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, faced a trial for that crime, and were sentenced to hang by the neck until they were dead. Amo...

British Murders Volume TwelveLondon book two.Stories from 1900 to 11961 including Hawley Harvey Crippen, Gordon Frederick Cummins and Ruth Ellis

A new form of Murder Mystery... Can you solve the mystery of the Green Buddha? This is an ebook only whodunnit. Follow the clues and see if you can work it out. The Buddha is just one of the lots in the auction, and the estimate in the catalogue is just £100. Why then do two bidders raise the price to almost five times that and why is the winning bidder found brutally murdered the next morning?

The third book on London murdersStories from 1900 to 1963Includes the stories of Sach and Walters, George Brain and Timothy John Evans

Stories from 1900 to 1963.Includes Frederick Henry Seddon, Thompson and Byweaters and John Reginald Halliday Christie

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 down a disused mine shaft, did pay that ultimate penalty. All the others, with one exc...

In the Great War of 1914–1918, Southampton played a vital role in the war effort. Designated as Port Number One it saw hundreds of thousands of men and many tons of equipment sail for the fields of Belgium and France.The Second World War was a completely different type of war. Hitlers blitzkrieg tactics led to a more mobile war and, arguably for the first time, airpower played a crucial role. Whoever had superiority in the air had a massive advantage in any particular theater, or battle. T...

Foul Deeds in Islington takes the reader on a sinister journey through a selection of the most shocking and revealing murders committed in this part of north London during the last two centuries. Killers of all kinds are recorded here, from the coolest and most calculating of criminals to ill-starred individuals who struck out in passion or despair or anger. John Eddleston recounts their notorious stories in forensic detail. Police-killers Thomas Cooper and Ronald Marwood feature in his bo...

The stormy past of England's south coast city is vividly depicted in these true crime tales from the author of Jack the Ripper: An Encyclopedia.The criminal cases vividly described by John J. Eddleston in this gripping book take the reader on a journey into the dark secret side of Southampton's past. The city has been the setting for a series of horrific, bloody, sometimes bizarre incidents. There is the story of Augustus John Penny, who shot his mother to...

The city of Newcastle and its immediate environs of Jarrow, North and South Shields and the outlying towns, have seen some most intriguing murder cases. Perhaps the most famous of all is that of the murder of John Innes Nisbet by John Alexander Dickman, for which the latter was hanged in August 1910. Yet there are others in the pages of this book whose stories are equally fascinating.You will read of the two Millers, hanged 90 minutes apart on the same day for what was a senseless ...

This century has seen the execution of 33 men and one woman at Winson Green prison in Birmingham. In addition, others who had a strong connection with Englands second city were executed elsewhere and by the time we include those who perished on the gallows at Warwick, Stafford and Worcester, our totals have risen to 49 men and that lone woman, Dorothea Waddington, who was hanged in 1936.It would be impossible to cover every one of these stories, in depth, in a book of this size, so...

Many troops passed through Southampton on their way to the Western Front and it played a vital role as a staging post for departing troops and those returning badly injured.Many of men from Southampton also joined up and the enormity of human sacrifice that the families of Southampton were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years was immense. The Great War affected everyone. At home there were wounded soldiers in military hospitals, refugees from Belgium and later on ...