Author Peter Seddon gives life to over five centuries of bizarre macabre & sometimes hilarious criminal cases. Youll be gripped by tales of murder intrigue crime punishment & the pursuit of justice. Despite how unbelievable the stories banged up inside these pages may seem Crimes Strangest Cases promises to tell the truth the whole truthand nothing but the truth about the most ludicrous criminal cases in legal history. Full of riotous & entertaining stories this book is perfect for anyone who is doing time on a long stretch. Just dont try to steal it or you may end up inside! Inside youll encounter: * The only dead parrot ever to give evidence in a court of law * One of the most indigestible dilemmas
- if youd been shipwrecked 2 000 miles from home would you have eaten Parker the cabin boy? * The doctor with the worst bedside manner of all time * The murderess who collected money from her mummified victim for 21 years Word count: 45 000
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Too often historical writing on the Russian War of 1854-56 focuses narrowly on the land campaign fought in the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea. The wider war waged at sea by the British & French navies against the Russians is ignored. The allied navies aimed to strike at Russian interests anywhere in the world where naval force could be brought to bear & as a result campaigns were waged in the Baltic the Black Sea the White Sea on the Russian Pacific coast & in the Sea of Azoff. Yet it is the land campaign in the Crimea that shapes our understanding of events. In this graphic & original study Peter Duckers seeks to set the record straight. He shows how these neglected naval campaigns were remarkably successful in contrast to the wretched failures that beset the British army on l&. Allied warships ranged across Russian waters sinking shipping disrupting trade raiding ports bombarding fortresses destroying vast quantities of stores & shelling coastal towns. The scale & intensity of the naval operations embarked upon during the war are astonishing & little appreciated & this new book offers the first overall survey of them. ...

Crimelord" is the gripping life story of elusive multimillionaire gangster Tam Mc Graw. A notorious criminal kingpin Mc Graw has risen from extreme poverty in the East End of Glasgow to become one of Scotlands wealthiest men. When hash started to flood into Scotland from the late 1980s onwards suspicion centred on Mc Graw leader of the infamous Barlanark Team. After a two-year surveillance operation police discovered the drug had been hidden in buses carrying young footballers & deprived Glasgow families on free holidays abroad. It was a scam reminiscent of the movie " The Italian Job" only this time Scots kids had been sitting on hash worth over GBP40 million. Police claimed Mc Graw was the financier & mastermind but in 1998 a jury declared him innocent while other suspects were jailed. As Mc Graw refuses to discuss his life publicly his remarkable tale is told through friends fellow crooks & the occasional rival. It is an outrageous often hilarious true gangster story." ...

Crimes Against Nature provides a systematic account & analysis of the key concerns of green criminology written by one of the leading authorities in the field. The book draws upon the disciplines of environmental studies environmental sociology & environmental management as well as criminology & socio-legal studies & draws upon a wide range of examples of crimes against the environment
- ranging from toxic waste logging wildlife smuggling bio-piracy the use & transport of ozone depleting substances through to illegal logging & fishing water pollution & animal abuse. The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 sets out theoretical approaches & perspectives on the subject; Part 2 explores the (national & international)

Dimensions of environmental crime & the explanations for it; Part 3 deals with the range of responses to environmental crime
- environmental law enforcement regulation environmental crime prevention & the role of global institutions & movements.



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Nighttime is the perfect time for the perfect crime. 1 SUNDAY TIMES & NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Charlaine Harris edits & contributes an all-new story
- set in her Sookie Stackhouse universe now filmed as TRUE BLOOD
- to this anthology from the Mystery Writers of America. Other authors include: Steve Brewer Dana Cameron Max Allan Collins & Mickey Spillane Barbara DAmato Brendan Du Bois Terrie Farley Moran Jack Fredrickson Parnell Hall Carolyn Hart S. W. Hubbard Toni L. P. Kelner Lou Kemp William Kent Kreuger Harley Jane Kozak Margaret Maron Martin Meyers Jeffrey Somers Elaine Viets & Mike Wiecek

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Brutal murders. Bizarre crimes. Eccentric crooks. & Scotlands toughest gangsters. Bryan Mc Laughlin faced the challenge of tackling crime on Glasgows mean streets & throughout Scotland for more than 30 years finding himself involved with nearly 300 killings. He started as a bobby on the beat worked in the elite Serious Crime Squad & later headed up the forces Criminal Intelligence Branch. When he retired he became a private eye helping free the victim of one of Scotlands most notorious miscarriages of justice. Now Bryan Mc Laughlin lifts the lid on his dealings with notorious godfather Arthur Thompson tells of his satisfaction at nailing slippery gangster Tam Mc Graw with an Al Capone-style tax sting looks back on the bomb attack on Glasgows High Court & reveals remarkable information about the legendary Bible John murders. As well as these notorious cases Bryan also looks back at the human side of policing as he encountered it including the touching tale of the old lady who grew a tree in her living room the madman who killed a boy for throwing snowballs & reveals how a million-dollar heist in Germany was cracked because a Glasgow ned stole a video recorder. & who could forget the crooked businessman who had a lie-detecting elephant in his office & a teddy bear as his advisor? Or the strange encounters with murder victims who ended up in bizarre situations
- up a tree frozen to the spot & even one taking part in a game of cards. This is an astonishing memoir from one of our top police officers sometimes shocking sometimes hilarious or macabre but always utterly fascinating.
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The past will always find you. A woman is found brutally murdered in a sordid Atlanta apartment. Her blood-soaked body bears a startling similarity to a woman found dead almost 40 years earlier. Soon Special Agent Will Trent finds himself returning to the home he grew up in. & a past that could hold the clue to the killings.. . ...

The past will always find you. A woman is found brutally murdered in a sordid Atlanta apartment. Her blood-soaked body bears a startling similarity to a woman found dead almost 40 years earlier. Soon Special Agent Will Trent finds himself returning to the home he grew up in. & a past that could hold the clue to the killings... ...

Westminster London 22 June 1836. It is a fine fresh morning that will become hot as the day progresses. Crowds are gathering at the Court of Common Pleas. On trial is Caroline Sheridan a beautiful & clever young woman who had been manoeuvred into marrying the Honourable George Norton when she was just nineteen. Ten years older he is a dull violent & controlling lawyer but Caroline is determined not to be a traditional wife. By her early twenties Caroline has become a respected poet & songwriter clever mimic & outrageous flirt. Her beauty & wit attract many male admirers including the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne. After years of simmering jealousy Norton accuses Caroline & the Prime Minister of a criminal conversation (adultery) precipitating the scandal of the century. In Westminster Hall that day is a young Charles Dickens who would just a few months later fictionalise the event as Bardell v. Pickwick in The Pickwick Papers. After a trial lasting twelve hours the jurys not guilty verdict is immediate unanimous & sensational. Norton is a laughing stock. Angry & humiliated he cuts Caroline off as was his right under the law refuses to let her see their three sons seizes her manuscripts & letters her clothes & jewels & leaves her destitute. The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton is the extraordinary story of one womans fight for the rights of women everywhere. For the next thirty years Caroline campaigned for women & battled male-dominated Victorian society helping to write the Infant Custody Act (1839) & influenced the Matrimonial Causes (Divorce) Act (1857) & the Married Womens Property Act (1870) which gave women a separate legal identity for the first time. ...

Criminal investigation has a high profile in the media & has attracted widespread interest. Within the police it has been a rapidly developing field important scientific & technological developments have had a considerable impact on practice & important steps have been taken in the direction of professionalizing the whole process of investigation. Within police studies criminal investigation has now emerged as an important sub-discipline. This book provides an authoritative & highly readable introduction to the subject from somebody ideally placed to write about it focusing on how police practitioners carry out investigations. It looks systematically at the purpose & role of criminal investigation; the legal policy & organizational context in which criminal investigation takes place; the evidence & information that criminal investigators seek; the process & methods of criminal investigation; the knowledge techniques & decision making abilities that practitioners require to carry out criminal investigations; how & why it is that some crimes are solved & some are not; the supervision of criminal investigation; & a review of some of the key contemporary issues that have a bearing on criminal investigation. Criminal Investigation" will be essential reading for both policing practitioners (student police officers as well as officers taking higher levels of CPD within the police service) & students taking courses in criminal investigation forensic sciences & investigation police studies & police science & other courses where a knowledge of criminal investigation is required." ...