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M J Trow
On 2 November 1952, two teenagers, Derek Bentley and Christopher Craig, tried to break into a warehouse in Croydon, Surrey. The police were called and in the minutes that followed…
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Richard III is England's most controversial king. Forever associated with the murder of his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, he divides the nation.
Book twelve in the Kit Marlowe series.
May 1593. The rumour spreading around London like wildfire is that Kit Marlowe, playwright, poet and government agent, is dead; killed, men say…
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In the autumn of 1888, a series of grisly murders took place in Whitechapel in London's East End, the Abyss, the Ghetto, the City of Eternal Night. The Whitechapel murderer…
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The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy is one of the milestones of history. Everyone, it is said, remembers where they were when they heard the news. Because the official investigation…
Everybody remembers where they were the day John F. Kennedy died. The president's assassination shocked the world and raised questions that have still not been answered today. Almost as shocking…
Written in a light, easy to read style, the book also raises issues and creates debate about both film and history.
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At the beginning of a new school year, Peter ‘Mad Max’ Maxwell’s first task is to assist in the hiring of a new Assistant Head teacher. But during the lunch…
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Peter ‘Mad Max’ Maxwell returns to solve another mystery when a member of a local poker group is found murdered. It could be a simple case of revenge, but Maxwell…
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July, 1868. On receiving a commission to look into the suspicious death of Lafayette Baker, Head of the US National Detective Police, private investigators Matthew Grand and James Batchelor leave…
Schwarzhumoriger Krimi mit britischem Charme - Ein Fall fur Inspektor Lestrade
Inspektor Lestrade, der verkannte, aber ebenso geniale Zeitgenosse von Sherlock Holmes, verfolgt einen mysterioesen Moerder, der eine Spur von…
Es ist das Jahr 1910. Eine neue Mordserie halt Inspektor Lestrade auf Trab. Ein Mann wird tot im Glockenturm gefunden und dann fallt auch noch sein alter Freund Dr. Watson…
Lestrade gegen Sherlock - ein neuer Fall fur Inspektor Lestrade
Der Tod von Queen Victoria lautet ein neues Zeitalter ein - ein Zeitalter voller Skandale und Gefahren: Ein gerissener Moerder…
November, 1583. Desperate not to let the Netherlands fall into the hands of Catholic Spain, the Queen’s spymaster orders Cambridge scholar and novice spy Christopher Marlowe to go there to…
An Elizabethan mystery featuring Christopher Marlowe –Cover.
The true story of ‘The Wigwam Murder’ and the case and trial of August Sangret.
Peter Maxwell is the History teacher you wish you’d had. If you meet anyone (and you will) who says ‘I hate History. It’s boring,’ they weren’t taught by Mad Max.
Book one in the Inspector Lestrade series. ‘In the circus, nothing is what it seems …’ Walk up! Walk up! This way for the greatest show on earth! It is…
Book two in the Inspector Lestrade series It was a puzzle that faced Scotland Yard from its very begin-ning - whose was the limbless body found among the foundations? What…
Book three in the Inspector Lestrade series. In the year 1888, London was horrified by a series of brutal killings. All the victims were discovered in the same district, Whitechapel…
The London Underground Railway, in 1895, was described as ‘dark, deadly and halfway to Hell’. Only too true, for as the last train rattled into Liverpool Street, the one remaining…
There is a new broom at Scotland Yard; Nimrod Frost. His first ‘little’ job for Lestrade is to investigate the reported appearance of a lion in Cornwall, a supposed savager…
The first fatality in a series of killings which was to become the most bizarre in the celebrated Inspector’s career, was a captain of the 2nd Life Guards, found battered…
Britain has entered the twentieth century. Queen Victoria is dead and the Boer War rages on. Inspector Lestrade is called upon to investigate the brutal death of Ralph Childers, MP…
Sholto Lestrade had never smelt the tangle o’ the Isles before Arthur, Duke of Connaught put him on the trail to the Highlands. Murder is afoot among the footmen on…
The Papers call it suicide. The deceased’s father doesn’t. But when Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard investigates the death by duelling pistol of Anstruther Fitzgibbon, 27, son of the Marquess…
Lestrade is roped in to help with the plans for the coronation of George V. His daughter is in love; and Inspector Dew needs help with the disappearance of a…
Book seventeen in the Inspector Lestrade series. Everybody, they say, has a book in them. Retired Chief Inspector Walter Dew certainly did. And it took him back to the good…
Samuel Baker was an explorer and naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, general, administrator and an ardent opponent of African slavery. M.J. Trow, in this biography of Baker draws heavily on…
Dismembered corpses are discovered scattered along the banks of the river Thames, a calculating clinical multiple murderer is on the loose, and the London police have no inkling of the…
???In this humorous medieval mystery, Geoffrey Chaucer discovers a very un-poetic side to Oxford while tracking down a killer.
It is 1891 and London is still reeling from the horror of the unsolved Ripper murders when Inspector Lestrade (that ‘ferret-like’ anti-hero so often out-detected by the legendary Sherlock Holmes)…
First-century Rome. Senator Gaius Lucius Nerva is taken ill at a dinner party and dies a few days later. His heartbroken wife, Flavia, is told it was a natural death…
Book sixteen in the Inspector Lestrade series.
‘And death shall come on soft wings to him that touches the tomb of the Pharaoh …’
The wings that retired Chief Superintendent…
Book eighteen in the Inspector Lestrade series. Many readers of the Lestrade books wonder what is fact and what is fiction - and the author is delighted that they can’t…
Was Britain's Thermopylae really fought over a tennis court?
What happened in Canada during the invasion of Winnipeg?
How did the Night Witches terrify and torment the Axis?
Was Hitler…
A compelling study of crime during the Second World War, this title explores the extraordinary new opportunities for crime created by the war. It recalls infamous wartime murders and murderers…
Who was Inspector Frederick Abberline, the lead detective in the Jack the Ripper case? Why did he and his fellow policemen fail to catch the most notorious serial killer of…
Another grisly unsolved Victorian multiple murder case for the author of Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer.
First full book devoted to the Wigwam murder. Uses hitherto unseen Canadian files for the first time. Includes eye-witness testimony of those who were there. Gives the full background to…
First non-privately printed book solely on this case in eighty years.
Lifts the lid on the 98 men and 3 women who have held the top job in Britain and the United States (are those numbers a scandal in themselves?)
The first stand alone book on the Meon Hill murder. Detailed factual analysis debunking the irrelevant (and later) witchcraft angle. A study of how 'the madness of crowds' subverts justice.
The first detailed book by a military historian on the Heavy Cavalry Brigade in the Crimea.
A celebration of the horse and its role in warfare.
This is the first book to analyse the motivation behind the writing of Ripper letters.
