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  • Rivals of the Ripper

    Unsolved Murders of Women in Late Victorian London

    by Jan Bondeson ...
    When discussing unsolved murders of women in late Victorian London, most people think of the depredations of Jack the Ripper, the Whitechapel Murderer. But he was just one of a string of phantom murderers whose unsolved slayings outraged late Victorian Britain.The mysterious Great Coram Street, Burton Crescent and Euston Square murders were talked about with bated breath, and the northern part of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Murder Houses of London

    by Jan Bondeson ...
    In that stately Fitzrovia house, the butler was murdered by a disgruntled pantry-boy; in that one, a king’s housekeeper lost her life. In that Kensington flat, a demented playboy murdered a prostitute for kicks; in that Gloucester Road basement, ‘Acid Bath’ Haigh was busy digesting the bodies of his victims. In those two elegant Chelsea houses, located in peaceful garden squares, a clergyman and ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Victorian Murders

    by Jan Bondeson ...
    This book features fifty-six Victorian cases of murder covered in the sensational weekly penny journal the Illustrated Police News between 1867 and 1900. Some of them are famous, like the Bravo Mystery of 1876, the Llangibby Massacre of 1878 and the Mrs Pearcey case of 1890; others are little-known, like the Acton Atrocity of 1880, the Ramsgate Mystery of 1893 and the Grafton Street Murder of 1894 ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • Blood on the Snow

    The Killing of Olof Palme

    by Jan Bondeson ...
    The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm in February 1986. At the time of his death, Palme was deeply involved in Middle East diplomacy and was working under UN auspices to end the Iran-Iraq war. Across Scandinavia, Palme's killing had an impact similar to that of the Kennedy ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Ripper of Waterloo Road

    The Murder of Eliza Grimwood in 1838

    by Jan Bondeson ...
    When Jack the Ripper first prowled the streets of London, an evening newspaper commented that his crimes were as ghastly as those committed by Eliza Grimwood's murderer fifty years earlier. Hers is arguably the most infamous and brutal of all nineteenth-century London killings. Eliza was a high-class prostitute, and on 26 May 1838, following an evening at the theatre, she brought a 'client' back ... Read more

    $1.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Greyfriars Bobby

    The Most Faithful Dog in the World

    by Jan Bondeson ...
    No visitor to Edinburgh will miss the monument to Scotland's most famous dog, the little Skye terrier Greyfriars Bobby. This amazing dog, the most faithful in the world, kept vigil at his master's grave for fourteen long years. Many children's books, and three successful films, have been inspired by the affecting story of this little dog, said to be the most inspiring tale of love and loyalty ever ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • The Lion Boy and Other Medical Curiosities

    by Jan Bondeson ...
    In this book of amazing oddities, the successor to his popular Cabinet of Medical Curiositiesand The Two-Headed Boy, Jan Bondeson explores various surprising and bizarre aspects of the history of medicine: Does people’s hair go white after a sudden fright; can the image of the killer be seen in the eyes of a murdered person; does the severed head of a guillotined person maintain some degree of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Amazing Dogs

    A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities

    by Jan Bondeson ...
    In the 1750s, the Learned English Dog was a sensation in London: this spelling and calculating border collie was even thought to be a reincarnation of Pythagoras. The acting Newfoundland dog Carlo, active in London from 1803 until 1811, had plays specially written for him, involving tackling villains, liberating prisoners, and diving into artificial lakes on stage to save drowning children. Don ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Phillimore's Edinburgh

    by Jan Bondeson ...
    In his day, Reginald P. Phillimore (1855–1941) was one of Britain’s leading postcard artists. A great friend of the Athens of the North, he settled in North Berwick and delighted in depicting various Edinburgh locations, both famous and obscure. Artistically, these cards are some of the finest he produced. He sold his cards through a network of dealers, all over Britain, and since he employed a ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Strange Victoriana

    Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian Ancestors

    by Jan Bondeson ...
    This book makes use of a privately held archive of the old periodical Illustrated Police News to describe strange, macabre and uncanny episodes from the Victorian era. Dog-Faced Men are exhibited on stage, the doctors congregate around the bed of the Sleeping Frenchman of Soho, Miss Vint demonstrates her Reincarnated Cats, and scantily dressed Female Somnambulists tumble from the roofs. From the ... Read more

    $8.59 USD

  • Queen Victoria's Stalker

    The Strange Story of the Boy Jones

    by Jan Bondeson ...
    After her coronation in 1838, Queen Victoria was a frightened young woman. She was relentlessly pursued by a weird teenager, Edward, 'the Boy' Jones, who had an uncanny ability to sneak into Buckingham Palace without being detected. Once, he broke into her bedroom and stole her underwear, and at least twice he sat on the throne. 'If he had come into my bedroom, how frightened I would have been', ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

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  • Jack the Ripper's Streets of Terror

    Life During the Reign of Victorian London's Most Brutal Killer

    by Rupert Matthews ...
    This is a new take on the Jack the Ripper story. Focusing on the people who lived through the Ripper's reign of terror, it shows what happened when familiar London streets suddenly became the hunting grounds of a monster. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD