Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Colchester

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Colchester
Author: Patrick Denney
Publsiher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781903425800

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Takes the reader on a sinister journey from the religious persecutions of Queen Mary's time to the twentieth century, meeting villains, cut-throats, arsonists and lunatics along the way. The book is based on original research and recalls many grisly events and sad or unsavoury individuals whose fate has hitherto been forgotten.

Stratford Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths

Stratford Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths
Author: Nick Billingham
Publsiher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2006-03-01
Genre: Crime
ISBN: 9781903425992

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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Death in Stratford and South Warwickshire is an exploration of the darker history of the area. Behind the famous tourist industry of Shakespears everyday life on farms and factories carried on just like anywhere else. Ancient superstitions and curious legends provided inspriation for the great bard and other authors but real life was punctuated by sudden death, jealousy and ruthlessness. This book examines some of the most dramatic incidents in detail. Dranw from contemporary sources, newspapers, legal documents and coroner's records; each case provides a glimpse into life and death in its historical setting. The changes in the town, both in its architecture and social values from the background to the lives and deaths of its citizens.

Foul Deeds Suspicious Deaths In Around Southend on Sea

Foul Deeds   Suspicious Deaths In   Around Southend on Sea
Author: Dee Gordon
Publsiher: Grub Street Publishers
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2007-11-15
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9781783408443

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A history of true crime in a quaint resort town in Essex, England that hosts a variety of amusements—along with a legacy of madness, mayhem, and murder. This ghoulish look into the past takes readers on a sinister journey through Southend-on-Sea, from medieval times to the twentieth century, and featuring a rogues’ gallery of cutthroats, highwaymen, witches, murderers, and madmen. Included are more than twenty notorious episodes offering fascinating insight into criminal acts and the criminal mind. And in addition to the eerie events of the past, the author explores grievous crimes from more recent times such as the Murrell fratricide, the brutal killing of Florence Dennis, the Watson bungalow murder, the Brown wheelchair murder, the Shoebury Garrison deaths, and many more. Gordon’s chronicle of the dark side of Southend’s long history will be fascinating reading for anyone who is interested in the town’s rich—sometimes gruesome—past.

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Folkeston

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Folkeston
Author: Martin Easdown
Publsiher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2006-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781845630119

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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Folkestone takes the reader on a sinister journey through the annals of crime in Folkestone, Hythe and the surrounding area. Along the way we meet villains, murderers and victims of many kinds, including cut-throat soldiers, a 'baby farmer', a Jack the Ripper imposter, two inexplicable suicides and five individuals who died violent deaths in the 'House of Horror'. There is no shortage of harrowing and revealing incidents of evil to recount, many of which will be unfamiliar to the reader. Infant murders were once so rife in Folkestone it was termed the 'infanticide capital of Kent'. This fascinating book recalls many such grisly events, as well as sad or unsavoury individuals who have darkened this otherwise pleasant corner of the Garden of England.

Foul deeds suspicious deaths in Guernsey

Foul deeds   suspicious deaths in Guernsey
Author: Glynis Cooper
Publsiher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781845630089

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Contains chapters that investigate the darker side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit and pure malice. From crimes of passion to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of murder, this work recounts the spectrum of criminality, bringing to life the sinister history of Guernsey from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.

Foul Deeds Suspicious Deaths in Croydon

Foul Deeds   Suspicious Deaths in Croydon
Author: Caroline Maxton
Publsiher: Wharncliffe
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2006-10-31
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9781845630072

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We are all drawn to understand the circumstances that lead others to commit unforgivable acts of violence - the moment that turns a caring human being into a killer, the series of events that drive ordinary people to murderous acts of inhumanity, or the slow, premeditated steps of the callous criminal. And the circumstances - and the twisted motivation - behind such violent acts are the subject of Caroline Maxton's fascinating investigation of individuals whose misdeeds have tarnished the history of the Croydon area. She investigates a wide range of murders and unexplained deaths, some of which are truly stranger than fiction. The events cover a span of several centuries, and the locations will be chillingly familiar to the inhabitants of Croydon. Local crimes that hit the national headlines, like the Bentley case of 1952, are covered in fresh detail, but the author concentrates on less well-known but equally intriguing, and shocking, episodes - the bizarre 'mustard and cress' murder of 1870, the brutal murder of Eliza Osborne in 1877, the Kenley Stud Farm mystery of 1921, the Birdhurst Rise poisoning of the late 1920s, the notorious unsolved murder of 11-year-old Miles Vallint of 1959.

Foul Deeds Suspicious Deaths in Barking Dagenham Chadwell Heath

Foul Deeds   Suspicious Deaths in Barking  Dagenham   Chadwell Heath
Author: Kathryn Abnett,Linda Rhodes
Publsiher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2007-10-18
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9781783037322

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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Barking, Dagenham and Chadwell Heath takes the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting villains of all sorts along the way murderous husbands and lovers, cut-throats, police-killers, highwaymen, Gunpowder Plotters and even a Nazi collaborator sentenced to death for High Treason. Luckless individuals who came to cruel or unjust ends are also recalled, from martyrs and witches to the fishermen who perished in the Great Storm of 1863 and the passengers who lost their lives when the pleasure steamer the Princess Alice sank in the Thames in 1878. There is no shortage of harrowing and revealing tales of accident and evil to recount from the history of this part of Essex to the east of London. The human dramas the authors describe are often played out in the most commonplace of circumstances, but others are so odd as to be stranger than fiction. Their grisly chronicle of the hidden history of Barking, Dagenham and Chadwell Heath will be compelling reading for anyone interested in the dark side of human nature.

Foul Deeds Suspicious Deaths in London s West End

Foul Deeds   Suspicious Deaths in London s West End
Author: Geoffrey Howse
Publsiher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2006-04-06
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9781781596616

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London's West End is associated with fashion and glamour but for centuries it has had a far darker side. Geoffrey Howse has uncovered an astonishing catalogue of sinister deeds, some of them famous but others long forgotten. Read about spying, treason, embezzlement, regicide, robbery, forgery, religious persecution, suicide, murder and mutilation; and 'witness' horrendous punishments such as drawing, hanging, disemboweling, quartering, castration, beheading and burning. Earlier cases include the execution of Scottish patriots (1305/6) and three monks who dared to question the supremacy of Henry VIII in 1535. Such events attracted great public attention, as did the extraordinary execution of Charles I in 1649 and, in 1820, the hanging and mutilation of the Cato Street Conspiritors. The foul murder of the famous actor William Terriss, by a madman, in 1897, is featured as are several notable cases from the twentieth century including the horrific wartime murders of Gordon Cummins, the strange disappearances of the socialist MP Victor Grayson and Lord Lucan, the Charing Cross Trunk Murder as well as the mysterious death of boxer Freddie Mills.