Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Swansea

2009-09-17 True Crime

Author : Bernard Lewis
Release : 2009-09-17
Genre : True Crime
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 652/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Swansea written by Bernard Lewis. This book was released on 2009-09-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The criminal cases vividly described by Bernard Lewis in this gripping book take the reader on a journey into the dark secret side of Swanseas long history. The city has been the setting for a series of horrific, bloody, sometimes bizarre incidents over the centuries. From crimes of brutal premeditation to those born of rage or despair, the whole range of human weakness and wickedness is represented here. There are tales of secret passion and betrayal, robbery, murder and suicide, deadly fever and mutiny, executions, and instances of extraordinary domestic cruelty and malice that ended in death. The human dramas the author describes are often played out in the most commonplace of circumstances, but others are so odd as to be stranger than fiction. This grisly chronicle of the hidden history of Swansea will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the dark side of human nature.

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Newport

2004-09-30 True Crime

Author : Terry Underwood
Release : 2004-09-30
Genre : True Crime
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 324/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Newport written by Terry Underwood. This book was released on 2004-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cathedral and university city in southern Wales hides a long and violent history—from Roman gladiators to current crimes of passion. This book contains twenty-one separate stories all based in the Newport and district area. Anyone fascinated by the mindset of a murderer will enjoy this book. Whether you are a budding Miss Marple or an aspiring Inspector Morse, here is a look inside the criminal mind, the unmasking of means and motives, and the struggles and successes of detective work. From the Roman citizens who used Newport’s countryside as their dumping ground to a sword-fencing duel in the 1650s, from a mass murder in Westgate Square to a man found shot dead in his office, author Terry Underwood tackles the centuries-old criminal history of this city on the River Usk. “The man known for his books about Newport . . . has turned his hand to chronicling the city’s notorious murders.” —South Wales Argus

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In & Around Southend-on-Sea

2007-11-15 True Crime

Author : Dee Gordon
Release : 2007-11-15
Genre : True Crime
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 448/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths In & Around Southend-on-Sea written by Dee Gordon. This book was released on 2007-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of true crime in a quaint resort town in Essex, England that hosts a variety of amusements—along with a legacy of madness, mayhem, and murder. This ghoulish look into the past takes readers on a sinister journey through Southend-on-Sea, from medieval times to the twentieth century, and featuring a rogues’ gallery of cutthroats, highwaymen, witches, murderers, and madmen. Included are more than twenty notorious episodes offering fascinating insight into criminal acts and the criminal mind. And in addition to the eerie events of the past, the author explores grievous crimes from more recent times such as the Murrell fratricide, the brutal killing of Florence Dennis, the Watson bungalow murder, the Brown wheelchair murder, the Shoebury Garrison deaths, and many more. Gordon’s chronicle of the dark side of Southend’s long history will be fascinating reading for anyone who is interested in the town’s rich—sometimes gruesome—past.

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Southend-on-Sea

2007-11 Crime

Author : Dee Gordon
Release : 2007-11
Genre : Crime
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 478/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Southend-on-Sea written by Dee Gordon. This book was released on 2007-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Southend-on-Sea takes the reader on a sinister journey from medieval times to the twentieth century, meeting cut-throats, highwaymen, witches, murderers and suicides along the way. Dee Gordon's chronicle of the dark side of Southend 's long history will be fascinating reading for anyone who is interested in the town's rich but sometimes gruesome past. She has selected over 20 notorious episodes which give a fascinating insight into criminal acts and the criminal mind. in graphic detail she recalls medieval murders at Leigh Quay and Prittlewell and cases involving murderers, witches, smugglers and robbers from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. But grievous crimes from more recent times feature too - the Murrell fratricide case, the brutal killing of Florence Dennis, the Watson bungalow murder, the Brown wheelchair murder, Shoebury Garrison deaths, and many more. the human dramas Dee Gordon describes are often played out in the most commonplace of circumstances, but others are so odd as to be stranger than fiction.

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