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Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 9781854870568
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of True Crime 2 written by Colin Wilson and published by Constable. This book was released on 1990 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
ISBN 13 : 9781841193946
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (939 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Illustrated True Crime written by Colin Wilson and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vast photographic record of the annals of crime featuring some of the 20th century's most infamous criminals and shocking crimes. It covers everything from arson, cannibalism, con men and headless corpses, to mass murderers, sabotage, victims and vital clues.
Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780881845914
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of True Crime 2 written by Colin Wilson and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1990 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the history of homicide from fifteenth-century Scottish robber Sawney Bean and his cannibalistic, degenerate clan to modern-day serial killer Ted Bundy
Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472117077
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits Volume 2 written by Mike Ashley and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-new collection of exciting murder-mysteries with historical settings This new volume of historical murder and mystery contains over 20 specially commissioned stories ranging in period from Ancient Rome to the reign of Good Queen Bess. It features original stories from such masters as Steven Saylor, Peter Tremayne, Philip Gooden, Susanna Gregory, Kate Ellis, Michael Jecks, Edward D. Hoch and Marilyn Todd. · In Steven Saylor’s Roman tale, Poppy and the Poisoned Cake, Gordianus the Finder feels his latest assignment is suspiciously easy to solve. · Edward D. Hoch puts a novel twist on the locked-room mystery by setting it on a “locked ship” — Christopher Columbus’s, in fact! · In Flibbertigibbet Paul Finch unleashes a deranged serial killer on Elizabethan London. · Falstaff ’s successor Sir Johan de Mandeville turns sleuth in Keith Taylor’s Bene?t of Clergy. · Sister Fidelma must solve the mystery of a murdered Celtic monk in Death of an Icon by Peter Tremayne. · A pig provides the key to Michael Jecks’s latest Sir Baldwin mystery.- · Cherith Baldry turns Geoffrey Chaucer into a secret agent in her version of The Pilgrim’s Tale. · Anarchy and murderous intent rule when the Romans leave the British Isles in Richard Butler’s The Last Legion. . . . plus many more tales of dark age murder and mayhem!
Author : Michael Ashley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy II written by Michael Ashley and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy can be downright funny! To prove it, editor Mike Ashley has compiled 35 short stories for a second mammoth volume, featuring fantasy's funniest, wackiest writers.
Author : Paul Gravett
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics written by Paul Gravett and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mammoth Books: From history to manga, true crime to sci-fi, these anthologies feature top-name contributors and award-winning editors.
Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of True Crime written by Colin Wilson and published by Constable. This book was released on 1988 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maxim Jakubowski
Publisher : C & R Crime
ISBN 13 : 1849015260
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper written by Maxim Jakubowski and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2008-04-24 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and expanded edition of the fullest ever collective investigation into Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel Murders. This volume collects not just all the key factual evidence but also 20 different arguments as to the identity of Jack the Ripper, such as that advanced by Patricia Cornwell. Contributions are from the world's leading Ripperologists, including William Beadle, Melvyn Fairclough, Martin Fido, Shirley Harrison, James Tully and Colin Wilson. The identity of Jack the Ripper has plagued professional historians, criminologists, writers and amateur enthusiasts. The many suspects include Montague John Druitt, Walter Sickert, Aaron Kosminski, Michael Ostrog, William Henry Bury, Dr Tumblety and James Maybrick. The only certainty is that Ripperologist have not found an invididual on whom they can all agree. The essays are supported by a detailed chronology, extensive bibliography and filmography.
Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : C & R Crime
ISBN 13 : 1780333595
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries written by Mike Ashley and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery conundrums from crime's finest storytellers Presenting 30 impossible mysteries and bizarre crimes guaranteed to fascinate and intrigue. The delight in these stories is unravelling the puzzle and trying to work out what on earth happened. Stories include: • A man alone in an all-glass phone booth, visible on CCTV and with no one near him, is killed by an ice pick. • a man sitting alone in a room is shot by a bullet fired only once and that was over 200 years ago. • A man enters a cable-car carriage alone and is visible the entire journey but is found dead when he reaches the bottom. • A man vanishes at the top of the Indian rope trick and is found dead miles away. • a dead man continues to receive mail in response to letters apparently written by him after he'd died. The anthology includes several brand new stories never previously published, plus a range of extremely rare stories, many never reprinted since their first appearance in increasingly rare magazines.
Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780333560
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries & Impossible Crimes written by Mike Ashley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of criminal conundrums are more than whodunits, they're howdunits and are intended to stretch your powers of deduction to the limits.
Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472113659
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein written by Stephen Jones and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frankenstein... His very name conjures up images of plundered graves, secret laboratories, electrical experiments and reviving the dead. Within these pages, the maddest doctor of them all and his demented disciples once again delve into the Secret's of Life, as science fiction meets horror when the world's most famous monster lives again! The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein collects together for the first time twenty-three electrifying tales of cursed creation that are guaranteed to spark your interest - with classics from the pulp magazines by Robert Bloch and Manly Wade Wellman, modern masterpieces from Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Karl Edward Wagner, David J. Schow and R. Chetwynd-Hayes, and original contributions by Graham Masterson, Basil Copper, John Brunner, Guy N. Smith, Kim Newman, Paul J. McAuley, Roberta Lannes, Michael Marshall Smith, Daniel Fox, Adrian Cole, Nancy Kilpatrick, Brian Mooney and Lisa Morton. Plus you're sure to get a charge from three complete novels: The Hound of Frankenstein by Peter Tremayne, The Dead End by David Case, and Mary W. Shelley's original masterpiece Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. As an electrical storm rages overhead, the generators are charged up, and beneath the sheet a cold form awaits its miraculous rebirth. Now it's time to throw that switch and discover all that Man Was Never Meant to Know.
Author : Jim Fisher
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781495973444
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (734 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Murder written by Jim Fisher and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF MURDER: TRUE STORIES OF VIOLENT DEATH contains 200 gripping accounts of homicide, criminal investigation, forensic science, criminology, and courtroom drama by veteran true crime writer Jim Fisher. The collection features murder-for-hire, arson murder, historic and celebrated murders, junk science, strange cause and manner of death cases, women who kill, the drug addled and the insane, serial murder, and more!
Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472117085
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits Volume 1 written by Mike Ashley and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into three main sections, "The Ancient World", "The Middle Ages" and "Regency and Gaslight", The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits includes: · The Thief versus Rhampsinitus by Herodotus - probably the earliest detective story ever written. · The Locked Tomb Mystery, set in ancient Egypt, by Elizabeth Peters. · A new story by John Maddox Roberts featuring the young Roman detective Decius Metellus. · Robert van Gulik's ingenious He Came With the Rain featuring Judge Dee, a real-life character who lived inseventh-century China. · A new story by Peter Tremayne, set in seventh-century Ireland and featuring Sister Fidelma. · Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael story The Price of Light. · Paul Harding's The Confession of Brother Athelstan. · A classic locked-room mystery featuring Lillian de la Torre's popular detective Sam Johnson. · A story by Michael Harrison featuring August Dupin, the detective created by Edgar Allan Poe and the inspiration behind Sherlock Holmes. · John Dickson Carr's acclaimed The Gentleman from Paris. ...and many more!
Author : Maxim Jakubowski
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 9781841192888
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action written by Maxim Jakubowski and published by Constable. This book was released on 2001 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We now live in enlightened times that reassure us that, far from being a lower form of literature, pulp fiction is the term for what the best storytelling provides - pyrotechnic thrills, shocks galore and excitement by the bucketload! From cops, both straight and crooked, to ruthless bigshots, shady operators, femmes fatales and damsels in distress. Including gangsters, drifters, common crooks, shady attomeys to molls with a heart of gold, enjoy a rollercoaster ride through popular literature's best pulp writers. The MBO of Pulp Action includes the talents of Charles Willeford, Ed McBain, Bill Pronzini, Ed Gorman, Lawrence Block, John D. Macdonald, William Campbell Gault, Bruno Fischer, Mark Timlin, Joe R. Lansdale and many of the classic Black Mask magazine...
Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780333641
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories written by Peter Haining and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanded and with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead - from vengeful and violent spirits, set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up in their homes, to rarer and more kindly ghosts, returning from the grave to reach out across the other side. Yet others entertain desires of a more sinister bent, including the erotic. This new edition includes a selection of favourite haunted house tales chosen by famous screen stars Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Plus a top ranking list of contributors that includes Stephen King, Bram Stoker, Ruth Rendell, and James Herbert - all brought together by an anthologist who himself lives in a haunted house. Stories include: Something unspeakable lurks in a Connecticut apartment closet, in Stephen King's 'The Boogeyman'; An Irish castle holds something truly horrifying in wait, in 'The Whistling Room' by William Hope Hodgson; The lecherous old ghost of a Georgian country house eyes up his latest tenant, in Norah Lofts' 'Mr Edward'; An ancient mansion on a shelf of rock previously occupied by a doomed castle, in 'In Letters of Fire' by Gaston Le Roux; The hunter is hunted in James Herbert's tale of nineteenth-century country mansion, 'The Ghost Hunter'; Psychic phenomena and poltergeists, avenging spirits and phantom lovers - curl up and read on, but never imagine you are safe from a visit...
Author : Roger Wilkes
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780333722
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Famous Trials written by Roger Wilkes and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 35 most famous trials of the 20th century, as recorded by the people who were there including Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Brian Masters, Damon Runyon and other star turns in true crime writing. Among the cases featured: the longest ever US trial, of deadly duo Bianchi and Buono for the Hillside Stranglings of 12 young women; Brady and Hindley - the iconic case of multiple child murder by a couple obsessed with sadism, Nazism and pornography; America's trial of the 1990s - O.J. Simpson; the media frenzy around Bruno Hauptmann's alleged kidnap and murder of the infant son of American hero, Charles Lindbergh; gagged press during the 1968 trial of eleven-year-old Mary Bell, convicted for killing two little boys; Oscar Wilde - one of the earliest trials to earn blanket press coverage; and the nine-month trial of 'one of the most evil, satanic men who ever walked the face of the earth', Charles Manson.
Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1849011656
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Assassination of JFK, 9/11, the Da Vinci Code, The Death of Diana, Men in Black, Pearl Harbor, The Illuminati, Protocols of Zion,Hess, The Bilderberg Group, New World Order, ElvisFluoridization, Martin Luther King's murder, Opus Dei, The Gemstone Files, John Paul I, Dead Sea Scrolls, Lockerbie bombing, Black helicopters... In other words everything 'they' never wanted you to know and were afraid you might ask! Jon E. Lewis explores the 100 most terrifying cover-ups of all time, from the invention of Jesus' divinity (pace the Da Vinci Code) to Bush's and Blair's real agenda in invading Iraq. Entertainingly written and closely documented, the book provides each cover-up with a plausibility rating. Uncover why the Titanic sank, ponder the sinister Vatican/Mafia network that plotted the assassination of liberal John Paul, find out why NASA 'lost' its files on Mars, read why no-one enters Area 51, and consider why medical supplies were already on site at Edgware Road before the 7/7 bombs detonated. Just because you are paranoid, it doesn't mean that they aren't out to conspire against you.
