Murder On Merseyside

In this compelling study of true crime, Liverpool's most popular author Tom Slemen recounts some of the most intriguing and baffling murders of Merseyside such as: The baffling case of the Victorian canned corpse The magistrate's beautiful granddaughter who was killed by a crazed admirer The condemned man who was hanged twice Frederick Deeming - the Rainhill psychopath who wiped out his own family and danced on their grave with his next victim The bizarre link between a South Seas cult and the housewife who was stabbed fourteen times in her Knotty Ash home by a killer who struck under the cover of a fog The unsolved case of the superintendent and his son who died of gunshot wounds under mysterious circumstances - in a police station The enigmatic murder of Julia Wallace - and a very credible solution The only assassination of a British prime minister - by a Liverpool businessman Plus many more fascinating murder cases. This fascinating book is a must for all readers of true crime in general and Liverpudlians and Merseysiders in particular.

Interwar Liverpool was a hard place to live. Though the chronic living conditions were being tackled through widespread slum clearance, for some the pressures of poverty, unemployment, post-war trauma & uncertainty took their toll. Many of the cases in this collection of murders show all too well how bleak life could be.

A skeleton and a missing woman. A doomed romance. A mystery spanning two generations. Liverpool, 1961. A group of young men come together seeking fame and fortune, as the fledgling sounds of the Swinging Sixties take root in the city. Soon, Liverpool becomes synonymous with the music that shapes a generation. Liverpool, 1999. Skeletal remains found in the docklands lead Detective Inspector Andy Ross and Sergeant Izzie Drake into a journey through time, as the investigation takes them back to early days of the Mersey Beat. Whose bones laid beneath the mud of the River Mersey for over thirty years, and what links them to a young woman, missing for the entire time?

A look at the dark side of life in Liverpool in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Shocking historic murders from around Merseyside

Merseyside has been the birthplace or home of literally hundreds of extraordinary men and women over the years.Modern-day noteworthy figures, such as Kim Cattrall, Daniel Craig, Beth Tweddle and Patricia Routledge rub shoulders with the historical great and good, including Sir Thomas Beecham, George Stevenson and Lady Emma Hamilton. Personalities from all eras and walks of life are featured, from politics, art and industry to music and entertainment.In this book Christine Dawe has penned a fascinating selection of mini-biographies of Merseyside’s most famous sons and daughters to make a perfect souvenir for visitors to the area. This is also essential reading for Merseysiders everywhere, and is sure to appeal to those wanting to know more about these people’s contributions to the Merseyside we know today.

The 43 murders recounted in this fascinating book range from the downright evil to the heartbreakingly sad, and the ways in which they were dealt with by the police and courts of the time are both interesting and revealing. A great piece of social history with additional material on issues such as hanging, infanticide, drunkenness, unemployment and religion.