Author: Margaret Drinkall
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1845631382
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Set in a social backdrop of recovery from two world wars, 'Rotherham Murders' concentrates on killings that took place in and around the town during the first 50 years of the 20th century. Most of the cases have not been written about in recent years, but are now investigated and told by a modern crime historian.
Rotherham Murders
Author: Margaret Drinkall
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1845631382
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Set in a social backdrop of recovery from two world wars, 'Rotherham Murders' concentrates on killings that took place in and around the town during the first 50 years of the 20th century. Most of the cases have not been written about in recent years, but are now investigated and told by a modern crime historian.
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1845631382
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Set in a social backdrop of recovery from two world wars, 'Rotherham Murders' concentrates on killings that took place in and around the town during the first 50 years of the 20th century. Most of the cases have not been written about in recent years, but are now investigated and told by a modern crime historian.
Britains Most Prolific Burglar
Author: Martyn R Beardsley
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1399054856
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Harry Edward Vickers, aka Flannelfoot, was possibly Britains most successful ever burglar. Not financially - he stole cash and low-value items (even, bizarrely, false teeth!). The success was in his hundreds of burglaries spread over many years without being caught. The lives of career criminals are invariably dotted with prison sentences, but thanks to his caution and cunning, Flannelfoot operated night after night, year after year with an impunity which embarrassed the police. In the twenties and thirties, Londers were deserting the overcrowded capital for the burgeoning suburbs of Metroland. Flannelfoot was equally attracted to these areas, and one of his hallmarks was to steal a bicycle at the scene of his last break-in of the night and cycle to the nearest tube station. Burglars and burglaries are never glamorous, but one reason why the Flannelfoot saga engendered fascination more than fear is that he was never confrontational, never violent, and in fact so stealthy that few ever saw him. His one-man crime epidemic led to Scotland Yard assembling a team more used to solving murders than the plundering of gas meters. After a lengthy and painstaking investigation, a carefully planned night-time surveillance operation involving several teams of officers led to the sensational capture of Flannelfoot. Flannelfoot routinely features in crime anthologies and was the subject of a feature film, but this is the first full biography of the man who became a legend in his own lifetime.
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1399054856
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Harry Edward Vickers, aka Flannelfoot, was possibly Britains most successful ever burglar. Not financially - he stole cash and low-value items (even, bizarrely, false teeth!). The success was in his hundreds of burglaries spread over many years without being caught. The lives of career criminals are invariably dotted with prison sentences, but thanks to his caution and cunning, Flannelfoot operated night after night, year after year with an impunity which embarrassed the police. In the twenties and thirties, Londers were deserting the overcrowded capital for the burgeoning suburbs of Metroland. Flannelfoot was equally attracted to these areas, and one of his hallmarks was to steal a bicycle at the scene of his last break-in of the night and cycle to the nearest tube station. Burglars and burglaries are never glamorous, but one reason why the Flannelfoot saga engendered fascination more than fear is that he was never confrontational, never violent, and in fact so stealthy that few ever saw him. His one-man crime epidemic led to Scotland Yard assembling a team more used to solving murders than the plundering of gas meters. After a lengthy and painstaking investigation, a carefully planned night-time surveillance operation involving several teams of officers led to the sensational capture of Flannelfoot. Flannelfoot routinely features in crime anthologies and was the subject of a feature film, but this is the first full biography of the man who became a legend in his own lifetime.
The Rotherham Trunk Murder
Author: Jeannette Hensby
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519478115
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
When she was a child, the author's grandma told her about a crime committed by someone that she knew. Researching the 1936 case as an adult, the author was shocked to find that the man hanged for the sexual assault and murder of 16 year old Irene Hart was not the person her grandma told her about. Read about: a sensational crime, reported worldwide. the biggest manhunt, at the time, in British criminal history. lies and secrets in a family tragedy. a cover-up at the Criminal Court of Appeal. a man hanged for a crime he didn't commit. a situation 17 years after the crime that was so terrible that the keeper of the secret had to tell a friend - the author's grandma. This is a true-crime whodunit where the identity of the person who murdered 16 year old Irene Hart is revealed at last. (Includes photos).
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519478115
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
When she was a child, the author's grandma told her about a crime committed by someone that she knew. Researching the 1936 case as an adult, the author was shocked to find that the man hanged for the sexual assault and murder of 16 year old Irene Hart was not the person her grandma told her about. Read about: a sensational crime, reported worldwide. the biggest manhunt, at the time, in British criminal history. lies and secrets in a family tragedy. a cover-up at the Criminal Court of Appeal. a man hanged for a crime he didn't commit. a situation 17 years after the crime that was so terrible that the keeper of the secret had to tell a friend - the author's grandma. This is a true-crime whodunit where the identity of the person who murdered 16 year old Irene Hart is revealed at last. (Includes photos).
The South Croydon Poisonings
Author: Jeannette Hensby
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781544069593
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
"How strange are the coincidences which have harmed my family. It has been said that we must have an enemy who has done all this". So said the beguiling Grace Duff as members of her family died one by one. Was she right, or was the truth closer to home? Read this intriguing true crime mystery and decide for yourself.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781544069593
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
"How strange are the coincidences which have harmed my family. It has been said that we must have an enemy who has done all this". So said the beguiling Grace Duff as members of her family died one by one. Was she right, or was the truth closer to home? Read this intriguing true crime mystery and decide for yourself.
The Abdy Farm Murders
Author: Jeannette Hensby
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537789743
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
On the 15th of November 1912, two young cousins, ten year old Amy Collinson and seven year old Frances Nicholson were brutally murdered on their way home from a rehearsal for a Christmas concert. Amy had also been raped. A 24 year old man called Walter Sykes was soon arrested, tried and executed, but local people thought that Sykes was innocent and that Amy's foster father, Arthur Collinson, was the perpetrator of this horrendous crime. More than a hundred years later, local people still believe that to be true. The author examines all the evidence to try to answer the question as to who committed the crime. Was it Walter Sykes? Was it Arthur Collinson? Or was it someone else? Examine the evidence, and see what you think.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537789743
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
On the 15th of November 1912, two young cousins, ten year old Amy Collinson and seven year old Frances Nicholson were brutally murdered on their way home from a rehearsal for a Christmas concert. Amy had also been raped. A 24 year old man called Walter Sykes was soon arrested, tried and executed, but local people thought that Sykes was innocent and that Amy's foster father, Arthur Collinson, was the perpetrator of this horrendous crime. More than a hundred years later, local people still believe that to be true. The author examines all the evidence to try to answer the question as to who committed the crime. Was it Walter Sykes? Was it Arthur Collinson? Or was it someone else? Examine the evidence, and see what you think.
A Book of Remarkable Criminals
Author: Henry Brodribb Irving
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Black Notice
Author: Patricia Cornwell
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101203773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
In this #1 New York Times bestseller Dr. Kay Scarpetta is on a deadly mission that will pull her in two opposite directions: toward protecting her career or toward the truth... Remains were all that was left of the stowaway. He arrived in Richmond’s Deep Water Terminal—the ghastly cargo of a ship from Belgium. The decomposed body gives Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta no clues to its identity—or the cause of death. But an odd tattoo soon leads her on an international search to Interpol’s headquarters in Lyon, France—and towards a confrontation with one of the most savage killers of her career...
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101203773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
In this #1 New York Times bestseller Dr. Kay Scarpetta is on a deadly mission that will pull her in two opposite directions: toward protecting her career or toward the truth... Remains were all that was left of the stowaway. He arrived in Richmond’s Deep Water Terminal—the ghastly cargo of a ship from Belgium. The decomposed body gives Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta no clues to its identity—or the cause of death. But an odd tattoo soon leads her on an international search to Interpol’s headquarters in Lyon, France—and towards a confrontation with one of the most savage killers of her career...
Not Guilty?
Author: Jeannette Hensby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
On a cold winter's day in January 1939, nine year old Pamela Coventry came home from school for her midday meal as usual and then set off for the walk back to school for her afternoon lessons. Somewhere along that journey she disappeared and her naked and violated body was found in a ditch the next day. Scotland Yard led the investigation into her murder, and after a couple of weeks 28 year old Leonard Richardson, a married man and father of two young children, was arrested and charged. The book examines the evidence gathered during the investigation and presented at his Old Bailey trial in great detail. Was the "Not Guilty" verdict just or did he get away with murder?
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
On a cold winter's day in January 1939, nine year old Pamela Coventry came home from school for her midday meal as usual and then set off for the walk back to school for her afternoon lessons. Somewhere along that journey she disappeared and her naked and violated body was found in a ditch the next day. Scotland Yard led the investigation into her murder, and after a couple of weeks 28 year old Leonard Richardson, a married man and father of two young children, was arrested and charged. The book examines the evidence gathered during the investigation and presented at his Old Bailey trial in great detail. Was the "Not Guilty" verdict just or did he get away with murder?
Bygone Punishments
Author: William Andrews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold
Author: Horace Bleackley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description