Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Coventry
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Coventry

Author: David McGrory

Publisher: Grub Street Publishers

Published: 2004-10-30

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1783033819

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In the middle of Great Britain sits a historic city—with a long history of horror. These are the true crime stories from Coventry’s past. Now a thriving, modern metropolis, Coventry has been an established center of trade and culture for nearly a thousand years. But as with any site where mankind gathers, the darker side of humanity always shows itself. Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Coventry takes you on a sinister journey from medieval times to the twentieth century in which you will meet villains, cutthroats, traitors, witches, martyrs, and suicidal lovers—a menagerie of crime and punishment in all their shocking variety. Among the many awful episodes included are a brutal regicide, religious martyrdoms and a witchcraft murder in the medieval period. Also included are the story of a triple execution at Gibbet Hill, poisonings and drownings in the Georgian and Victorian eras, and in more recent times, a murderer’s lonely suicide. For fans of historical madness and mayhem, Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Coventry is a fascinating compendium of crime.

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths/Folkeston
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths/Folkeston

Author: Martin Easdown

Publisher: Casemate Publishers

Published: 2006-11-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1845630114

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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.

Foul deeds & suspicious deaths in Guernsey
Foul deeds & suspicious deaths in Guernsey

Author: Glynis Cooper

Publisher: Casemate Publishers

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1845630084

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Contains chapters that investigate the darker side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit and pure malice. From crimes of passion to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of murder, this work recounts the spectrum of criminality, bringing to life the sinister history of Guernsey from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Croydon
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Croydon

Author: Caroline Maxton

Publisher: Wharncliffe

Published: 2006-10-31

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1845630076

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We are all drawn to understand the circumstances that lead others to commit unforgivable acts of violence - the moment that turns a caring human being into a killer, the series of events that drive ordinary people to murderous acts of inhumanity, or the slow, premeditated steps of the callous criminal. And the circumstances - and the twisted motivation - behind such violent acts are the subject of Caroline Maxton's fascinating investigation of individuals whose misdeeds have tarnished the history of the Croydon area. She investigates a wide range of murders and unexplained deaths, some of which are truly stranger than fiction. The events cover a span of several centuries, and the locations will be chillingly familiar to the inhabitants of Croydon. Local crimes that hit the national headlines, like the Bentley case of 1952, are covered in fresh detail, but the author concentrates on less well-known but equally intriguing, and shocking, episodes - the bizarre 'mustard and cress' murder of 1870, the brutal murder of Eliza Osborne in 1877, the Kenley Stud Farm mystery of 1921, the Birdhurst Rise poisoning of the late 1920s, the notorious unsolved murder of 11-year-old Miles Vallint of 1959.

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Newport
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Newport

Author: Terry Underwood

Publisher: Wharncliffe

Published: 2004-09-30

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 190342559X

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This book contains twenty-one separate stories all based in the Newport and district area. This is a coffee table/bedtime story book for the curious. Anyone fascinated by the mindset of a murderer will enjoy this book. Whether you are a budding Miss Marple or an aspiring Morse, inside is a taste of the criminal mind, the effort of detection and the horror of motives. Please do not try this at home!

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Colchester
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Colchester

Author: Patrick Denney

Publisher: Casemate Publishers

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1903425808

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Takes the reader on a sinister journey from the religious persecutions of Queen Mary's time to the twentieth century, meeting villains, cut-throats, arsonists and lunatics along the way. The book is based on original research and recalls many grisly events and sad or unsavoury individuals whose fate has hitherto been forgotten.

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in London's East End
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in London's East End

Author: Geoffrey Howse

Publisher: Casemate Publishers

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1903425719

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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 and Suspicious Deaths in Hampstead, Holburn and St Pancras
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Hampstead, Holburn and St Pancras

Author: Mark Aston

Publisher: Wharncliffe

Published: 2005-10-01

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1903425948

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In Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths In Hampstead, Holburn and St Pancras the chill of evil is brought close to home as each chapter investigates the darker side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit and pure malice in this corner 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 sinister history of this part of the capital over the last 400 years.

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in London's West End
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in London's West End

Author: Geoffrey Howse

Publisher: Casemate Publishers

Published: 2006-04-06

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1781596611

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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

Author: Nicholas Corder

Publisher: Wharncliffe

Published: 2006-11-30

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1473831598

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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.