ISBN 0 330 27448 1

Never to be Released

With the help of the legendary police rounds reporter, the late Joe Morris, Paul Kidd has compiled the inside stories of Australia's most horrendous crimes to help ensure that their perpetrators remain behind bars. He covers mass murderers, serial killers, child murderers and gang rapes and murders. Paul Kidd examines such killers as Lennie Lawson, Crump the Baker, Leonie Law, David and Catherine Birnie, Anita Cobby's murderers and the Granny killer. 

New Encyclopaedia of Serial Killers, The

The most comprehensive dossier of serial killer profiles ever published. Completely revised and updated to include, Beverley Allitt - The 'Angel of Death' who murdered infants in her care. The 'Backpack Killer' - who preyed on young travellers passing through Australia. Robert Black - the cynical child killer who evaded justice for nearly ten years. Colin Ireland - the so called 'Gay Slayer' who claimed the lives of five homosexual men in London. Joel Rifkin - the 'Chainsaw Ripper' who stalked New York's red light district. Jack Unterweger - Austria's charismatic prison cell poet. Frederick and Rosemary West - whose home in Gloucester has been dubbed the 'House of Horror'. 

New Handbook on Hanging

Published by Panther - Written by Charles Duff

The authentic facts and horrible details are sufficient to fill with doubt the most complacent of conservative Penologists. The brilliant manual should be in the hands of every murderer and Hangman.

ISBN 586 02497 2

Newgate Calendar Volume One, The

Being the great chronicles of crime and punishment in 18th century England. Through the pages of this book we follow the careers of Some of the most notorious criminals of one of England's most turbulent ages. We walk beside them through the vice dens of London, lay in wait with them along the dark Roads and alleys, and stand before them as they breathe their last on the scaffolds of Tyburn and execution dock. 

Here are the exploits of the infamous rogues whose names have lived down the years, presented in a vivid, gripping volume. 

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Newgate Calendar Volume Two, The

Being the great chronicles of crime and punishment in 18th century England. Here is the second volume of tales from the blood soaked pages of the most infamous chronicles in criminal history, descriptions of gruesome murderRitual_Murder and savage rape, 

Of cruel torture and brutal robbery, the black exploits of cut throats and notorious rogues of every description. They are at once terrible and fascinating and are decidedly not for squeamish stomachs 

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Newgate Calendar Volume Three, The

Being the great chronicles of crime and punishment in 18th century England. The clank of captive chains and the screams of the dying Echo down the years through the bloody pages of the most Infamous document in the annals of criminal history. 

Here is the third selection of gruesome case histories Wherein are retold the lives and black deeds of some of The most notorious rogues ever to walk abroad in England or perform the final dance of the condemned upon the Scaffold. To those who have not previously sampled these Macabre volumes we say beware. 

ISBN 0 7088 2430 7

Nilsen File, The

In the unlikely setting of the staid London suburbs of Cricklewood and Muswell Hill, police began in February 1983 to unearth a tangled mass of human bones. Some dated back to 1979, many were unidentifiable, most belonged to transients of no fixed address and doubtful identity, all were victims of brutal killings on a systematic scale. 

ISBN 0 553 40772 4

Part and Parcel Murders, The

Twelve true tales of dismemberment. How do you dispose of the body? In an anthology not for the squeamish, acclaimed crimewriter Georgina Lloyd brings together a collection of grisly murders in which the killers were prepared to take the most incredible risks to dispose of the dismembered bodies of their victims. 

Unique in the annals of crime. Donald Hume dropped portions of the corpse of Stanley Setty into the sea from an aeroplane; Nilsen, the killer of fifteen young men, tried unsuccessfully to flush their remains down the toilet. One or two more fastidious types stuffed the bodies, or body parts, of their victims into trunks which they hastily abandoned in railway station left luggage offices. 

With disposal methods ranging from dumping body parts in dustbins or parks, to cooking and eating them, Georgina Lloyd does not flinch from describing the mind-boggling lengths to which the perpetrators of some of the most hideous murders on record were prepared to go. 

ISBN 0 586 05587 8

Perfect murder

From the mysterious death of William Saunders whose body was discovered in a pond in Penge in 1877 to the brutal killing of Helen Davidson in Hodgemoor Wood, near Amersham in 1966, the book recreates the background to each crime and reviews the evidence. 

In many Cases the authors have unearthed previously unknown facts that point to the most likely solution - most startlingly in the account of the Brighton trunk murder of 1934, when Tony Mancini cleared at the time, confesses his guilt to Stephen Knight. perfect murder is ideal reading for lovers of gruesome causes celebres. It will surely satisfy that elusive fascination with the horrible that lies in all of us. 

ISBN 0 7221 3870 9

Pleasures of Murder, The

No fictional mystery story could ever be as bizarre, complex, shocking, fascinating, unbelievable or surprising as the story of a real murder. No crime writer has ever concocted a plot more ingenious nor a murderer more ruthless than the ones that really existed. From the fiendishly clever to the madly macabre, here is an anthology for the crime connoisseur - All the more a pleasure because every word is true. 

ISBN 0 586 21036 9

Prisons and Punishments of London

There has never been a city with more prisons than London and probably none whose courts have sent so many to public torment and execution. This book is the first full survey of London's many prisons throughout the ages from the tower to Pentonville and of the punishments meted out to felons. Although the book touches on existing prisons the emphasis is on the vanished prisons of the capital. The Marshalsea where debtors were imprisoned, the Bridewell, where Female prisoners were flogged, the whippings proving so popular that a special gallery was constructed for spectators, and Newgate where the public could watch condemned men in their final hours as well as celebrate their execution. 

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 67-23132

Private Disgrace, Lizzie Borden by Daylight A

On a stiflingly hot August morning in 1892 Lizzie Borden of Fall River, Massachusetts, chopped her stepmother to death with an axe. An hour and a half later, she killed her father the same way. 

Although the story has been told many times it has always been told by those least qualified to do so, outsiders and men. Now for the first time the story is told by someone who lived in Fall River and knew Lizzie and is also a women. 

Prostitute Murders, The

December 1979 New York city fireman answer an alarm at a Times square hotel, and discover the savagely mutilated bodies of two women. It is the latest in a series of murders so bizarre the defy the New York and New Jersey Police and drive the media wild. 

When a young prostitute is drugged and lured to a new Jersey motel. She is handcuffed and tortured and barely escapes with her life. The evidence she gives points to Richard Cottingham a 34 year old computer operator who lives a normal middle class existence. Normal except for the trophy room in his basement. Normal except for the fact that he is a vicious driven murderer. 

ISBN - 0- 330-24599-6

Rest Without Peace

Roaming the rat infested stench filled squalor of the old town, they and their bawdy common law wives lure harlots, tramps and drunks into hare's lodging house and suffocate them, so that trainee surgeons can practice their skills. 

Burke had the nightmares, Hare the melancholies, but a dram helped and the dead could not come back - If the candle burnt all night