Edinburgh Murders & Misdemeanours - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edinburgh Murders & Misdemeanours write by David Brandon. This book was released on 2010-03-15. Edinburgh Murders & Misdemeanours available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nineteenth century crime and punishment in Edinburgh.
Murder Houses of Edinburgh
Murder Houses of Edinburgh - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Murder Houses of Edinburgh write by Jan Bondeson. This book was released on 2020-10-28. Murder Houses of Edinburgh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Which of Edinburgh’s most gruesome murders has happened in your street? And were they committed by Burke and Hare, by the Stockbridge Baby-Farmer, by the Demon Frenchman of George Street, by the Triple Killer of Falcon Avenue, or perhaps by one of the Capital’s many faceless, spectral slayers
Close and Deadly
Close and Deadly - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Close and Deadly write by Alanna Knight. This book was released on 2002. Close and Deadly available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. oIn 1923, Philip Murray went to the gallows for a brutal murder in Jamaica Street, thanks to a local prostitute turning King's evidence. oIn the late 1970s, two girls went missing from the World's End pub never to be seen alive again -case unsolved. oIn the late 1990s a young woman met a terrifying end in South Clerk Street - case unsolved. These horrendous crimes have one thing in common. They all happened in Edinburgh. Edinburgh has a famously blood thirsty history. In centuries past the High Street ran with gore as clansmen battled to the death, and criminals were gruesomely hung, drawn and quartered at the Tolbooth. Lesser known, however, are the terrible crimes that have been committed in the last century. In 1954 Donald Merrett walked free after cold-bloodedly murdering his mother, only to return in the 1970s under an assumed name and kill again. A grim pattern followed by Donald Forbes who, acquitted of a terrible murder in 1958, returned to Edinburgh 40 years later to continue his rein of terror in another death. Edinburgh's Murder Mile offers a fascinating selection of the most notorious murders of the last century within a mile radius of Edinburgh's famous Princes Street.Alanna Knight - one of Edinburgh's favourite crime authors - revisits the crime scenes and unravels the fascinating details of the police investigations, posing new questions and offering a new perspective on famous and lesser known cases. Join her on a chilling, unforgettable trip through the damp, shadowy secrets of Edinburgh's streets.
The Anatomy Murders
The Anatomy Murders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Anatomy Murders write by Lisa Rosner. This book was released on 2011-07-07. The Anatomy Murders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Up the close and down the stair, Up and down with Burke and Hare. Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the man who buys the beef. —anonymous children's song On Halloween night 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last seen in the company of William Burke and William Hare. Days later, police discovered her remains in the surgery of the prominent anatomist Dr. Robert Knox. Docherty was the final victim of the most atrocious murder spree of the century, outflanking even Jack the Ripper's. Together with their accomplices, Burke and Hare would be accused of killing sixteen people over the course of twelve months in order to sell the corpses as "subjects" for dissection. The ensuing criminal investigation into the "Anatomy Murders" raised troubling questions about the common practices by which medical men obtained cadavers, the lives of the poor in Edinburgh's back alleys, and the ability of the police to protect the public from cold-blooded murder. Famous among true crime aficionados, Burke and Hare were the first serial killers to capture media attention, yet The Anatomy Murders is the first book to situate their story against the social and cultural forces that were bringing early nineteenth-century Britain into modernity. In Lisa Rosner's deft treatment, each of the murder victims, from the beautiful, doomed Mary Paterson to the unfortunate "Daft Jamie," opens a window on a different aspect of this world in transition. Tapping into a wealth of unpublished materials, Rosner meticulously portrays the aspirations of doctors and anatomists, the makeshift existence of the so-called dangerous classes, the rudimentary police apparatus, and the half-fiction, half-journalism of the popular press. The Anatomy Murders resurrects a tale of murder and medicine in a city whose grand Georgian squares and crescents stood beside a maze of slums, a place in which a dead body was far more valuable than a living laborer.
Trial of William Burke and Helen M'dougal
Trial of William Burke and Helen M'dougal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trial of William Burke and Helen M'dougal write by William Burke. This book was released on 2023-07-18. Trial of William Burke and Helen M'dougal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This historic trial documents the infamous Burke and Hare murders in Edinburgh in the early 19th century. It provides insight into the judicial system of the time, as well as the cultural fascination with true crime that persists today. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
