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As Thick As Thieves
As Thick As Thieves : Britain's Foolish Felons & Loopy Laws
Standing in an ID parade of incompetence, waiting to be picked out as Britain's stupidest criminal, we've assembled a line-up of bungling burglars, asinine ass...
Bobby On The Beat : The True Story of a 1950s Policewoman
Bobby On The Beat : The True Story of a 1950s Policewoman
A fascinating slice of 1950s life Pamela Rhodes, tells her story of life as a policewoman in Bobby on the Beat. When Pam joined in the 1950s the force's female r...
Britain's Most Notorious Prisoners
Britain's Most Notorious Prisoners
Prison is an unknown world for most of us. It is a place where time stops and lives are held in suspension, taken out of circulation. Amongst the gaol population are the dangerous inma...
Capital Crimes : Seven Centuries of London Life and Murder
Capital Crimes : Seven Centuries of London Life and Murder
Over seven centuries London has changed dramatically - from walled medieval settlement to bustling modern metropolis. But throughout its history there has been ...
Crime Archive:The Krays
Crime Archive:The Krays
Ronnie and Reggie Kray were kings of the Sixties underworld – gangland bosses whose escalating crimes of fraud, extortion, violence and murder spanned over a decade in London’s East End. Comp...
John Christie of Rillington Place
John Christie of Rillington Place : Biography of a Serial Killer
Sixty years ago, the discovery of bodies at 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill, London, led to one of the most sensational, shocking and controversial se...
London's Curse
London's Curse
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, London was gripped by the supposed curse of Tutankhamun, whose tomb in the Luxor sands was uncovered in February 1923 by the British archaeologist Howard Carter. The site w...
Murders Of The Black Museum : The Dark Secrets Behnd a Hundred Years of the Most Notorious Crimes in England
Murders Of The Black Museum : The Dark Secrets Behnd a Hundred Years of the Most Notorious Crimes in England
New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police, houses a unique collection of exhibits, a...
Notorious Murders Of The 20th Century
Notorious Murders Of The 20th Century : Famous & Forgotten British Cases
The word 'murder' has always attracted widespread local and national media coverage. Once known, the story becomes the subject of discussion in a ...
Poisonous Lies
Poisonous Lies : The Croydon Arsenic Mystery
In suburban Croydon over a period of ten months during 1928-9, three members of the same family died suddenly. A complex police investigation followed, but no charges were ev...
Scotland Yard's Ghost Squad
Scotland Yard's Ghost Squad
When the Second World War ended, England was bombed-out and starving, with practically every saleable commodity rationed. It was the age of austerity and criminal opportunity. Thieves broke i...
Southampton Murder Victims
Southampton Murder Victims
Accounts of 80 murders committed in Southampton between 1783 and 2009, exploring changes in legislation relating to the crime and taking a close look at the methods employed by the police in t...
Square Mile Bobbies 1839-1949
Square Mile Bobbies 1839-1949
"Square Mile Bobbies" is a history and casebook of the City of London Police between 1839, when the force was first established after general recognition that London was not being policed e...
The Curious Habits Of Doctor Adams
Curious Habits of Doctor Adams: a 1950s Murder Mystery
'Was rich Mrs Gertrude Hullett murdered at her luxurious 15-room home on Beachy Head? Detectives are tonight trying to establish the cause of the 50-year-old widow'...
The Disinherited
The Disinherited : A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal
In the small hours of the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. It was only when the identity...
The Great Train Robbery : A New History
The Great Train Robbery : A New History
On 8 August 1963, just about 30 miles north of London, a red light brought the 'Up' Travelling Post Office to a halt. A few minutes later the locomotive and the first two carriage...
The Great Train Robbery : The Untold History from the Closed INvestigation Files
The Great Train Robbery : The Untold Story from the Closed Investigation Files
The Great Train Robbery of 1963 is one of the most infamous crimes in British history. The bulk of the money stolen (equivalent to over GBP4...
The Sweeney
The Sweeney : The First 60 Years of Scotland Yard's Flying Squad
The story of sixty years of Scotland Yard's top crime-busting department has been written over a twenty year period by a former detective who spent over e...
Undercover : The Truse Story of Britain's Secret Police
Undercover : The True Story of Britain's Secret Police
"Undercover lays bare the deceit, betrayal and cold-blooded violation practised again and again by undercover police officers - troubling, timely and brilliantly ex...
Violent London : 2000 Years of Riots,Rebels and Revolts
Violent London : 2000 Years of Riots,Rebels and Revolts
This title charts the story of London through centuries of popular insurrection and protest. It is a story of political acitivism expressed in street fighting and ...