Download or read book Lancashire Tales of Mystery Murder written by Ron Freethy and published by . This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lancashire Tales of Mystery and Murder written by Steve Fielding and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of true murders and intriguing mysteries from the county. Illustrated.
Download or read book Fell Murder written by E.C.R. Lorac and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring classics were written in the golden age of detective fiction. "...this crime is conditioned by the place. To understand the one you've got to study the other." The Garths had farmed their fertile acres for generations, and fine land it was with the towering hills of the Lake Country on the far horizon. Here hot-tempered Robert Garth, still hale and hearty at eighty-two, ruled Garthmere Hall with a rod of iron. Until, that is, old Garth was found dead—'dead as mutton'—in the trampled mud of the ancient outhouse. Glowering clouds gather over the dramatic dales and fells as seasoned investigator Chief Inspector Macdonald arrives in the north country. Awaiting him are the reticent Garths and their guarded neighbors of the Lune Valley; and a battle of wits to unearth their murderous secrets. E.C.R Lorac was a prolific writer who penned over forty bestselling mystery books over the course of her career. First published in 1944, Fell Murder is a tightly-paced mystery with authentic depictions of its breathtaking locales and Second World War setting. Rife with detail and suspenseful historical crime, this novel earns its place among the classic British mysteries. This edition also includes the rare E.C.R. Lorac short story 'The Live Wire'. Other books in the British Library Crime Classics: Death in Fancy Dress The Body in the Dumb River It Walks by Night Measure of Malice Surfeit of Suspects Death Has Deep Roots The Notting Hill Mystery
Download or read book Fell Murder written by E.C.R. Lorac and published by . This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sitting Murder written by Alan J Wright and published by . This book was released on with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Sergeant Michael Brennan has no time for tales of ghosts and the afterlife, or of the dead contacting the living. So, when he finds himself investigating the case of a recently widowed young woman, Alice Goodway, who has suddenly developed 'the Gift' of mediumship and has received a threatening letter, he embarks on the inquiry with no small degree of scepticism. But just as Brennan and his burly colleague, Constable Jaggery, consider how to proceed with the case, something much more sinister takes place: a murder, in Alice's own home.
Download or read book Crook o Lune written by E.C.R. Lorac and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Effortlessly atmospheric [with] a killer likely to take most readers by surprise." — Kirkus Reviews Renowned for its authentic characters and settings based partly on the author's own experiences of life in the Lune Valley, E. C. R. Lorac's classic rural mystery returns to print for the first time since 1953. This edition includes an introduction by award-winning author Martin Edwards. "I'm minded of the way a fire spreads in dry bracken when we burn it off the fellside: tongues of flame this way and that—tis human tongues and words that's creeping like flames in brushwood." It all began up at High Gimmerdale with the sheep-stealing, a hateful act in the shepherding fells above the bend in the Lune River—the Crook o' Lune. Then came the fire at Aikengill house and with the leaping of the flames, death, disorder, and dangerous gossip came to the quiet moorlands. Visiting his friends, the Hoggetts, while searching for some farmland to buy up ahead of his retirement, Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald's trip becomes a busman's holiday when he is drawn to investigate the deadly blaze and the deep-rooted motives behind the rising spate of crimes.
Download or read book Murderers Row written by Robin Odell and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-30 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminoloogist Robin Odell has compiled this gruesome gallery of cases from all over the world, revealing the growth in serial slayings, contract killings and middle-class murders and investigating what motivates people to commit the ultimate crime. As well as gangsters and ordinary felons, the book includes doctors, millionaries, housewives, children, lawyers, accountants, officers and gentlemen who have succumbed to the killing instinct. Behind the sensational names concocted by the tabloid press - 'Boston Strangler', 'Dracula Killer', 'Night Stalker', 'Granny Killer' - lurk real murderers committing acts of violence in circumstances often more bizarre than fiction. Arranged in an easy-to-use A-Z format, the book contains over 500 cases from serial killers such as Dennis Nilsen and Ted Bundy, to those such as Jeremy Bamber and Steven Benson who dispatched their parents for money; from murderous New Zealand teenagers whose story made a successful film, to the many doctors and nurses who took life instead of saving it; from unsolved murders such as the murder of Little Gregory in France to the paid assignments of John Waynes Hearn, a Vietnam veteran who killed to order. The result is a classic of true crime, a definitive work on murder as a worldwide phenomenon.
Download or read book Lancashire Murders written by Alan Hayhurst and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Lancashire's history. The cases covered here record the county's most fascinating but least known crimes, as well as famous murders that gripped not just Lancashire but the whole nation. From Liverpool's Florence Maybrick (was she really guilty of poisoning her hypochondriac husband with arsenic and was he indeed Jack the Ripper?) to late Victorian Bury's disturbing 'Body in the Wardrobe' case; from the infamous Drs Ruxton and Clements, who saw off five wives between them, to Blackpool's Louisa Merrifield, whose loose tongue was undoubtedly her downfall, this is a collection of the county's most dramatic and interesting criminal cases Alan Hayhurst has been uncovering evidence about the county's historic murders for more than forty years. In writing this book he has visited all of the murder sites, consulted original documents and contemporary reports, and spoken to those who has personal memories of the cases concerned. Lancashire Murders is a unique re-examination of the darker side of the county's past.
Download or read book Goblin Tales of Lancashire written by James Bowker and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful little collection of entertaining faerie and supernatural tales. Filled with several unique characters and stories, this book will make a perfect addition to your fantasy collection.
Download or read book Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life written by Benjamin Brierley and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foul Deeds Suspicious Deaths Around Southport written by Geoff Wright and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2008-08-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A grim catalogue of killings and suspicious deaths that have darkened 130 years of Southport history is laid bare” (Southport Visitor). Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Southport takes the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting villains of all sorts along the way—cutthroats and poisoners, murderous lovers, baby-farmers and baby-killers, burglars, fraudsters, and the so-called “doctor of death.” The book records crime and punishment in Southport in all its shocking variety. Among the many acts of wickedness Geoff Wright describes are the unsolved murder of Nigel Bostock, the double-slaying of two friends, a fatal brawl at the Shakespeare pub, the wife-killing Dr. Clements, and the baffling murder of businessman Harry Baker. His chronicle of Southport’s hidden history—the history this Victorian seaside resort would prefer to forget—will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the dark side of human nature.
Download or read book More Murderous Bolton written by Steve Fielding and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting second helping of true stories, vividly recreating a series of heinous murders committed in and around the Bolton area.
Download or read book Tales of Mystery written by Doyle A.C. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume includes short mystery stories like “The Lost Special,” “The Beetle Hunter” and “The Man with the Watches,” fi lled to the brim with suspense, wild twists, and turns.
Download or read book Popular edition of tales and sketches of Lancashire life written by Benjamin Brierley and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lancashire Magic Mystery written by Kenneth Fields and published by Sigma Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text lifts the veil which shrouds moder n Lancashire to uncover an amazing, diverse world of the une xplained. The author leads you to sacred sites associated wi th witchcraft and paganism to sightings of UFOs. '
Download or read book More Lancashire Murders written by Alan Hayhurst and published by Sutton True Crime History. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this follow-up to Lancashire Murders, Alan Hayhurst brings together more murderous tales that shocked not only the county but made headline news throughout the nation. They include the case of Oldham nurse Elizabeth Berry, who poisoned her own daughter for the insurance money in 1887; Margaret Walber, who beat her husband to death in Liverpool in 1893; John Smith, the young Home-Guardsman who shot his ex-girlfriend in broad daylight at Whitworth in 1941; and Norman Green, who was hanged for the murder of two young boys in Wigan in the 1950s, but may have been responsible for a third death as well. Alan Hayhurst's well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to everyone interested in the shady side of Lancashire's history.
Download or read book Murder in Lancashire written by Jane O'Brien and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Delaney, the flirtatious mayor of Lancashire, invites Samantha Degan and her fiance, Detective Joseph Fletcher to a performance of The Music Man. The musical is presented by local actors and stars the wife of the mayor, Sophia Delaney. Samantha is drawn into another murder mystery when the mayor is shot during the finale of the show and his head falls onto Samantha's lap in the crowded theater. The bullet is precise in hitting its target and points to a possible murder-for-hire. The suspects are numerous as Samantha and Fletch investigate the many reasons why they all wanted Mayor Delaney dead.
