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Turun murhahistoria

Turulla on entisenä pääkaupunkina pitkä ja synkkä rikoshistoria. Kaupungin menneisyys kätkee sisäänsä lukuisia murhamysteereitä. Useat Turun keskeiset paikat ovat toimineet veritöi ...


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Crafty Crooks and Conmen

They’re crafty and cunning ­ every one of them a conman who would relieve you of your hard-earned cash without a qualm. And yet what sets apart the crooks who fill the pages of thi ...


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Operation Mona: en kriminalroman

Ett klassiskt spaningsmord och dessutom av sådan karaktär att det stinker gänguppgörelse lång väg. Kriminalkommissarie Svanstrand och hans brottsutredare på "våldet" drabbas också ...


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Tracing Your Secret Service Ancestors

Did you have a spy in the family, an ancestor who was involved in espionage at home or abroad? If you have ever had any suspicions about the secret activities of your relatives, or ...


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Code Wars

When the top secret codebreaking activities at Bletchley Park were revealed in the 1970s, much of the history of the Second World War had to be rewritten. Code Wars examines the ro ...


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Broadmoor Revealed

Glimpse what went on behind the walls of England's first Criminal Lunatic Asylum!Mark Stevens reveals what life was like for the criminally insane over one hundred years ago. From ...


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Ian Fleming and SOE’s Operation POSTMASTER

This is a true story of a force of ‘licensed to kill’ secret agents, commanded by a real war time secret service chief code names M, with whom Ian Fleming worked, and upon whom his ...


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The Real Sherlock Holmes

On 6 December 1886, Arthur Foster leaves the Queen's Theatre, Manchester with a pocket full of gold and a lady bedecked with diamonds on his arm. He hails a hansom cab unaware that ...


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Sharing the Secret

This ground breaking book examines the colorful history of the Intelligence Corps from its formation in 1940 up to the present day. Even accepting that there are aspects of the Cor ...


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Crime and Corruption at The Yard

During David Woodland's 19 years' service with the Metropolitan Police, the 'thin blue line' came under intense pressure. In addition to the routine caseload of gang crime, murder ...


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Past Crimes

Today, police forces all over the world use archaeological techniques to help them solve crimes – and archaeologists are using the same methods to identify and investigate crimes i ...


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The Adventure of the Norwood Builder

John McFarlane, a young solicitor, got himself in a mess which could cost him his future. He is afraid that he is about to be arrested for the murder of Jonas Oldacre, a builder wh ...


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His Last Bow

"His Last Bow" is a collection of eight short-stories about the adventures of the detective Sherlock Holmes. Here are tales of murder, abductions, stolen information, and secrets. ...


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The Adventure of the Naval Treaty

Mr. Percy Phelps, a Foreign Office employee, is desperate. An important naval treaty disappeared while he was working with it during one late night in the office. Phelps reaches ou ...


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Tudor Victims of the Reformation

This book describes a selection of people caught up in the turmoil that presaged the reformation - a period of change instigated by a king whose desire for a legitimate son was to ...


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The Dark Side of East London

Just hearing the phrase ‘the East End’ summons up images of slums and dark alleyways, with Jack the Ripper appearing from the mist, or housing estates and pubs where you might find ...


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A Pleasure to Do Death With You

In the tenth book of the acclaimed DI Christy Kennedy series, a successful investment banker is found dead under unusual circumstances. While it looks like the case of an autoeroti ...


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Down on Cyprus Avenue

In this new series from Paul Charles, formerly retired policeman Brendy McCusker is forced to return to work following his wife's flight to America with their nest-egg. On his firs ...


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St Ernan's Blues

A lone building on a small island off Ireland's Donegal coast, St Ernan's is politely known as a "retirement home" for priests. The exiled residents are guilty of such serious offe ...


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SAS: With the Maquis in Action with the French Resistance

On the night of 5/6 June 1944, D-Day, a Lockheed Hudson dropped a small group of parachutists into the mountainous Morvan area of central France. Their mission was to operate as an ...


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The Cold War Spy Pocket Manual

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"Some twenty-five years after its conclusion, yet with its echoes resonating once more in contemporary East-West relations, the rigors and detail of many aspects of the Cold War ar ...


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What’s Tha Playing at Nah?

Welcome to What's Tha Playing At Nah?, the fourth volume of Martyn Johnson's acclaimed series of stories about policing during the 1960s and 1970s. Whether 'on the beat' or 'as CID ...


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Accused

The image of the witch - crook-nosed, unpleasant of disposition and with a penchant for harming her neighbours - is well established in the popular imagination. For hundreds of yea ...


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The Case of the Chocolate Cream Killer

“The trial which terminated yesterday…revealed one of the strangest and most horrible stories possibly ever told in a court of justice.” (Morning Post).When the news broke in 1871 ...


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Bodysnatchers

In this chilling history of the bodysnatching trade, the stories of Britain's lesser known Resurrection Men are told. Here are the stories of the men who robbed graves during the w ...