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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 ...


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Wayward Women

We most often think of the Victorian female offender in her most archetypal and stereotypical roles; the polite lady shoplifter, stowing all manner of valuables beneath her volumin ...


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First World War Trials & Executions

Between the beginning of the First World War in the summer of 1914 and the armistice in 1918, 51 men were executed in Britain. The great majority, over 80%, were hanged for murder, ...


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The Justice Women

The first policewomen were established during the Great War, but with no powers of arrest; the first women lawyers did not practise until the early twentieth century, and despite t ...


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Agent Michael Trotobas and SOE in Northern France

The exceptional exploits, courage and leadership of British SOE Agent Trotobas have long been recognised in France but not in his own country despite being recommended for the Vict ...


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Bombers, Rioters and Police Killers

Civil disorder, violent crime and terrorism were all considerably worse during the Victorian period than they are today, though ironically many regard this era of British history a ...


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Regency Spies

Sue Wilkes reveals the shadowy world of Britain's spies, rebels and secret societies from the late 1780s until 1820. Drawing on contemporary literature and official records, Wilkes ...


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Sönderlandet

Från Sönderlandets öar fem, kommer ingen levande hem.   Det har gått ett år sedan Nora Wagners närmaste kollega sköts till döds. Både hon själv och hennes kollegor anser att hon bo ...


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Skadedjuret

Kriminalinspektör Amanda Junisson vid Sundsvallspolisen längtar efter att bilda familj. Hennes pojkvän har precis friat, men mitt i glädjeruset finns en oro som gnager. Tankarna sk ...


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The Kreutzer Sonata

"I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible."A man travelling ...