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Sealand
The True Story of the World's Most Stubborn Micronation
Dylan Taylor-Lehman

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Falling Upwards
Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts
Richard Holmes

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From Crime to Crime
Richard Henriques

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Devon Tales of Mystery and Murder
Judy Chard

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Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl
Jeannie Vanasco

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Indecent Advances
A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall
James Polchin

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The Last Stone
A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation
Mark Bowden

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Liberation
Imogen Kealey

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The Secrets of the Krays
My Life in the Firm
John Dickson
Edinburgh native John Dickson was a henchman of the Krays who drove Ronnie to the Blind Beggar on the night George Cornell was shot. In this memoir, he recounts his criminal life in the East End’s pubs and gambling dens.

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Code Name Hélène
Ariel Lawhon

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Last Man Off
A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas
Matt Lewis

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Freddie Foreman
The Godfather of British Crime
Freddie Foreman
The freelance enforcer for the Kray twins, and one of London's most feared gangsters, tells the inside story of the heists, shoot-outs, police corruption and betrayals, including his notorious kidnap and arrest for the Shoreditch Security Express cash robbery.

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The Killer Across the Table
John E Douglas;Mark Olshaker
Former FBI agent and criminal profiler John Douglas is one of the inspirations behind The Silence of the Lambs and TV show Criminal Minds. In this book, written with Mark Olshaker, he analyses the crimes of four killers, emphasizing the way that psychopaths and predators see the world, while explaining how this knowledge can help investigators to track the perpetrators down.

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Shackleton's Heroes
The Epic Story of the Men Who Kept the Endurance Expedition Alive
Wilson McOrist
Shackleton's 1914–17 Antarctic expedition is best remembered for its legendary escape after his ship Endurance was crushed by ice. Less well known are the exploits of the 'Mount Hope Party', dispatched aboard the Aurora to lay food depots across the Great Ice Barrier, without which the planned crossing of the frozen continent would have been impossible. Drawing on the diaries of six expedition members, this book records their story of hardship, heroism and camaraderie – and their tragic fate.

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MI9
Escape and Evasion
MRD Foot;JM Langley
Small, dedicated, under-staffed and under-resourced, MI9 supported resistance groups in Nazi-occupied Europe and helped Allied prisoners of war to escape. First published in 1979, this account tells how the organization smuggled money, clothes, maps and equipment past the Germans, and brought out coded letters containing vital intelligence about enemy plans.

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My Life with Murderers
Behind Bars with the World's Most Violent Men
David Wilson
As a prison governor and later an academic criminologist, David Wilson has interviewed many killers. Recalling these often tense encounters, he explores the psychopathology of these men, some anonymized, others, including Dennis Nilsen, notorious.

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Putin’s Killers
The Kremlin and the Art of Political Assassination
Amy Knight
Amy Knight, an expert on the KGB, describes today’s Russia as ‘a truly criminal regime’. She first traces the long Kremlin tradition of covert violence and the development of the country’s post-war security services. In the remainder of the book she investigates the background to several recent killings – including the Litvinenko poisoning and the 2015 shooting of outspoken Putin critic Boris Nemtsov – and examines the evidence for Russian involvement in the Boston Marathon bombings. (Previously sold in Postscript as Orders to Kill).

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Under Pressure
Living Life and Avoiding Death on a Nuclear Submarine
Richard Humphreys

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The Songaminute Man
How Music Brought My Father Home Again
Simon McDermott

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They Fought Alone
The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France
Charles Glass

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Nine Lives
My Time as MI6's Top Spy Inside al-Qaeda
Aimen Dean;Paul Cruickshank;Tim Lister

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The Scoundrel Harry Larkyns
And his Pitiless Killing by the Photographer Eadweard Muybridge
Rebecca Gowers
In 1871 the pioneer cinematographer Eadweard Muybridge killed Harry Larkyns in cold blood for having an affair with his wife, but was sensationally acquitted of murder. After Rebecca Gowers discovered the victim was her distant cousin, she used personal and newspaper accounts, plus military and legal records to research and reconstruct Larkyns’ fascinating life, which took him from the Indian Mutiny through debauchery in Paris to a bohemian Californian existence.

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Blood on the Altar
Tobias Jones
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STORIES OF COMFORT PB
Guideposts
Off-mint

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Death on the Beat
Dick Kirby
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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Jersey (Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths)
Glynis Cooper
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Unless Victory Comes
Combat with a World War II Machine Gunner in Patton's Third Army
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The Mile End Murder
The Case Conan Doyle Couldn't Solve
Sinclair McKay
Like his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle enjoyed applying his mind to unsolved crimes, and the murder in 1860 of wealthy widow Mary Emsley was one such case. This book tackles the problem afresh, picking apart the evidence against the man who was hanged for the crime and, unlike Conan Doyle, reaching a conclusion as to the identity of the real killer.Off-mint

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Rooms with a View
The Secret Life of Grand Hotels
Adrian Mourby
The world’s grandest hotels offer luxury, service and splendour, and each has its own story of love affairs conducted and revolutions fomented beneath its roof. Arranged geographically, this book visits 50 of the greatest, including New York’s Algonquin, where Dorothy Parker held court; the Dorchester in London, favoured by Hitchcock and Hemingway; and the Imperial in Delhi, where the details of India’s independence were negotiated. Slightly off-mint.

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Masters of the Swindle
True Stories of Con Men, Cheaters and Scam Artists
Ed. Gianni Morelli;Chiara Schiavano
This book examines 40 celebrated swindlers from the 19th century to the present to shed light on their methods and motivations. It includes financial tricksters such as Carlo Ponzi and Bernard Madoff, a scammer who sold the Eiffel Tower for scrap, and the impostor who claimed to be Sidney Poitier’s son. All share a vivid imagination, reckless daring, and a misplaced sense of invincibility.

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Voices from the Blue
Jennifer Rees;Robert J Strange
Since London's first women police officers went into operation in 1919, the glass ceiling has been broken to the extent that the Met now has a female Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick. This oral history of a century of service is told through the voices of the women who fought inequality, sexism and prejudice, while winning widespread respect for fighting crime and maintaining order in the capital.

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My Life with Murderers
Behind Bars with the World's Most Violent Men
David Wilson
As a prison governor and later an academic criminologist, David Wilson has interviewed many killers. Recalling these often tense encounters, he explores the psychopathology of these men, some anonymized, others, including Dennis Nilsen, notorious.

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Catch and Kill
Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Ronan Farrow
Ronan Farrow won the Pulitzer Prize for his exposés of the sexual abuse carried out by Harvey Weinstein and Hollywood’s casting couch culture. This account of his long-term investigative campaign describes how rich and powerful men conspired to suppress the stories and silence the reporters and victims – a well-established process known as catch and kill.

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The Sea Takes No Prisoners
The Men and Ships of the Royal Navy in the Second World War
Edmund S Wong

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The Last London
True Fictions from an Unreal City
Iain Sinclair
After a lifetime chronicling London’s strange byways Iain Sinclair moved out of the capital, but not before undertaking one last series of walks. His farewell to the city takes him to the outer limits of the Overground at Croydon and Barking, to the top of the Shard and out into the Thames Estuary, meeting the homeless, the eccentric and others driven out by gentrification. Slightly off-mint.

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Hoax
A History of Deception, 5,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies
Ian Tattersall;Peter Névraumont
Judgement Days that never happened, too many pieces of the True Cross, spirit mediums, the forged evidence against Dreyfus, a fake Modigliani nude, and pseudocides ... Exploring the ‘vast swamp of morally dubious incidents’, this history reflects on how the unsuspecting are duped, as well as the dishonesty and ingenuity of the deceivers. All the most notorious forgers and confidence tricksters are here, along with some well-intentioned trickery such as Britain’s Operation Mincemeat during the Second World War.

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Conan Doyle for the Defense
The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
Margalit Fox
In 1908, a wealthy woman was murdered in her Glasgow home. Oscar Slater, a German Jewish immigrant, was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. Convinced of his innocence, Arthur Conan Doyle deployed the methods of his fictional detective to prove it. Written with the verve of a whodunnit, this book follows his efforts to secure the man’s freedom.

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A Moment in Time
Veronica Lucan
In a frank biography completed just days before her death in 2017, Lord Lucan’s wife Veronica writes about her turbulent marriage, her mental health struggles, and the infamous events of the evening of 7 November 1974. She reproduces and analyses sources including the letters between Lord Lucan and her doctors and lawyers, interviews with her children and the transcripts from Sandra Rivett's inquest and shares photographs from her private family albums.

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Fatal Evidence
Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor and the Dawn of Forensic Science
Helen Barrell
Chemist and surgeon at Guy’s Hospital in the mid 19th century, Alfred Swaine Taylor wrote a number of influential books that helped establish the science of forensic medicine. This biography explores his life and wide interests, his research into methods of tracing poisons, analysing fibres and identifying blood on clothing and weapons, and his work as a medical investigator and expert witness in criminal cases.

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Empire of Crime
Organised Crime in the British Empire
Tim Newark
When Britain banned the lucrative export of opium from Imperial India to China, organized criminals were quick to develop an illegal trade in narcotics. Using government files and personal letters Tim Newark reveals the extent to which gangsters exploited global trade routes, including those made secure by the British Empire itself, and how they became the setting for a turf war involving Shanghai smugglers, American drugbusters and Afghan criminal gangs.

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The Library of Ice
Readings from a Cold Climate
Nancy Campbell
Captivated by the stark beauty of ice, the poet and writer Nancy Campbell set out to explore its significance in our lives. From the world’s northernmost museum, at Upernavik in Greenland, her quest takes her to Antarctica in search of traces left by explorers, to a Scottish curling club, and to the Italian Alps, where the Neolithic hunter Ötzi was found preserved in ice.

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Murder Most Foul
The Road Hill House Mystery of 1860
Paul Chambers

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Orders to Kill
The Putin Regime and Political Murder
Amy Knight
Amy Knight, an expert on the KGB, describes today’s Russia as ‘a truly criminal regime’. She first traces the long Kremlin tradition of covert violence and the development of the country’s post-war security services. In the remainder of the book she investigates the background to several recent killings – including the Litvinenko poisoning and the 2015 shooting of outspoken Putin critic Boris Nemtsov – and examines the evidence for Russian involvement in the Boston Marathon bombings.

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The Lockerbie Bombing
The Search for Justice
Kenny MacAskill
In 2009 Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, was released from prison. Written by the Justice Secretary who freed him, this account of the Lockerbie investigation describes the collection of evidence and the diplomatic intrigue that led to a Scottish court being convened in the Netherlands. MacAskill then explains his controversial decision and offers a reconstruction of the course of events leading up to the attack.

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The Peculiar Case of the Electric Constable
A True Tale of Passion, Poison and Pursuit
Carol Baxter
New Year’s Day 1845: a message reaches Paddington from Slough concerning a murder suspect aboard the 7.42 train ‘in the garb of a kwaker’ – the experimental telegraph’s alphabet lacked Q. John Tawell, who had poisoned his mistress, was indeed a Quaker and a convicted forger previously transported to Sydney. Baxter describes his sensational capture and trial, which sparked public interest in the new-fangled electric telegraphy.

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Nine Lives
My Time as MI6's Top Spy Inside al-Qaeda
Aimen Dean;Paul Cruickshank;Tim Lister
Aimen Dean was a bomb maker for al-Qaeda and was well respected in the organization, but grew sceptical of their philosophy and defected to become an MI6 agent. Recalling his life as a spy, which included meeting Osama bin Laden, the 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and many other key figures, his extraordinary memoir provides a deep insight into the terrorists’ world. Off-mint.

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The Crossing
Sir Vivian Fuchs, Sir Edmund Hillary and the Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1953–58
John Knight
The Trans-Antarctic Expedition was a remarkable collaboration between Commonwealth nations to undertake the first overland crossing of the continent (during which Edmund Hillary led only the third group to reach the South Pole). Using maps, diagrams and photos from private collections, the Royal Geographical Society and the Auckland War Memorial Museum, this book reconstructs the full story of the planning, execution and mechanical complexity of the dangerous journey.

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Talking with Serial Killers
The Most Evil People in the World Tell Their Own Stories
Christopher Berry-Dee
Christopher Berry-Dee has interviewed and corresponded with some of America’s most notorious killers, including the Happy Face Killer, the Ice Queen and the oldest man on death row. Here he describes their crimes, while their accounts give a glimpse into the minds of six murderers. Slightly off-mint.

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River Monsters
Jeremy Wade
Jeremy Wade, whose angling adventures are featured on the television series River Monsters, tells the story of his lifelong quest to track down the freshwater predators that have a fearsome reputation in local traditions across the world. He brings his zoological expertise and personal observations to the description of such creatures as the Himalayan man-eating goonch and the huge paraiba (‘mother of all the fishes’) found in the Amazon.

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Prison Breaks
The Mammoth Book of
Paul Simpson
Paul Simpson separates truth from urban myth in these stories of famous jail breaks, from the real events that inspired Catch Me If You Can and Papillon and notable escapees from Death Row to the first helicopter escape from prison.

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Frances Kray
The Tragic Bride, The True Story of Reggie Kray's First Wife
Jacky Hyams
If Frances Shea thought her marriage in 1965 was a passport to a glamorous life of West End nightclubs and celebrity friends, this biography reveals how she was misled. Leaving Reggie Kray after eight months, she was dead by 1967, allegedly of a drug overdose. Slightly off-mint.

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Rescue Dogs
And Their Second Lives
Angela Patmore
Highlighting the value of giving abandoned dogs the chance of a fulfilling life, this guide advises on how to find the right animal, deal with behavioural problems and approach training, and also celebrates some success stories with profiles of real rescue dogs.

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Over the Top
The First Lone Yachtsman to Sail Vertically Around the World
Adrian Flanagan
Adrian Flanagan’s solo expedition took him down to Cape Horn and the Southern Ocean, then all the way north to cross the ice-filled waters of the Russian Arctic. This account of his adventure includes maps charting his progress on the 30,000-mile journey and diary entries recording challenges that included capsizing, a tropical cyclone, encounters with whales and polar bears and a brush with pirates.

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The Indian Empire at War
From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War
George Morton-Jack
With 1.5 million recruits, the Indian Army of 1914–18 played a significant role in Allied operations, from the fields of Flanders to African jungles. Using unpublished interviews with veterans, Morton-Jack describes the experiences and attitudes of officers and men from this uniquely multicultural force.

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The Saboteur
True Adventures of the Gentleman Commando Who Took on the Nazis
Paul Kix
Robert de La Rochefoucauld was a French aristocrat who was taught sabotage and combat skills by Britain's SOE before teaming up with the French Resistance to organize cells, blow up munitions factories and assassinate prominent Nazis. Drawing on family archives and wide-ranging historical documents, this account tells how he was captured and tortured for months, making two remarkable escapes, one of them from the hands of a firing squad.

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The Minister and the Murderer
A Book of Aftermaths
Stuart Kelly
Should a self-confessed murderer be allowed to become a priest? In 1984 the Church of Scotland wrestled with this question when James Nelson, who had served a prison sentence for killing his mother, applied for ordination as a minister. Kelly uses this case as the starting-point for a history of the Church in Scotland, which also combines personal memoir, true-crime narrative and an exegesis of biblical and literary accounts of sin and forgiveness.

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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Durham
Maureen Anderson
Covering the whole of County Durham (before the boundary changes of 1974), this survey unearths kidnapping, highway robbery, incest and a burglary at the Co-op in Windy Nook as well as manslaughter and murder, from a strangled labourer in 1624 to the case of Abel Atherton, hanged for shooting Elizabeth Ann Patrick in Chopwell in 1909.

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The Lady in the Cellar
Murder, Scandal and Insanity in Victorian Bloomsbury
Sinclair McKay
On 9 May 1879 an upmarket lodging house, 4 Euston Square, was being prepared for the arrival of a new tenant when the body of a well-dressed, middle-aged lady was discovered in the coal cellar. It was obviously a case of murder, and the ensuing police investigation exposed, behind the respectable façade of Euston Square, a sinister web of sexual intrigue involving the housemaid, Hannah Dobbs, and the landlord, Severin Bastendorff. Slightly off-mint.

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Some Sunny Day
A Nurse. A Soldier. A Wartime Love Story
Madge Lambert;Robert Blair
When Madge stepped onto a troop ship headed for Burma in 1944, she knew that life as a military nurse would be challenging. In this memoir, written with the aid of journalist Robert Blair, she recalls her experiences, humorous as well as difficult; the friends she shared them with; and how, amid the trauma and tragedy, she also found true love.

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The Lost Pilots
The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation's Golden Couple
Corey Mead
A pioneering flight from England to Australia in the 1920s earned Bill Lancaster and Jessie Miller international fame, but their lives unravelled a few years later when Lancaster was tried for murder. Their sensational story describes the financial and personal troubles that led to the death of Miller's lover and the desperate attempt by Lancaster to rebuild his reputation with a long-distance flight that resulted in disaster over the Sahara Desert.

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Keeping My Sisters' Secrets
Beezy Marsh
Growing up in the London slums between the wars, the lives of the Fraser sisters diverged sharply. Peggy becomes a Communist, Kathleen marries an abusive man and Eva turns to crime, but their relationship remains steadfast in spite of the challenges they face.

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Train to Nowhere
One Woman's War, Ambulance Driver, Reporter, Liberator
Anita Leslie
First published in 1948, this Second World War reportage relates the experiences of Anita Leslie, the daughter of a baronet and a distant cousin of Winston Churchill. Her account includes descriptions of working for the Mechanised Transport Corps, driving an ambulance for the Free French Forces, writing letters home from Hitler’s office in the Reich Chancellery, and marching in the Victory Parade in Berlin.

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My Dear Ones
One Family and the Final Solution
Jonathan Wittenberg
The discovery of a hidden cache of letters at his late aunt’s house made Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg privy to hitherto hazy details of his father’s life, prompting him to explore his lineage in relation to the history of Europe in the Second World War and the rise of the Nazis.

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Whitechapel's Sherlock Holmes
The Casebook of Fred Wensley OBE, KPM - Victorian Crimebuster
Dick Kirby
Dick Kirby reopens the casebook of Fred Wensley OBE KPM, the Somerset gardener who joined the Metropolitan Police in 1888 and within months began arresting murderers. An enormously successful detective, he cracked high profile cases including the Bessarabian, Odessa and Vendetta gangs; he played a decisive part in the Siege of Sidney Street; and investigated – although unsuccessfully – the serial murders by Jack the Ripper.

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John George Haigh, the Acid-Bath Murderer
A Portrait of a Serial Killer and His Victims
Jonathan Oates
Jonathan Oates presents a detailed investigation of the notorious serial killer, an intelligent, apparently religious man who killed at least six people (whose own stories are given due attention here) before dissolving their remains to cover his tracks.

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The History of Newgate Prison
Caroline Jowett
From the 12th century onwards, Newgate Prison played a key role in the development of the British penal system, housing well-known prisoners from Captain Kidd to Ben Jonson and Daniel Defoe, as well as murderers, rapists and arsonists. Illustrated with historic prints and portraits, this book explores its traditions and lexicon of slang, and offers accounts of executions, the pillory and famous escapes.

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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Sheffield
True Crime
Geoffrey Howse
From the mid-18th century to the 1920s, the darker aspects of Sheffield’s history include quirky crimes such as a brutal attack on a pit pony in 1891 and bigamy in Pitsmoor, as well asmurders, including those committed by the notorious serial killer Charlie Peace.

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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Rotherham
Kevin Turton
Highway robbery in 1856; little Nellie Gibbins, starved to death in 1918; 77-year-old LucySpray killed for a mug of water in 1940 ... Kevin Turton tells the stories of these and 14 more murderous crimes committed and criminals apprehended in and around Rotherham since Victorian times.

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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Glasgow
Paul Harrison
In tales of robbery, murder, gangland violence and domestic cruelty, Paul Harrison explores a dark side of Glasgow’s past: 18 cases ranging from the murder of Alexander Love in 1818 and the gruesome execution of his killer, to two policemen shot dead by armed robbers in 1969.

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The Case of the Chocolate Cream Killer
The Poisonous Passion of Christiana Edmunds
Kaye Jones
During the summer of 1871 Christiana Edmunds went on a poisoning spree in Brighton, sending parcels of poison-laced sweets to some of the town’s most prominent citizens. The sensational trial of ‘the Chocolate Cream Killer’ ended with a death sentence, which was later commuted to life imprisonment. Looking at the Edmunds family history as well as the poisonings, Kaye Jones reveals the tragic past that set Christiana on a path to insanity and murder.

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Bombers, Rioters and Police Killers
Violent Crime and Disorder in Victorian Britain
Simon Webb
Simon Webb examines a dark aspect of life in Victorian Britain which is less well-known than the poisoners and serial killers: rioting and disorder, mob violence and terrorism. Among the topics covered are the Clerkenwell Outrage, when explosives detonated in the street killed 15 people and injured 120; the West End riots on Black Monday and Bloody Sunday; and the Aldersgate Underground bombing in 1897.

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Bodysnatchers
Digging up the Untold Stories of Britain's Resurrection Men
Suzie Lennox
From the mid-1700s onwards, as the number of people entering the medical profession in England and Scotland increased, so too did the demand for cadavers to examine as part of their training. This led to a rise in ‘bodysnatching’ – a macabre profession that is investigated here through the examination of contemporary documents and newspaper reports, revealing the stories of some of the trade’s lesser-known figures.

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19th Century Barnsley Murders
Margaret Drinkall
A mysteriously poisoned bread-and-butter pudding, a case of bodysnatching that caused considerable alarm to the local population, and several fatal shootings are among the cases discussed in this examination of South Yorkshire crime during the Victorian era.

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The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones and Other Victorian Scandals
Michelle Morgan
Victorian newspaper reports, Old Bailey transcripts and coroners’ inquests offer a catalogue of grisly and often bizarre crimes: husbands murdering their wives, suicidal lovers, and mistresses taking revenge on their rivals in love. Drawing on these archival records, this book identifies three main types of offence: crimes of passion; theatrical crimes such as the fatal stabbing of the actor William Terriss at the door of the Adelphi; and unsolved mysteries.

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Surviving Execution
A Miscarriage of Justice and the Fight to End the Death Penalty
Ian Woods
The case of Oklahoma death-row inmate Richard Glossip has caused an international outcry, since even those who prosecuted him for murder admit he killed no one. The British reporter who became his close friend tells the story of Glossip’s campaign against three scheduled executions. Slightly off-mint.

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No Horizon is So Far
Two Women and Their Extraordinary Journey Across Antartica
Liv Arnesen;Ann Bancroft;Cheryl Dahle
An extraordinary real-life adventure, this book chronicles the journey of two former schoolteachers, Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft, on foot across Antarctica, towing their supply sledges over almost 2,000 miles of rough ice while three million schoolchildren tracked their progress on the yourexpedition.com website. Off-mint.

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Secret Child
A Powerful True Story
Gordon Lewis;Andrew Crofts
Returning to Ireland after 50 years, Gordon Lewis began to investigate the secrets of his childhood, only to be told not to go ‘digging up that old stuff’. Brought up in the 1950s in a secretive Catholic hostel for unmarried women, he had little idea of the hardships his mother had suffered, or her determination to keep her child, in defiance of an intolerant society.

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Pieroni's Fountain
An Italian Immigrant's Search for Respectability in Victorian Bath
Colin Fisher
Colin Fisher tells the story of Stefan Vallerio Pieroni (1819–1900), a seller of plaster figurines who came to England from Tuscany in 1837. Eventually, he settled in Bath, where he became prominent in the city’s social, cultural and political life.

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Agent M
The Lives and Spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
Henry Hemming
Based on recently declassified MI5 files, this is the story of one of Britain’s greatest intelligence operators, Maxwell Knight (1900–1968) or ‘M’. From 1923, when he was recruited for MI5 by Sir George Makgill, the book follows Knight’s career through infiltrating Communist and Fascist movements in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s, the Second World War and the Cold War, and examines his particular talent for recruiting and training special agents.

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The Ripper of Waterloo Road
The Murder of Eliza Grimwood in 1838
Jan Bondeson
Fifty years before Jack the Ripper, a prostitute was brutally murdered in a house near Waterloo Bridge. The killer was never identified but in this new analysis of the case, the author draws on the investigating policeman's notes and contemporary newspaper reports to link the crime to a series of other murders and identify a possible serial killer.

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Injured Parties
Solving the Murder of Dr Helen Davidson
Monica Weller
In November 1966, the body of Dr Helen Davidson, a GP in Amersham, was found in Hodgemoor Wood, near her Buckinghamshire home. Police surmised that she had surprised lovers and they had killed her, but no killers were ever found. Fifty years later, Monica Weller reopened this cold case and solved the mystery. In this book she describes her investigation and finally reveals the identity of the murderer.

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The Acid Bath Murders
The Trials and Liquidations of John George Haigh
Gordon Lowe
John Haigh did not deny the murders of which he was accused during his trial in 1949 but claimed insanity, citing a history of disturbing dreams and claiming that he had drunk the blood of his victims before dissolving their bodies in sulphuric acid. This new analysis of the famous case draws on unpublished archive material, including letters that Haigh wrote from prison while awaiting execution.

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Digging in the Dark
A History of the Yorkshire Resurrectionists
Ben W Johnson
‘It is nature that teaches us to use the bodies of the dead to preserve the bodies of the living,’ argued a solicitor’s clerk found guilty of body snatching in 1831. He is just one of the Yorkshire grave-robbers, from many walks of life, who appear in this compendium of grim tales. Johnson vividly describes the resurrectionists’ macabre methods, the violent public protests against their activities and the private anguish of their victims’ families.

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Death in the Air
The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
Kate Winkler Dawson
An unprecedented smog hit London in December 1952, plunging the city into an eerie and poisonous darkness that killed 12,000 people. A few days later, John Christie strangled his wife and, over the following months, committed a further three killings. This true crime story draws together the notorious Rillington Place murders and the environmental disaster to chronicle a dark period in austerity London. Off-mint with a felt-tip mark on upper trimmed edge.

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Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits
The Crime Spree that Gripped Belle Époque Paris
John Merriman
On the eve of the First World War, the French capital was terrorized by bandits, but these were no ordinary criminals. This narrative history charts the rise and fall of Jules Bonnot and his gang – violent anarchists, motivated by the city’s inequalities of wealth and poverty, who robbed banks and wealthy Parisians. Among their supporters was the young Victor Kibalchich, better known as the Russian revolutionary Victor Serge.

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The Poisoner
The Life and Crimes of Victorian England's Most Notorious Doctor
Stephen Bates
In 1856 Dr William Palmer was convicted of poisoning his best friend with strychnine and was suspected of committing at least a dozen other murders. One of the last people to be publicly hanged in Britain, he was described by Charles Dickens as ‘the greatest villain who ever stood trial at the Old Bailey’. But in this fresh examination of the evidence, journalist Stephen Bates considers Palmer’s motivation and asks whether he really was a prolific and ruthless serial killer.

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The Cape Horners' Club
Tales of Triumph and Disaster at the World's Most Feared Cape
Adrian Flanagan
Cape Horn is the only choke point in the Southern Ocean, where sea currents, unfettered for thousands of miles, are forced through a narrow channel between the Antarctic and the southernmost tip of the Americas. Adrian Flanagan charts the history of the Cape through the exploits of the select band of yachting legends who have taken on its fearsome challenge, including Francis Chichester, Robin Knox-Johnson, Bernard Moitessier, Chay Blythe and Jessica Watson.

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Breaker Morant
The Final Roundup
Joe West;Roger Roper
Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant was a Somerset-born Australian bushman, drover and versifier, best known for the revenge killings he inflicted on prisoners of war when serving with the British Bushveldt Carbineers regiment during the Boer War. Morant was court martialled and executed for his crimes – wrongly, many have claimed – yet this fastidiously researched biography argues that, despite the romance surrounding Morant and his chaotic lifestyle, his actions in South Africa were ‘judged in proper and orthodox fashion’.

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The Last Shepherds
A Vanishing Way of Life on Britain's Traditional Hill Farms
Charles Bowden
Shepherds were ubiquitous from pre-biblical times, their occupation a way of life – some even had their own language for counting sheep. Today, among other things, fewer sheep and quad bikes contribute to dwindling shepherd numbers. First published in 2004, this account follows three shepherds through their year, witnessing lambing, haymaking, sheep fairs and the training of a puppy to become a working sheepdog, and describes traditions that have disappeared or are under threat.

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The Mile End Murder
The Case Conan Doyle Couldn't Solve!
Sinclair McKay
Like his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle enjoyed applying his mind to unsolved crimes, and the murder in 1860 of wealthy widow Mary Emsley was one such case. This book tackles the problem afresh, picking apart the evidence against the man who was hanged for the crime and, unlike Conan Doyle, reaching a conclusion as to the identity of the real killer. Off-mint

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The Ardlamont Mystery
The Real-Life Story Behind the Creation of Sherlock Holmes
Daniel Smith
In 1893 the aristocratic Alfred Monson was charged with the murder of Cecil Hambrough, a young army officer, on the Ardlamont estate in Scotland. The case captivated popular imagination, but few realized that the two expert witnesses, Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn, had been solving crimes together for 20 years. This book charts their adventures – exploits which inspired Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes – and probes the mystery that would challenge even their experience and skill in detection.

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Liverpool
Gangs, Vice and Packet Rats: 19th-Century Crime and Punishment
Malcolm Archibald
The crowds of immigrants, merchants, sailors, slave traders and soldiers passing through the colonial port of 19th-century Liverpool provided an ideal cover for gang-led criminality and drink-fuelled depravity. This entertaining survey of Liverpool’s Victorian underworld presents a litany of crime stories, including murder, robbery, prostitution and bodysnatching, many of which involved sailor gangs like the notorious Packet Rats. The presence of Irish Catholic immigrants in the city, as Archibald points out, also raised tensions.

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Bloody Scotland
Crime in 19th Century Scotland
Malcolm Archibald
Malcolm Archibald investigates some of the lesser-known murders, robberies and misdemeanours committed in 19th-century Scotland, contrasting the romantic ‘glens and bens’ notion of the country with the reality of its criminal underworld. As well as dealing with themes in crime, such as poisonings, rural murder and ‘wild women’, the book has chapters devoted to celebrated cases including the Dundee Museum Robbery and the Siege of John Street.

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The Secret Train Robber
The Real Great Train Robbery Mastermind Revealed
Lee Sturley
The London crime scene of the 1950s and 1960s was rife with notorious villains such as the Krays and the Richardsons, but this book reveals that behind the headline-grabbers there was an unsuspected mastermind planning the Great Train Robbery and a string of other major robberies, a shadowy Mr Big controlling London's crime from the cover of his day job as a solicitor's clerk. His only confidant, his nephew Lee Sturley, tells the story.

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The Count of Scotland Yard
The Controversial Life and Cases of DCS Herbert Hannam
Stephen Wade
DCS Herbert Hannam was one of the most compelling characters in Scotland Yard and the CID during the post-war period; in this biography of Hannam, Wade describes some of the sensational crimes he investigated in the mid 1950s and the unsolved murder of Emily Pye.

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The Secret Poisoner
A Century of Murder
Linda Stratmann
In the 19th century, homicidal poisoning was considered a grave threat to society, yet prosecutors were commonly frustrated by lack of evidence. Stratmann chronicles how, during a century-long battle of wits between the law, medicine and the public, the new science of forensic toxicology evolved to thwart the poisoner’s art. Painful death, post-mortems and executions darken a gripping narrative that includes, among others, the notorious cases of Eliza Fenning and Betty Eccles.

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