Much has been written about the soldiers executed during WW1 for military offences all of whom were conditionally pardoned in 2006. However until now very little attention has been paid to the cases of men who were tried under the Army Act & executed for murder. The British Army has always been reticent about publicising courts martial & eighty years elapsed before the government was compelled to prematurely declassify the written proceedings of First World War capital courts martial. Even then public attention tended to concentrate on cases involving soldiers who had been shot at dawn for offences other than homicide & virtually nobody was inclined to seek a posthumous pardon or judicial review for the murderous Tommies. This meant neither the victims nor the convicted mens families were able to discover details about the murder cases. Though readily identifiable online via much-visited war cemetery websites until now there has been no readily accessible historically reliable & balanced narrative about the activities & courts-martial of all the murderous Tommies of the Western Front. This book provides for a full account of the cases involving twelve soldiers & one officer whose homicidal misdeeds were committed in France & Flanders while hostilities were in progress. Drawing on contemporary records this carefully researched work chronicles the circumstances in which each of these men either slaughtered one of their comrades or an unarmed civilian. It examines the murderers motives & presents a balanced analysis of each case including a detailed assessment of the extent to which each condemned man was granted a fair hearing by officers who sat in uneasy judgement as well as those involved in confirming the death sentences. ...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MATTHEW PEARL. Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with these three mesmerising stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin: The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Mystery of Marie Roget & The Purloined Letter. Years later Dorothy Sayers would describe these tales as almost a complete manual of detective theory & practice. Indeed Poes short mysteries inspired the creation of countless literary sleuths among them Sherlock Holmes. Today the unique Dupin stories still stand out as utterly engrossing page-turners. This edition reproduces the definitive text of these stories & an introduction & appendix on The Earliest Detectives by the novelist Matthew Pearl. ...

In 1858 a young woman on her honeymoon is abducted taken across the border to the US & sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later the owner of one of Torontos livery stables has been found dead horsewhipped & hung from his wrists in his tack room. The investigation endangers Murdochs own life
- & reveals how harms committed in the past can erupt fatally in the present.
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In the cold Toronto winter of 1895 the naked body of a servant girl is found frozen in a deserted laneway. The young victim was pregnant when she died. Detective William Murdoch soon discovers that many of those connected with the girls life have secrets to hide. Was her death on attempt to cover up a scandal in one of the citys influential families? ...

Dolly Merishaw is a midwife & an abortionist in Victorian Toronto & although she keeps quiet about her clients her contempt & greed leaves them resentful & angry. It comes as no surprise to Detective William Murdoch when she is murdered but when a young boy is found dead in Dollys squalid kitchen a week later Murdoch isnt sure if hes hunting one murderer
- or two.
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After thirteen-year-old Agnes Fisher faints at school her teacher is shocked to discover salacious photographs of the girl in her desk. When Agnes doesnt show up at school the next day her teacher takes the photographs to the police. Murdoch furious at the sexual exploitation of such a young girl resolves to find the photographer
- & to put him behind bars.
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The Reverend Charles Howard sat in judgement on the poor assessing their applications for the workhouse. But now he is dead stabbed & brutally beaten in his office. Has some poor beggar he turned down taken his vengeance? Murdochs investigation takes him into the world of the destitute who had nowhere to turn when they knocked on the Reverend Howards door. ...

Detective William Murdoch is not convinced that Constable Oliver Wicken
- a man who was the sole support of his mother & invalid
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A young lawyer's involvement in her first case leads her through the criminal justice system which is cracking at the seams. The text of this play was extensively revised by the author for the National Theatre's revival of the play & performance of the entire trilogy in Autumn 1993. ...

This is the autobiography of Carlton Leach a man to be reckoned with. He has earned himself respect throughout the deadly underworld he occupies. Make a friend of Carlton & you have an ally for life; cross him at your peril. For 20 years he has ranked among the toughest of Britains brawn brigade. He was a key member of the dreaded Essex Boys gang which ran riot in the eighties & the nineties sparking a savage drugs war which saw three of his pals wiped out in the 1995 Range Rover massacre. Even now he knows that a bullet still has his name on it as a result of that simmering feud. Carlton was minder to boxer Nigel Benn throughout his glory years in the ring & tells of the blood sweat & tears of their special relationship. He also tells how he saved four of his firm from being tortured to death & their wives & daughters raped in front of them after a 10 million heroin consignment went missing. ...