True Crime UK

New edition! An expanded and updated edition of the author's earlier books on true crime in the United Kingdom, "True Crime UK" includes many fascinating additional cases. Each chapter begins with a resume of the basic facts to whet the appetite and then launches into the main story, which manages to include all the most salient and sometimes horrific and grisly details. The cases are grouped by theme - Love, Sex, Avarice, Treason & Revolt and Psychosis - and may be read in sequence or dipped into like an encyclopedia of crime. This book is for all those intrigued by true crime stories through the ages - great for dipping into on the commute to work, on holiday or at home. Included are the stories of: -Jack the Ripper; Ian Brady & Myra Hindley; Fred & Rose West; Lord Lucan; Dr Crippen; Ruth Ellis; Oscar Wilde; The mysterious disappearance of London Estate Agent Suzy Lamplugh; The Dunblane Massacre; The Hungerford Massacre; Burke & Hare's serial murders; Ian Huntley and the Soham murders; The Kray Twins; Robert Napper and the murder of Rachel Nickell; Denis Nilsen; J G Haigh and the Acid Bath Murders; Baby Farmer Amelia Dyer; King Richard III and the murder of the Princes in the Tower; Queen Anne Boleyn; Mary Queen of Scots; Queen Isabella and the murder of King Edward II; John Christie and the killings at 10, Rillington Place; Thompson & Bywaters' tragic menage a trois; War hero Alan Turing's prosecution for once-illegal homosexual offences; James Camb and the Porthole Murder; The Profumo Sex Scandal; Patrick Mahon and the gory murder on Eastbourne beach; Craig & Bentley; Captain Kidd and murder on the high seas; Victorian society beauty Madeleine Smith's trial for poisoning her discarded French lover; Oscar Slater and the brutal killing of a Scottish spinster; Adultery and poisoning with Florence Maybrick's disposal of her husband, who's diary led to the possible identity of Jack the Ripper; Artist Richard Dadd's internment in Bedlam for the murder of his own father; and Many More!