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More Essex Murders

by Linda Stratmann

10,99€ + 10% CARD

 This well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to everyone interested in true crime and the shadier side of Essex
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Queen Of The Con - From A Spiritualist To The Carnegie Imposter

by Thomas Crowl

25,67€ + 10% CARD

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 Tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and â€˜one of the top 10 imposters of all timeâ€™, according to Time magazine. This meticulously researched book is the first full-length account of the notorious career of this fascinating woman, the forerunner to more recent female scammers.
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East River Ripper - The Mysterious 1891 Murder Of Old Shakespeare

by George R. Dekle Sr.

29,14€ + 10% CARD

 Issues of false convictions, fake news, illegal immigration, police corruption, and racial prejudice are common tropes in todayâ€™s news cycles. The East River Ripper demonstrates that these are not simply matters of recent vintage and seeks to answer such questions in trying to determine whether and in what way justice miscarried.
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Cold War Secrets - A Vanished Professor, A Suspected Killer, And Hoover’S Fbi

by Eileen Welsome

27,81€ + 10% CARD

 Thomas Riha vanished on March 15, 1969, sparking a mystery that lives on 50 years later. Presenting a compelling cast of characters in an era of intrigue and with astounding attention to detail, Eileen Welsome demonstrates why the mystery continues to fascinate.
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Queen Of The Con - From A Spiritualist To The Carnegie Imposter

by Thomas Crowl

29,14€ + 10% CARD

 Tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and â€˜one of the top 10 imposters of all timeâ€™, according to Time magazine. This meticulously researched book is the first full-length account of the notorious career of this fascinating woman, the forerunner to more recent female scammers.
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Uncommon Case Of Daniel Brown - How A White Police Officer Was Convicted Of Killing A Black Citizen, Baltimore, 1875

by Gordon H. Shufelt

27,81€ + 10% CARD

 Offers an extraordinary look at race and policing in late nineteenth-century Baltimore. What makes this work so powerful is that many of the issues that the antipolice brutality movement faces today were the very issues faced by black people in nineteenth-century Baltimore.
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I Have Struck Mrs. Cochran With A Stake - Sleepwalking, Insanity, And The Trial Of Abraham Prescott

by Leslie Lambert Rounds

27,81€ + 10% CARD

 Examines how a forgotten case of murder while sleepwalking changed history. After creeping out of bed on a frigid January night in 1832, teenage farmhand Abraham Prescott took up an ax and thrashed his sleeping employers to the brink of death. He later explained that he'd attacked Sally and Chauncey Cochran in his sleep.
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Potato Masher Murder - Death At The Hands Of A Jealous Husband

by Gary Sosniecki

27,81€ + 10% CARD

 At long last, The Potato Masher Murder: Death at the Hands of a Jealous Husband unearths the full story of two immigrant families united by love and torn apart by domestic violence.
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The Beauty Defense - Femmes Fatales On Trial

by Laura James

27,81€ + 10% CARD

 Justice is blind, they say, but perhaps not to beauty. In supposedly dispassionate courts of law, attractive women have long avoided punishment for cold-blooded crimes. The Beauty Defense gathers the true stories of some of the most infamous femmes fatales in criminal history, collected by attorney and true crime historian Laura James.
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Beauty Defense - Femmes Fatales On Trial

by Laura James

27,81€ + 10% CARD

 Justice is blind, they say, but perhaps not to beauty. In supposedly dispassionate courts of law, attractive women have long avoided punishment for cold-blooded crimes. The Beauty Defense gathers the true stories of some of the most infamous femmes fatales in criminal history, collected by attorney and true crime historian Laura James.
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Bigamy And Bloodshed - The Scandal Of Emma Molloy And The Murder Of Sarah Graham

by Larry E. Wood

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 Recounts the dramatic tale of Emma Molloy, who hit headlines when her husband George Graham was charged with the murder of his first wife â€" and she and her daughter were implicated as accessories.
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Woman Condemned - The Tragic Case Of Anna Antonio

by James M. Greiner

29,14€ + 10% CARD

 The first complete history of the historically significant case, A Woman Condemned draws upon newly discovered New York State Police records, volumes of court transcripts, and period newspapers, leading readers to wonder if justice was really served.
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Six Capsules - The Gilded Age Murder Of Helen Potts

by George R. Dekle Sr.

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 Traces the 19th century murder of Helen Potts by Carlyle Harris and Harris's subsequent trial, highlighting what has been overlooked - the decisive role that the second-class status of women in Victorian Era culture played in this tragedy.
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Belle Of Bedford Avenue - The Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder In Turn-Of-The-Century New York

by Mcconnell Virginia

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 Recounts the court case following the murder of twenty-year-old Walter Brooks in 1902, and follows the young woman at the heart of the case from her trial for the murder of Brooks to her adulthood.
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Insanity Defense And The Mad Murderess Of Shaker Heights - Examining The Trial Of Mariann Colby

by William L. Tabac

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 They have no witnesses. They have no case. With this blunt observation, Mariann Colby - an attractive, church-going Shaker Heights, Ohio, mother and housewife - bet a defense psychiatrist that she would not be convicted of murder. As her trial unfolds in the book, the imprecision of her insanity defense confounds the judges, and psychiatrists disagree about her diagnosis.
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Killing Of Julia Wallace

by Jonathan Goodman

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 The brutal murder of Julia Wallace in 1931 became one of Britain’s great unsolved murders. People began arguing about the case almost immediately and continue to do so to this day.Julia was the middle-aged wife of a mild-mannered Liverpool insurance agent, William Herbert Wallace. By all accounts they were a quiet, unassuming, devoted couple. In January 1931 William Wallace received a telephone message to come to an address in Liverpool the following evening to discuss an insurance policy. Unable to find the house after searching for hours, Wallace determined there was no such address and returned home. There he found Julia bludgeoned to death on the parlor floor. In addition to the terrible shock and his unbearable loss, Wallace was accused of the crime and ultimately convicted.Using original sources, Jonathan Goodman re-creates Wallace’s trial, witness by witness. Through his meticulous reconstruction, it becomes evident that the police and the medical examiner went out of their way to twist and even manufacture evidence. Their attention to proving Wallace guilty ignored a lead to a likely suspect given to them by Wallace. The man was a fellow insurance agent, whom Goodman identifies in the book as Mr. X. The police ignored the suggestion.In 1969, when The Killing of Julia Wallace was first published in the United Kingdom, Goodman had picked up on the lead the police disregarded.As a result, he was convinced that Wallace was unjustly convicted. In 1981 Goodman revealed the name of the suspect, who was by then deceased. The suspect had a long record of criminal charges that had been dropped or dismissed due to his family connections—his father and uncle were local officials; his father’s secretary was the daughter of the police superintendent.True crime fans will welcome the return of this classic unsolved mystery by the inimitable Jonathan Goodman.
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Death Of An Assassin - The True Story Of The German Murderer Who Died Defending Robert E. Lee

by Ann Marie Ackermann

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 From the depths of German and American archives comes a story one soldier never wanted told. The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee’s position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape prosecution for murder, the assassin enlisted in a German company of the Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Mexican-American War and died defending Lee’s battery at the Siege of Veracruz in 1847. Lee wrote a letter home, praising this unnamed fallen volunteer defender. Military records identify him, but none of the Americans knew about his past life of crime.Before fighting with the Americans, Lee’s defender had assassinated Johann Heinrich Rieber, mayor of Bönnigheim, Germany, in 1835. Rieber’s assassination became 19th-century Germany’s coldest case ever solved by a non-law enforcement professional and the only 19th-century German murder ever solved in the United States. Thirty-seven years later, another suspect in the assassination who had also fled to America found evidence in Washington, D.C., that would clear his own name, and he forwarded it to Germany. The German prosecutor Ernst von Hochstetter corroborated the story and closed the case file in 1872, naming Lee’s defender as Rieber’s murderer.Relying primarily on German sources, Death of an Assassin tracks the never-before-told story of this German company of Pennsylvania volunteers. It follows both Lee’s and the assassin’s lives until their dramatic encounter in Veracruz and picks up again with the surprising case resolution decades later.This case also reveals that forensic ballistics—firearm identification through comparison of the striations on a projectile with the rifling in the barrel—is much older than previously thought. History credits Alexandre Laccasagne for inventing forensic ballistics in 1888. But more than 50 years earlier, Eduard Hammer, the magistrate who investigated the Rieber assassination in 1835, used the same technique to eliminate a forester’s rifle as the murder weapon. A firearms technician with state police of Baden-Württemberg tested Hammer’s technique in 2015 and confirmed its efficacy, cementing the argument that Hammer, not Laccasagne, should be considered the father of forensic ballistics.The roles the volunteer soldier/assassin and Robert E. Lee played at the Siege of Veracruz are part of American history, and the record-breaking, 19th-century cold case is part of German history. For the first time, Death of an Assassin brings the two stories together.
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Hauptmann'S Ladder - A Step-By-Step Analysis Of The Lindbergh Kidnapping

by Richard T. Cahill Jr.

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 In 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. In the ensuing decades, many books about the Lindbergh case have been published. Some have declared Hauptmann the victim of a police conspiracy and frame-up. Hauptmann's Ladder is a testament to the truth that counters the revisionist histories all too common in the true crime genre.
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Somerset Murders

by John Van Der Kiste e Nicola Sly

10,99€ + 10% CARD

 Somerset Murders
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West Country Murders

by John Van Der Kiste e Nicola Sly

13,99€ + 10% CARD

 Murder, mayhem and macabre deeds from around the South West of England
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Surrey Murders

by John Van Der Kiste

10,99€ + 10% CARD

 Historic cases of murder from around the county
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Sussex Murders

by W H Johnson

21,62€ + 10% CARD

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 Sussex murders
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Herefordshire Murders

by Nicola Sly

22,97€ + 10% CARD

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 Herefordshire murders
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Cambridgeshire Murders

by Alison Bruce

21,62€ + 10% CARD

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 Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Cambridgeshire's history.
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