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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.

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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

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The Great Train Robbery
The Untold Story From The Closed Investigation Files
Andrew Cook
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The Wrong Man
The Shooting of Steven Waldorf and the Hunt for David Martin
Dick Kirby
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Blood on the Altar
Tobias Jones
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STORIES OF COMFORT PB
Guideposts
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Strangeways
A Century of Hangings in Manchester
Martin Baggoley
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Death on the Beat
Dick Kirby
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Rotherham Murders
A Half-Century of Serious Crime, 1900 - 1950 (Wharncliffe True Crime)
Margaret Drinkall
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The Guv'nors
Ten of Scotland Yard's Greatest Detectives
Dick Kirby
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DNA Crime Investigations
Stephen Wade
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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Uxbridge (Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths)
Jonathan Oates
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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Jersey (Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths)
Glynis Cooper
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South
A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
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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
Gianni Morelli

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Voices from the Blue
Jennifer Rees;Robert J Strange

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My Life with Murderers
Behind Bars with the World's Most Violent Men
David Wilson

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Catch and Kill
Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Ronan Farrow

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The Last London
True Fictions from an Unreal City
Iain Sinclair
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Robbery
Crimes of the Century
Ian Welch;Clare Welch
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Gangsters
Crimes of the Century
Ian Welch;Claire Welch
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Bad Companions
Six London Murderesses Who Shocked the World
Kate Clarke
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The Sea Takes No Prisoners
Offshore Voyages in an Open Dinghy
Peter Clutterbuck
Peter Clutterbuck, now a professional yachtsman and sailing instructor, looks back to the 1960s and youthful adventures in his Wayfarer dinghy Calypso. He learned to sail it in coastal waters, then ventured out to sea – across the Channel and the Bay of Biscay, and eventually the North Sea and the Baltic. For anyone with a love of sailing and the sea, Clutterbuck’s book is both an engrossing read and a mine of information and advice.

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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

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The Poisoner
The Life and Crimes of Victorian England's Most Notorious Doctor
Stephen Bates
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The Professor and the Parson
A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking
Adam Sisman

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A Moment in Time
Veronica Lucan

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Fatal Evidence
Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor and the Dawn of Forensic Science
Helen Barrell

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Empire of Crime
Organised Crime in the British Empire
Tim Newark
In an age when our imperial legacy is being reassessed, this is a timely exploration of the illicit narcotics trade across the British Empire, especially following the 1908 ban on sales of opium from India to China. Tim Newark uses government files, personal letters and other documents to show how global trade routes 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

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Hollywood Love Stories
True Love Stories from the Golden Days of the Silver Screen
Gill Paul
Gill Paul recounts fourteen real-life romances between 20th-century movie stars, beginning with the ‘Marriage of the Century’ of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford in 1920. Illustrated with period images and ephemera, the tales include the stormy marriages of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, the long affair between Spencer Tracey and Katherine Hepburn and the scandalous liaison between Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini.

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Gangster Women
And Criminals They Loved
Susan McNicoll

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Tennis's Strangest Matches
Extraordinary but True Stories from Over a Century of Tennis
Peter Seddon
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Ladies of the Night
Barbara Green;Jean Wilkinson
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Secret Pigeon Service
Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe
Gordon Corera
Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera tells the recently declassified story of the thousands of birds released over Holland, Belgium and France and assesses the value of the information they brought home.

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South London Murders
Peter de Loriol
Among the murderers in this collection are the Lambeth Poisoner of the 1890s and the unfortunate Derek Bentley who was sentenced to hang in 1953 for appealing to his friend with a gun to ‘let him have it’.

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North London Murders
Geoffrey Howse
The killing of City banker Thomas Briggs in 1864 was the first murder committed on a British train. The main suspect subsequently absconded across the Atlantic before being arrested, as did the perpetrator of North London’s most famous murders, Dr Crippen.

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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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A Long Walk Home
One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss – and Survival
Judith Tebbutt
One night in September 2011 during a Kenyan holiday, Judith Tebbutt was torn away from her husband by a gang of armed pirates and taken to lawless Somalia. In this unflinching memoir she recalls her life in captivity and explains the coping strategies she employed to survive.

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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
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Devon Tales of Mystery and Murder
Judy Chard

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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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Al Capone
His Life, Legacy, and Legend
Deirdre Bair
From shoeshine boy to bootlegger to mob boss, and from the kidnap of Fats Waller to the Valentine's Day massacre, Al Capone’s life story has become a morality tale, now studied in business schools, that reveals the dark side of the American dream. This reappraisal, from an award-winning biographer, analyses evidence from Capone’s descendants to rebuke the myths and confirm the facts about the life of America's most notorious gangster. Off-mint and American-cut pages

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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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Voices of the Scandinavian Waffen-SS
The Final Testament of Hitler's Vikings
Jonathan Trigg
Thousands of members of the Waffen-SS were recruited from countries Germany had conquered. This title focuses on Scandinavian volunteers, who were motivated by fascist sympathies, anti-communism and a hatred of Russia, and who fought first at a national level before being united in the Wiking Panzer and Nordland Panzer-grenadier Divisions. Trigg uses first-hand accounts, award citations, photographs and contemporary documents to explore their experiences, including their post-war reception in their homelands.

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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 Rochefoucald 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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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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No Way Out
The Searing True Story of Men Under Siege
Adam Jowett;Geraint Jones
Commanding a unit of Paras and Royal Irish Rangers in Afghanistan in 2006, Major Adam Jowett was tasked with holding the town of Musa Qala. His account of the mission describes how his isolated and outnumbered team held on through 21 days of continuous combat.

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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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Victorian Convicts
100 Criminal Lives
Helen Johnston;Barry Godfrey;David J Cox
The practice of transporting criminals to Australia was abandoned in 1868 and replaced by the convict system: serious offenders were sentenced to ‘penal servitude’ in UK prisons and later released on license. Using information in licensees’ records, this volume presents brief biographies of 100 criminals, arranged in an A–Z, from Samuel Ainge (b.1820) who, after a seemingly blameless life was arrested for embezzlement in 1883, to Mary Wright (b.1853), who drowned her young daughter in 1880.

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Six for the Tolpuddle Martyrs
The Epic Struggle for Justice and Freedom
Alan Gallop
Taking its title from a radical version of the song ‘Green Grow the Rushes, O’, this history explores the lives and politics of the six Dorset farm labourers sentenced to transportation in 1834 for attempting to establish a trade union. It records the struggle against a reduction in agricultural wages that led to their arrest and trial, their experiences in Australia, and the public campaign that brought about their eventual pardon and homecoming.

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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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Dark Valleys
Foul Deeds Among the South Wales Valleys 1845–2016
Gary Dobbs
Gary Dobbs is better known as a writer of crime fiction, but in this survey of murder in the Welsh Valleys he is ‘telling of the way it was’, describing the victims, crimes and perpetrators in the true stories of 13 notorious killings.

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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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Bilbo
The Lifeguard Dog
Steven Jamieson;Alison Bowyer
For five years, 14-stone chocolate Newfoundland Bilbo worked alongside his owner Steve Jamieson as the UK’s only trained lifeguard dog, during which time he saved three lives. Steve reflects on the special bond he had with his remarkable pet, shares stories from their time working together on Cornwall’s Sennen Beach and explains what happened when bureaucracy threatened their way of life.

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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.

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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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Birmingham's Front Line
True Police Stories
Michael Layton
From murder and organized crime to street violence and the miners' strike, this memoir of a Birmingham CID officer includes the first-hand accounts of fellow officers and describes the challenges of policing the city in the 1970s and 1980s. Off-mint.

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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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Valiant Boys
True Stories from the Operators of the UK's First Four-Jet Bomber
Tony Blackman;Anthony Wright
The Vickers Valiant was the first of the RAF 'V bombers' to be developed to carry Britain's nuclear deterrent, and was used to drop both atomic and hydrogen bombs in tests in the late 1950s. Drawing on the personal memories of pilots and crew, this record of the aircraft’s service history includes descriptions of its work as a strike bomber, its engagement during the Suez Crisis, and its reconnaissance and in-flight refuelling duties in the early 1960s.

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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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The Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys
Ed. Jon E Lewis
The notes and diary entries made by 32 Antarctic adventurers collected in this volume record heroic acts and epic challenges, from Cook’s 18th-century voyage, via Scott and Shackleton, to Lynne Cox becoming the first person to complete a mile-long swim in its waters in 2002.

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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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