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  • Nothing But Murder

    Within lie twelve vintage tales of true crime by master essayist William Roughead. Henry James himself once urged Roughead: “Keep on with them all please, and continue to beckon me along the gallery that I can’t tread alone and where, by your leave, I link my arm fraternally in yours: the gallery of sinister perspective just stretches in this manner straight away.”Here you will find such Roughead ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Trial of Oscar Slater

    The Infamous Trial of Innocence: A True Crime Saga

    In "The Trial of Oscar Slater," William Roughead masterfully narrates the infamous case of Oscar Slater, wrongfully accused and convicted of murder in early 20th-century Scotland. Through meticulous research and a captivating prose style, Roughead reconstructs the events surrounding the crime and the trial, intertwining legal analysis with social commentary of the era. The book serves as both a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Murder Most Criminous

    The Cases of William Roughead, Father of Modern True Crime Literature

    Murder Most Criminous: The Cases of William Roughead, Father of Modern True Crime LiteratureJim Stovall, Ed Caudill, William RougheadWilliam Roughead is among the founders and one of the great popularizers of the "true crime" genre as it blossomed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By those truly familiar with the genre, he is well-known as the father of modern true-crime writing.Roughead ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Trial of Mary Blandy

    "Mary Blandy (1720 – April 6, 1752) was a female murderer in 18th century England. In 1751, she poisoned her father, Francis Blandy, with arsenic. She claimed that she thought the arsenic was a love potion that would make her father approve of her relationship with William Henry Cranstoun, an army officer and son of a Scottish nobleman."--WikipediaThis edition features• illustrations• a linked ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • Trial of Dr. Pritchard

    A detailed account of the sensational murder trial that shocked Victorian Scotland and ended in Glasgow's last public hanging.In July of 1865, Dr. Edward William Pritchard was put on trial for the murder of his wife and mother-in-law. He slowly poisoned his wife, Mary Jane, while pretending to treat her for a mysterious illness. When her mother came to help care for her, Pritchard poisoned her, as ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

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  • The Anatomy of Murder

    A unique anthology for crime aficionados – seven of the world’s most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation.A manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of Paris; a young wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashier’s mysterious suicide; a brutal double murder in New Zealand… Seven of the world’s greatest crime ... Read more

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  • Kent Murders

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    Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Kent's history. Linda Stratmann re-examines some of the historic crimes that shocked not only the county but Britain as a whole. Among the gruesome cases featured here are the doctor who was poisoned with morphine in Faversham; the couple who were brutally battered to death in their beds in ... Read more

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  • The Awful Killing of Sarah Watts

    A Story of Confessions, Acquittals and Jailbreaks

    A true crime account of a murdered teen in Victorian-era England, the Scotland Yard sergeant sent to investigate, and the gripping events that followed.Before Road there was Frome . . . before Whicher there was Smith . . . before the heartless slaughter of four-year-old Saville Kent, there was the brutal rape and murder of fourteen-year-old Sarah Watts.Taking place nine years earlier than the Road ... Read more

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  • A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse

    For two centuries, the shadow of the workhouse hung over Britain. The recourse of only the most desperate, dark and terrible tales of malnutrition, misery, mistreatment and murder ran like wildfire through the poorer classes, who lived in terror of being forced inside the institution's towering walls. This book contains 365 incredible tales of fires, drownings, explosions and disasters, infamous ... Read more

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  • Did She Kill Him?

    A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic

    In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick.'The Maybrick Mystery' had all the makings of a sensation: a pretty, flirtatious young girl; resentful, gossiping servants; rumours of gambling and debt; and torrid mutual infidelity. The case cracked the varnish of ... Read more

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  • Lancashire Murders

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    Series series True Crime History
    Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Lancashire's history. The cases covered here record the county's most fascinating but least known crimes, as well as famous murders that gripped not just Lancashire but the whole nation. From Liverpool's Florence Maybrick (was she really guilty of poisoning her hypochondriac husband with arsenic ... Read more

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