New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Breeden Books Pub
2002 July-Sept
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Breeden Books Pub
JULY-SEPT 2002
Diane Canwell
Women Who Shocked the Nation
Published September 2002 by Breeden Books Pub at £14.99
ISBN: 1859832873
Is the female of the species really more deadly than the male? In Women Who Shocked the Nation Diane Canwell chronicles the deeds of the most notorious British women of all time – from as early as the eleventh century up to the present day.
The women in these pages stand accused of many crimes, from murder, piracy and witchcraft to adultery and all forms of lewd conduct. Well-known cases such as those of Ruth Ellis and Rosemary West appear alongside other names that have now faded into history but which called forth the nation’s outrage in their time. Moll Cutpurse was a seventeenth-century master thief who, as well as being an expert pickpocket, liked to smoke a pipe and carouse about town in men’s clothing. Amelia Dyer was a Victorian baby-farmer with a taste for strangling her infant victims. Perhaps most intriguing is the story of Dr James Barry, an army surgeon who, on his death after forty years of service, was found to have been a woman in man’s clothes.
Many of the offences here portrayed would not be perceived as terrible by today’s standards, but each at the time sent shockwaves through British society – radicals, criminals, courtesans and killers all taking their place in the history of infamy.
Diane Canwell has written more than 30 books in the last 12 years. Women Who Shocked The Nation was inspired by a research trip to the Metropolitan Police Museum in London, where Diane encountered the case history of Styllou Christofi.
Diane was born and raised in Norfolk and is a former college lecturer. She now works as a full-time writer, living in Suffolk with another Breedon Books author, Jon Sutherland. She is currently working on a number of educational projects, books for children and some newspaper and magazine articles.
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Jonathon Sutherland
Unsolved Victorian Murders
Published September 2002 by Breeden Books Pub at £14.99
ISBN: 1859832865
Victorian criminals often got away with murder. The police often made mistakes, forensic science was in its infancy and juries convicted people on the flimsiest of evidence. The wrong people were hanged at the gallows. In this fresh look at 12 unsolved murder cases, Jon Sutherland reviews the stories, evidence and trials to shed new light on the verdicts passed by the judges and juries of the 19th century. The killings attributed to Jack the Ripper in Whitechapel are the most famous unsolved Victorian murders, but few people know the extent of the doubts surrounding the case. Make up your own mind after reading Jon Sutherland’s detailed survey of the material.
In Unsolved Victorian Murders Jack the Ripper appears alongside less well-known but equally fascinating characters. Did Madeleine Smith poison her lover with arsenic in a cup of cocoa? How did a blind man in Bristol throw his younger, fitter rival through a narrow window? What really happened in the woods of the Ardlamont estate in Scotland the morning Cecil Hambrough was shot? Read the stories, examine the evidence and decide for yourself.
Jon Sutherland is the author of over 80 books, including 'Ghosts of Great Britain and Ireland' and 'Ghosts of London', both published by Breedon Books, as well as numerous magazine and newspaper articles. His interest in true crime was kindled by his investigation of the unsolved Peasenhall murder which took place a few miles from his home in 1901. Jon is a former college lecturer but now writes on a full time basis from his home in Suffolk. He is currently working on a definitive history of African Americans in the US military and two books on the American Civil War.
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