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  • The Awful Killing of Sarah Watts

    A Story of Confessions, Acquittals and Jailbreaks

    by Mick Davis, David Lassman ...
    A true crime account of a murdered teen in Victorian-era England, the Scotland Yard sergeant sent to investigate, and the gripping events that followed.Before Road there was Frome . . . before Whicher there was Smith . . . before the heartless slaughter of four-year-old Saville Kent, there was the brutal rape and murder of fourteen-year-old Sarah Watts.Taking place nine years earlier than the Road ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Frome

    by Mick Davis, David Lassman ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    The Somerset town of Frome might top national polls as a great place to live and enjoy a reputation as the epitome of cool, with Hollywood A-listers regularly spotted on its street and global rock-stars playing its venues, but the place hasnt always been so chic and behind this modern-day faade lies a more sinister and foul past; full of murder, kidnapping, rioting, witchcraft and rebellion, among ... Read more

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  • Notting Hill and North Kensington Murders and Misdemeanours

    by Mick Davis ...
    Series series Murders & Misdemeanours
    Before its present-day affluence, the Notting Hill area of London once had a second-to-none reputation for its criminality. Victorian developers sought to bring in wealthy Londoners to the large villas, but in the twentieth century the houses became multi-occupancy and the area synonymous with cheap lodging and crimes of every hue. In Notting Hill and North Kensington Murders and Misdemeanours ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • The English Convict Hulks, 1600s–1868

    Transporting Criminals to Australia

    by Mick Davis ...
    A history of the hard conditions of the British penal system. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Britain had eased its problem of crowded jails and surplus criminals by packing them into ships and sending them off to the American colonies to be sold as what nearly amounted to slave labor. All this came to an end with the revolution of 1776 and the legal system was stuck with an ever ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Adventures of a Victorian Con Woman

    The Life and Crimes of Mrs Gordon Baillie

    by Mick Davis, David Lassman ...
    The true crime story of a master swindler and charming con-artist who became one of the most notorious female criminals of the Victorian Age.'The story of Mrs. Gordon Baillie is stranger than anything to be met with in the field of fiction.'Mrs. Gordon Baillie, known throughout her life as Annie, was born in the direst poverty in the small Scottish fishing town of Peterhead in 1848. Illegitimate ... Read more

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  • Somerset

    Stone Age to WWII

    by Mick Davis, David Lassman ...
    Series series Visitors' Historic Britain
    An informative springboard from which to dive deep into the rich and illustrious heritage of the county steeped in the legend of King Arthur.Every inch of legendary Somerset is imbued with history, from the towns of Dunster and Taunton in the west, to those of Shepton Mallet and Frome in the east; while also contained within its county boundaries are the cities of Bath and Wells and the mystical ... Read more

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  • Frome Murders and Misdemeanours

    by Mick Davis, David Lassman ...
    Series series Murders & Misdemeanours
    Frome was historically one of the largest towns in Somerset and is rapidly growing today. Its wealth was built on wool and cloth industries, later metalworking and printing, bringing many people into the town. Agricultural work was also the way of life for many. As these industries rose and fell, the fortunes of many fluctuated and in periods of decline life was often hard. In Frome Murders and ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • Bath Murders and Misdemeanours

    by Mick Davis ...
    Series series Murders & Misdemeanours
    The ancient city of Bath has always attracted visitors, flourishing in the Georgian era and becoming home for the fashionable and wealthy. The city was rebuilt to reflect its new status and although areas were devastated by aerial attacks in the Second World War and the misguided destruction of the 1960s, Bath today is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country. In Bath Murders ... Read more

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  • A-Z of Frome

    Places-People-History

    by Mick Davis, David Lassman ...
    Series series A-Z
    People have lived in the Frome area since prehistoric times and the present town dates back as far as the Saxon era. In the early days it was famous for the quality of its cloth, but the industry and trade declined in the eighteenth century. Over the centuries it has had its fair share of rioting and crime, as well as some notable personalities and eccentrics such as Thomas Bunn, an eighteenth ... Read more

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    A Collection Of True Crime

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    A collection of three true crime titles by OJ Modjeska, now available in one volume!Ace In The Hole: A glamorous Hollywood actress and playwright seeks the insights of a notorious serial killer. But what starts as research for her new play quickly spirals into a twisted obsession as she underestimates the killer's charm. Love and madness intertwine, blurring the lines between fiction and reality, ... Read more

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  • The Decision to Kill

    A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

    by Leslie Ghiglieri ...
    A family tragedy propels this gripping true crime debut as a mother searches for answers in the shocking murder of her husband—and conviction of her son.In the early morning of October 18, 1986, Cherie Wier's life collapses when her teenage son takes the life of her beloved husband. For years, Cherie grapples with events preceding and following the crime, struggling to overcome the consuming grief ... Read more

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  • Marie-Antoinette

    The Making of a French Queen

    by John Hardman ...
    This "wonderfully gripping biography" digs beneath the famous legend to present a nuanced and revealing portrait of a serious-mined monarch (Allan Massie, Wall Street Journal).As the last Queen of France before the French Revolution, Marie-Antoinette was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, while today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. ... Read more

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