New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Sutton
06 April-June
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Sutton
APRIL-JUNE 06
Bennett J & Gardner G
The Cromwell Street Murders
Pbk published June 2006 by Sutton at £6.99
ISBN: 0750942746
November 2005 marks the tenth anniversary of the conviction of Rose West, currently serving ten life sentences for her part in the Cromwell Street murders. This book tells for the first time the story from a police perspective. For ten years, the officer in charge of the investigation, Detective Superintendent John Bennett QPM, has refused to tell his story. Now, together with BBC journalist Graham Gardner, he reveals the full story of how the West's were caught, how the case was prepared and how it nearly failed to come to court. This book chronicles the roles of those who brought down two of Britain's most infamous killers, shedding light on the real heroes of one of the saddest chapters of criminal history. It explores the court processes, the complications of Rose West's trial, her unsuccessful appeal and the difficulty of dealing with witnesses in such a traumatic case. On one level, this is a story of the triumph of good over evil; on another it is a detailed documentation of how a murder investigation really works - the pressures, the commitment and the physical and emotional drain on those who carry out this work.
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Giles Brindley
Oxford: Crime, Death and Debauchery
Pbk published April 2006 by Sutton at £14.99
ISBN: 075093820X
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Martin Edwards
- author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
In the city of Inspector Morse, when it comes to crime, truth may be stranger than fiction. This walk through the dark corridors of Oxford's past is populated with footpads and prostitutes, murderers and conmen, thieves and philanderers. Giles Brindley has searched the archives of the university, the Public Record Office, the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies and others to collect more than 100 accounts that paint a picture of Oxford's seedier side. Using contemporary court records and newspaper accounts, he brings together crime stories dating from 1750 to about 1920, including: infamous murders, hangings and dying confessions, grand and daring thefts, escapes from the county gaol, suicide in the name of love, and great drinking deaths.
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Alan Hayhurst
Cheshire Murders
Pbk published May 2006 by Sutton at £12.99
ISBN: 075094076X
A fascinating collection of some of the most notorious murders in Cheshire's history. Alan Hayhurst re-examines the crimes that shocked not only the county but Britain as a whole. Some of the gruesome cases in this new book are better known than others: the inexplicable shooting of his wife and two daughters by Lock Ah Tam in 1926 and the Gorse Hall murder in 1909. Others are less well known, including the mysterious murder of Mary Malpas in 1835, and the tale of the 'Congleton Cannibal'. All manner of murder and mystery is featured here, and this book is sure to be a must-read for true crime enthusiasts everywhere.
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D J Leighton
Ripper Suspect: Secret Lives of Montague Druitt
Published April 2006 by Sutton at £18.99
ISBN: 0750943297
One of the most popular of all Ripper suspects, Montague Druitt appears on the surface an unlikely killer. Born into a comfortable bourgeois family, he was educated at New College, Oxford, qualified for the Bar and played cricket for a number of strong club sides. But, there was another side to the agreeable Mr Druitt. He moved in the artistic and aristocratic circles that overlapped with London's secretive homosexual culture, was summarily dismissed from his post at a boys' school, and a few weeks later was found drowned in the Thames, just months after the Jack the Ripper murders. Six years later, Chief Constable Sir Melville Macnaughten named Druitt as the murderer and gave the unhappy barrister a kind of immortality. D. J. Leighton has dug deep into the background to Druitt's unhappy life and uncovered a web of intriguing connections linking the eldest son of the heir to the throne, the Cambridge Apostles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Virginia Woolf and the cricketing legend Prince Kumar Ranjitsinhji. The book is a fascinating period piece that deftly weaves together the criminal, sporting, aristocratic and homosexual worlds of late nineteenth-century London, in search of the truth behind Macnaughten's surprising allegations. This book is an excellent piece of period crime history with a Jack the Ripper setting. It is a colourful Victorian underworld story, mixing high society with scandal, the golden age of amateur cricket and murder. It is the authoritative debunking of the case for Druitt as Jack the Ripper. It features and reviews potential in "Ripperologist" and other period crime magazines, and also in cricketing press. It has a strong local interest in Blackheath, where Druitt worked and played the key cricket matches that rule him out as a Ripper suspect. D. J. Leighton is a retired director of the Portals Group with a lifelong interest in cricket, from which his interest in the Druitt case arose.
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Daniel Longman
Criminal Wirral
Pbk published June 2006 by Sutton at £12.99
ISBN: 0750944064
"Criminal Wirral" is an intriguing and entertaining collection of some of the strangest, most despicable and comical crimes that took place on the Wirral peninsula from the Victorian era up until the early twentieth century. Daniel K. Longman's painstaking research has uncovered many fascinating cases that have been long forgotten, and he sheds new light on local causes celebres. The tales are supported by a number of maps with many contemporary and modern photographs, which help to bring these events and the people featured in them back to life. "Criminal Wirral" will appeal to anyone who has an interest in the darker side of Wirral's history.
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Robert Frederick Opie
Guillotine: The Timbers of Justice
Pbk published May 2006 by Sutton at £8.99
ISBN: 075094403X
The guillotine is undoubtedly the most potent image of revolutionary France, the tool whereby a whole society was "redesigned". Yet what came to be seen as an instrument of terror was, paradoxically, introduced as the result of the humanitarian feelings of men intent on revising an ancient and barbaric penal code. Robert Frederick Opie takes the reader on a sometimes terrifying journey through the narrow streets of 18th-century Paris and beyond. Initially scorned by the revolutionary mob for being insufficiently cruel, the swift and efficient guillotine soon became the darling of the crowd, despatching as many as 60 people a day beneath its blade. But the Razor of the Nation was to remain the chosen instrument of capital punishment until the 1970s, only finally being banned in 1981. This work traces the development of the guillotine over nearly two centuries, recounting the stories of famous executions, the lives of the executioners and the scientific research into whether the head retained consciousness after it was separated from the body that continued into the 1950s. The story recounts some diabolical uses of human inventiveness, but also many touching pleas for mercy.
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