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  • Lestrade and the Ripper

    by M. J. Trow ...
    Book three in the Inspector Lestrade series.In the year 1888, London was horrified by a series of brutal killings. All the victims were discovered in the same district, Whitechapel, and they were all prostitutes. But they weren't the only murders to perplex the brains of Scotland Yard. In Brighton, the body of one Edmund Gurney was also found.Foremost among the Yard's top men was the young ... Read more

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  • The Killer of the Princes in the Tower

    A New Suspect Revealed

    by M. J. Trow ...
    A new investigation into the most infamous crime of the Middle Ages: the supposed murders of Edward V and his brother Richard of York in the 15th century.The disappearance of two boys during the summer of 1483 has never been satisfactorily explained. They were Edward, Prince of Wales, nearly thirteen at the time, and his brother, Richard of York, nearly ten. With their father, Edward IV, dying ... Read more

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  • Who Killed Kit Marlowe?: A Contract to Murder in Elizabethan England

    by M. J. Trow ...
    Kit Marlowe was the bad boy of Elizabethan drama. His 'mighty line' of iambic pentameter transformed the miracle plays of the Middle Ages into modern drama and he paved the way for Shakespeare and a dozen other greats who stole his metre and his ideas. When he died, stabbed through the eye in what appeared to be a tavern brawl in Deptford in May 1593, he was only 29 and many people believed that ... Read more

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  • Failed Justice

    The Craig and Bentley Case Revisited

    by M J Trow ...
    Uncovers the wrongful conviction of Derek Bentley, revealing new evidence that challenges his unjust execution in 1953.On 2 November 1952, two teenagers, Derek Bentley and Christopher Craig, tried to break into a warehouse in Croydon, Surrey. The police were called and in the minutes that followed, Craig wounded one policeman and shot another dead.At 16, Craig was too young to hang, but Bentley, ... Read more

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  • The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade

    by M. J. Trow ...
    Book four in the Inspector Lestrade series.It is 1891 and London is still reeling from the horror of the unsolved Ripper murders when Inspector Lestrade (that 'ferret-like' anti-hero so often out-detected by the legendary Sherlock Holmes) is sent to the Isle of Wight to investigate a strange corpse found walled up in Shanklin Chine.But this is only the start of the nightmare. It is merely the ... Read more

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  • In the Shadow of the Ripper

    How Forensic Science Failed to Catch Jack

    by M J Trow ...
    For centuries, it was believed that a corpse would ‘bleed anew’ in the presence of its murderer. Chaucer wrote about it; so did Shakespeare. Only slowly, as the Renaissance and the Age of Reason drove away the shadows of superstition, did forensic science find its feet.From the Ratlciffe Highway murders of 1811 to the first murder trial with fingerprint technology (the Stratton brothers in 1905), ... Read more

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  • Britannia: The Wall

    by M. J. Trow ...
    THE END OF ROMAN BRITAIN BEGINS...The story opens in 367 AD. Four soldiers - Justinus, Paternus, Leocadius and Vitalis - are out hunting for food supplies at an outpost of Hadrian's Wall, when the Wall comes under attack.The four find their fort destroyed, their comrades killed, and Paternus is unable to find his wife and son. As they run south to Eboracum, they realize that this is no ordinary ... Read more

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  • Lestrade and the Hallowed House

    by M. J. Trow ...
    Book eight in the Inspector Lestrade series.Britain has entered the twentieth century. Queen Victoria is dead and the Boer War rages on. Inspector Lestrade is called upon to investigate the brutal death of Ralph Childers, MP. It is but the first in a series of bizarre and perplexing murders that lead Lestrade around the country in pursuit of his enquiries.The connection between the victims appears ... Read more

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  • Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand

    by M. J. Trow ...
    Book six in the Inspector Lestrade series.The London Underground Railway, in 1895, was described as 'dark, deadly and halfway to Hell'. Only too true, for as the last train rattled into Liverpool Street, the one remaining passenger did not get off. How could she, when her eyes stared sightless and her heart had stopped?There was another corpse at the Elephant in the morning, wedged between the ... Read more

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  • War Crimes

    Underworld Britain in the Second World War

    by M. J. Trow ...
    The Second World War was a defining experience in British history. It shaped us, made us what we are, and we are still fascinated by it. And one of the most extraordinary aspects of this unique war was the effect it had on crime - and this is the focus of M.J. Trow's compelling survey. He does not write solely about servicemen who committed crime - although there were many of them - and he does ... Read more

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  • Lestrade and the Sign of Nine

    by M. J. Trow ...
    Book two in the Inspector Lestrade series.It was a puzzle that faced Scotland Yard from its very begin-ning – whose was the limbless body found among the foundations? And in the murderous world of Sholto Lestrade, one question is invariably followed by another – what do a lecherous rector, a devious speculator and a plagiaristic novel-ist have in common? Answer: they're all dead, each of them with ... Read more

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  • The Thames Torso Murders

    by M. J. Trow ...
    The author of Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer examines a different series of grisly unsolved murders in Victorian-era London.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 killer's identity – and, more than a century later, they still don't. In this, M.J. ... Read more

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