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  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Stratford & South Warwickshire

    by Nick Billingham ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    Foul Deeds and Suspicious Death in Stratford and South Warwickshire is an exploration of the darker history of the area. Behind the famous tourist industry of Shakespears everyday life on farms and factories carried on just like anywhere else. Ancient superstitions and curious legends provided inspriation for the great bard and other authors but real life was punctuated by sudden death, jealousy ... Read more

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  • More Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Birmingham

    by Nick Billingham ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    True stories and photos revealing more than a century of murder and mayhem in England's second-biggest city.Starting with the mysterious murder of Mary Ashford in 1817 and following a trail of blood through the Victorian and Edwardian eras—up to the controversial execution of the young James Farrell in 1949—these true crime stories provide a different kind of history of this city in the English ... Read more

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  • Strangeways

    A Century of Hangings in Manchester

    by Martin Baggoley ...
    Strangeways Gaol opened in 1868, and replaced the New Bailey Gaol, where public executions had taken place before their abolition that same year. Strangeways was to be a major location of execution for murders commited in the Northwest of England, for the next 100 years. Between 1869 and 1962 exactly 100 people were hanged, several women included in this number. ... Read more

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  • Murderous Manchester

    by John J Eddleston ...
    This book tells the story of every murder which took place in Manchester during the twentieth century and which ended in the execution of the person found guilty of the crime and who went on to pay the ultimate penalty of death by hanging at the end of a rope.Some cases are well-known, such as those of George Rice, William Burtoft and Walter Graham Rowland who was reprieved for a murder he did ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • Murderous Leeds: The Executed of the Twentieth Century

    by John Eddlestone ...
    The book includes absorbing real life accounts of nearly every reported murder that took place around Leeds during the twentieth century. It features well-known and lesser known cases but all are fascinating tales of jealousy, revenge and tragedy. The people whose stories are told in this volume all had one thing in common. All of them were accused of taking the life of at least one other person, ... Read more

    $16.58 CAD

  • Murderous Derbyshire

    by John J Eddleston ...
    The people whose stories are told in this volume all had one thing in common. All of them were accused of taking the life of at least one other person, faced a trial for that crime, and were sentenced to hang by the neck until they were dead.Some, such as John Silk, who beat his mother to death, Percy Atkin, who buried his wife alive, or Albert Burrows, who claimed four lives and threw the bodies ... Read more

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  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Pontefract & Castleford

    by Keith Henson ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    What Made George Lumb Shoot his Mother? Why did Fanny Speed add arsenic to a current berry pie? How did Beefy ad whisk bring disgrace upon the town of Castleford? What made the headlines in the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and who were the 'Hung Two?' The answers are all within the pages of this fascinating book. Beginning with a mystery in 1854 and ending on a rope in 1918, Foul deeds ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hanged in Lancashire

    by Martin Baggoley ...
    "A detailed account of crime and capital punishment . . . from the days of the 1700s when felons were publically hanged outside the walls of Lancaster Castle." —Friends of Real LancashireThis account of executions in Lancashire spans two centuries and begins in the era of the Bloody Code. In the closing years of the eighteenth century, there were over 200 capital crimes and the early chapters ... Read more

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  • Murder and Mayhem in Sheffield

    by Geoffrey Howse ...
    Sheffield born actor and author Geoffrey Howse delves into his files covering over 200 years of Sheffield's criminality. In Murder & Mayhem in Sheffield he takes a look at some of the events that took place during a period of enormous growth within Sheffield; including a failed plot to murder some of Sheffield's officials, take control of the Town Hall and set fire to the homes of prominent ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Blackburn & Hyndburn

    by Stephen Greenhalgh ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Blackburn and Hyndburn examines 10 detailed murder cases that encompass the late Victorian period up until 1927. They are equally as gruesome and instructive as the better known cases that inhabit the pages of any number of true crime anthologies. All these tales of murder, suspicious deaths and foul deeds form part of the local history. Some of the cases were ... Read more

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  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In & Around Southend-on-Sea

    by Dee Gordon ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    A history of true crime in a quaint resort town in Essex, England that hosts a variety of amusements—along with a legacy of madness, mayhem, and murder.This ghoulish look into the past takes readers on a sinister journey through Southend-on-Sea, from medieval times to the twentieth century, and featuring a rogues' gallery of cutthroats, highwaymen, witches, murderers, and madmen.Included are more ... Read more

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  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Uxbridge

    by Jonathan Oates ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    This west London town has its own character—and its own deadly criminal history—from the author of Unsolved Murders of Victorian and Edwardian London.Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Uxbridge takes the reader on a sinister and sad journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting victims and villains of all sorts along the way. There is no shortage of harrowing—and revealing ... Read more

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