Wharncliffe True Crime imprint: 24 books

DNA Crime Investigations

Solving Murder and Serious Crime Through DNA and Modern Forensics

by Stephen Wade
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012

A crime historian explores groundbreaking cold-case investigations, the advent of DNA evidence, and its role in long-delayed convictions and exonerations.   When geneticist, Professor Alec Jeffreys worked with Leicestershire police on the 1986 case against Colin Pitchfork—the first person convicted...

Death on the Beat

Police Officers Killed in the Line of Duty

by Dick Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

A former member of London’s MP Flying Squad pays tribute to his fellow officers in a gripping and emotional true crime chronicle of duty and sacrifice. Dick Kirby of London’s Serious Crime Squad shares ten stories of courage spanning fifty years of crime enforcement in the Metropolitan...
by Nigel Blundell
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010

One hundred years of the most depraved criminal minds—from H. H. Holmes and Ted Bundy to John Wayne Gacy, Ian Brady, and Myra Hindley.   Their monikers have become part of the true crime lexicon: among them, the Moors Murders; the Hillside Strangler; Killer Clown; Son of Sam; the Love Slave Killers;...

Great Train Crimes

Murder & Robbery on the Railways

by Jonathan Oates
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010

“Oates charts train crimes from the Victorian period to the present day, from casual murder to calculated robbery. . . . A must for true-crime addicts” (Practical Family History). Murder and robbery committed on the railways have long held a special place in British criminal history. Railways...
by Nigel Blundell
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011

Charles Manson, Aileen Wuornos, Burke & Hare, the Boston Strangler, the Zodiac Killer, and other remorseless serial murderers whose crimes made history.   From Victorian era graveyards to a rented room in Paris to an isolated Indian farm and the California hills, the shocking murders collected...

Deadly Derbyshire

Tales of Murder & Manslaughter c.1700–1900

by Scott C. Lomax
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012

A collection of historical British true crime stories, with illustrations included.   From the murder of Hannah Hewitt in 1732 to John Cotton’s killing in 1898, Deadly Derbyshire gathers dramatic, atmospheric true tales of murder and manslaughter in this county in England’s East Midlands.   Read...
by Geoffrey Howse
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010

The author of The A-Z of London Murders delves into the long and storied past of South Yorkshire to reveal infamous crimes and killings.   Geoffrey Howse explores the darker and sinister side of South Yorkshire’s history in this diverse collection of true crime tales—from Victorian to modern...
by Nigel Blundell
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011

The body snatcher who inspired Psycho, the noblewoman known as Countess Dracula, Jack the Ripper, and other killers for whom murder was just the beginning.   From Gilles de Rais’ castle in fifteenth-century France to “the Bloody Benders’” eighteenth-century Kansas farm to Jeffrey Dahmer’s...
by Anne Bradford
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012

True tales of betrayal, robbery, and murder across Worcestershire, from Redditch to Upton-on-Severn—includes illustrations and photographs!   Though the Battle of Worcester brought an end to the English Civil War in 1651, it was not the end of the bloodshed for the West Midland county of Worcestershire....
by Mark Isaacs
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2009

Discover the Welsh city’s history of crime with these true stories and photos.   This book will introduce to you villains of all sorts—casual or calculating killers, murderous husbands and lovers, gangsters, robbers, poisoners, and suicides. There is no shortage of harrowing episodes in Cardiff’s...
by Jonathan Oates
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008

This west London town has its own character—and its own deadly criminal history—from the author of Unsolved Murders of Victorian and Edwardian London.   Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Uxbridge takes the reader on a sinister and sad journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy,...
by Geoff Wright
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008

“A grim catalogue of killings and suspicious deaths that have darkened 130 years of Southport history is laid bare” (Southport Visitor).   Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Southport takes the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting villains...
by Geoffrey Howse
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009

The author of A History of London’s Prisons reveals the ugly criminal past of one of England’s most beautiful cities.   It hardly seems surprising that what has become England’s fourth city has within its rich history a sinister and darker side. Take a journey to discover cases of petty crime,...

Unsolved London Murders

The 1920s & 1930s

by Jonathan Oates
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009

The real-life murder mysteries that rocked London between two world wars—from the author of Unsolved Murders of Victorian and Edwardian London. Unsolved crimes have a special fascination, none more so than unsolved murders. The shock of the crime itself and the mystery surrounding it, the...
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