This book provides a detailed account of the men tasked with tracking down the most notorious thieves in British history. It examines the investigation in detail and asks how it would contrast with the methods used today should a similar incident take place.
In their daily battle against a remorseless tide of crime, officers of London's Metropolitan Police routinely risk their lives protecting society. Veteran detective and crime author Dick Kirby has brought together a superb collection of inspiring stories of police gallantry over the last hundred years.
Dismembered corpses are discovered scattered along the banks of the river Thames, a calculating clinical multiple murderer is on the loose, and the London police have no inkling of the killers identity...
* Fascinating reinvestigation of the Haigh serial murders of 1944-9 * Based on fresh primary research into case files and Haigh’s family background * Insight into the police methods and forensic science of the day * Painstaking portrait of a serial killer and his criminal lifestyle
Fatal Accidents from the 1830's to the Present Day
by Michael Foley
Price: $10.99
ISBN: 9781473831865
Pub Date: 2014-01-15
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Wharncliffe
224 Pages
Passengers on the early railways took their lives in their hands every time they got on board a train. It was so dangerous that they could buy an insurance policy with their ticket. There seemed to...
This pictorial book covers London’s railways from 1967 to 1977, showing the transition from steam to diesel and electric traction.This volume has a very readable narrative, telling tales...
The story is now thirty years old and most, if not all, of the characters involved were middle aged men at the time and are now dead. The story did make the national press when it first occurred. A...
Beggars, Cheats and Forgers is made up of new research into a neglected area of British history: the stories of historical scams, cheats and forgeries. Former Director of Technology at the National...
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