Mr Crippen, Cora and the Body in the Basement - 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 Mr Crippen, Cora and the Body in the Basement write by Matthew Coniam. This book was released on 2021-11-01. Mr Crippen, Cora and the Body in the Basement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It was an 'open and shut' case. Hawley Harvey Crippen, an American quack doctor, had murdered his wife, the music hall performer Belle Elmore, and buried parts of her body in the coal cellar of their North London home. But by the time the remains were discovered he had fled the country with his mistress disguised as his son. After a thrilling chase across the ocean he was caught, returned to England, tried and hanged, remembered forever after as the quintessential domestic murderer. But if it was as straightforward as the prosecution alleged, why did he leave only some of the body in his house, when he had successfully disposed of the head, limbs and bones elsewhere? Why did he stick so doggedly to a plea of complete innocence, when he might have made a sympathetic case for manslaughter? Why did he make no effort to cover his tracks if he really had been planning a murder? These and other questions remained tantalising mysteries for almost a century, until new DNA tests conducted in America exploded everything we thought we knew for sure about the story. This book, the first to make full use of this astonishing new evidence, considers its implications for our understanding of the case, and suggests where the real truth might lie.
Crippen
Crippen - 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 Crippen write by John Boyne. This book was released on 2007-01-23. Crippen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. July 1910: A gruesome discovery has been made at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden. Chief Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard did not expect the house to be empty. Nor did he expect to find a body in the cellar. Buried under the flagstones are the remains of Cora Crippen, former music-hall singer and wife of Dr. Hawley Crippen. No one would have thought the quiet, unassuming Dr. Crippen capable of murder, yet the doctor and his mistress have disappeared from London, and now a full-scale hunt for them has begun. Across the Channel in Antwerp, the S.S. Montrose has just set off on its two-week voyage to North America. Slipping in among the first-class passengers is a Mr. John Robinson, accompanied by his teenage son, Edmund. The pair may be hoping for a quiet, private voyage, but in the close confines of a luxury ocean liner, anonymity is rare. And with others aboard looking for romance, or violence, or escape from their past in Europe, it will take more than just luck for the Robinsons to survive the voyage unnoticed. An accomplished, intricately plotted novel, John Boyne's Crippen brilliantly reimagines the amazing escape attempt of one of history's most notorious killers and marks the outstanding American debut of one of Ireland's best young novelists.
Lethal Witness
Lethal Witness - 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 Lethal Witness write by Dr. Andrew Rose. This book was released on 2009. Lethal Witness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sir Bernard Spilsbury, considered the father of modern forensic pathology, provided crucial and lurid testimony, not always entirely factual, in many classic murder cases in Great Britain.
In the Dark
In the Dark - 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 In the Dark write by Simon Read. This book was released on 2006-11-07. In the Dark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In February, 1942, a woman was found strangled in a London air raid shelter. Chief Superintendent Frederick Cherrill, head of Scotland Yard’s revolutionary fingerprint division, knew just how well the wartime blackout concealed crime. But this was a brutal, senseless killing with few clues, no apparent motive—and no sign of the terror to come. The nightly air raids had darkened London’s neon dazzle but not its urge to live it up. With death a daily possibility, drinks and sex were everywhere. But one man had other urges. Over a five-day period, he murdered with a lightning-fast ferocity that stunned and baffled investigators. Dubbed “The Blackout Ripper,” he left few clues in his bloody wake—until a slip-up revealed his true identity, and shocked a city that thought it had seen it all.
Personal Identity in the Modern World
Personal Identity in the Modern World - 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 Personal Identity in the Modern World write by Lawrence M. Friedman. This book was released on 2022-08-01. Personal Identity in the Modern World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a society of strangers, there develops what can be called crimes of mobility -- forms of criminality rare in traditional societies: bigamy, the confidence game, and blackmail, for example. What they have in common is a kind of fraudulent role-playing, which the new society makes possible. This book explores the social and legal consequences of social and geographical mobility in the United States and Great Britain from the beginning of the 19th century on. Personal identity became more fluid. Lines between classes blurred. Impostors abound.
