New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Wharncliffe Books 06 Oct-Dec
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Wharncliffe Books OCT-DEC 06

Ian Cecil Ashbridge Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In and Around Carlisle Pbk published November 2006 by Wharncliffe Books at £9.99 ISBN: 1845630157

For "Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths In and Around Carlisle", Ian Ashbridge has selected 30 shocking, spine-chilling and unforgettable episodes from the criminal history of the town and the surrounding countryside dating back from the nineteenth century to medieval times. The cases span over 500 years. Included are the barbaric execution for high treason of Andrew de Harlaca in 1323, and the truth behind the legend of the Croglin vampire some 362 years later, the frenzied murder of Mary Brown in St Nicholas in 1826, and that of William Horsley in 1861 who was strangled by his possessive lady friend who also happened to be his mother-in-law. Other more familiar incidents are recalled - the Durranhill Murder of 1861, the brutal shooting of PC Byrnes at Plumpton in 1885 - but most of the murders and misdeeds recorded here are less well known. All reflect the hardship and brutality of those distant times, when the justice system was uncompromising and most forms of crime were dealt with ruthlessly. And yet sometimes, there were unexpected and merciful acquitals that reveal much about the attitudes of a remote age. Ian Ashbridge's meticulously researched and fluently written book will be fascinating reading for anyone who is interested in the history of Carlisle and the dark side of life.

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Glynis Cooper Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Guernsey Pbk published November 2006 by Wharncliffe Books at £9.99 ISBN: 1845630084

The twin fascinations of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In "Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Guernsey", the chill is brought close to home as each chapter investigates 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, the full spectrum of criminality is recounted here, bringing to life the sinister history of Guernsey from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. For this journey into Guernsey's bloody, neglected past, Glynis Cooper has selected over 20 notorious episodes that give a fascinating insight into criminal acts and the criminal mind. Recalled here are the witch trials of medieval and much more recent times; murderous monks, smugglers and pirates; ecclesiastical executions; disappearances; murders attributed to magic and more mundane but nonetheless extraordinary cases like that of the girl who collapsed and died of shock after her fiance was murdered by a suicidal rival. The human dramas, she describes are often played out in the most commonplace of circumstances, but others are so odd as to be stranger than fiction. Her grisly chronicle of Guernsey's hidden history will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the dark side of human nature.

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Nicholas Corder Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Staffordshire & Potteries Pbk published December 2006 by Wharncliffe Books at £9.99 ISBN: 1845630092

Death and villainy always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In "Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Staffordshire", 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 county. From crimes of passion to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of murder, the full spectrum of criminality is recounted here, bringing to life the sinister history of Staffordshire from the Georgian period to modern times. For this journey into a bloody, neglected aspect of the past, Nicholas Corder has selected over 20 notorious 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 murderous breakout from Standon Farm and the vicious assaults on Isaac Brooks. The canal boat killing of poor Christina Brown is described in graphic detail, as is the fatal womanizing of Romeo Smith, the bizarre case of the headless corpse of Hednesford, and the bestiality of Thomas James. 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 Staffordshire's hidden history will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the dark side of human nature.

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Easdown Martin & Sage Linda Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Folkestone Pbk published December 2006 by Wharncliffe Books at £9.99 ISBN: 1845630114

"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.

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Glenda Goulden Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In & Around Cambridge Pbk published December 2006 by Wharncliffe Books at £9.99 ISBN: 1845630106

Death and villainy always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In "Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths In and Around Cambridge", 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 this famous university town. From crimes of passion to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of murder, the full spectrum of criminality is recounted here, revealing Cambridge's sinister history from medieval times to the modern day. For this journey into a bloody, neglected aspect of the past, Glenda Goulden has selected over 20 notorious episodes that give a fascinating insight into criminal acts and the criminal mind. Recalled here are violent deaths that took place in the city's great colleges - the murder of a baby at Trinity, the shooting of a tutor at King's - as well as the public executions that were a feature of town life until recent times. The variety of cases covered is remarkable and revealing - poisonings by arsenic and strychnine; insanity driving a mother to drown her daughter; a father who shot his children, then himself; a fatal duel; the shooting of a gamekeeper; the boy strangled with a length of string. The personal dramas, Glenda Goulden explores are often played out in the most commonplace of circumstances, but others are so odd as to be stranger than fiction. Her grisly chronicle of the history Cambridge would prefer to forget will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the dark side of human nature.

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Caroline Maxton Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Croydon Pbk published November 2006 by Wharncliffe Books at £9.99 ISBN: 1845630076

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. For this journey into Croydon's bloody, neglected past, the author has selected over 20 notorious episodes that give a sharp insight into criminal acts and the criminal mind. Her grisly chronicle of Croydon's hidden history - the history the town would perhaps prefer to forget - will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the dark side of human nature.

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Veronica Smith Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In and Around Bristol Pbk published November 2006 by Wharncliffe Books at £9.99 ISBN: 1845630130

The twin fascinations of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In "Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Bristol", 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 last three centuries in the city. From crimes of passion to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of murder, the full spectrum of Bristol's criminal past is recounted here. For this sinister journey, Veronica Smith has selected over 20 notorious episodes that give a telling insight into criminal acts and the criminal mind. Among them are the tale of Russell Pascoe who was the last man to hang in Bristol, the son who killed his bullying father, two Victorian infanticides, the fate of the man who liked to be tied up in the woods, the killing by a woman of her faithless lover and the neighbours who covered up a murder. Fascinating details of day-to-day existence in the past emerge as she recalls these notorious episodes. They reveal much about the moral climate of the time, the policing and the justice systems, and the conditions in which ordinary people lived and their approach to life. The human dramas she describes are often played out in the most commonplace of circumstances, but others are so odd as to be stranger than fiction. Her grisly chronicle of Bristol's hidden history will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the dark side of human nature.

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