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London's Curse

Author : Mark Beynon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752466720
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book London's Curse written by Mark Beynon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, London was gripped by the supposed curse of Tutankhamun, whose tomb in the Luxor sands was uncovered in February 1923 by the British archaeologist Howard Carter. The site was plundered, and over the next few years more than twenty of those involved in the exhumation or in handling the contents of the tomb perished in strange and often terrifying circumstances, prompting the myth of the 'Curse of Tutankhamun'. Nowhere - particularly London's West End - appeared to be safe for those who had provoked the ire of the Egyptian death gods. A blend of meticulous research and educated conjecture, historian and screenwriter Mark Beynon turns armchair detective as he uncovers a wealth of hitherto unpublished material that lays bare the truth behind these fatalities. Could ' London's Curse' be attributed to the work of a macabre mastermind? It soon becomes apparent that these deaths were not only linked by the ominous presence of Tutankhamun himself, but also by a murderer hell-bent on retribution and dubbed by the press as 'The Wickedest Man in the World'.

Az Murder Goes...Artful

Author : Barbara G Peters
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615951520
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Az Murder Goes...Artful written by Barbara G Peters and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-01-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymond Chandler called it “The Simple Art of Murder, ” but It never has been simple to write mysteries. This volume explores the crimes in novels that are rooted in the worlds of art, architecture, and antiquities.

The Wicked Boy

Author : Kate Summerscale
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143110462
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Wicked Boy written by Kate Summerscale and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Book! From the internationally bestselling author, a deeply researched and atmospheric murder mystery of late Victorian-era London In the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age 13) and his brother Nattie (age 12) were seen spending lavishly around the docklands of East London -- for ten days in July, they ate out at coffee houses and took trips to the seaside and the theater. The boys told neighbors they had been left home alone while their mother visited family in Liverpool, but their aunt was suspicious. When she eventually forced the brothers to open the house to her, she found the badly decomposed body of their mother in a bedroom upstairs. Robert and Nattie were arrested for matricide and sent for trial at the Old Bailey. Robert confessed to having stabbed his mother, but his lawyers argued that he was insane. Nattie struck a plea and gave evidence against his brother. The court heard testimony about Robert's severe headaches, his fascination with violent criminals and his passion for 'penny dreadfuls', the pulp fiction of the day. He seemed to feel no remorse for what he had done, and neither the prosecution nor the defense could find a motive for the murder. The judge sentenced the thirteen-year-old to detention in Broadmoor, the most infamous criminal lunatic asylum in the land. Yet Broadmoor turned out to be the beginning of a new life for Robert--one that would have profoundly shocked anyone who thought they understood the Wicked Boy. At a time of great tumult and uncertainty, Robert Coombes's case crystallized contemporary anxieties about the education of the working classes, the dangers of pulp fiction, and evolving theories of criminality, childhood, and insanity. With riveting detail and rich atmosphere, Kate Summerscale recreates this terrible crime and its aftermath, uncovering an extraordinary story of man's capacity to overcome the past.

The Landscape of Murder

Author : Antonio Zazueta Olmos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781907893421
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book The Landscape of Murder written by Antonio Zazueta Olmos and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Landscape of Murder documents all the sites where murders occurred in London between January 1st, 2011 and December 31st, 2012. In total 209 murders were committed over this two year period. Antonio Zazueta Olmos seeks to give memory to what are mostly forgotten events, in unseen places where great violence has occurred. A violence that is mostly silent, private and unseen by the wider public. The project has taken him to parts of London he knew little or nothing about and in the process he has created an alternative portrait of London, one shaped by violence and inequality.

Death in the Air

Author : Kate Winkler Dawson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316506850
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Death in the Air written by Kate Winkler Dawson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing. London was still recovering from the devastation of World War II when another disaster hit: for five long days in December 1952, a killer smog held the city firmly in its grip and refused to let go. Day became night, mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and some 12,000 people died from the poisonous air. But in the chaotic aftermath, another killer was stalking the streets, using the fog as a cloak for his crimes. All across London, women were going missing--poor women, forgotten women. Their disappearances caused little alarm, but each of them had one thing in common: they had the misfortune of meeting a quiet, unassuming man, John Reginald Christie, who invited them back to his decrepit Notting Hill flat during that dark winter. They never left. The eventual arrest of the "Beast of Rillington Place" caused a media frenzy: were there more bodies buried in the walls, under the floorboards, in the back garden of this house of horrors? Was it the fog that had caused Christie to suddenly snap? And what role had he played in the notorious double murder that had happened in that same apartment building not three years before--a murder for which another, possibly innocent, man was sent to the gallows? The Great Smog of 1952 remains the deadliest air pollution disaster in world history, and John Reginald Christie is still one of the most unfathomable serial killers of modern times. Journalist Kate Winkler Dawson braids these strands together into a taut, compulsively readable true crime thriller about a man who changed the fate of the death penalty in the UK, and an environmental catastrophe with implications that still echo today.

Mad Mary Lamb

Author : Susan Tyler Hitchcock
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393057416
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Mad Mary Lamb written by Susan Tyler Hitchcock and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After killing her mother with a carving knife, Mary Lamb spent the rest of her life in and out of madhouses; yet the crime and its aftermath opened up a new life. Freed to read extensively, she discovered her talent for writing and, with her brother, the essayist Charles Lamb, collaborated on the famous Tales from Shakespeare. This narrative of a nearly forgotten woman is a tapestry of insights into creativity and madness, the changing lives of women, and the redemptive power of the written word.

Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

Author : T.A. Willberg
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488073899
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder written by T.A. Willberg and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the most fun I've had with a book this year. Every page is a delight and the mystery got its hooks into me from the first chapter.” – Stuart Turton, bestselling author of The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle The letter was short. A name, a time, a place. Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder plunges readers into the heart of London, to the secret tunnels that exist far beneath the city streets. There, a mysterious group of detectives recruited for Miss Brickett’s Investigations & Inquiries use their cunning and gadgets to solve crimes that have stumped Scotland Yard. Late one night in April 1958, a filing assistant at Miss Brickett’s receives a letter of warning, detailing a name, a time, and a place. She goes to investigate but finds the room empty. At the stroke of midnight, she is murdered by a killer she can’t see—her death the only sign she wasn’t alone. It becomes chillingly clear that the person responsible must also work for Miss Brickett’s, making everyone a suspect. Marion Lane, a first-year Inquirer-in-training, finds herself drawn ever deeper into the investigation. When her friend and colleague is framed for the crime, to clear his name she must sort through the hidden alliances at Miss Brickett’s and secrets dating back to WWII. Masterful, clever and deliciously suspenseful, Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder is a fresh take on the Agatha Christie-style locked-room murder mystery, with an exciting new heroine detective.

Murder Moves to London

Author : Anthony E. Thorogood
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781500283957
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Murder Moves to London written by Anthony E. Thorogood and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-09-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bank manager is shot dead in London and Police Sergeant West is stalked by a serial killer. A Bridegroom is shot dead at his own wedding and a teacher is suffocated at a private school. Was it the punk rock headmaster? It's snowing and at Heathrow Airport all flights are cancelled, then the airport is attacked by zombies. A fast paced comic extravaganza. You will be asking yourself - what will happen next? 'I enjoyed this very much. The style appeals to my sense of humour, squeezing sharp witted, funny comments and comedic interpretations from simple situations.'"

The Play That Goes Wrong

Author : Henry Lewis
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472576225
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Play That Goes Wrong written by Henry Lewis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn shock. After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark on producing an ambitious 1920s murder mystery. They are delighted that neither casting issues nor technical hitches currently stand in their way. However, hilarious disaster ensues and the cast start to crack under the pressure, but can they get the production back on track before the final curtain falls? The Play That Goes Wrong is a farcical murder mystery, a play within a play, conceived and performed by award-winning company Theatre Mischief. It was first published as a one-act play and is published in this new edition as a two-act play.

Murder Movie Makers

Author : Matthew Edwards
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147667647X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Murder Movie Makers written by Matthew Edwards and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serial killers, mass murderers, spree killers, outlaws, and real-life homicidal maniacs have long held a grim fascination for both filmmakers and viewers. Since the 1970s, hundreds of films and television movies have been made covering killers from Charles Manson to Ted Bundy and the Zodiac Killer creating a uniquely morbid sub-genre within horror and thrillers. This collection of interviews sheds light on 17 filmmakers and screenwriters who tackled this controversial subject while attempting to explore the warped world of infamous killers. The interviews include John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer), Tom Hanson (The Zodiac Killer), David Wickes (Jack the Ripper), Chris Gerolmo (Citizen X), Chuck Parello (The Hillside Stranglers), David Jacobson (Dahmer) and Clive Saunders on his ill-fated experience directing Gacy. Offering candid insights into the creative process behind these movies, the interviews also show the pitfalls and moral controversy the filmmakers had to wrestle with to bring their visions to the screen.

Murder on the Orient Express: The Graphic Novel (Poirot)

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008516022
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Murder on the Orient Express: The Graphic Novel (Poirot) written by Agatha Christie and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2024-10-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience Agatha Christie’s puzzling masterpiece as you've never seen it before with this official graphic novel adaptations!

The Dublin Railway Murder

Author : Thomas Morris
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 147357837X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Dublin Railway Murder written by Thomas Morris and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling and perplexing investigation of a true Victorian crime at Dublin railway station. Dublin, November 1856: George Little, the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus, is found dead, lying in a pool of blood beneath his desk. He has been savagely beaten, his head almost severed; there is no sign of a murder weapon, and the office door is locked, apparently from the inside. Thousands of pounds in gold and silver are left untouched at the scene of the crime. Augustus Guy, Ireland's most experienced detective, teams up with Dublin's leading lawyer to investigate the murder. But the mystery defies all explanation, and two celebrated sleuths sent by Scotland Yard soon return to London, baffled. Five suspects are arrested then released, with every step of the salacious case followed by the press, clamouring for answers. But then a local woman comes forward, claiming to know the murderer... 'The Dublin Railway Murder is a true-crime masterclass' Philip Gray, author of Two Storm Wood

Sleeping Murder

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062073729
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Sleeping Murder written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs. In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they were to solve a “perfect” crime committed many years before.

Murder Moves In

Author : Elizabeth Ferrars
Publisher : Murder Room
ISBN 13 : 147190699X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Murder Moves In written by Elizabeth Ferrars and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-09-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burnham Priors was a quaint English village, not a place where one would expect to find a murder. But murder was exactly what confronted Robina Mellanby when she moved there. Robina was a young widow with two children when she married Sam Mellanby. She had no idea that the tiny village where Sam had lived, and where his one-time love Martha Birch still lived with her husband, was filled with terrible events that would now threaten Robina's own life . . .

A Murder on London Bridge

Author : Susanna Gregory
Publisher : Little, Brown UK
ISBN 13 : 9781847442529
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book A Murder on London Bridge written by Susanna Gregory and published by Little, Brown UK. This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The murder of a man in broad daylight on London Bridge is the first indication that the Earl of Clarendon's fears of a rebellion against the newly restored monarchy may be well-founded. His spy, Thomas Chaloner, suspects the assassin may be a member of a group dedicated to seeing the return of Puritanism, and at the same time he learns of a faction close to the King determined to bring back the old ways of the Roman Catholic Church. He discovers, too, that the killing on the Bridge is not the only assault committed there recently, and begins to decipher a link between the violence and the people who manage the Bridge and its tottering, ramshackle buildings. As he moves unobtrusively between White Hall, the elegant mansions along the Strand and the heaving congestion on the only river crossing he becomes aware of an undercurrent of restlessness in the capital. And it soon becomes clear that the groups he is investigating are planning some extraordinary climax to achieve their separate aims on Shrove Tuesday, which gives him very little time to identify the ring-leaders and thwart their intentions ...

Mayhem and Murder

Author : Heta Pyrhönen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802082671
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Mayhem and Murder written by Heta Pyrhönen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both detective and reader attempt to solve the crimes in detective novels, relying on the same motifs but employing different narrative interpretations to do so. A unique and lucid examination of a complex genre.

The Wicked Boy

Author : Kate Summerscale
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698135008
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book The Wicked Boy written by Kate Summerscale and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Book! From the internationally bestselling author, a deeply researched and atmospheric murder mystery of late Victorian-era London In the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age 13) and his brother Nattie (age 12) were seen spending lavishly around the docklands of East London -- for ten days in July, they ate out at coffee houses and took trips to the seaside and the theater. The boys told neighbors they had been left home alone while their mother visited family in Liverpool, but their aunt was suspicious. When she eventually forced the brothers to open the house to her, she found the badly decomposed body of their mother in a bedroom upstairs. Robert and Nattie were arrested for matricide and sent for trial at the Old Bailey. Robert confessed to having stabbed his mother, but his lawyers argued that he was insane. Nattie struck a plea and gave evidence against his brother. The court heard testimony about Robert's severe headaches, his fascination with violent criminals and his passion for 'penny dreadfuls', the pulp fiction of the day. He seemed to feel no remorse for what he had done, and neither the prosecution nor the defense could find a motive for the murder. The judge sentenced the thirteen-year-old to detention in Broadmoor, the most infamous criminal lunatic asylum in the land. Yet Broadmoor turned out to be the beginning of a new life for Robert--one that would have profoundly shocked anyone who thought they understood the Wicked Boy. At a time of great tumult and uncertainty, Robert Coombes's case crystallized contemporary anxieties about the education of the working classes, the dangers of pulp fiction, and evolving theories of criminality, childhood, and insanity. With riveting detail and rich atmosphere, Kate Summerscale recreates this terrible crime and its aftermath, uncovering an extraordinary story of man's capacity to overcome the past.