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In the Shadow of the Ripper
How Forensic Science Failed to Catch Jack
Av M J Trow
Inbunden, 2026
282 kr
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For centuries, it was believed that a corpse would ‘bleed anew’ in the presence of its murderer. Chaucer wrote about it; so did Shakespeare. Only slowly, as the Renaissance and the Age of Reason drove away the shadows of superstition, did forensic science find its feet.From the Ratlciffe Highway …
The Circle
Av M. J. Trow
Inbunden, 2016
62 kr
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Intrepid 19th-century private investigators American Matthew Grand and Englishman James Batchelor return in their second mystery. July, 1868. On receiving a commission from Matthew’s cousin Luther to look into the suspicious death of Lafayette Baker, Head of the US National Detective Police, …
English Bowman in the Hundred Years War
The Secret Weapon of the Middle Ages
Av M J Trow
Inbunden, 2025
280 kr
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They were often half-starved, marching through an alien land with few signposts and no maps. They were often suffering from dysentery, their legwear rolled down and they sometimes fought naked from the waist down. They were paid 6d a day – the same as a civilian craftsman – and they swore like the …
Forensics in the Golden Age of Crime
The ‘Celebrity’ Pathologists from Spilsbury to Simpson
Av M J Trow
Inbunden, 2027
282 kr
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Behind the fiction of the Classic Age of Crime enshrined in the novels of Agatha Christie et al, forensic science was steadily making its way. The cases are familiar to all of us – the wife-murderer Crippen, the Brides in the Bath killer Smith, the cop-killers Browne and Kennedy, the thrill-killers …
Jack the Ripper: The First Suspects
Av M J Trow
Inbunden, 2026
254 kr
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In the journalese of the time, he was called ‘the fiend’ and ‘the monster’. That was before an anonymous journalist invented the ‘trade name’ Jack the Ripper. In the 140 years since the Whitechapel murders, a whole industry has grown up discussing the tortuous issues of the case, spawning countless …
World of Britannia: Historical Companion to the Britannia Series
Av M. J. Trow
E-bok
11 kr
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Weird War Two: Strange Facts and Tales from the World's Weirdest Conflict
Av M. J. Trow
E-bok
51 kr
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Who Killed Kit Marlowe?: A Contract to Murder in Elizabethan England
Av M. J. Trow
E-bok
51 kr
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Thames Torso Murders
Av M J Trow
Häftad, 2021
176 kr
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Dismembered corpses are discovered scattered along the banks of the river Thames, a calculating clinical multiple murderer is on the loose, and the London police have no inkling of the killers identity and, more than a century later, they still don't. In this, M.J. Trows latest re-investigation of …
Enemies of the State
The Cato Street Conspiracy
Av M J Trow
Häftad, 2021
171 kr
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On 1 May 1820, outside Newgate Prison, in front of a dense crowd, five of the Cato Street conspirators - Arthur Thistlewood, William Davidson, James Ings, Richard Tidd and John Brunt - were hanged for high treason. Then they were decapitated in the last brutal act of a murderous conspiracy that …
Interpreting the Ripper Letters
Missed Clues and Reflections on Victorian Society
Av M J Trow
Häftad, 2024
176 kr
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In the autumn of 1888, a series of grisly murders took place in Whitechapel in London’s East End, the Abyss, the Ghetto, the City of Eternal Night. The Whitechapel murderer, arguably the first of his kind, was never caught but the killings gave rise to the best known pen-name in criminal history – …
JFK Assassination
Conspiracies and Coverups
Av M J Trow
Inbunden, 2024
242 kr
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The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy is one of the milestones of history. Everyone, it is said, remembers where they were when they heard the news. Because the official investigation, the Warren Commission, set up by Kennedy’s successor in the White House, Lyndon Johnson, was such a …
Failed Justice
The Craig and Bentley Case Revisited
Av M J Trow
Inbunden, 2025
288 kr
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On 2 November 1952, two teenagers, Derek Bentley and Christopher Craig, tried to break into a warehouse in Croydon, Surrey. The police were called and in the minutes that followed, Craig wounded one policeman and shot another dead.At 16, Craig was too young to hang, but Bentley, at 19, was not. …
Wigwam Murder
A Forensic Investigation in WW2 Britain
Av M J Trow
Inbunden, 2023
225 kr
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Nobody expected a corpse in the tranquil Surrey countryside near Godalming, even though there was a war on and tanks churned the soil on manoeuvres.The body belonged to 19-year-old Joan Pearl Wolfe, a sweet, convent-educated girl who, according to her own mother, had gone bad. It was 1942 and …
Hagley Wood Murder
Nazi Spies and Witchcraft in Wartime Britain
Av M J Trow
Inbunden, 2023
254 kr
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Astonishingly, The Hagley Wood Murder is the first book solely on the subject (other than a selection of privately printed/self published offerings) ever written on this murder, which too place eighty years ago.In April 1943, four teenaged boys discovered a corpse stuffed into the bole of a wych …
Hagley Wood Murder
Nazi Spies and Witchcraft in Wartime Britain
Av M. J. Trow
E-bok, 2023
16 kr
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Astonishingly, The Hagley Wood Murder is the first book solely on the subject (other than a selection of privately printed/self published offerings) ever written on this murder, which too place eighty years ago. In April 1943, four teenaged boys discovered a corpse stuffed into the bole of a wych …
Hagley Wood Murder
Nazi Spies and Witchcraft in Wartime Britain
Av M. J. Trow
E-bok, 2023
16 kr
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Astonishingly, The Hagley Wood Murder is the first book solely on the subject (other than a selection of privately printed/self published offerings) ever written on this murder, which too place eighty years ago. In April 1943, four teenaged boys discovered a corpse stuffed into the bole of a wych …
History vs Hollywood
How the Past is Filmed
Av M J Trow
Inbunden, 2024
247 kr
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Film studios have been making historical movies now for over a century. In that time, thousands of films have been made covering not just centuries but millennia. Did Neanderthal woman really look like Raquel Welch in her bearskin bikini? Did 6,000 rebellious slaves claim that they were Spartacus? …
