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    Queen Victoria’s Stalker: The Strange Story of the Boy Jones

    Jan Bondeson

    This book tells the full story of the Boy Jones, one of the first celerity stalkers in history

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    Greyfriars Bobby: The Most Faithful Dog in the World

    Jan Bondeson

    Explodes the myth of Edinburgh’s Greyfriars Bobby.

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    The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale

    Jan Bondeson

    With the pace of a great thriller, Bondeson takes the reader to brutal and bawdy 18th-century England to join in the chase after one of the most outrageous and mysterious…

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    The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History

    Jan Bondeson

    In this collection of essays, the author tells ten stories of myths and hoaxes concerning the animal kingdom. Throughout, he recounts - and in some instances solves - mysteries of…

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    Murder Houses of Greater London

    Jan Bondeson

    Which of Greater London’s most gruesome murders happened in your street? And were they committed by Graham Frederick Young, the Poisoner of the North Circular Road, by the murderous Donald…

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    Murder Houses of South London

    Jan Bondeson

    Which of South London’s most gruesome murders happened in your street? Armed with this book and a good London map, you will be able to do some murder house detection…

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    Phillimore’s Edinburgh

    Jan Bondeson

    The complete collection of the famous postcard artist Phillimore’s pictures of Edinburgh. It will appeal both to those who know and love Edinburgh and to postcard collectors.

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    The Two-Headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels

    Jan Bondeson

    This collection of essays illustrates various anomalies of human development, the lives of the remarkable individuals concerned and social reactions to the extraordinary bodies. The author explores specific cases, but…

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    Doctor Poison: The Extraordinary Career of Dr George Henry Lamson, Victorian Poisoner Par Excellence

    Jan Bondeson

    One of the most notorious Victorian murders was committed by Dr George Henry Lamson, who stood trial in 1882 for poisoning his crippled brother-in-law Percy Malcolm John; he was found…

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    Blood on the Snow: The Killing of Olof Palme

    Jan Bondeson

    The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apartheid, was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm in February 1986. At…

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    R. P. Phillimore’s East Lothian

    Jan Bondeson

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    Blood on the Snow: The Killing of Olof Palme

    Jan Bondeson

    Bondeson’s work, however, is noteworthy for its dispassionate treatment of police incompetence: the police did not answer a witness’s phone call reporting the murder just 45 seconds after it occurred…

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    The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History

    Jan Bondeson

    In his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like facts, concerning the animal kingdom.

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    The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale

    Jan Bondeson

    Jan Bondeson recounts a tale that occupies a unique place in criminal history and imagination. Drawing on contemporary evidence, he takes a wry look at the mania surrounding the sensational…

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    Murder Houses of Edinburgh

    Jan Bondeson

    Which of Edinburgh’s most gruesome murders has happened in your street? And were they committed by Burke and Hare, by the Stockbridge Baby-Farmer, by the Demon Frenchman of George Street…

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    Amazing Dogs: A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities

    Jan Bondeson

    AMAZING DOGS tells the stories of some of the most extraordinary dogs in history.

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    Amazing Dogs: A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities

    Jan Bondeson

    Amazing Dogs tells the stories of some of the most extraordinary dogs in history.

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    Murder Houses of London

    Jan Bondeson

    Which of London’s most gruesome murders happened in your street? And were they committed by Jack the Ripper, the Kray twins, the Blackout Ripper or ‘Acid Bath’ Haigh?

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    Victorian Murders

    Jan Bondeson

    This book features fifty-six Victorian murder cases from the files of the Illustrated Police News.

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    The Lion Boy and Other Medical Curiosities

    Jan Bondeson

    A historian’s research skills combined with a physician’s diagnostic flair, exploring our timeless fascination with the unusual and downright bizarre people, events and theories in the colourful history of medicine.

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    Strange Victoriana: Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian Ancestors

    Jan Bondeson

    Meet the Victorians in their strangest forms. After reading this book, your views on Victorian culture will change forever.

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    Victorian Murders

    Jan Bondeson

    New B-format paperback edition - This book features fifty-six Victorian murder cases from the files of the Illustrated Police News.

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    Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear

    Jan Bondeson

    Was Kaspar Hauser really the missing crown prince of Baden? In this collecxtion of entertaining stories of great unsolved mysteries of disputed identity feature here, Jan Bondeson uses all the…

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    Rivals of the Ripper: Unsolved Murders of Women in Late Victorian London

    Jan Bondeson

    When discussing unsolved murders of women in late Victorian London, most people think of the depredations of Jack the Ripper, the Whitechapel Murderer, whose sanguineous exploits have spawned the creation…

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    The Ripper of Waterloo Road: The Murder of Eliza Grimwood in 1838

    Jan Bondeson

    WHEN JACK THE RIPPER first prowled the streets of London, an evening newspaper commented that his crimes were as ghastly as those committed by Eliza Grimwood’s murderer fifty years earlier.

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    Rivals of the Ripper: Unsolved Murders of Women in Late Victorian London

    Jan Bondeson

    The ghoulish handiwork of nineteenth-century London - the rivals of the Ripper.

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    The Great Pretenders: The True Stories Behind Famous Historical Mysteries

    Jan Bondeson

    Jan Bondeson M.D. focuses his medical expertise on the great unsolved mysteries of disputed identity of the last two hundred years.

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    Amazing Dogs: A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities

    Jan Bondeson, M.D.

    Bondeson tells the stories of some of the most extraordinary dogs in history.

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    The True History of Jack the Ripper: The Forgotten 1905 Ripper Novel

    Guy Logan,Jan Bondeson

    Does this long-forgotten novel hold the key to the mystery of the Whitechapel Murders of 1888?

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    Those Amazing Newfoundland Dogs

    Jan Bondeson (Professor, College of Medicine, University of Wales, Cardiff)

    Known in Britain at least since the 1730s, Newfoundland dogs have been highly regarded for their bravery, intelligence and water rescue ability. This book resurrects the forgotten history of the…

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    The Two-Headed Boy: And Other Medical Marvels

    Jan Bondeson (Professor, College of Medicine, University of Wales, Cardiff)

    A look at those whom some call freaks and medical monstrosities. Examines these strange persons sympathetically, with concern for how they lived, drawing on original, often contemporary descriptions to understand…

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    The Eye of the Beholder - Julia Pastrana’s Long Journey Home

    Jan Bondeson

    Born in Sinaloa, Mexico, Julia Pastrana (1834-1860) was a gifted singer, musician and dancer who could converse in English, Spanish and French. She also suffered from one of the most…

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    A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities

    Jan Bondeson, Ph.D. (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (London))

    Dr. Bondeson dissects a dozen … examples of human credulity with the scalpel of a forensic historian, and the result is a colorful collection of true detective stories. - Richard…

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    Queen Victoria’s Stalker: The Strange Case of the Boy Jones

    Dr Jan Bondeson, M.D. (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (London))

    The unusual tale of one of history’s earliest celebrity stalkers

    Following her coronation in 1838, Britain’s Queen Victoria was a very frightened young woman. She was being relentlessly pursued by…

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