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First formed in 1995, the Whitechapel Society strives to promote the study of the crimes of Jack the Ripper and the social history of London's East End in the Victorian and early Edwardian eras Since...

A FORENSIC FORUM aims to bring together accounts of the development of forensic disciplines forged over several decades. Its purpose is to pay tribute to those pioneers and innovators who left an...

The role of female officers serving with the Metropolitan Police changed forever in 1973 with the so-called integration with their male counterparts; the WPC became a PC, equal in every way except...

MICHAEL' WILCOX is not well-known but he had a very distinguished career in the police service, starting as a constable in the City of Bristol Police and ending as the Chief Constable of...

RONALD CHESNEY could have been a fictional criminal character. Educated at public school, attended a top British university and fought as a naval officer in World War Two, Ronald Chesney could have...

Clem Cattini is the legendary drummer whose career spans over 60 years, beginning in the mid-1950s with Terry Kennedy's Rock and Rollers who played gigs across London, most notably at the 2i's Coffee...

What is it that ignites and unleashes an uncontrollable fury, exposing the smouldering resentment in those who finally rebel against a life of servitude? Surprisingly perhaps, this type of killing is...

Charlie Chaplin. The mere mention of the name instantly conjures up the image of a small man, wearing oversized, baggy trousers and tight black jacket, and sporting a hat, cane and toothbrush...

In FATAL AFFAIRS, Kate Clarke recounts five extraordinary murder cases from the eighteenth and nineteenth century where love and romantic infatuation ended in death. In 1752, MARY BLANDY fell in love...

Author: Peter MoorePublisher: Mango BooksPublication Date: May 04, 2021Number of Pages: 214 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1911273973ISBN-13: 9781911273974

Author: David AmbrosePublisher: Mango BooksPublication Date: May 04, 2021Number of Pages: 246 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1914277171ISBN-13: 9781914277177

Howard Vincent's Police Code, 1889 is a republishing of the famous guide for Metropolitan Police of the Victorian era, with an extensive introduction by Neil Bell and Adam Wood. The Police Code was...

The nineteenth century has provided true crime writers with some of the most fascinating murder cases in criminal history. One of the most intriguing is that of Adelaide Bartlett - it remains...

In the early hours of 30th September 1888, the City of London Police force went from being a close bystander to having an active involvement into the investigation of the world's most famous murder...

Author: Tracy I'AnsonPublisher: Mango BooksPublication Date: May 04, 2021Number of Pages: 226 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1911273930ISBN-13: 9781911273936

The story of Joseph Carey Merrick, more popularly known as the Elephant Man, passed into the realm of legend from the moment he was first exhibited at John Ellis's Bee Hive public house in...

Author: David JensenPublisher: Mango BooksPublication Date: May 04, 2021Number of Pages: 278 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1911273957ISBN-13: 9781911273950

A police pioneer and later Lord Mayor of Portsmouth, Gladys Howard spent most of her life in dedicated public service. Her posthumously-published memoirs paint a picture of a woman succeeding in an...

In 1910 Chief Inspector Walter Dew became the most famous detective in the world after a transatlantic chase resulted in him capturing the American murderer Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen. This was the...

In May 1870, seven members of the Marshall family, including three small children, were found brutally murdered in their home in Denham, Buckinghamshire. They had all been bludgeoned to death with a...

MARY ANN ANSELL lived and slept in the kitchen of a boarding house in Great Coram Street, Bloomsbury, where she was the sole domestic servant. It was there, in 1899, late in the evening when all was...

Author: Tom AndrewsPublisher: Mango BooksPublication Date: May 04, 2021Number of Pages: 204 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1914277112ISBN-13: 9781914277115

A dapper figure - gold-rimmed pince-nez, scarlet-lined cloak, silver-knobbed cane - Elliott O'Donnell was the world-famed prince of ghost hunters. His life spanned 93 years, 1872-1965. He remembered...

On being handed an ancient family Bible in 2017, David F Houston was intrigued by the unusual surname inscribed on an inside page and set out to find information about the family. His research led...

Author: Kate ClarkePublisher: Mango BooksPublication Date: May 04, 2021Number of Pages: 250 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1914277120ISBN-13: 9781914277122

The 1887 murder of Miriam Angel dragged the spotlight away from Queen Victoria's jubilee, and threw it upon one of the poorest areas in London's East End. Something had happened in Miriam's little...

The trial of Louise Masset for the murder of her son Manfred was opened on Wednesday 13 December 1899 at the Old Bailey, and it ran for five days. The story that unfolded was disturbing, and certain...

At 3.20pm on the hot afternoon of 27th June 1881, the London Bridge to Brighton train pulled into Preston Park, a mile from its final destination. As the ticket collectors approached the carriages,...

Author: Sally SmithPublisher: Mango BooksPublication Date: May 04, 2021Number of Pages: 216 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1914277139ISBN-13: 9781914277139