief but also the best mother her six children could wish for. Before she died Shirley told her story to Lorraine - the story of a generous, brave and beautiful woman with a huge sense of fun and a love of life.