True Crime

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578665627Author Janice HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Green Heart BooksPublisher Green Heart BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

This compendium brings together thirty-three murderous tales - one from each of the capital's boroughs - that not only shocked the City but made headline news across the country. Throughout its history the great urban sprawl of Greater London has been...

Immerse yourself in the world of the Peaky Blinders with this entertaining cultural guide to the hit BBC TV show!Welcome to The World of Peaky Blinders, a cultural guide to the world that inspired the hit BBC drama. This fun compendium of trivia, quizzes...

"It'd be easy for me to go back to my old life, but I know where that old life leads you. You're either behind prison bars or six feet underground." Terroll Lewis has lived a crazy life. Growing up on Brixton's Myatt's Field estate, he was surrounded...

"This slim yet insightful and entertaining volume documents the many instances where wine drinkers did not get what they paid for, sometimes with deadly consequences."-New York Times, Best Wine Books of 2023How fakes, fraudsters, and grape crusaders have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954732134Author John PridmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Transform Management LtdPublisher Transform Management Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993021596Author Shaun AttwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Shaun AttwoodPublisher Shaun Attwood

Updated and expanded edition of the fullest ever collective investigation into Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel Murders. This volume collects not just all the key factual evidence but also 20 different arguments as to the identity of Jack the Ripper,...

'Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening' GUARDIAN 'Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story' NEW YORK TIMES 'The expert on America's right-wing fringe ... With kidnappings,...

It is 2007, a time of recession and impending climate crisis, and one young man decides to change the world. This is the story of Stephen Jackley, a British geography student with Asperger's Syndrome. Aged just twenty-one, obsessed with the idea of Robin...

"Just finished Don Stradley's book on Edwin Valero, Berserk. Outstanding. Predictably so because 1) Don is a super writer, and 2) the story is chilling and amazing."-Steve Farhood, Showtime boxing analyst, and International Boxing Hall of Fame...

This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn't a good' life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one; and the tale he has to...

Nostalgic recollections of wartime Britain often forget that when the blackout was enforced at night in an attempt to foil Nazi bombers a crime wave, cloaked by the inky black darkness, ensued on many of our streets. There were petty crimes, robberies,...

Sober, accurate and all the more thrilling for it. The best thing on Blake that we are likely to get for a very long time.' JOHN LE CARRE On 3 May 1961, after a trial conducted largely in secret, a man named George Blake was sentenced to an unprecedented...

A Grim Almanac of Lincolnshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 365 ghastly tales from around the county dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. Full of dreadful deeds, macabre deaths, strange occurrences and heinous homicides, this almanac...

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Caroline Luard was shot near Ightham in Kent in 1908. Within weeks her husband, a respectable Major-General, committed suicide. Two years later John Nisbet, a colliery cashier, was robbed and murdered on a train in Northumberland. Police arrested a man...

'A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.' - Al CaponeFeatured in ViceA man of singular influence in the American underworld, Johnny Rosselli's career flourished for half a century, from the bloody years of bootlegging in the...

Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in the history of Greater Manchester. They include the case of cat burglar Charlie Peace, who killed 20-year-old PC Nicolas Cock in Seymour Grove, and only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692973615Author Robert SouzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint LVM BooksPublisher LVM BooksWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, 'dark tourism' is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly...

These are the stories that defy conventional logic. The proverbial vanished without a trace incidences, which happen a lot more (and a lot closer to your backyard) than almost anyone thinks. These are the missing whose situations are the hardest on loved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957288369Author N Leigh HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Wildblue PressPublisher Wildblue PressWeight(grams) 413g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982100667Author Catherine OxenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

An updated edition of the bestselling autobiography of Charlie Kray, elder brother of the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, who are brought to the screen this autumn in a major motion picture. Charlie Kray was the only person who knew the truth...

Since the Stone Age, drugs have been sniffed to induce sleep, mixed to cure ills, swallowed to stimulate creativity, snorted to increase sexuality, popped for the hell of it and smoked to see God. Natural or synthesized, they have been smuggled for all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806541839Author John DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

Smuggling was rife in Britain between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, and since then smugglers have come often to be romanticised as cheeky rogues - as highwaymen of the coasts and Robin Hood figures. The reality could be very different...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Original and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating power' Philippe Sands'A fascinating history about a little-known group who took on the Nazis . . . The individual tales of these courageous young women are...

A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE WORK OF NON-FICTION A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'Meticulous, clinical and sobering, a shockingly important and incisive book' David OlusogaVast and revelatory, Dan Gretton's I You We Them is an unprecedented study of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910295014Author Charles BronsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Apex Publishing LtdPublisher Apex Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 517g

'A must read for anyone who wants to understand not only our media, but power in Britain' - OWEN JONES, author The Establishment 'Top court reporting' - NICK DAVIES, THE GUARDIAN Go behind the doors of Court 12 of the Old Bailey for what was billed...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." — Publishers WeeklyA U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the...

When Maximilian Potter went to Burgundy to report for Vanity Fair on a crime that could have destroyed the Domaine de la Romanee Conti-the tiny, storied vineyard that produces the most expensive, exquisite wines in the world-he soon found a story that...

All I am is a fisherman. That's all I'm guilty of, Your Honour.On 31 May 2010 eleven holdalls were discovered along the shore near Freshwater on the Isle of Wight; when opened they contained GBP53m worth of cocaine - the biggest haul ever found in UK...

Spring 1958: a mysterious individual believed to be high up in the Polish secret service began passing Soviet secrets to the West. His name was Michal Goleniewski and he remains one of the most important, yet least known and most misunderstood spies of...

On 5 February 2011, Marcia Grender received a phone call which changed her life forever. The flat her beautiful nineteen-year-old daughter Nikitta shared with her fiance Ryan Mayes was on fire, and Nikitta was believed to be trapped inside. Marcia and...

For nearly five years, he was known as the 'Darling Of Las Vegas'; the biggest high roller to hit Sin City in decades, a hotshot, twenty one year-old kid with a seemingly unlimited bankroll and an even more unlimited lust for big money action. His name...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999458105Author Kat WintersFormat PaperbackPage Count 616Imprint CcwPublisher CcwWeight(grams) 889g

Famed as the ultimate penalty for traitors, heretics and royalty alike, being sent to the Tower is known to have been experienced by no less than 8,000 unfortunate souls. Many of those who were imprisoned in the Tower never returned to civilisation and...