Diese Serie taucht in die dunkelsten Winkel der menschlichen Natur ein und deckt die abscheulichsten Verbrechen und ihre Täter auf. Mit jedem neuen Fall werden die Leser auf eine packende Untersuchung mitgenommen, bei der unermüdlich nach Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit gesucht wird. Die Erzählungen zeichnen sich durch komplexe Handlungsstränge und fesselnde Charaktere aus, die von Anfang bis Ende für eine spannende Reise sorgen. Ein Muss für Fans packender und vielschichtiger Kriminalgeschichten.
John Eddleston's latest selection of notorious criminal cases takes the reader through a sequence of sensational episodes that have marred the history of Reading. His book is based on original research and recalls many grisly events and sad or unsavoury individuals whose fate has hitherto been forgotten.
Maiming, brutal murders, crimes of passion, suicides and executions; Chesterfield has all these and more in 'Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Chesterfield'. The scenic landscape of Chesterfield presents a pleasant face to it's visitors, but a study of it's past shows that it has often been a dangerous place to live. Exploring a catalogue of crimes, some of which are little known while others still claim media attention today. 'Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Chesterfield' has a blood stained thread of crime that is followed from the 'Parish Church Murders of 1422' through later centuries to such crimes as 'A Scandalous Assault 1875' and 'You have Kicked me to Death 1882'. What unfolds is a dark chronology of the criminal past of Chesterfield. Take a journey into the darker side of your area as you read 'Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Chesterfield'.
With disturbing insights into the dark side of the history of the Isle of Wight, this title presents in-depth reconstructions of notorious murders and other remarkable cases.
Provides accounts drawn from contemporary newspapers and periodicals, reflecting the way our attitudes to different crimes and punishments have changed over the years.
'Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in York' reveals that behind York's gentile façade hides a dark past. Once England's second city, it is built on a thousand years of bloodshed, from war to noble rebellion, death has tracked the city's footsteps The foul deeds and suspicious deaths that are included in these pages, start with the details of the early history of punishment in York and close with the city's only unsolved murder. From 1800-1946 covers the period that saw York slide from Georgian splendor to an overpopulated, seething walled slum, before re-emerging after World War Two. 'Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in York' tells the story of some of the city's darkest from Hanging Bishops to Sweet Toothed Poisoners; Insane Arsonists to Murder of the most foul kind.Take a journey into the darker and unknown side of your area as you read Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in York .
Taking the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, this book features cut-throats and poisoners, murderous lovers, baby-farmers and baby-killers, burglars, fraudsters and the so-called 'doctor of death'.