True crime

THE BEST-SELLING TRUE CRIME BOOK IN HISTORY The true story behind the infamous mass murder case and its perpetrator, the notorious Charles Manson, penned by the prosecutor who finally put Manson behind bars.

'Of all the gifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat, ' wrote David Maurer, a proposition he definitively proved in The Big Con.

Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA programme had an idea - a romantic, albeit crazy, idea.

AN IMPOSSBLE CHOICEJorge Salcedo was trapped.

The Lives Less Ordinary series brings you the most exciting, adventurous and entertaining true-life writing that is out there, for men who are time-poor but want the best.

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This memoir was recently discovered and appears to have been written in the 1920s by somone who asserts that he was Jack the Ripper.

_______The shocking, gripping autobiography from one of the UK's most infamous criminals and gang leaders, and one half of the legendary Kray Twins, Reggie Kray.

MEET EL SICARIO.

_____________________________At Ronnie Kray's funeral, London crime expert John Pearson saw a man he didn't recognise - but who all the notorious criminals present deferred to.

In December 1968 two girls who lived next door to each other - Mary, aged eleven, and Norma, thirteen - stood before a criminal court in Newcastle, accused of strangling two little boys; Martin Brown, four years old, and Brian Howe, three.

___________________________THE BESTSELLING ACCOUNT OF FOOTBALL VIOLENCEWelcome to the world of football thuggery.

WINNER OF THE GOLD DAGGER AWARD FOR CRIME NON-FICTIONThe definitive, Sunday Times bestselling true story of serial-killer Dennis Nilsen and the murders he committed, written with Nilsen's full cooperation.

Nearly every week the headlines of national newspapers shout allegations about the latest credit card fraud, internet paedophile, or major corporations whose computers have been hacked.

John Bindon is a modern legend.

A Preston Chronicle newspaper headline in 1866 of 'Thievery, Knavery & Harlotry in Preston' described a town struggling with crime and its consequences.

This book brings to life a selection of the most notorious, and grimmest, murders and other crimes in and around Liverpool from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Jarrow was a thriving shipbuilding town.

For nearly 100 years, the question has repeatedly been asked: who was 'Jack the Ripper'?

Monty Newton and Rodolphe Lemoine must be two of the most outrageous conmen in history.

A sensational new theory - and an insight into the late Victorian city through an intensively researched social history.

The first study, year by year, of murder in Britain in the 20th century.

Bert Hannam was a dapper, charismatic figure in the Scotland Yard of the post-war years.

Two elderly shopkeepers bludgeoned to death, the only evidence - a smudged thumbprint inside a cashbox.

Home-grown terrorists equipped by a foreign power are not a new phenomenon.

Nearly forty female agents were sent out by the French section of Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War.

London had many places of execution: Tyburn, of course, but also Smithfield, Wapping, Kennington, Tower Hill and Charing Cross among others.

This book features fifty-six Victorian cases of murder covered in the sensational weekly penny journal the Illustrated Police News between 1867 and 1900.

Mrs Holmes tells the incredible story of Grace Humiston, the lawyer and detective who solved the famous cold case of Ruth Cruger, an 18-year-old girl who disappeared in 1917.

Two aristocratic brothers executed for forgery in 1776; a young woman who spurned the advances of a one-legged admirer, battered to death in her Camden Town home in 1926; a pornographer shot dead by the Krays in 1966 for having 'too much lip' .

Macabre crimes have long fascinated us, and our murky past ensures that we have no shortage of tales to chill and entertain in equal measure.

This is the first book to tell the story of the Sherlockian mystery that is the classic London Battersea Flat Murder.

Empire of Sin is a vibrant account of New Orleans in the early 1920s, a time when commercialised vice, jazz culture and endemic crime formed the background for a civil war that lasted for thirty years.

Few things are more evocative of Victorian Britain than its criminals; they are, together with railways, gas lamps and swirling fog, vital ingredients in any Victorian melodrama.

Liverpool has a deeply chequered past.

Very Special Agent Fifi was described as 'one of the most expert liars in the world'.

Smuggling in Cornwall: An Illustrated History tells the story of the smuggling trade that flourished in Cornwall during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The Who's Who of British Crime spans the whole twentieth century, and covers an enormous range of crimes and misdemeanours - by turns appalling, brilliant, gruesome and audacious.

Located in central England, the West Midlands is a distinctive industrial region encompassing numerous ancient towns and villages in a unique and diverse landscape, formed by centuries of mining and iron forging.

A look at the dark side of life, Victorian-style, when nothing was quite as it seemed and a public execution could be an entertaining family day out.

Yorkshire Murders & Misdemeanours invites the reader to take a look at the dark side of life.

A look at the dark side of life, Victorian-style, when nothing was quite as it seemed and a public execution could be an entertaining family day out.

Ever wondered where Arthur Conan Doyle got his inspiration for the famous literary sleuth?

Surrey Executions lists in chronological order all the criminals hanged in the county during the nineteenth century.

'We never needed to lock our doors in the past .

Jack William Sweet relates shocking true events and personal stories which have terrified and horrified this seemingly placid county over the centuries.

Jonathan Wild (born c.

Over the centuries of British history, from the Anglo-Saxons to the 1960s, our society imposed the death penalty for serious crime.

Edinburgh is a city rightly famed world-wide.

A look at the dark side of life, Victorian-style, when nothing was quite as it seemed and a public execution could be an entertaining family day out.