Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Using Medicine in Science Fiction

    The SF Writer’s Guide to Human Biology

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book offers a clearly written, entertaining and comprehensive source of medical information for both writers and readers of science fiction.Science fiction in print, in movies and on television all too often presents dubious or simply incorrect depictions of human biology and medical issues. This book explores the real science behind such topics as how our bodies adapt to being in space, the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Kent Murders

    Series series True Crime History
    Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Kent's history. Linda Stratmann re-examines some of the historic crimes that shocked not only the county but Britain as a whole. Among the gruesome cases featured here are the doctor who was poisoned with morphine in Faversham; the couple who were brutally battered to death in their beds in ... Read more

    $14.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essex Murders

    Series series True Crime History
    The county of Essex has rolling arable farmland, Epping Forest, sleepy villages, busy market towns and secluded backwaters - a wide variety of settings for murder. This selection of crimes uncovers not only famous cases, but also previously unpublished dramatic and tragic tales. The accounts included here come from a time when murder was a capital offence, carrying the ultimate penalty for the ... Read more

    $14.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gloucestershire Murders

    Series series True Crime History
    Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Gloucestershire's history. The cases covered here record the county's most fascinating but least known crimes, as well as famous murders that gripped not just Gloucestershire but the whole nation. From the Cheltenham torso murder to the Campden Wonder, when William Harrison returned to Chipping ... Read more

    $14.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sousanna: The Lost Daughter

    Five-year-old Sousanna is often cold and always hungry, but she's happy living in post-WWII Greece with her kind and loving family. Then one day a stranger approaches Sousanna's father with a startling proposition, made bearable only by the assurance that the situation is temporary.But all is not as it seems, and Sousanna is taken from her home to a foreign place where she's adopted by an American ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Middlesex Murders

    Series series True Crime History
    Middlesex Murders brings together numerous murderous tales, some of which were little known outside the county, and others which made national headlines. Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Middlesex. They include the murder of John Draper, whose body was found in a well at Enfield Chase in 1816; 15-year-old John Brill, ... Read more

    $14.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secret Poisoner

    A Century of Murder

    "This fine social history charts the changing patterns of using poison" and the forensic methods developed to detect it in the Victorian Era ( The Guardian, UK).Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in some ways even defined the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann's dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Poisonous Seed

    A Frances Doughty Mystery 1

    Series Book 1 - A Frances Doughty Mystery
    When a customer of William Doughty's chemist shop dies of strychnine poisoning after drinking medicine he dispensed, William is blamed, and the family faces ruin. William's daughter, nineteen year old Frances, determines to redeem her ailing father's reputation and save the business. She soon becomes convinced that the death was murder, but unable to convince the police, she turns detective. Armed ... Read more

    $5.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Case of Doubtful Death

    A Frances Doughty Mystery 3

    Series Book 3 - A Frances Doughty Mystery
    The year is 1880. In West London, a dedicated doctor has set up a waiting mortuary on the borders of Kensal Green Cemetery, where corpses are left to decompose before burial to reassure clients that no one can be buried alive. When he collapses and dies on the same night that one of his most reliable employees disappears, Frances Doughty, a young sleuth with a reputation for solving knotty cases, ... Read more

    $5.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Greater London Murders

    33 Stories of Revenge, Jealousy, Greed and Lust

    Series series True Crime History
    This compendium brings together thirty-three murderous tales — one from each of the capital's boroughs — that not only shocked the City but made headline news across the country. Throughout its history the great urban sprawl of Greater London has been home to some of the most shocking murders in England, many of which have made legal history. Contained within the pages of this book are the stories ... Read more

    $17.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Appetite for Murder

    A Frances Doughty Mystery 4

    Series Book 4 - A Frances Doughty Mystery
    The sudden death of overweight 49-year-old Thomas Whibley sparks off an acrimonious furore in Bayswater, and sparks fly between rival diet doctors, vegetarians and the extremist Pure Food Society. Young sleuth Frances Doughty is engaged to discover the author of anonymous libels, when a former colleague of Whibley's, Hubert Sweetman, who has served fourteen years in prison for a violent robbery he ... Read more

    $5.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unlocking the Wealth of Indian Nations

    Most American Indian reservations are islands of poverty in a sea of wealth, but they do not have to remain that way. To extract themselves from poverty, Native Americans will have to build on their rich cultural history including familiarity with markets and integrate themselves into modern economies by creating institutions that reward productivity and entrepreneurship and that establish tribal ... Read more

    $49.39 USD