Murder Houses of Greater London

Murder Houses of Greater London
Author: Jan Bondeson
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2018-11-29
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 178462974X

Which of Greater London’s most gruesome murders happened in your street? And were they committed by Graham Frederick Young, the Poisoner of the North Circular Road, by the murderous Donald Hume, or by that monster Dennis Nilsen? Armed with this book and a good London map, you will be able to do some murder house detection work of your own.

Murder Houses of London

Murder Houses of London
Author: Jan Bondeson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 751
Release: 2014-01-15
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 144561491X

Which of London's most gruesome murders happened in your street? And were they committed by Jack the Ripper, the Kray twins, the Blackout Ripper or ‘Acid Bath’ Haigh?

Murder Houses of South London

Murder Houses of South London
Author: Jan Bondeson
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2018-11-28
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1784629758

Which of South London’s most gruesome murders happened in your street? Armed with this book and a good London map, you will be able to do some murder house detection work of your own. South London has a long and blood-spattered history of capital crime, and many of its murder houses still stand.

Murder Houses of Edinburgh

Murder Houses of Edinburgh
Author: Jan Bondeson
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2020-10-28
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1800467818

Which of Edinburgh’s most gruesome murders has happened in your street? And were they committed by Burke and Hare, by the Stockbridge Baby-Farmer, by the Demon Frenchman of George Street, by the Triple Killer of Falcon Avenue, or perhaps by one of the Capital’s many faceless, spectral slayers

Some Haunted Houses of England & Wales

Some Haunted Houses of England & Wales
Author: Elliott O'Donnell
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2022-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Some Haunted Houses of England & Wales" by Elliott O'Donnell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Victorian Murders

Victorian Murders
Author: Jan Bondeson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2017-12-15
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1445666316

This book features fifty-six Victorian murder cases from the files of the Illustrated Police News.

The Ripper of Waterloo Road

The Ripper of Waterloo Road
Author: Jan Bondeson
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2017-01-13
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0750981865

When Jack the Ripper first prowled the streets of London, an evening newspaper commented that his crimes were as ghastly as those committed by Eliza Grimwood's murderer fifty years earlier. Hers is arguably the most infamous and brutal of all nineteenth-century London killings. Eliza was a high-class prostitute, and on 26 May 1838, following an evening at the theatre, she brought a 'client' back to her home in Waterloo Road. The morning after, she was found with her throat cut and her abdomen viciously 'ripped'. The client was nowhere to be seen. The ensuing murder investigation was convoluted, with suspects ranging from an alcoholic bricklayer to a royal duke. Londoners from all walks of life followed the story with a horror and fascination – among them Charles Dickens, who took inspiration from Eliza's death when he wrote the murder of Nancy in Oliver Twist. Despite this feverish interest, the case was left unsolved, becoming the subject of 'penny dreadfuls' and urban legend. Unusually for a crime of this early period, the diary of the police officer leading the investigation has been preserved for posterity, and Jan Bondeson takes full advantage of this unique access to a Victorian murder inquiry. Skilfully dissecting what evidence remains, he links this murder with a series of other opportunist early Victorian slayings, and, in putting forward a credible new suspect, concludes that the Ripper of Waterloo Road was, in fact, a serial killer claiming as many as four victims.

The London Monster

The London Monster
Author: Jan Bondeson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780812235760

A century before Jack the Ripper there was the London Monster, whose knife attacks on women caused unprecedented alarm, terror, and uproar. Through chance combined with vigilante effort, a young Welshman, Rhynwick Williams, was arrested as the Monster and committed to prison after a sensational trial at the Old Bailey. However, doubts about Williams' guilt persisted, and some writers asserted that there never was a Monster at all. Over 200 years later, Bondeson (author of A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities and The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History) unearthed new clues to this fascinating case, which lies somewhere between fact and urban legend. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR