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I Want to Come Home Tonight: The Haunting Story of Marion Parker - Paperback

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by Troy Taylor (Author)"I WANT TO COME HOME TONIGHT" The Haunting Story of Marion Parker by Troy TaylorIt's Christmas in Los Angeles, 1927, and a bank officer named Perry Parker receives a bizarre ransom note, telling him that one of his twin daughters, Marion, has been kidnapped and that she'll be returned if he follows a series of explicit instructions. Little does Parker know, but his daughter is already dead - strangled and horribly dismembered by a madman who calls himself the "Fox." Alt...

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by Troy Taylor (Author)MURDER BY GASLIGHT THE AUTHENTICATED HISTORY OF H.H. HOLMES, HIS INSIDIOUS MURDER CASTLE, AND THE HORRORS OF GASLIGHT ERA CHICAGO Chicago during the Gaslight Era was a place that embodied both the elegance of America's Gilded Age and the vice, crime and sin of the most corrupt city in the country. During the 1880s and early 1890s, Chicago was home to killers, thieves, gamblers, con artists and whores - and hosted perhaps the greatest World's Fair in our nation's history...

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by Troy Taylor (Author)FALLEN ANGEL BY TROY TAYLOR The Tragic True Story of the Black Dahlia Los Angeles. Home to Hollywood, sandy beaches, orange groves and movie studios. It's been called the City of Angels. But there is one lost angel in black that has been haunting the city's boulevards of broken dreams for decades. Her name is Elizabeth Short and in 1946, she came to Hollywood to make it big and to see her name up in lights. Instead, after her severed body was found in an empty lot, she ...

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by Troy Taylor (Author)CABINET OF CURIOSITIES 3 THE HAUNTED HISTORY OF AMERICA'S PRISONS, HOSPITALS & ASYLUMS IN 20 OBJECTS When compiling a list of America's most haunted places, prisons, hospitals and asylums are among the most prominent locations to be found. The amount of trauma, pain, and terror experienced by the men and women locked behind cold steel bars, trapped in beds that will undoubtedly be where they take their last breath, or shuffling down corridors in a state of confusion...

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by Troy Taylor (Author)ONE AUGUST MORNING THE TRUE STORY OF LIZZIE BORDEN BY TROY TAYLOR LIZZIE BORDEN TOOK AN AXE... OR DID SHE? Lizzie Borden is a name that has lived in infamy. As everyone knows, she's the young woman who "took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks" and then "gave her father 41." Everyone seems to know the rhyme, but most people don't know the truth behind the grim story of one of America's most famous unsolved murders. In this new entry in the "Dead Men Do Tell Tales" seri...

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by Troy Taylor (Author)THE TWO LOST GIRLS THE MYSTERY OF THE GRIMES SISTERS A "DEAD MEN DO TELL TALES" BOOK BY TROY TAYLOR On a cold night in December 1956, two young girls mysteriously vanished after a night at the movies on the Southwest Side of Chicago, beginning one of the greatest searches to ever take place in the history of the city. Three weeks later, the bodies of the two lost girls, Barbara and Patricia Grimes, were found on the side of a secluded, snow-covered road, miles from wher...

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by George Skelly (Author), Lord Goldsmith (Foreword by)A spell-binding account of an appalling miscarriage of justice. Charged with the "Cranborne Road murder" of Wavertree widow Alice Rimmer, two Manchester youths were hastily condemned by a Liverpool jury on the police-orchestrated lies of a criminal and two malleable young prostitutes. George Skelly's detailed account of the warped trial, predictable appeal result courtesy of 'hanging judge' Lord Goddard and the whitewash secret inquiry wi...

Mary Ann Cotton: Britain's First Female Serial Killer - Paperback

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by David Wilson (Author)This book was the inspiration for the TV drama 'Dark Angel' which will be shown on ITV and PBS in 2016. As one of the UK's leading commentators, David Wilson shows how some serial killers stay in the headlines whilst others rapidly become invisible - or "unseen". Yet Mary Ann Cotton is not just the first but perhaps the UK's most prolific female serial killer, with more victims than Myra Hindley, Rosemary West, Beverly Allit or male predators such as Jack the Ripper an...

The Colour of Injustice: The Mysterious Murder of the Daughter of a High Court Judge - Paperback

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by John Hostettler (Author)The case of Iain Hay Gordon involves a miscarriage of justice set against the backdrop of social, religious and class divides in Northern Ireland shortly after World War II. It lifts the lid on a closed world of privilege, hidden influences and opaque institutions whilst pointing out that the passage of time has not served to formally unmask the identity of the true perpetrator. The events involved a trial for murder of the daughter of a High Court judge in which an...

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by Linden MacIntyre (Author), Theresa Burke (Author)Who Killed Ty Conn is the brilliant investigative work of Linden MacIntyre and Theresa Burke, the current host and producer respectively of the CBC's the fifth estate. It tells the tragic story of Ty Conn's life of crime and misfortune. Originally published by Viking Canada in 2000, the book has been updated and reissued with a new afterword from the author and a new foreword by author and criminologist Elliott Leyton. A classic in the lite...

Sherlock Holmes and the Hilldrop Crescent Mystery - Paperback

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by Val Andrews (Author), David James Smith (Introduction by)Some people, even today, think that Dr. Crippen was wrongly convicted and should never have been hanged for the murder of his wife, Belle Elmore. The incomplete remains found in the basement of 39 Hilldrop Crescent on Wednesday 13th July, 1910 were not enough for an absolute identification, although given that Crippen along with his lover, Ethel Le Neve, had apparently fled by boat to Canada, there seemed to be damning circumstantial...

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by T. M. 'Scotty' Gardiner (Author)RCMP Superintendent "Scotty" Gardiner's captivating memoir reveals what truly goes on behind the scenes in local and international criminal and civil investigations - from solving small-town break-ins to busting multi-national drug operations, and from foiling historical coin counterfeiting to making a controversial money-for-bodies deal with serial killer Clifford Olson. IN THE MIND OF A MOUNTIE provides deep insight into the thought processes, self-discipl...

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Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of Crime - Paperback

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by Francois Eugene Vidocq (Author), Edwin Gile (Translator)Criminal exploits, secret agent intrigue, and clever -disguises fill the pages of Francois Eugene Vidocq's memoirs. A legendary figure in history, Vidocq is known as the first detective and an inspiration to great writers such as Honore de Balzac, Victor Hugo and Edgar Allen Poe. As a player in the criminal underworld, Vidocq is a master of disguises and an accomplished thief, eventually turning his unlawful talents toward catching cr...

Little Girl Lost: Who do you turn to when you have no name, no home, no family? - Paperback

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by Chris Newton (Editor), Ingrid Steel (Author)When Ingrid Steel was first put into an orphanage at the age of four, she did not even know her real name. Nor would anyone tell her who her parents were, or what had happened to them. After years of bullying, deprivation and gratuitous punishment - even sexual abuse - in a series of homes and orphanages, she was incarcerated first in a borstal, then in a mental hospital. One day after returning to the orphanage, Ingrid made a secret pilgrimage t...

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by Ian James (Author)In the late 1970s, Detective Ian James had quickly risen through the ranks of the London Metropolitan Police. After ten years, he relocated North to Cleveland where he continued in the role of a detective running informants on the Regional Crime Squad and National Crime Squad to infiltrate the underworld. Drugs and gun were on his watch.Then, a chance meeting with an old friend changed his life forever. Would he like to be part of a team of just four setting up a brand-ne...

American Ruin: Life and Death on the Streets of Detroit - America's Deadliest City - Paperback

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by Michael Matthews (Author)When Michael Matthews first visited Detroit, he was grimly fascinated by the place. The sheer scale of the crime and desolation was unlike anything he had seen before. He was hooked, and returned whenever he could. Over dozens of visits, he got to know the people - cops, reporters and gang members as well as ordinary Detroiters trying to live their lives in peace - and formed deep bonds with them, which led him into places and situations no writer has ever seen bef...

Charles Bronson: Loonyology: Loonyology: Bronson In His Own Words - Paperback

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by Charles Bronson (Author), Charlie Richardson (Foreword by), Tel Currie (Foreword by)Lifer Charlie Bronson's reputation precedes him - 'Britain's most violent prisoner' - or does it? Do we really know the true Charlie, or are our impressions the result of media hype? Well, what is in no doubt is that Loonyology is 200% Bronson and will transport the reader on the dizziest no-holds-barred roller-coaster ride of their lives, from suspense and shock to laughter and tears, and from Bronson the ...

Lizzie Borden and the Massachusetts Axe Murders - Paperback

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by Ronald Bartle (Author)The case of Lizzie Bordon is one of the most infamous in criminal history having spawned songs, plays and media speculation. It also ranks as one of the most puzzling. Having been acquitted of the axe murders of both her parents, Borden then returned home and carried on as before only to be roundly ostracised by the stoutly religious local community. Prosecutors never charged anyone else. Here, author Ronald Bartle revisits events in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892....

Crazy Man Crazy: Teds versus Punks and other gang wars - Paperback

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by Noel Razor Smith (Author)Not everyone was a Punk in 1976. In fact, most young people danced to a different beat and wore their hair in entirely different ways. Noel Smith was a 16 year old Teddy Boy who bought his first drape suit and styled his hair into a quiff just as the long hot summer began. By the time the heatwave ended, he'd become the leader of a gang of South London rockabilly rebels and led them into battle with all manner of other street gangs - including Punks, Skins, Smoothi...

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by Alexander Terekhov (Author), Simon Patterson (Translator), Nina Chordas (Translator)On June 3, 1943 at the Stone Bridge in Moscow a tragedy took place that shocked the political elite of that time and became the starting point of an investigation into other historical and political facts. Nina Umanskaya, the beautiful 14-year-old daughter of a Soviet diplomat, was murdered by her classmate and admirer, Volodya Shakhurin, son of a People's Commissar. After that the young man shot himself.Th...

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by Stephen Senise (Author)"Stephen's done a very good job and his book is very well written ...a breath of fresh air and a pure delight ...it makes a big contribution to the field and ...it touches on a lot of aspects of the case which have not been looked at very closely in the past ...I think it's a very good book, and thoroughly recommend it." PAUL BEGG Jack The Ripper historian, author of The Complete Jack The Ripper: A to Z "Stephen Senise's recently-published book is quite fascinating....

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The Last Struggle With The Mafia - Paperback

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by Cesare Mori (Author), Kerry Bolton (Introduction by)Here is the story, in his own words, of how Cesare Mori, with the support of Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, took on the might of the Sicilian Mafia. It was a struggle that earned Mori much criticism of his methods from the liberal media, but much praise not only from Mussolini himself but from the people of Sicily who had for decades lived in fear of this criminal secret society which had become the scourge of ordinary Sicilians...

The Master Ghost Hunter: A Life of Elliott O'Donnell - Paperback

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by Richard Whittington-Egan (Author)A dapper figure - gold-rimmed pince-nez, scarlet-lined cloak, silver-knobbed cane - Elliott O'Donnell was the world-famed prince of ghost hunters. His life spanned 93 years, 1872-1965. He remembered Jack the Ripper, the ghost of whose victims he sought, and Kate Webster, the savage Irish cook of Richmond, who slaughtered her mistress, Mrs Julia Thomas, and boiled her head up in a saucepan. Other phantoms ranged from poltergeist, weird box-headed elemental s...

A Girl in Blue: Memoirs of a Metropolitan Woman Police Officer 1967-73 - Paperback

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by Lois Willoughby-Easter (Author)The role of female officers serving with the Metropolitan Police changed forever in 1973 with the so-called integration with their male counterparts; the WPC became a PC, equal in every way except gender. The move was not universally welcomed, however, and not just by male officers.This book tells the story of Lois Willoughby-Easter's almost six years as a Girl in Blue - a young female police officer serving with the Met in the years immediately before integr...

The Pugmire Faith: The Cumberland Blacksmith and the Mountain Meadows Massacre - Paperback

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by D. Houston (Author)On being handed an ancient family Bible in 2017, David F Houston was intrigued by the unusual surname inscribed on an inside page and set out to find information about the family. His research led him to a man who was born in Cumbria in the north of England at the very end of the eighteenth century; a man who began a career as a local blacksmith but who gave up everything to convert to Mormonism. A man who travelled across the world in his search for spiritual belonging,...

Do No Harm: Bullying and Harassment in the Nhs - Paperback

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by David McCaffrey (Author)'They called me out in front of patients, joked about me, belittled me, made me look and feel stupid, made me feel ugly... every look, word and smile I gave became harder and harder.''I was mentally and physically exhausted which led to a long period of sickness. I was later diagnosed with reactive depression.''My former colleagues are still there, the ones that bullied me, working in the same department as though nothing has happened.'These are just some of the sto...

Trial of Percy Lefroy Mapleton - Paperback

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by Adam Wood (Author)At 3.20pm on the hot afternoon of 27th June 1881, the London Bridge to Brighton train pulled into Preston Park, a mile from its final destination. As the ticket collectors approached the carriages, one saw a thin, sickly looking man sitting in a first-class compartment beckoning him over. As the official arrived at the window, he saw that the passenger's face and neck were smeared with blood, and there was a clot beside an ear. There was blood between his fingers, blood u...

Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence - Hardcover

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by William Clegg (Author)'GRIPPING' - The Times'FASCINATING, NO-HOLDS-BARRED' - The Secret BarristerHow can you speak up for someone accused of a savage murder? Or sway a jury? Or get a judge to drop a case?William Clegg QC is a leading criminal lawyer in London. In this vivid memoir, he revisits his most notorious and intriguing trials, from the acquittal of Colin Stagg to the murder of Jill Dando, to the man given life because of an earprint and the first Nazi war crimes prosecution in the ...

Predators' Paradise: A Journey of Survival and Resilience - Paperback

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by Glen Fisher (Author), Kate Shayler (With)Predators' Paradise is a raw, honest account of Glen's life. He was born into violence and addiction. His mother was addicted to drugs and alcohol and had mental health issues as well as a propensity to violence with her husband and children. The father was arrested and the parents did not reunite after his release. Shunted between his parents and care homes, the violence and cruelty inflicted on Glen left him broken and untrusting. His determinatio...

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by Christopher Morgan (Author), Tom Shannon (Author), Jennie Rawlings (Cover Design by)The true story of an extraordinary friendship In the summer of 1992, Christopher Morgan, a farmer, joined a penfriend scheme whose aim was to give prisoners a window on the world. He was allocated Tom Shannon, a lifer, inside for murder. Through their correspondence, a strong and honest friendship developed between the two men whose lives were poles apart. Never intended for publication, the authenticity of...