True crime

In 1981 amid recession and widespread urban unrest Dave Watson left the building trade to join the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police.

The author of Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer examines a different series of grisly unsolved murders in Victorian-era London.

On 1 May 1820, outside Newgate Prison, in front of a dense crowd, five of the Cato Street conspirators-Arthur Thistlewood, William Davidson, James Ings, Richard Tidd and John Brunt-were hanged for high treason.

Strangeways Gaol opened in 1868, and replaced the New Bailey Gaol, where public executions had taken place before their abolition that same year.

London's West End is associated with fashion and glamour but for centuries it has had a far darker side.

The Second World War was a defining experience in British history.

The history of the old county of Yorkshire has been concerned with the great and the good, the ambitious and the downright unscrupulous.

This arresting miscellany is jam-packed with intriguing and enlightening stories, facts, and trivia about all manner of murderers, miscreants, and malcontents.

In 1860, a 70 year old widow turned landlady named Mary Emsley was found dead in her own home, killed by a blow to the back of her head.

'At every turn the gripping writing reminds you of a world of spies and betrayal that was so much a part of life in post-war Europe.

Discover how forensic scientists are changing how we solve crime REVISED UPDATED EDITION The most remarkable weapon in the fight against crime, forensic science turns bullet trajectories, bodily fluids, and the very structure of our DNA into damning witnesses of our every act.

John Tawell was a sincere Quaker but a sinning one.

A compelling introduction to the global impact of organized crimeFamous for being ruthless, cruel, and cool, the Mafia has always captured the darker side of the imagination.

Octopus is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of a GBP300 million hedge fund fraud and the wild-goose chase through Europe by its drug-fuelled manager for a lucrative "e;secret market"e; beneath the financial market we all know.

With shocking new details from Madoff himself The definitive account of the worlds biggest Ponzi scheme an instant New York Times bestsellerWho was Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history?

In 1919 the author"e;s great-grandmother, Beth, gave birth to triplets.

The Mob was the biggest, richest business in America until it was destroyed from within by drugs, greed and the decline of traditional crime-family values.

Clubland UK is a story of violent men and the worlds they inhabit.

From Salford to St Louis, former professional boxer Wayne Barker fought every man who ever challenged him.

The last time that anyone heard from 35-year-old Claudia Lawrence, a chef at the University of York, was when she sent a text message to a friend on 18 March 2009 at 8.

Fact is often stranger than fiction, and when Rod McLean, an escaped drug baron and alleged MI6 agent, was mysteriously found dead in a London flat after two months on the run, even Hollywood couldn't have scripted it better.

Better To Be Feared is the true story of a 48-year-old businessman who, having pled guilty to perpetrating a fraud involving a fake business contract, was plunged into the dark world of life inside some of Britain's hardest jails.

Trouble in Mind is bernard o'mahoney's unblinkingly honest account of his eventful life so far.

Crimelord is the gripping life story of elusive multimillionaire gangster Tam McGraw.

There was one partner the pretty young women who danced away the 1960s in Glasgow's Barrowlands were desperate to avoid: Bible John, so named because he quoted scripture to his victims.

Following Michelle and Lisa Taylor's conviction of the savage murder of Alison Shaugnessy, Bernard O'Mahoney embarked on a successful crusade to prove their innocence.

Grass is the incredible story of Phil Sparrowhawk, a working-class boy with gambling in his blood.

'A riveting thriller-style account of what happened to the Nazi gold hoard' Guardian'A major feat of detection .

The Lone Brit on 13 is a gripping true story of violence, degradation and adventure penned in the confines of a grim Malaga prison cell.

Prepare yourself for a journey into the indonesian penal system, a world where murder, torture and fights to the death are the norm.

The murders in London between 1888-91 attributed to Jack the Ripper constitute one of the most mysterious unsolved criminal cases.

Murder played out in the spotlight of maximum publicity Does celebrityhood preclude a fair trial?

The definitive collection of first-hand accounts of the world's outlaw motorcycle gangs, with contributions by Sonny Barger, Hunter S.

From the Florida roadside prostitute and first convicted serial killer Aileen Wuornos to the Empress poisoner of ancient Rome, this is the biggest collection of the world's most dangerous women newly revised and expanded, including: Ruth Snyder, the last woman in the US to go to the electric chair; the English multiple murderess who chopped up the bodies of children and scattered them from a plane; Rosemary West - unsuspecting dupe or cold-blooded killer; the mother who hired a killer to eliminate her daughter-in-law; Lizzie Borden - separating fact from fiction; Myra Hindley - Britain's most infamous murderess.

Close-up accounts of three of the weirdest and most disturbing cases of cannibalism in the twentieth century.

Curiously for a serial killer and self-proclaimed cannibal, Arthur Shawcross's confessional accounts of his crimes were only partially believed.

The biggest and best collection of unsolved murder and mystery cases - updated and expanded.

Reason to be afraid - over 50 unsolved cases of serial murder Fact: murderers and serial killers do not always get caught.

It is still unclear how many children were raped or murdered by Albert Fish, also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, and The Boogeyman.

The lives and premature deaths of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker have been turned into films, songs and novels over the years.

Karla Homolka attracted worldwide outrage in the early nineties.

The story of the killer Ed Gein is one of the weirdest, most disturbing ever, one that has inspired horror stories as diverse as Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Jeffrey Dahmer was the Milwaukee serial killer who murdered, mutilated and cannibalized at least seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991.

Dangerous madmen or divinely inspired prophets?

Detailed accounts of over 30 contemporary cases, or older cases reopened as a result of advances in forensic science.

In 1945, as part of the Occupation forces sent to postwar Japan Nick Zappetti, a native of Italian East Harlem, entered a world as strange as any he had ever know, In postwar Tokyo, however, he realised there were certain opportunities.

A fresh, new look at gangs in every part of the world which deliberately avoids the stories that have been done to death - about Capone, Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde - and focuses on less well-known gangs such as 'Ma' Barker's Boys; the Smaldones of Denver; Scotland Yard's 1960s' Flying Squad, the so-called Firm within a Firm; Dr Death, the Melbourne drug dealer and Andre Stander, the former South African police officer who led a gang of bank robbers before being shot dead in Fort Lauderdale having fled a 17-year sentence.

Toe die legendariese Suiker Britz homself in 2018 om die lewe gebring het, het die einde van ’n era aangebreek – ’n tydvak waarin ouskool-polisiemanne se reputasie gebou was op ongelooflike suksesse in die bekamping van misdaad.