London Dungeon Book of Crime and Punishment, The

From pickpockets to public killings, highwayman to hangmen, Judge Jeffrey's to Jack the Ripper, here is the complete history of London's twilight world of crime and punishment throughout the centuries. 

Here we see Smithfield as a different sort of meat market, where criminals were burned (and sometimes boiled to death). Here is the Tower of London, official state prison since the days of William the Conqueror, and a history of its inmates. And here are the enemies of the crown, executed by hanging, drawing and quartering - A punishment only abolished in 1870. 

and many more are Contained in this book. 

ISBN 0-86369-690-2

Lady Killer

In July 1986, three days after John Guise Cannan was released following an eight year sentence for rape, estate agent Suzy Lamplugh went alone to meet a prospective client. She was never seen again. In April 1989, after Cannan's conviction for the murder and rape of newlywed Shirley Banks, the judge recommended that he 'never again be at liberty outside of prison walls' and the Lamplugh file was finally closed. 

Handsome and charming, John Cannan wooed his way into women's hearts with flowers, champagne and flattery, and boasted of over a hundred one-night stands in three years. He had women falling at his feet, literally. 

How did such a violent man win his way into so many women's hearts? What turned him into such a vicious rapist who killed at least once? Drawing on the latest psychological profiling knowledge developed in America by the FBI, and on an intense three year correspondence between Cannan and the 

authors, Ladykiller provides a chillingly personal and comprehensive portrait of a complex and intelligent man. Rarely has a book delved so deeply into the mind of a convicted murderer. 

ISBN 0 7456 0336 X

Lust To Kill, The

The Yorkshire Ripper, the Boston Strangler, &;Beasts; Monsters and Fiends ..these are popular labels for men who commit a particular kind of violence and murder the objects of their sexual desire. This is a systematic, critical analysis of sexual murder and its relation to the question of gender. 

The authors examine a wide range of literature which deals with sexual murder, from criminology and the sociology of deviance to popular journalism and lurid paperbacks. They argue that these accounts fail to address the question of gender, the absence of women in the ranks of sex killers is both taken for granted and obscured. They argue that this ignorance of gender cannot be dismissed as a trivial oversight. An account of sexual murder which does not address gender is not merely incomplete but systematically misleading. 

This book attempts to transform the popular fascination with sexual murder into a powerful analysis of how the construction of sexuality in the West has eroticized violence, power and death. It is intended for university students in criminology, sociology, women's studies and cultural studies, as well as a general readership interested in feminism and sexual violence . 

ISBN 0 948164 70 0

Mammoth Book of True Crime Vol. 1, The

With more than 70 chapters on every aspect of crimes and criminals, this vast collection includes subjects as varied as alibis, arson, blackmail, con men, dominance, dual personality, headless corpses, hired killers, killer couples, lady-killers, manic messiahs, mass murderers, parent killers, perverts, protection rackets, sabotage, stranglers, sleep walking slayers, train murders, victims and vital clues. 

He also includes many unusual cases from the backwaters of crime. The man who achieved sexual pleasure from derailing trains, the shoemaker who crucified himself, Vidocq the police spy who founded the French Surete, the woman who impersonated the Pope, and the painter who poisoned twelve bankers are just a few examples of the material which packs the pages of this fascinating book. 

ISBN 1 85487 056 4

Mammoth Book of True Crime Vol. 2, The

In this sequel to vol. 1 Colin Wilson surveys the history of murder and its motives, whether robbery, rape, black magic, jealousy, sadism or just plain boredom. 

The cases range from the excesses of the roman emperors to the gaslit streets of Victorian London. From political graft in 1930s America to the Dingo baby case in 1970s Australia and the epidemic of serial murder in the western world today. 

Mixing general comment on the changing nature of violent crime with individual cases, Wilsons new collection is stimulating, thought provoking and astonishing. 

ISBN 1-5581-7777-9

Mass Murderers

It was an ordinary day in the physics department of the University of Iowa when crazed graduate student Gang Lu burst in and murdered five innocent people. On a quiet morning in Killeen, Texas, 46 unsuspecting men and women were gunned down when George Hennard drove his truck through the window of Luby's cafeteria and began shooting. 

Here are 25 dramatic accounts of mass murderers, the most dangerous criminals in our midst. Without warning, often for no reason at all, these killers explode into savage violence to massacre scores of innocent people. No one can predict when or where they will strike. post offices. fast food restaurants, playgrounds, schools, no place is safe from them. 

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Medical murders

An intriguing collection of thirteen true crime tales from the medical world, featuring the wife-murdering Dr J Milton Bowers, notorious poisoner Dr William Palmer, mass murderer Dr Marcel Petiot and the deadly goings on at a private nursing home in Nottingham. 

ISBN 450 04007 0

Michigan Murders, The

Seven frightful slayings - the police without a clue - An unbearably gripping true story. 

This is the gripping factual account of how terror reigned in a small midwestern community - A true story with all the incredible suspense of master fiction. The mystery, the uncertain probing, the excitement of the police as they finally close in on one suspect, and the hurtling race down the road to a solution. 

ISBN 1 85487 184 6

Modern Murder Yearbook, The

most notorious recent murder cases, and includes an in depth account of the crimes of Beverley Allitt, the killer nurse on ward four, by acclaimed crime writer Brian Marriner. 

ISBN 1-85813-539-7

Moors Murders, The

The notorious crimes of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady still receive world-wide attention after almost thirty years but few people really know the truth of what actually happened. Why did Myra, a shorthand typist and Ian Brady a stock clerk torture and murder those innocent children? 

Based on the official transcript of the trial this book, written with the assistance of the director of public prosecutions at the time it presents the evidence of all the witnesses and reveals the astonishing personalities and backgrounds of the accused. 

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Mostly murder

By Sir Sydney Smith - Published by guild

In 1928 Sir Sydney returned to Edinburgh as professor of forensic medicine, and from his unique knowledge and experience wrote brilliant chapters in the annals of the British courts until his retirement in 1953. 

ISBN 0 09 919361 2

Murder And Mayhem

From Manson and Jones to Nilsen and Sutcliffe, from Brady and Hindley to 

Bundy and Dahmer, these are the murderers who went one irrevocable step beyond, into the taboo realms of the human psyche. These are not just murderers, but serial killers, butchers, maniacs, cannibals. they are the most foul, most deranged, most vicious, most pathetic yet ultimately the most significant members of the society that spawned them. 

This A-Z of the most notorious killers in the history of true crime is an odyssey of terror into the minds and motives of those gruesome individuals who may horrify and sicken but never fail to fascinate. 

As the body count mounted, investigator Viktor Burakov took a startling route for a soviet detective, he turned secretly to a psychiatrist, one that produced a profile of the killer that proved eerily accurate when Andrei Chikatilo, a family man, party member and former teacher was finally trapped, confessed and in October 1992 was sentenced to death. 

ISBN 0 333 49638 8

Murder And Penal Policy

Based on a two-part study, this book examines the courts' interpretation of murder and the management of those serving life sentences for murder. It discusses the law, judges' difficulties in interpreting the law and inconsistencies that occur in various cases. The author suggests that legal reforms should ensure that the stigma attached to murder is maintained. Part two looks at life imprisonment as the maximum penalty for murder. It examines the operation of the Prison Department's policy of managing 'lifers', and the possibility for releasing them without endangering the public. 

ISBN 0 330 26206 8

Murderer's Who's Who, The

The Manson Murders, the Boston Strangler, Haigh and the notorious Acid Bath, the Brighton Trunk Crimes, the Hammersmith Nudes and the horrific Case of Albert Fish. These are just some of the crimes described in this comprehensive anthology of murder Cases since 1828. 

Many of the lesser known but equally horrendous murders are included. We begin to realise the awesome variety of methods at the murderers disposal. from the grisly to the ingenious, from the clinical to the 

macabre. Illustrated and extensively indexed this book is a must to any serious student to the art of murder. 

ISBN 0 505 61645

Murder in the Penthouse

The sensational murder case that shocked New York. Buddy Jacobson - A horse racing millionaire, he established a Live in modelling agency in his luxury apartment house on New York's east side. did his lifestyle lead him to murder. 

Melanie Cain - A beautiful cover girl, she was Jacobson's girlfriend and business partner, until the day she moved out of his penthouse and across the hall, to Jack Tupper's apartment. Jack Tupper - When he began dating Melanie, Jacobson offered him $100,000 to get out of town. Jack refused. Later his body was found, knifed, bludgeoned and shot Seven times. 

Printed 1929

Murder Most Foul

This book was printed in 1929 and contains a collection of classic murder cases. One area of particular interest is in the fact that when this book was written over 60 years ago they did not have the benefit of the 

forensic techniques that we rely on so heavily now. A book that will only now 

be found in old second hand bookshops but one that would complement any good crime library. 

ISBN 0 306 80475 1

Murder, Inc.: The Story Of The Syndicate

Murder Inc." was the moniker of the Syndicate's firing squad, a Ruthless group of men guilty of professionally committing, under contract, 1000 murders. Murder, Inc.is the book that exposed the Syndicate to the eyes of the world. First published in 1951, it rose to the top of the best-seller lists, but later fell out of print. 

Now here is the new edition of the classic that tells all about the great gangsters of the late 1930s and 1940s, Frank Costello, Louis Lepke Buchalter, Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Buggsy Siegel, Johnny Torrio, Joey Adonic, Dutch Schultz, Pittsburgh Phil, Kid Twist Reles, Albert Anastasia and others. From the highest levels of government down to the lowest levels of street crime, the syndicate infiltrated American life. Murder Inc. tells how it was formally organised by the nations ranking mob lords at the end of prohibition to control all crime, from gambling to crooked politics to labour extortion and murder. 

It details how this massive and powerful organisation was finally broken. For it was only from the inside, from the murderers themselves, that the truth could be learned. And perhaps, no man was more qualified to tell the whole story than Burton Turkus, the Brooklyn Assistant DA who listened to the killer's tales and who sent seven of them to the electric chair. Together with Sid Feder, a veteran journalist, they produced Murder, Inc. 

ISBN 0 09 938350 0

Murders of the Black Museum, The

The famous black museum in New Scotland Yard contains a unique collection of exhibits, photographs and other items connected with some of the most famous crimes and criminals of the last hundred years. 

Fifty of these crimes, all murders are detailed herein - case histories presenting an utterly compelling picture of a century of murder, manslaughter and attempted assassination. 

The crimes and characters of such notorious murderers as Jack the Ripper, Crippen, George Smith, Heath, Haigh, Christie, the Kray's, the Hosein's and many others are revealed fully and factually. 

ISBN 0 586 20854 2

Murder On The Home Front

Molly Lefebure was secretary to Keith Simpson, the pathologist, from 1940 to 1945, and in this book recounts some of the cases in which they were involved. These ranged from a woman found dead after a backstreet abortion, to a decomposed corpse found under flagstones. 

ISBN 0 586 05218 6

Murder Squad

Murder is as old as Cain but Scotland Yards murder squad began only at the turn of the century in that more innocent age the officers worked by gaslight trusting to rudimentary equipment and a hunch. now long experience and forensic science have vastly improved the squads expertise at cracking a case. 

This book tells the history of the murder squad through its most famous cases, from the mild mannered murderer, Dr Crippen, to London's most notorious thugs, the Kray brothers. it is a fascinating cloak and dagger tale of corpses in trunks and Arsenic and old lace, and the gruesome workings of the criminal underworld: true stories stranger and more compelling than Conan Doyle's fiction. 

ISBN 0 413 64560 6

Murder Squad

A companion to Thames TV's series showing how murder is detected today. Since the motives for murder are many and varied - From domestic to serial sex killings - The technique of finding the killer and proving the case must be equally flexible. This book explores how murder is detected, examining police techniques and the increasingly technical facilities (such as 

DNA fingerprinting) available to them. Detailed reconstruction's of cases include interviews with the police, forensic and technical support staff, probation officers, psychologists, relatives and the murderers themselves. 

ISBN 0 7493 0626 2

Murder Squad

Every year more than 550 people are unlawfully killed in England and Wales. Who are these people, and how and why did they die? Since the motives for murder are many and varied - from domestic to serial sex killing - The techniques of tracking the killer and proving the case must be equally flexible. 

ISBN 0 7088 4767 6

Murder under the microscope

2000 fibres from the clothes of John Francis Duffy, the railway rapist and murderer were examined to see if any matched those found on his victims. The tests were successful and Duffy was brought to trial and convicted. 

A woman who killed her husband with Paraquat believed she had committed the perfect crime until samples from his major organs were examined in the laboratory nine months after his death. She was sentenced for murder. 

A hit and run driver was traced, the investigators working from only a flake of paint, a few shards of glass and a broken piece of plastic. He was identified and convicted. 

ISBN 0 86101 0361

Mysteries of Life and Death, The

This is book compiled with information supplied by many authors who have a contribution to make in this complicated and mysterious field. It attempts to look at all aspects of death both natural and violent. It is a complete look at what is inevitable at some time or another to all of us. 

ISBN 0 330 28169 0

Murder 'Whatdunit'

Every murder has a cause and an effect - A perpetrator and a victim. Linking them is the method - The poison cup, the dagger drawn, the pointed gun - The elements of Whatdunit. Axe murders, fingerprints, child murder, blood, firearms, time of death, knife wounds - 140 subject headings, listed alphabetically and extensively cross referenced. A bibliography of some 950 titles enables the reader to chart a path through the maze of crime literature in order to pursue a subject in greater detail. 

This is an invaluable reference book for everyone who is fascinated by the mystery of murder and curious to understand exactly how it works. 

ISBN 0 09 949430 2

Mindless Murder

A murder without motive is the most chilling crime of all. And the twenty seemingly pointless murders described here are all the more horrifying because every one is true. 

The dissected body found still partly deep frozen in the park, the corpse cooked through in the sauna, the murder of an elderly woman from black mamba venom - These are just some of the extraordinary cases described in this book. 

ISBN 0 586 06507 5

Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors

Two hundred years of crime - The chamber of horrors set up by Madame Tussaud after the French revolution has always exercised a peculiar fascination. with its death heads of famous victims of the guillotine and its wax effigies of notorious criminals, the exhibition is now a huge tourist attraction. 

This book describes not only the chamber of horrors and its creator but also the grisly stories of more than fifty murders whose perpetrators have been portrayed there. This book is not for the squeamish. 

ISBN 0 553 40627 2

Murders Unspeakable

This book examines the agonies of self-confessed cannibal Kenneth Stogsdill, and the inhumanities of Michael Yarborough who dismembered his victim before putting him in the dustbin and down the toilet. Snuff movie maker Geoffrey Jones displayed a quite frightening virtuosity, and Fritz Haarmann's lust for blood was sated as he butchered teenage youths during world war one and sold their flesh for meat on the black market. 

This collection of grisly crimes reveals in appalling detail the complete lack of remorse that these murderers showed for their prey. This book brings together 15 of the most horrific and gruesome murders of this century. 

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Murder Guide, The

Where - Dennis Nilsen killed for company, John Christie disposed of his six victims in Rillington Place. How - George Smith drowned three of his brides in their baths, James Berry (hangman) felt about his first hanging How - brilliant ballistics work solved the Bristol taxi murder. Why Eric Brown murdered a disagreeable father by strapping a landmine to his wheelchair. Who - Was the original murderer celebrated in Oscar Wilde's 'the ballad of Reading Gaol', escaped the noose when the trap failed to open three times, played with a toy duck throughout his trial, was the first man to be hanged by a fingerprint. 

ISBN 0 7472 0505 1

Murderous Women

Before the transformation that sudden notoriety brings, Hindley going to her office job in Manchester, Christiana Edmunds walking the seafront at Brighton, even Jean Harris dealing with the day to day trivia of her job as headmistress, might have seemed to be ordinary enough women living humdrum lives. Only when violence intruded did they become extraordinary. 

Ultimately, of course, their motives, their innermost thoughts, are unknowable. The extent to which they were pushed by intolerable circumstances or pulled by a natural propensity for violence is a matter of conjecture. Whatever the equation the stories of these women form an irresistibly intriguing chapter in the human experience and leave us with only one certainty, That these were no ordinary women. Go to the top of the page