Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in London's East End - 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 Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in London's East End write by Geoffrey Howse. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in London's East End available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. London's East End has been associated with some of the worst elements of human depravity, where foul deeds and murder were commonplace; and the area's notoriety was added to by the horrific murders committed by Jack, the Ripper. For centuries the East End's notoriety for foul deeds has remained unsurpassed in the annals of crime in this country.
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in London's West End
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in London's West End - 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 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in London's West End write by Geoffrey Howse. This book was released on 2006-04-06. Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in London's West End available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. London's West End is associated with fashion and glamour but for centuries it has had a far darker side. Geoffrey Howse has uncovered an astonishing catalogue of sinister deeds, some of them famous but others long forgotten. Read about spying, treason, embezzlement, regicide, robbery, forgery, religious persecution, suicide, murder and mutilation; and 'witness' horrendous punishments such as drawing, hanging, disemboweling, quartering, castration, beheading and burning. Earlier cases include the execution of Scottish patriots (1305/6) and three monks who dared to question the supremacy of Henry VIII in 1535. Such events attracted great public attention, as did the extraordinary execution of Charles I in 1649 and, in 1820, the hanging and mutilation of the Cato Street Conspiritors. The foul murder of the famous actor William Terriss, by a madman, in 1897, is featured as are several notable cases from the twentieth century including the horrific wartime murders of Gordon Cummins, the strange disappearances of the socialist MP Victor Grayson and Lord Lucan, the Charing Cross Trunk Murder as well as the mysterious death of boxer Freddie Mills.
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Staffordshire & the Potteries
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Staffordshire & the Potteries - 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 Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Staffordshire & the Potteries write by Nicholas Corder. This book was released on 2006-11-30. Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Staffordshire & the Potteries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Staffordshire and the Potteries the chill is brought close to home as each chapter investigates the darker side of humanity in notorious cases of murder, deceit and pure malice that have marked the history of the area. For this journey into a bloody, neglected aspect of the past, Nicholas Corder has selected over 20 episodes that give a fascinating insight into criminal acts and the criminal mind. Recalled here are the Rugeley poisoner William Palmer, who disposed of his victims with strychnine, the vicious assaults on Issac Brooks and the miscarriage of justice that put George Edalji behind bars for three years and brought the creator of the world's greatest fictional detective to his rescue. The Canal boat killing of poor Christina Collins is described in graphic detail, as is the sad case of Thirza Tunstall's baby and the bizarre case of the headless corpse of Hednesford. The human dramas Nicholas Corder explores are often played out in the most commonplace of circumstances, but others are so odd as to be stranger than fiction. His grisly chronicle of the hidden history of staffordshire and the Potteries will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the darker side of human nature.
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths/Folkeston
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths/Folkeston - 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 Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths/Folkeston write by Martin Easdown. This book was released on 2006-11-01. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths/Folkeston available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Folkestone takes the reader on a sinister journey through the annals of crime in Folkestone, Hythe and the surrounding area. Along the way we meet villains, murderers and victims of many kinds, including cut-throat soldiers, a 'baby farmer', a Jack the Ripper imposter, two inexplicable suicides and five individuals who died violent deaths in the 'House of Horror'. There is no shortage of harrowing and revealing incidents of evil to recount, many of which will be unfamiliar to the reader. Infant murders were once so rife in Folkestone it was termed the 'infanticide capital of Kent'. This fascinating book recalls many such grisly events, as well as sad or unsavoury individuals who have darkened this otherwise pleasant corner of the Garden of England.
Stratford Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths
Stratford Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths - 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 Stratford Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths write by Nick Billingham. This book was released on 2006-03-01. Stratford Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Death in Stratford and South Warwickshire is an exploration of the darker history of the area. Behind the famous tourist industry of Shakespears everyday life on farms and factories carried on just like anywhere else. Ancient superstitions and curious legends provided inspriation for the great bard and other authors but real life was punctuated by sudden death, jealousy and ruthlessness. This book examines some of the most dramatic incidents in detail. Dranw from contemporary sources, newspapers, legal documents and coroner's records; each case provides a glimpse into life and death in its historical setting. The changes in the town, both in its architecture and social values from the background to the lives and deaths of its citizens.
