This work features maths with the laughs added in! How can maths rescue someone in deadly peril? Which famous mathematician was murdered? How did time begin? Find out in Murderous Maths"
- all the tricks tips & short-cuts they dont teach at school."
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Never dared before Murderous Maths of Everything is one big book with ALL the answers to EVERYTHING in maths. & it's in cool colour too! Readers can join the cast of crazy characters on a tour of the Murderous Maths building to discover the darkest & deadliest mathematical secrets. Discover how to make birthdays last twice as long how the number 1 starts fights how triangles lead to murder & much more. Put an end to maths misery once & for all. ...

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 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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Detective Murdochs life & work beoome tragically entwined when his sister who long ago fled to a convent to escape their abusive father is on her deathbed. Meanwhile the same father has been charged with murder & calls on his estranged son to prove his innocence. But knowing his father as he does what is Murdoch to believe? ...

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. ...