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A Century of Carrier Aviation
A Century of Carrier Aviation
The evolution of ships and shipborne aircraft.
It is now almost exactly a hundred years since a heavier-than-air craft first took off and landed on a warship, and from the very beginning f...
A Forger's Tale
A Forger's Tale
In 2007, Bolton Crown Court in the United Kingdom sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries. Working out of a shed in his parents' ...
A Is For Arsenic
A IS for Arsenic : The Poisons of Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her books; indeed, she employed it more than any other murder method, with the poison it...
An Outsider Inside No. 10
An Outsider Inside No.10 : Protecting the Prime Ministers, 1974-79
Former Special Branch officer John Warwicker gives the inside story of the six years he spent in charge of security at 10 Downing Street, tracking one o...
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Blood On The Tracks
Blood on the Tracks : A History of Railway Crime in Britain
Blood on the Tracks provides a murky and intriguing account of criminal activity on Britain's railways, from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century rig...
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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...
Crime, Policing And Punishment In England 1660-1914
Crime, Policing and Punishment in England , 1660 - 1914
Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660-1914 offers an overview of the changing nature of crime and its punishment from the Restoration to World War 1. It ...
John Bull's Book of Pitfalls
John Bull's Book of Pitfalls
First published as a supplement to the periodical John Bull in the 1930's, this book aims to bring to the public notice the various scams used to con money from the unaware, ranging from doo...
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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 Underground Serial Killer
London Underground Serial Killer : The Life of Kieran Kelly
The full story of the life and times of Kieran Patrick Kelly, the London Underground Serial Killer, who wandered up and down the Northern Line of the London Un...
London's Gangs At War
London's Gangs at War
The 1950s and 1960s saw a changing of the guard in London's gangland. A new and even more ruthless breed of criminal emerged to replace the aging generation of likes of Sabini, Mullins and Hayes.
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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...
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...
Scourge Of Soho
Scourge of Soho : The Controversial Career of SAS Hero Detective Sergeant Harry Challenor MM
Detective Sergeant Harry Challenor is undoubtedly one of the most controversial policeman of all time. Born into grinding pove...
Special Branch
Special Branch : A History 1883-2006
Initially tasked with combatting the threat of Irish republican terrorists in the reign of Queen Victoria, the Metropolitan Police Special Branch went on to play a major role in the ...
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 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 Littlehampton Libels
The Littlehampton Libels A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery About Words in 1920s England
The Littlehampton Libels tells the story of a poison-pen mystery that led to a miscarriage of justice in the years following ...
The Map Thief
The Map Thief : The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps
Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers—both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools...
The Profession Of Violence
The Profession of Violence : The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins
The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins, now a major film, starring Tom Hardy. Reggie and Ronnie Kray ruled London's gangland during t...
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