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  • Murder in the Family

    The Dr. King Story

    by Dan Buchanan ...
    As the old saying goes, "You can pick your friends, but not your relatives." In tranquil Northumberland County, Ontario, two families are well acquainted with the grim truth of that innocuous-sounding expression. They are the descendants of the first, and only, man executed in Northumberland's history. In a sordid true-crime tale of poison and philandering in 1850s Ontario, the respected Dr. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wreck of HMS Speedy

    The Tragedy That Shook Upper Canada

    by Dan Buchanan ...
    The sinking of HMS Speedy in 1804 off Presqu’ile Point was more than a tragic loss of the twenty souls on board—it had shocking and far-reaching repercussions for the young colony of Upper Canada.At the centre of it all is Ogetonicut, a Mississauga First Nations man charged with murdering John Sharp, a white trader. As Ogetonicut’s trial drew near, it was moved east to Newcastle for fear of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • 38 Hours to Montreal

    William Weller and the Governor General's Race of 1840

    by Dan Buchanan ...
    Governor General Charles Poulett Thomson is in a hurry. In response to the Rebellion of 1837-38, he has been urgently tasked by his masters in England to modernize and improve the governments in the Canadian colonies. In just three months in Toronto, the governor general has managed to pass all the legislation he wants, but with politics heating up in Quebec and his bosses in England dangling a ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • A History of the Murray Canal

    by Dan Buchanan, Sean Scally ...
    During the 1790s, Upper Canada’s first lieutenant governor, John Graves Simcoe, promoted the idea of a canal in the area between the Bay of Quinte and Presqu’ile Bay on Lake Ontario, but his idea did not come into fruition until decades later. Why did it take so long?In A History of the Murray Canal, historian Dan Buchanan provides a detailed account of the building of the Murray Canal and how ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Batteau Railway

    by Dan Buchanan ...
    During the American War of Independence, a wave of British Loyalists moved to Upper Canada with the promise of land. As they arrived in the Bay of Quinte and travelled west to York or Newark, Asa Weller—a resident of the Carrying Place—saw an opportunity.Batteaux—flat-bottomed boats—were commonly used in the late eighteenth century to carry supplies and goods as well as passengers travelling east ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    A Mormon Doctor, His Beautiful Wife, and an Almost Perfect Murder

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    In 2007, Dr. Martin MacNeill—a doctor, lawyer, and Mormon bishop—discovered his wife of 30 years dead in the bathtub of their Pleasant Grove, Utah home, her face bearing the scars of a facelift he persuaded her to undergo just a week prior.At first the death of 50-year-old Michele MacNeill, a former beauty queen and mother of eight, appeared natural. But days after the funeral when Dr. MacNeill ... Read more

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  • One Bloody Afternoon - The Hungerford Massacre

    by Jeremy JOSEPHS ...
    Nothing has ever happened like Hungerford. The years do not lessen the shock the nation felt at the news of Michael Ryan’s massacre of innocent people on the streets of this picture-postcard town.What, on Wednesday 19th August 1987, made this loner put on paramilitary kit, arm himself with a Beretta pistol, an M1 carbine and a high-velocity Kalashnikov rifle, and drive the beautiful Savernake ... Read more

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  • The Day the Catskills Cried

    A True Crime Story

    by Wayne E. Beyea ...
    On May 24, 1977, Trudy Resnick Farber was abducted from her home by a masked, armed intruder, taken to a remote wooded mountainside and buried alive! A million dollar ransom demand was made for her release. The Day the Catskills Cried is the complete and true story concerning a horrific crime that shook the Catskill region of New York. ... Read more

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  • The Cutter - It started as an obsession with hacking hair from women's heads. It ended with murder

    by Michael Litchfield ...
    Heather Barnett's mutilated body was discovered by her son and daughter on their return home from school in Bournemouth one November afternoon. The police quickly ascertained that the murder was premeditated and meticulously planned down to the last macabre detail: the killer had not left one single piece of DNA evidence -- even the bloody footprints from a distinct pair of trainers did not lead ... Read more

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  • Star-Crossed Killers

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    "An excellent writer." —True Crime Book ReviewsAnything For LoveWhen nineteen-year-old Steven "Boston" Colver set eyes on beautiful young Tylar Witt, the sparks between them could not be denied. It didn't matter that she was only fourteen. The two saw their love written in the stars. All they wanted was to spend every moment in each other's arms.When Tylar's concerned mother, Joanne Witt, tried to ... Read more

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  • Murder

    Twelve True Stories of Homicide in Canada

    by Edward Butts ...
    Who committed Toronto's Silk Stocking Murder? Why did a quiet accountant in Guelph, Ontario, murder his wife and two daughters? When did police in Alberta hire a self-styled mind reader to solve a mass murder? How did an American confidence man from Arizona find himself facing a murder charge in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia? These questions and more are answered in Murder: Twelve True Stories of ... Read more

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