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39 produkter
Northamptonshire Murders
Av Kevin Turton
Häftad, 2003
212 kr
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An exploration of murders in Northamptonshire from 1852 to 1952. A chapter is devoted to each murder featured. Kevin Turton covers not only the events and subsequent investigation but also the trial of the killer and public reaction to the crime. Featuring many illustrations including newspaper …
Somerset Murders
Av Nicola Sly, John van der Kiste
Häftad, 2008
189 kr
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Somerset Murders brings together numerous murderous tales that shocked not only the county but also made headlines throughout the country. They include the cases of Elizabeth and Betty Branch, a mother and daughter who beat a young servant girl to death in Hemington in 1740; 13-year-old Betty …
Black Country Murders
Av Ian M Bott
Häftad, 2009
209 kr
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Located in central England, the Black Country is a distinctive industrial region encompassing numerous ancient towns and villages in a unique and diverse landscape, formed by centuries of mining and iron forging. Here evolved a breed of people much accustomed to the darker tragedies of life, often …
Shropshire Murders
Av Nicola Sly
Häftad, 2009
209 kr
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Shropshire Murders brings together numerous murderous tales, some which were little known outside the county, and others which made national headlines. Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Shropshire. They include the Revd …
Worcestershire Murders
Av Nicola Sly
Häftad, 2009
218 kr
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Worcestershire Murders brings together numerous murderous tales, some which were little known outside the county, and others which made national headlines. Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Worcestershire. They include …
Oxfordshire Murders
Av Nicola Sly
Häftad, 2010
201 kr
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Oxfordshire Murders brings together twenty-five murderous tales, some which were little known outside the county, and others which made national headlines. Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Oxfordshire. They include the …
Channel Island Murders
Av Nicola Sly
Häftad, 2013
209 kr
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Although an idyllic setting, where violent crime is thankfully rare, the Channel Islands have a shadier side. Contained within the pages of this book are twenty-five historic cases of murder committed in the Channel Islands. They include a fatal assault on John Francis in 1894, which remains …
Passing of Starr Faithfull
Av The Kent State University Press
Häftad, 1996
316 kr
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In this true crime reprint, Jonathan Goodman focuses his masterful detective skills on a criminal case that has inspired John O'Hara's Butterfield 8, which became a major feature film. His account of the international scandal and media brouhaha surround "this mystery with the wonderful name"—the …
Capturing the Fugitive
The Prosecutors and the Marilyn Sheppard Murder
Av The Kent State University Press
Inbunden, 2003
422 kr
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Marilyn Sheppard, four months pregnant and mother of a toddler son, was bludgeoned to death in her Bay Village, Ohio, home in the early morning of July fourth, 1954. The cause of death was 27 blows to the head with a heavy instrument. Who took her life so brutally has been the subject of much …
Murder on Several Occasions
Av The Kent State University Press
Häftad, 2007
364 kr
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In this grisly and gripping collection of essays - some revised and updated, some never before published, but all new to American audiences - prize-winning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman turns his attention to a variety of British and American crimes from the 1820s to the 1980s, some high …
Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories
Av The Kent State University Press
Häftad, 2007
291 kr
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When the winter ice melted in April 1850, residents of Saco, Maine, made a gruesome discovery: the body of a young girl submerged in a stream. Thanks to evidence left at the scene, a local physician was arrested and tried for the death of Mary Bean, the name given to the unidentified young girl; …
Murder of a Journalist
The True Story of the Death of Donald Ring Mellett
Av Thomas Crowl
Häftad, 2008
380 kr
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Private detectives, crooked cops, gangsters, and bootleggersThe July 1926 murder of the editor of the Canton, Ohio, Daily News, Don R. Mellett, was one of the most publicized crimes in the 1920s. For less than a year, Mellett was the editor of the Daily News, owned by former Ohio governor and …
Lethal Witness
Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Honorary Pathologist
Häftad, 2009
380 kr
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This book features the man who brought forensic pathology out of the laboratory. Sir Bernard Spilsbury was an early-twentieth-century British forensic pathologist who gained fame by testifying in classic murder cases, beginning in 1910 with the Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen trial. His expert court …
Musical Mysteries
From Mozart to John Lennon
Av The Kent State University Press
Inbunden, 2010
413 kr
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This title offers an engrossing look at the interplay between crime and music. Crime has formed the basis of countless plots in music theater and opera. Several famous composers were murder victims or believed to be murdered, and one of the greatest Renaissance composers slaughtered his wife and …
Adventuress
Murder, Blackmail, and Confidence Games in the Gilded Age
Av The Kent State University Press
Inbunden, 2010
368 kr
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This book tells the engaging tale of a nineteenth-century black widow. Intrigue, deception, bribery, poison, murder - all play a central role in the story of Minnie Walkup, a young woman from New Orleans who began her life of crime when she was only sixteen years old. Born in 1869 to Elizabeth and …
Though Murder Has No Tongue
The Lost Victim of Cleveland's Mad Butcher
Häftad, 2010
289 kr
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The unfortunate victim of a frightened city desperately in need of a scapegoat. Though Murder Has No Tongue tells the story of Frank Dolezal, the only man actually arrested and charged with the infamous "Torso Murders" in Cleveland, Ohio, during the late 1930s. Dolezal, a fifty-two-year-old Slav …
Murder and Martial Justice
Spying and Retribution in World War II America
Inbunden, 2011
574 kr
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During World War II, the United States maintained two secret interrogation camps in violation of the Geneva Convention—one just south of Washington, D.C., and the other near San Francisco. German POWs who passed through these camps briefed their fellow prisoners, warning them of turncoats who were …
Christmas Murders
Häftad, 2011
251 kr
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A seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crime Here are ten murder cases of “the old-fashioned sort”—evoking a nostalgia more obviously associated with fiction—that all took place during the festive period from mid-December to Twelfth Night between 1811 and 1933. The settings of these grisly tales …
Supernatural Murders
Classic True Crime Stories (True Crime History (Kent State))
Av Goodman
Häftad, 2011
251 kr
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Sure to capture the imagination of devotees of true crime and the occultThis anthology of thirteen true crime stories includes the mysterious slaying of Charles Walton, who was found slashed and pierced to death in an area notorious for its associations with black magic; the murder of Eric Tombe, …
Born to Lose
Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree That Gripped a Nation
Av Hollock
Häftad, 2011
407 kr
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INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER GOLD MEDAL WINNER 2012 IN TRUE CRIME FINALIST, FOREWORD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDSA small-time hoodlum who became the most hunted man in AmericaStanley Barton Hoss was a burglar, thief, and local thug from the Pittsburgh area. In eight short months in 1969, however, he became a …
Guilt by Popular Demand
A True Story of Small-Town Injustice
Av Bill Osinski
Häftad, 2012
289 kr
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Murder and miscarriage of justice in a rural community The townsfolk of Logan, Ohio, a mined-out area of the Appalachian foothills, cheered as an innocent man was convicted and sent to death row. The occasion was the conviction of Dale N. Johnston. His trial ended nothing; the tragedies had just …
Nameless Indignities
Unraveling the Mystery of One of Illinois's Most Infamous Crimes
Av Susan Elmore
Inbunden, 2013
462 kr
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New evidence discovered in a 130-year-old mystery Upon discovering that her great-great aunt was the victim and central figure in one of Illinois’s most notorious crimes, author Susan Elmore set out to learn more. She uncovered a perplexing case that resulted in multiple suspects, a lynch mob, …
Hauptmann's Ladder
A Step-by-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping
Häftad, 2014
441 kr
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In 1936, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. Almost all of America believed Hauptmann guilty; only a few magazines and tabloids published articles questioning his conviction. In the ensuing decades, many books about the Lindbergh case have …
Lincoln Assassination Riddle
Revisiting the Crime of the Nineteenth Century
Av Frank J. Williams, Michael Burkhimer
Inbunden, 2016
385 kr
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Most Americans are aware that their sixteenth president was mortally wounded by a man named Booth at a Washington theater in April 1865. These are facts that nobody can dispute. However, a closer look at this history-changing catastrophe raises questions that have still not been fully answered. The …
Killing of Julia Wallace
Häftad, 2017
289 kr
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The brutal murder of Julia Wallace in 1931 became one of Britain’s great unsolved murders. People began arguing about the case almost immediately and continue to do so to this day.Julia was the middle-aged wife of a mild-mannered Liverpool insurance agent, William Herbert Wallace. By all accounts …
Insanity Defense and the Mad Murderess of Shaker Heights
Examining the Trial of Mariann Colby
Häftad, 2018
229 kr
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They have no witnesses. They have no case. With this blunt observation, Mariann Colby—an attractive, church-going Shaker Heights, Ohio, mother and housewife—bet a defense psychiatrist that she would not be convicted of murder. A lack of witnesses was not the only problem that would confront the …
Belle of Bedford Avenue
The Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Häftad, 2019
289 kr
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Affluenza leading to bad behavior among the youth of an earlier century—ultimately ending in murderAt the turn of the 20th century, many affluent Brooklyn teens and young adults were bucking the constraints of their immigrant parents and behaving badly: drinking, having sex, staying out all night, …
Six Capsules
The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts
Häftad, 2019
289 kr
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As Ted Bundy was to the 20th century, so Carlyle Harris was to the 19th. Harris was a charismatic, handsome young medical student with an insatiable appetite. His trail of debauched women ended with Helen Potts, a beautiful young woman of wealth and privilege who was determined to keep herself pure …
Woman Condemned
The Tragic Case of Anna Antonio
Häftad, 2019
289 kr
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A sensational murder, trial, and a young woman’s execution in Depression-era New YorkAt first glance, the 1932 Easter morning murder of Salvatore 'Sam' Antonio had all the trademarks of a gang-related murder. Shot five times, stabbed a dozen more, Antonio was left for dead. His body was rolled into …
Bigamy and Bloodshed
The Scandal of Emma Molloy and the Murder of Sarah Graham
Häftad, 2019
289 kr
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Emma Molloy ― temperance revivalist, prohibitionist, and accessory to murder.In the summer of 1885, ex-convict George Graham bigamously married Cora Lee, foster daughter of nationally known temperance revivalist Emma Molloy, and the three took up residence together on the Molloy farm near …
