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In the Tudor age the murder rate was five times higher than it is today. Now, in this unique true crime guide, the Tudor Murder Files reveals just how bloody and brutal this fascinating era really was. From the dark days of Henry VIII to the turbulent...

Cornish Murders brings together numerous murderous tales that shocked not only the county but also made national news. They include the cases of Charlotte Dymond, whose throat was cut on Bodmin Moor in 1844, and Emily Tredrea, strangled at St Erth in...

The Sahara Desert, February 1962: the wreckage of a plane emerges from the sands revealing, too, the body of the plane's long-dead pilot. But who was he? And what had happened to him?Baker Street, London, June 1927: twenty-five-year-old Jessie Miller...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312995287Author Tina DirmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

Royal scandal, set against the background of the Jacobean court, involving love, bribery, poison, treachery and black magic - 'a hugely enjoyable book' Daily Telegraph'A gripping detective story ... Wonderfully dramatic ... Probably the juiciest court...

In Pretty Little Killers, journalist Daleen Berry and investigator Geoffrey Fuller expand upon their New York Times bestselling ebook The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese to give you even more information behind one of the most horrific and shocking murders...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743259828Author James St JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Two days before the outbreak of the Second World War, the British government imposed blackout regulations across the nation as it was believed that in the event of war, Germany would very quickly begin conducting air raids on British towns and cities...

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...

Few events have been the subject of more conspiracy theories than the assassinations of the two Kennedy brothers. Indeed, a great many people consider that there were other individuals than Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan involved in both murders...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781730777905Author William RubyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

An Italian immigrant who spoke little English and struggled to scrape together a living on her primitive family farm outside Chicago, Sabella Nitti was arrested in 1923 for the murder of her missing husband. Within two months, she was found guilty and...

Ann Rule presents a collection of fascinating and disturbing true-crime stories-drawn from her real-life personal files-in this seventeenth volume in the #1 New York Times bestselling Crime Files series.In this gripping collection of investigative...

They were an elite group of renegade Fleet Street crime reporters covering the most notorious British crime between the mid-1930s and the mid-1960s. It was an era in which murder dominated the front and inside pages of the newspapers - the 'golden age'...

Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying role of rumour, the media and inter-state relations on how the death has been reported and investigated. Julie Ann Ward was a British tourist and wildlife photographer who went missing in...

The county of Essex has rolling arable farmland, Epping Forest, sleepy villages, busy market towns and secluded backwaters - a wide variety of settings for murder. This selection of crimes uncovers not only famous cases, but also previously unpublished...

They thought they had got away with murder. They were wrong.Discover the vital clues, the crucial evidence, the lucky breaks, the chases, the painstaking detective work, and the unlikely heroes that led to the capture of some of the world's most...

Life in the historic county of Hampshire has not always been peaceful, for over the years it has experienced numerous murders, some of which are little known outside the county borders, others that have shocked the nation. These include the killing of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735233935Author Joanna JollyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

Which of Greater London's most gruesome murders happened in your street? And were they committed by Graham Frederick Young (the poisoner of the North Circular Road), by the murderous Donald Hume, or by that monster Dennis Nilsen? Sometimes quiet suburban...

In spite of its small size and rural character Hertfordshire has been the location for some of the most infamous and fiendish murders in the history of England. Spanning four centuries, Hertfordshire Murders contains accounts of many of these crimes...

The thirteenth entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from the "prolific and talented" (Publishers Weekly) Ann Rule focuses on crime victims who had no idea they were in life-threatening danger, often from the very people they trusted the most...

The notorious Cameo Cinema murder case of 1949 is one of Britain's legal cause celebres. But for over half a century the convictions of two young men, George Kelly and Charles Connolly, went unchallenged, until - following publication of The Cameo...

A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. crime. A nineteenth-century female serial killer whose victims included three husbands and six of her own children. A Gilded Age "Bluebeard" who did away...

New York Times Bestseller Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal,...

Science is a force for good in the world-at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn't everything, it's the only thing-no matter the...

A harrowing account of Afghanistan's notorious Pul-e-Charkhi prison, written by its longest-serving western inmate.Former soldier Rob Langdon was working as a security contractor in Afghanistan when he was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806541976Author Charles Henry BosworthFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524872106Author Christine SchieferFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806540467Author David ParrishFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

On a freezing night in January 1993, masked gunmen walked through the laughably lax security at the Rochester Brink's depot, tied up the guards, and unhurriedly made off with $7.4 million in one of the FBI's top-five armored car heists in history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767926898Author Robert MayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Crown Publishing GroupPublisher Crown Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 379gDimensions(mm)...

THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THE MOST INFAMOUS STREET GANG IN AMERICAIn the 1980s, El Salvador was involved in a bloody fight for control of the government. To escape the guerrilla assaults and death squads many fled to the US. As a survival instinct, they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101987421Author Matt BirkbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 264g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400080670Author Erik LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

"An achievement of reportorial diligence, this book tells a story that the most imaginative crime novelist would have been hard put to invent. It is a tale of death, intrigue, obstruction of justice, corruption and politics." -People Magazine A young...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312599539Author Jennifer Thompson-CanninoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616082918Author L Fletcher ProutyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806538471Author Anthony M DeStefanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Kensington Publishing CorporationPublisher Kensington Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501188893Author Rachel MonroeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...