Oxford Publishing Ventures Ltd: 25 books

The brutal rapes and murders were never-ending. Everyone was a target; no one was safe. He raped a 6 year-old girl and slit the throat of a 75 year-old woman. He sodomized an 8 year old boy after killing his father and forcing his mother to perform oral sex. The Night Stalker was going crazy and...

The bullets in her skull had been fired from three different directions, as if he had used her for target practice. Her brassiere had been pulled up and her jeans undone; the killer had taken her underwear as a trophy. The police were convinced he was murdering backpackers purely for pleasure... Read...

His childhood dream of blood-drenched crucifixes possessed him as he drank his first victim’s blood. His prison experiments with mice were rehearsals for the real thing as he dissolved the corpse in an acid-filled oil drum. His insane plan was full-proof. How can you prove a murder if there...

`Shimmering in the morning sun, wave upon wave of bombers, driving for London. Stepped above and behind, the serried ranks of Messerschmitts. Covering mile upon mile of sky, as far as the eye could see. It was at once magnificent and terrible. I broke hard into attack, pulling the Spitfire into...

Besotted, she would do anything for him. He photographed them having sex and cavorted naked as he tortured and murdered the children they had kidnapped. They recorded the torture sessions and took pornographic pictures of their victims before they died – naked, bound and gagged. Only the Moors...

Just after 2100 hours, the mission’s leader Wing Commander Guy Gibson gave the signal. The red light went on and the Merlin engines of the thirteen Lancaster bombers roared into life. They had been in intensive training for eight weeks for the most famous bombing raid of World War II. RAF...

At dawn, they saw her masts on the horizon and immediately prepared for battle. They were up against a formidable foe; the Admiral Graf Spee had already sunk nine British merchant ships in the South Atlantic. Now, her modern prototype diesel engines were set at maximum power and she was heading...

It was the drugs that made him murder. He liked to experiment with fatal dosages to see how much they could take. Fascinated with death, he had watched his mother die when he was a child. Killing his elderly lady patients sustained his endless evil urges and nourished his insatiable impulse to recreate...

His bullet-ridden, half-naked body was in the back-seat of the car while her naked body lay spread-eagled and slashed, her private parts and left breast missing. The District Attorney discovered what had happened to the breast when a piece was sent to her in a plastic bag. The Monster of Florence...

Lured away from prying eyes, she had been raped and stabbed to death with a screwdriver. The attack was so frenzied, police knew the murderer must be covered in blood. The killer’s chilling communiqué to the police declared his evil intentions – “Beware! I shall make you...

The Germans were masters of Blitzkrieg. But in the rubble of a ruined city, the Russians knew the troops of the Third Reich were reluctant to engage in the hand-to-hand battle that victory required. The Soviet soldiers were fearless; time was blood. The Red Army commander’s tactics were brutally...

A huge column of blood red smoke rose a thousand feet as the battleship USS Arizona blew up. The USS Oklahoma capsized. The California, Nevada and West Virginia were all sunk at their moorings. 181 Japanese warplanes had attacked the US Pacific Fleet as it lay at anchor in Pearl Harbor. There had...

Her throat had been slashed twice from left to right, while a deep vertical wound had ripped her abdomen open from the breastbone, exposing her entrails to the heavens. Soon Scotland Yard received a letter from the killer, written in red ink, ending with words that would become forever feared –...

The Germans could not believe their eyes. The English infantry were advancing at walking pace in four upright ranks, a yard or so apart from each other. They were sitting ducks. As the German machine guns rattled into life, the English died in their hundreds. On the first day of the battle, those...