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22 produkter
Murder Houses of South London
Av Jan Bondeson
E-bok, 2018
26 kr
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South London has a long and blood-spattered history of capital crime and many of its murder houses still stand today. There are many forgotten murders in South London, where only the murder house remains... Murder mysteries fill the pages of this book – some of them celebrated crimes, like the …
Strange Victoriana
Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian Ancestors
Av Jan Bondeson
Häftad, 2018
160 kr
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This book makes use of a privately held archive of the old periodical Illustrated Police News to describe strange, macabre and uncanny episodes from the Victorian era. Dog-Faced Men are exhibited on stage, the doctors congregate around the bed of the Sleeping Frenchman of Soho, Miss Vint …
Victorian Murders
Av Jan Bondeson
Häftad, 2019
139 kr
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This book features fifty-six Victorian cases of murder covered in the sensational weekly penny journal the Illustrated Police Newsbetween 1867 and 1900. Some of them are famous, like the Bravo Mystery of 1876, the Llangibby Massacre of 1878 and the Mrs Pearcey case of 1890; others are little-known, …
Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History
Av Jan Bondeson
Häftad, 2014
490 kr
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In his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like facts, concerning the animal kingdom. Throughout he recounts—and in some instances solves—mysteries of the natural world which have puzzled scientists for centuries.Heavily …
Buried Alive
The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear
Av Jan Bondeson
Häftad, 2002
309 kr
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Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales—just think of The Premature Burial—may comfort themselves with the notion that Poe must have exaggerated: surely people of the 1800s could not have been at risk of being buried alive? But such stories filled medical journals as well as fiction, and fear in the …
Two-headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels
Av Jan Bondeson
Häftad, 2004
240 kr
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A successor to his popular book A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, this new collection of essays by Jan Bondeson illustrates various anomalies of human development, the lives of the remarkable individuals concerned, and social reactions to their extraordinary bodies.Bondeson examines historical …
London Monster
A Sanguinary Tale
Av Jan Bondeson
Häftad, 2002
198 kr
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"The facts in this case are so bizarre that no novelist would have dared to invent them," said the Philadelphia Inquirer . Indeed. A century before Jack the Ripper haunted the streets of London, another predator held sway: a "vulgar-looking man" who slashed at female pedestrians with a knife while …
Rivals of the Ripper
Unsolved Murders of Women in Late Victorian London
Av Jan Bondeson
Häftad, 2021
275 kr
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When discussing unsolved murders of women in late Victorian London, most people think of the depredations of Jack the Ripper, the Whitechapel Murderer. But he was just one of a string of phantom murderers whose unsolved slayings outraged late Victorian Britain.The mysterious Great Coram Street, …
Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History
Av Jan Bondeson
Inbunden, 1999
746 kr
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In his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like facts, concerning the animal kingdom. Throughout he recounts—and in some instances solves—mysteries of the natural world which have puzzled scientists for centuries.Heavily …
Two-headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels
Av Jan Bondeson
Inbunden, 2000
636 kr
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A successor to his popular book A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, this new collection of essays by Jan Bondeson illustrates various anomalies of human development, the lives of the remarkable individuals concerned, and social reactions to their extraordinary bodies.Bondeson examines historical …
Blood on the Snow
The Killing of Olof Palme
Av Jan Bondeson
Inbunden, 2005
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
822 kr
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The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm in February 1986. At the time of his death, Palme was deeply involved in Middle East diplomacy and was working under UN auspices to end the …
Blood on the Snow
The Killing of Olof Palme
Av Jan Bondeson
Häftad, 2013
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
445 kr
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The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm in February 1986. At the time of his death, Palme was deeply involved in Middle East diplomacy and was working under UN auspices to end the …
London Monster
A Sanguinary Tale
Av Jan Bondeson
Inbunden, 2000
749 kr
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A century before Jack the Ripper haunted the streets of London, another predator held sway. In the late eighteenth century, the city was gripped by fear, outrage, and Monster Mania. A psychopath who had lashed out violently at over fifty women during a two-year crime spree roamed the city. After …
Murder Houses of Greater London
Av Jan Bondeson
E-bok, 2018
26 kr
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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 terraces hide the most terrible secrets... …
Cat Orchestra and the Elephant Butler
Av Jan Bondeson
Häftad, 2006
214 kr
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From dancing horses to showers of living cats and dogs, this book presents the peculiar history of performing animals and zoological wonders. "The Cat Orchestra & the Elephant Butler" presents astounding tales from across the rich folklore of the animal kingdom: a learned pig more admired than Sir …
Great Pretenders
The True Stories Behind Famous Historical Mysteries
Av Jan Bondeson
Häftad, 2005
156 kr
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Jan Bondeson, M.D., focuses his medical expertise and insightful wit on the great unsolved mysteries of disputed identity of the last two hundred years. Did the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette really die in the Temple Tower, or did the Lost Dauphin reappear among the throngs of pretenders to …
Ripper of Waterloo Road
The Murder of Eliza Grimwood in 1838
Av Jan Bondeson
Inbunden, 2017
220 kr
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When Jack the Ripper first prowled the streets of London, an evening newspaper commented that his crimes were as ghastly as those committed by Eliza Grimwood’s murderer fifty years earlier. Hers is arguably the most infamous and brutal of all nineteenth-century London killings. Eliza was a …
Animal Freaks
The Strange History of Amazing Animals
Av Jan Bondeson
Häftad, 2008
122 kr
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Ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like facts, concerning the animal kingdom.
