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  • 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

    $7.29 USD

  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Famous Prisoners of Wormwood Scrubs

    by Stephen Wade ...
    Wormwood Scrubs is Britain’s most ‘media-soaked’ prison. Its celebrity inmates have provided the tabloids with many good stories, from Rolling Stone Keith Richards - banged up for drugs offences - to notorious spy George Blake, whose escape enthralled the country. It has entertained the Master of the Queen’s music, Sir Michael Tippett, socialist scrapper Fred Copeman, rebellious soul Pete Doherty, ... Read more

    $8.09 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

  • Notorious Murders of the Twentieth Century

    Famous and Forgotten British Cases

    by Stephen Wade ...
    The word 'murder' has always attracted widespread local and national media coverage. Once known, the story becomes the subject of discussion in a variety of places throughout the land. Some grisly tales become part of a culture that lives on for generations, whilst others, even by some of the worst serial killers, are soon forgotten. In this book experienced crime historian Stephen Wade has ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

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  • Britain's Most Notorious Hangmen

    by Stephen Wade ...
    A breathtaking history of Britain's executioners—from the seventeenth court of King Charles II to the UK's last official hangman of the twentieth century.In 1663, Jack Ketch delighted in his profession and gained notoriety not only because of those he executed—dukes and lords—but for how often he botched the job. Centuries later, in 1965, after nearly six hundred trips to the gallows, Albert ... Read more

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  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In Dublin

    by Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    Tory gangs, madmen, war criminals, frauds, anarchists, duelists, kidnappers, and more scandal-makers throughout four centuries of Irish history.Dublin is a wonderful, energetic cultural center—the pride of Irish achievements in architecture, arts, and literature. But it is also a city of paradoxes and conflicts—and a long, fascinating history of crime.Stephen Wade now reveals Dublin's "strange ... Read more

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  • 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

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