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Grave Dealings
Body Snatching in Philadelphia, 1762–1883
ISBN: 9781955041126
Pub Date: 2024-10-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Brookline Books
240 Pages
A history of the secret cadaver trade in America’s first capital city.
Murder, Witchcraft and the Killing of Wildlife
Memoirs of a Police Officer in the Heart of Africa
ISBN: 9781526764119
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword True Crime
248 Pages
Features stories of encounters with African Presidents, including the occasion when the author prevented a potential assassination attempt on President Kaunda's life. The author also describes, in dramatic...
Mr Crippen, Cora and the Body in the Basement
ISBN: 9781399009768
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword True Crime
256 Pages
It was an open and shut case. Hawley Harvey Crippen, an American quack doctor, had murdered his wife, the music hall performer Belle Elmore, and buried parts of her body in the coal cellar of their North London home. But by the time the remains were discovered he had fled the country with his mistress disguised as his son.
Scotland Yard's Murder Squad
ISBN: 9781526766533
Pub Date: 2024-01-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword True Crime
240 Pages
In 1906 the Metropolitan Police Commissioner was asked by the Home Office to make available skilled investigators for murder enquiries nationwide as few constabularies had sufficiently skilled – or...
The Killer of the Princes in the Tower
A New Suspect Revealed
ISBN: 9781526797216
Pub Date: 2024-01-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
248 Pages
The disappearance of two boys during the summer of 1483 has never been satisfactorily explained. They were Edward, Prince of Wales, nearly thirteen at the time, and his brother, Richard of York, nearly ten.
The Murder of the Whitechapel Mistress
Victorian London's Sensational Murder Mystery
ISBN: 9781399049740
Pub Date: 2023-11-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword True Crime
256 Pages
This is the true story about a respected businessman, Henry Wainwright, who had everything he needed in 1871. A wife and 5 children and a delightful London townhouse home. But in 1872, Henry fell in...
Crime and Punishment in Tudor England
From Alchemists to Zealots
ISBN: 9781399071666
Pub Date: 2023-10-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
224 Pages
Crime and Punishment in Tudor England tells the story of the enactment of law and its penalties from Henry VII to Elizabeth I. The sixteenth century was remarkable in many ways. In England, it was...
Broadmoor Inmates
True Crime Tales of Life and Death in the Asylum
ISBN: 9781399048903
Pub Date: 2023-10-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
240 Pages
Broadmoor Inmates: True Crime Tales of Life and Death in the Asylum brings together the histories of people who died in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, each having committed a crime that led to them...

Grave Dealings
Body Snatching in Philadelphia, 1762–1883
ISBN: 9781955041126
Pub Date: 2024-10-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Brookline Books
240 Pages
Murder, Witchcraft and the Killing of Wildlife
Memoirs of a Police Officer in the Heart of Africa
ISBN: 9781526764119
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword True Crime
248 Pages
Mr Crippen, Cora and the Body in the Basement
ISBN: 9781399009768
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword True Crime
256 Pages
Scotland Yard's Murder Squad
ISBN: 9781526766533
Pub Date: 2024-01-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword True Crime
240 Pages
The Killer of the Princes in the Tower
A New Suspect Revealed
ISBN: 9781526797216
Pub Date: 2024-01-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
248 Pages
The Murder of the Whitechapel Mistress
Victorian London's Sensational Murder Mystery
ISBN: 9781399049740
Pub Date: 2023-11-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword True Crime
256 Pages
Crime and Punishment in Tudor England
From Alchemists to Zealots
ISBN: 9781399071666
Pub Date: 2023-10-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
224 Pages
Broadmoor Inmates
True Crime Tales of Life and Death in the Asylum
ISBN: 9781399048903
Pub Date: 2023-10-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
240 Pages