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The London Blitz Murders

Author : Max Allan Collins
Publisher : Disaster
ISBN 13 : 9781612185200
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book The London Blitz Murders written by Max Allan Collins and published by Disaster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By day, she's Mrs. Mallowan, hospital pharmacist. By night, she's Agatha Christie, queen of crime. Doing her part for the war effort, Agatha dispenses medicine in shell- shocked London. But the world's most renowned mystery writer is troubled. Compared to the horrors of World War II, her detective novels seem trivial and quaint. When a Jack the Ripper-style murderer strikes, Agatha lobbies her friend, forensics expert Sir Bernard Spilsbury, to take her to the crime scenes. But the killings are far more gruesome than any that her fictional detectives have ever solved. Can a crime writer also be a crime fighter? Joining forces with London's top investigators, Agatha risks her life to stop the monstrous serial killer. With this ripped-from-the-headlines mystery, author Max Allan Collins presents a blood-stained valentine to the most celebrated author of detective fiction.

Crime in the Second World War

Author : Penny Legg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781220092
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Crime in the Second World War written by Penny Legg and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was There Crime in the Second World War? At a time of national emergency, the average person could be forgiven for thinking that crime rates would go down as everyone tried to help the war effort. However, the reality was that criminals saw the war as an opportunity to exploit the emergency conditions and those with a previously unblemished reputation found themselves tempted off the straight and narrow. Criminal activity wasn't just a civilian occupation. The military services had its share of crime and the influx of foreign troops added to the problem. American and Canadian troops found themselves transported to Britain in preparation for D-Day. Lonely and far from home, some rioted and many looked for other distractions with desertion being a significant problem and one which was often funded by crime. Heavily illustrated with both contemporary and modern photographs Penny takes you back to some of the most infamous wartime crimes such as the blackout ripper, the bath chair murderer and the last person to be prosecuted in Britain for witchcraft. She also delves into the murky world of Spivs, Gangs, prostitutes and Robbers. At a time when rationing, shortages and the blitz meant feeding the family became ever more difficult it was all too easy for the increasingly blurred line of criminality to be crossed. Penny Legg shows how and why crime was committed during the Second World War and what became of those Spivs, Scoundrels, Rogues and Worse who strayed into the underworld.

Murder on the Home Front

Author : Molly Lefebure
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455576077
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Murder on the Home Front written by Molly Lefebure and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1941. While the "war of chaos" rages in the skies above London, an unending fight against violence, murder and the criminal underworld continues on the streets below. One ordinary day, in an ordinary courtroom, forensic pathologist Dr. Keith Simpson asks a keen young journalist to be his secretary. Although the "horrors of secretarial work" don't appeal to Molly Lefebure, she's intrigued to know exactly what goes on behind a mortuary door. Capable and curious, "Miss Molly" quickly becomes indispensible to Dr. Simpson as he meticulously pursues the truth. Accompanying him from somber morgues to London's most gruesome crime scenes, Molly observes and assists as he uncovers the dark secrets that all murder victims keep. With a sharp sense of humor and a rebellious spirit, Molly tells her own remarkable true story here with warmth and wit, painting a vivid portrait of wartime London.

The Canning Town Murder

Author : Mike Hollow
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0749026871
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Canning Town Murder written by Mike Hollow and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published as Fifth Column.September, 1940. As the Blitz takes its nightly toll on London and Hitler prepares his invasion fleet just across the Channel in occupied France, Britain is full of talk about enemy agents. Suspicion is at an all time high and no one is sure who can be trusted.In Canning Town, rescue workers are unsettled when they return to a damaged street and discover a body that shouldn't be there. When closer examination of the corpse reveals death by strangling, Detective Inspector John Jago is called upon to investigate. But few seem to really care about the woman's death - not even her family. As Jago digs deeper he starts to uncover a trail of deception, betrayal, and romantic entanglements.

Murder Files from Scotland Yard and the Black Museum

Author : R. Michael Gordon
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476631271
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Murder Files from Scotland Yard and the Black Museum written by R. Michael Gordon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the files of Scotland Yard’s “Black Museum” (open only to police officers) come true crime stories of some of the most infamous murder cases of the 19th and 20th centuries—the Lambeth Poisoner, “baby farmer” Amelia Elizabeth Dyer, the Gentleman Vampire of Bournemouth, the Brides in the Bath Murders, the Rillington Place murders and many others. Along the way, investigators pass a number of crime-solving milestones, included the first use of fingerprint technology, the early use of photography and the first time “The Yard” enlisted the press to help hunt down a killer.

Dark City

Author : Simon Read
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780711034433
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Dark City written by Simon Read and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst the chaos of wartime London, criminals hunted their prey without fear of reprisal. Many operated under the cover of darkness, emerging when the city sank into the oblivion of its nightly blackout; others simply struck whenever opportunity presented itself. At a time when Londoners were pulling together in the face of terrible adversity, there were an increasing number of looters, racketeers, terrorists, criminal gangs, prostitutes, rapists, and murderers stalking the bomb-ravaged, panic-ridden streets, and this book chronicles the rapid rise of crime throughout this turbulent period. The deprivations of war forced many onto the wrong side of the law, stretching the resources of London’s Metropolitan Police Department to the limit. Air raids and the dangers of patrolling London in the dark cost the police more than one hundred men during World War 2. Petrol rationing and mandatory radio silence placed limits on the department’s mobility and communications.

Murders in the Blitz

Author : Julia Underwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781517068028
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Murders in the Blitz written by Julia Underwood and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Murders in the Blitz' is an omnibus of three Eve Duncam murder mystery novellas: 'A Murder of No Account', 'A Murder Close to Home' and 'A Murder in the Country'. All set in England during the 1940s.The Second World War has been in progress for nearly a year and nothing much has happened to inconvenience the people of Shepherd's Bush in London. One wet evening Eve Duncan finds the body of a young woman abandoned in an alley. Eve's life changes dramatically as she is sucked into a life that she had not expected, helping the police with their enquiries into the death. Just as she is solving the crime the brutal bombing of London - the Blitz begins - and everyone's life is in danger, and changed forever. Once she has solved this first crime her services are in demand again to help with further crimes committed in her neighbourhood and later, in the countryside when she is helping to look after a posse of evacuees her sister has taken in.Eve, a feisty redhead with strong opinions and a sharp temper is, in spite of her small stature, well equipped to deal with the difficulties that confront her. Eve's stories are fast moving, full of period detail and would appeal to fans of the 'cosy' murder mystery genre.

Murder at the Savoy

Author : Jim Eldridge
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0749027118
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Murder at the Savoy written by Jim Eldridge and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Eldridge, author of the Museum Mysteries, turns his pen to Wartime London's grandest hotels.September 1940: the height of the Blitz. The Savoy Hotel boasts London's strongest air raid shelter with all the luxury expected from one of the capital's most prestigious hotels. It prompts the arrival of a disgruntled crowd from the East End, demanding they be allowed entry and respite from the endless bombing raids. They are given permission to enter and are stunned by the opulence that greets them. The all-clear sounds the next morning and London comes slowly back to life, but not everyone can dust themselves down and carry on. One of the hotel's guests has been discovered dead, stabbed in the back. Detective Chief Inspector Coburg and Sergeant Lampson are called in and the finger of suspicion falls firmly upon the East Londoners, but not everything is as it seems in these sumptuous surroundings.

The Custom House Murder

Author : Mike Hollow
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0749026979
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Custom House Murder written by Mike Hollow and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published as Enemy Action. September, 1940. With London having endured the Blitz for nearly a month, people are calling for vengeance, but once again the night heralds more destruction. In Custom House, anxious residents dutifully head to the nearest public air-raid shelter as the warning siren wails. When dawn brings the all-clear, people disperse, but one man remains - he is dead, stabbed through the heart. Detective Inspector John Jago discovers that the victim was a pacifist. But why, then, was he carrying a loaded revolver in his pocket?

The Pimlico Murder

Author : Mike Hollow
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0749026898
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Pimlico Murder written by Mike Hollow and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Well-written excellent historical fiction' - Historical Novels Review Armistice Day, 1940. The nation remembers the Great War while a new and harrowing conflict rumbles on. The Blitz Detective, John Jago, must set aside his own painful memories to investigate a suspicious death in Pimlico, south-west London. The body of a young man has been discovered in an Anderson shelter, with two white poppies in his pocket. As the investigation progresses, Jago and his assistant, DC Cradock, find themselves knee-deep in Pimlico's shady underworld and connections with Mosley's fascist party. It will take all their skills to uncover the truth behind the young man's brutal death.

The Hindenburg Murders

Author : Max Allan Collins
Publisher : Disaster
ISBN 13 : 9781612185170
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book The Hindenburg Murders written by Max Allan Collins and published by Disaster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Hindenburg went from luxury airship to gargantuan fireball wasn't the only mystery surrounding the zeppelin's fatal flight. First came the murder. When a passenger vanishes during the Hindenburg's trans-Atlantic voyage from Frankfurt to New Jersey, mystery writer Leslie Charteris is asked to use his knowledge of the criminal mind to quietly pinpoint the killer. Charteris is famous for his fictional detective, the Saint, who extracts riches as well as vengeance from evildoers in true Robin Hood fashion. But in this case, the villain turns out to be the murder victim himself--a Nazi spy. And the list of passengers who might want him dead is long. Suspecting that sabotaging the German airship is the killer's true aim, Charteris must solve the murder before innocent lives are engulfed in flames. Reconstructing the zeppelin's fatal flight on the eve of World War II, The Hindenburg Murders proves that Max Allan Collins is the master of hard-boiled historical fiction.

The Blitz Detective

Author : Mike Hollow
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0749026774
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Blitz Detective written by Mike Hollow and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published as Direct HitSaturday 7th September, 1940. The sun is shining, and in the midst of the good weather Londoners could be mistaken for forgetting their country was at war - until the familiar wail of the air-raid sirens heralds an enemy attack. The Blitz has started, and normal life has abruptly ended - but crime has not.That night a man's body is discovered in an unmarked van in the back streets of West Ham. When Detective Inspector John Jago is called to the scene, he recognises the victim: local Justice of the Peace, Charles Villiers. The death looks suspicious, but then a German bomb obliterates all evidence. War or no war, murder is still murder, and it's Jago's job to find the truth.

Dead in the Water

Author : Mark Ellis
Publisher : Headline Accent
ISBN 13 : 1786159872
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Dead in the Water written by Mark Ellis and published by Headline Accent. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summer, 1942. The Second World War rages on but Britain now faces the Nazi threat with America at its side. In a bombed-out London swarming with gangsters and spies, DCI Frank Merlin continues his battle against rampant wartime crime. A mangled body is found in the Thames just as some items of priceless art go mysteriously missing. What sinister connection links the two? Merlin and his team follow a twisting trail of secrets and lies as they investigate a baffling and deadly puzzle . 'This is to my shame the first Mark Ellis book I've read. If the others evoke a vanished London so impressively, are graced with such complex plots and deep characterisation, and, above all, are written so well I shall have to read them all.' THE TIMES - PICKS OF THE WEEK 'Extraordinarily atmospheric and compelling, DEAD IN THE WATER is a wonderfully intelligent and complex story' CHRIS LLOYD, HWA Gold Crown Award winner. Praise for the DCI Frank Merlin series: 'Masterly . . . compelling . . . one of the most attractive characters to emerge in recent detective-thriller fiction' ANDREW ROBERTS, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Against the backdrop of Blitz-hit London, this stylish thriller sees Scotland Yard's Frank Merlin investigate a tangled conspiracy' SUNDAY MIRROR

The Murder Gang

Author : Neil Root
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750987219
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Murder Gang written by Neil Root and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were an elite group of renegade Fleet Street crime reporters covering the most notorious British crime between the mid-1930s and the mid-1960s. It was an era in which murder dominated the front and inside pages of the newspapers – the 'golden age' of tabloid crime. Members of the Murder Gang knew one another well. They drank together in the same Fleet Street pubs, but they were also ruthlessly competitive in pursuit of the latest scoop. It was said that when the Daily Express covered a big murder story they would send four cars: one containing their reporters, the other three to block the road at crime scenes to stop other rivals getting through. As a matter of course, Murder Gang members listened in to police radios, held clandestine meetings with killers on the run, made huge payments to murderers and their families – and jammed potatoes into their rivals' exhaust pipes so their cars wouldn't start. These were just the tools of the trade; it was a far cry from modern reporting. Here, Neil Root delves into their world, examining some of the biggest crime stories of the era and the men who wrote them. In turns fascinating, shocking and comical, this tale of true crime, media and social history will have you turning the pages as if they were those newspapers of old.

The Theatre Organ Murders

Author : Jeanette Howeth Crumpler
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465324925
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre Organ Murders written by Jeanette Howeth Crumpler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel back in time to the early days of vaudeville, nickelodeons, movies, theatre organs and stars. Theatre Row on Dallas Elm Street is bustling and alive with beautiful theatres, crowds of enthusiastic patrons and movies, movies and more movies. But there is something murderously mysterious going on at the fabulous Rivertree Theatre. A cast of villains and other characters fill the pages of this intriguing saga, along with more startling stories of the many theatres that were along the fabulous Elm Street Theatre Row and the theatre organs that were in them. Shocking events and incredible performances await the reader on this journey through seven decades of Dallas entertainment history. Brilliant imagery fills each chapter. Extra features include a history of the theatre organ, an updated list of the theatre organs that were in Dallas, and a detailed list of all of the theatres that were along Elm Streets Theatre Row during 70 years of Dallas entertainment history. Special treats are the complete specifications and history of the famous Palace Publix Theatre Organ, its final resting place and many other exciting details of those unforgettable times and places.

Death in the Air

Author : Kate Winkler Dawson
Publisher : Hachette Books
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 Books. 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.

Murder Capital

Author : Amy Bell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847799744
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Murder Capital written by Amy Bell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder Capital is a historical study of unexpected deaths whose circumstances required official investigation in mid-twentieth-century London. Suspicious deaths – murders in the family and by strangers, infanticides and deaths from illegal abortions – reveal moments of personal and communal crisis in the social fabric of the city. The intimate details of these crimes revealed in police investigation files, newspaper reports and crime scene photographs hint at the fears and desires of people in London before, during and after the profound changes brought by the dislocations of the Second World War. By setting the institutional ordering of the city against the hidden intimate spaces where crimes occurred and were discovered, the book presents a new popular history of the city, in which urban space circumscribed the investigation, classification and public perceptions of crime.