Pen Sword True Crime imprint: 13 books
Poison Panic
Arsenic Deaths in 1840s Essex
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
True crime that “will appeal to readers interested in gaining an insight into the lives of women accused of murder in the mid 19th century” (Essex Family Historian).
For a few years in the 1840s, Essex was notorious in the minds of Victorians as a place where women stalked the winding country...
by Margaret Drinkall
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Discover the darker history of this South Yorkshire town with these true crime stories and photos.
This book takes you on a journey into England’s past, and into the gritty industrial town of Barnsley. With a variety of true-crime tales, it reveals not only the poverty and squalor in which...
by Maureen Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2004
A true-crime tour of this historical British coal town, with photos and illustrations.
Historically, Newcastle was a town of great wealth because of the abundance of natural resources. Certainly by the eighteenth century, Newcastle and its surrounding towns made up the most important commercial...
Charlie Peace
Murder, Mayhem and the Master of Disguise
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The true crimes of one of nineteenth century England’s most notorious thieves and killers, whose exploits still capture the public’s imagination.
Once immortalized in Madame Tussauds’s Chamber of Horrors, and brought to life in two silent films, his gnarled and prematurely aged features...
Interpreting the Ripper Letters
Missed Clues and Reflections on Victorian Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
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, arguably the first of his kind, was never caught but the killings gave rise to the best known pen-name in criminal history...
Whitechapel's Sherlock Holmes
The Casebook of Fred Wensley OBE KPM, Victorian Crime Buster
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Jack the Ripper and beyond—forty-one years in the investigative career of a man hailed by many as Scotland Yard’s greatest detective of all time.
Fred Wensley was a Somerset gardener when he joined the Metropolitan Police in 1888.
His first case was to unmask Jack the Ripper. At least it familiarized...
by Ian Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Ian Brown spent almost thirty years in the police force, rising through the ranks to work on some of the best-known crimes of the twentieth century.
From witnessing the brutality of the Kray twins to chasing the spoils from the Brink’s-Mat gold bullion robbery, Brown was never too far away...
Scotland Yard's Gangbuster
Bert Wickstead’s Most Celebrated Cases
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
In the late 1960s the Richardson Torture Gang and the Kray Twins were removed from the London scene by ACC Gerry McArthur and DS Nipper Read respectively.
Predictably it was not long before the vacuum this left was being filled. With McArthur retired and Read moved on, who was to sort out the...
by Roy Ingleton
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Kent Murder and Mayhem takes the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting villains of all sorts along the way. Cut-throats and poisoners, murderous lovers, desperate wives and husbands, violent thieves, boy killers, infanticides - almost every type of murder...
The Awful Killing of Sarah Watts
A Story of Confessions, Acquittals and Jailbreaks
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Before Road there was Frome . . . before Whicher there was Smith . . . before the heartless slaughter of four year old Saville Kent there was the brutal rape and murder of fourteen year old Sarah Watts.
Taking place nine years earlier than the Road Hill case, made famous by the best-selling...
Operation Countryman
The Flawed Enquiry into London Police Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
In the summer of 1978, rumors emerged from the underworld that huge sums of money had been paid to the City of London Police to water-down evidence and arrange bail in cases of armed robbery. Then it was suggested that Scotland Yard’s Flying Squad was also involved.
The Home Secretary appointed...
by Mick Davies, David Lassman
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
The Somerset town of Frome might top national polls as a great place to live and enjoy a reputation as the epitome of cool, with Hollywood A-listers regularly spotted on its street and global rock-stars playing its venues, but the place hasn’t always been so ‘chic’ and behind this modern-day...
London Underground Serial Killer
The Life of Kieran Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
The full story of the life and times of Kieran Patrick Kelly, the London Underground Serial Killer, who wandered up and down the Northern Line of the London Underground between 1960 and 1983, pushing innocent people that he had never met under trains, and who finished up killing over thirty people.
The...