Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Writing True Crime

    by Stephen Wade ...
    Writing True Crime introduces the aspiring crime writer to the skills needed to write true crime and crime history. The chapters cover everything from finding a subject, working on a creative treatment, and researching in libraries and archives. The reader is given a clear understanding of the craft of writing in this popular and expanding area of writing, with material included from social ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Dictionary of True Crime

    A Reference Guide to the Dark and Curious Crimes of British History

    by Stephen Wade ...
    A comprehensive A-Z guide to notorious and lesser-known extreme crimes, criminals, and legal cases from the 17th century to today.A Dictionary of True Crime is a guide to the most compelling cases of extreme and violent crime in the writing files, from the 17th century to present day. Amongst notorious criminals like Jack the Ripper and the Moors Murderers, lesser-known but provoking cases which ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Victorian Somebody

    The Life of George Grossmith

    by Stephen Wade ...
    In the 1880s, George Grossmith was the dazzling comic star of Gilbert and Sullivan’s immensely popular Savoy operas. London theatregoers waited excitedly for the next production, knowing that George would be cast in the lead role of the ‘patter man’. He was also many other things in his life, including Bow Street court reporter, piano entertainer for high society, and in the 1890s, with his ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yorkshire Hangmen

    by Stephen Wade ...
    The history and mythology of hangmen in Yorkshire—an account of crime and punishment in England from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century.From the eighteenth century, York was one of the places employing its own hangmen, copying London and Newgate, even to the use of the word Tyburn to define it's Knavesmire gallows, also known as the 'three-legged mare'. That was where highwayman Dick ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tales from the Big House: Normanby Hall

    400 Years of Its History and People

    by Stephen Wade ...
    Tales from the Big House: Normanby Hall tells the story of a place known perhaps today mainly as the home where Samantha Cameron grew up, but historically it has been the seat of the Sheffield family, whose most famous member was arguably the Duke of Buckingham in the seventeenth century. As with most country houses, the Hall was used as a military hospital in the Great War, and in the Second ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tracing Your Police Ancestors

    A Guide for Family Historians

    by Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    Tracing Your Police Ancestors will help you locate and research officers who served in any of the police forces of England and Wales from the creation of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of how or where to look for such information, Stephen Wade explains and describes the various archives and records and provides a discussion of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tracing Your Prisoner Ancestors

    A Guide for Family Historians

    by Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    An "excellent book . . . a great introduction to legal terms, offences, procedures, sentences, and much more besides" trom the author of Writing True Crime (Ripperologist).The history of the British prison system only had systematic records from the middle of the nineteenth century. Before that, material on prisoners in local jails and houses of correction was patchy and minimal. In more recent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wharncliffe A–Z of Yorkshire Murder

    by Stephen Wade ...
    The history of the old county of Yorkshire has been concerned with the great and the good, the ambitious and the downright unscrupulous. Its broad acres has had more than its fair share of highprofile murders, especially though not exclusively in its burgeoning urban centres. Now there is a reference work to bring together most of the principal murders, from the mid-eighteenth century when Dick ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Common Life

    Folksong from the Front Porch to the Concert Hall

    by Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    “I can’t teach you, but I can show you.” With these words, Kentucky balladeer Doc Hopkins shared his musical knowledge with a willing student, summoning an independent streak deeply embedded in the American character. His words capture the informal creativity and colloquial practice that marks folk tradition as it extends from the countryside to the city and back again.Stephen Wade recounts ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

    PRE-ORDER

  • DNA Crime Investigations

    Solving Murder and Serious Crime Through DNA and Modern Forensics

    by Stephen Wade ...
    A crime historian explores groundbreaking cold-case investigations, the advent of DNA evidence, and its role in long-delayed convictions and exonerations.When geneticist, Professor Alec Jeffreys worked with Leicestershire police on the 1986 case against Colin Pitchfork—the first person convicted of murder based on DNA evidence—a revolution started in the application of forensic expertise. Since ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yorkshire's Murderous Women

    Two Centuries of Killings

    by Stephen Wade ...
    Historical accounts of Englishwomen who have killed, their varying motives, and their final fates.Yorkshire history has its share of nasty and brutal murders, and the majority of these killers have been men. Statistics show that most homicides are men. But the records over the centuries have tales of murderous women too. Stephen Wade has investigated records across England to find stories of women ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tracing Your Criminal Ancestors

    A Guide for Family Historians

    by Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    A comprehensive introduction to researching British criminal history with information on national and local archives that family historians can use.Did you have a criminal in the family, an ancestor who was caught on the wrong side of the law? If you have ever had any suspicions about the illicit activities of your relatives, or are fascinated by the history of crime and punishment, this is the ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus