Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Lewisham & Deptford - 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 Lewisham & Deptford write by Jonathan Oates. This book was released on 2007-07-19. Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Lewisham & Deptford available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The twin fascinations of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Lewisham and Deptford the chill is brought close to home as each chapter investigates the darker side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit and pure malice committed over the centuries in this area of London. From crimes of passion to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of murder, the full spectrum of criminality is recounted, bringing to life the more sinister history of Lewisham and Deptford from the sixteenth century onwards. For this journey into the bloody, neglected past, Jonathan Oates has selected over 20 notorious episodes that give a fascinating insight into criminal acts and the criminal mind. The story of one of the most famous unsolved murders in history, of the great playwright Christopher Marlowe in Deptford in 1593. is followed by a catalogue of heinous crimes of every description—political conspiracies, gang killings, murders of policemen, suicide pacts, multiple poisonings, a husband who killed his wife and four children, the suicide of a crooked councillor, a motiveless murder and two unsolved murders that are as intriguing today as they were 80 years ago. The human dramas Jonathan Oates describes 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 Lewisham and Deptford will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the dark side of human nature.
Murder Houses of South London
Murder Houses of South London - 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 South London write by Jan Bondeson. This book was released on 2018-11-28. Murder Houses of South London available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Which of South London’s most gruesome murders happened in your street? Armed with this book and a good London map, you will be able to do some murder house detection work of your own. South London has a long and blood-spattered history of capital crime, and many of its murder houses still stand.
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Sheffield
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Sheffield - 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 Sheffield write by Geoffrey Howse. This book was released on 2009-05-21. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Sheffield available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author of A History of London’s Prisons reveals the ugly criminal past of one of England’s most beautiful cities. It hardly seems surprising that what has become England’s fourth city has within its rich history a sinister and darker side. Take a journey to discover cases of petty crime, riots, burglary, robbery, assault, suicide, unlawful killing, manslaughter, and murder, as well as a host of quirky and quizzical crimes from the early Victorian period to modern times. One sensational case covered is that of Sheffield-born Charles Peace, considered by some criminologists to be England’s most notorious murderer. He was hanged at Leeds on February 25, 1879, for the killing of Arthur Dyson at Darnall in 1876. Peace’s criminality seemed to know no bounds. Several other sensational and forgotten murders are featured and a range of cases mentioned refer to many former landmarks in and around old Sheffield, from public houses and hotels to factories, shops, and steelworks. This book is sure to be an absorbing read for anyone interested in our local social history.
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In Dublin
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In Dublin - 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 Dublin write by Stephen Wade. This book was released on 2008-04-22. Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In Dublin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 eventful history” in this thrilling collection of murderers, thieves, daredevil highwaymen, libelers, seducers, and bloody avengers—from eighteenth-century turncoats to Victorian-era rogues to a twentieth-century parliamentary candidate with a killer past. Amid tales of sensational investigations and infamous courtroom trials, readers will discover the truth behind the disappearance of the Crown Jewels in 1907; the bizarre motives of nineteenth-century serial killer John Delahunt; and the startling charges leveled against Oscar Wilde’s father, a revolutionary doctor embroiled in a felonious and sexual cause célèbre of his own.
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Southampton
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Southampton - 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 Southampton write by John J. Eddleston. This book was released on 2009-07-16. Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Southampton available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 death while she was lying in her bed after discovering that she had come into money and refused to pass any on to him. There is James Camb, who was convicted of murder even though the body of his victim, an actress, was never found. And there is the case of Michael George Tatum, the only British killer of the twentieth century to use an African club as his chosen weapon of murder. But perhaps the most intriguing case is the Southampton garage murder of Vivian Messiter in October 1928. In spite of masterful police work, there was an eighteen-month delay before the killer, William Henry Podmore, finally paid the price on the gallows for that brutal crime. Eddleston’s selection of cases from Southampton’s criminal history will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the sinister side of human nature.
