While many set out to commit the perfect crime & ultimately fail by being caught & convicted there are a plethora of unsolved cases throughout history. Unsolved Crimes takes a look at numerous unsolved homicides committed throughout the 20th century as well as some carefully planned robberies that still leave the authorities stumped many years later. This book provides a fascinating insight into some of the most riveting cases of the past 100 years including the Black Dahlia Julia Wallace Peter Falconio
- the British backpacker who disappeared in the Australian outback in July 2001
- & high profile murders such as Jill Dando Stephen Lawrence Suzy Lamplugh Carl Bridgewater & Genette Tate. Serial killers such as Jack the Stripper the Zodiac Killer & Bible John are investigated as well as the Babes in the Wood killings that horrified the nation & the mysterious deaths of Rudolf Diesel Natalie Wood & Robert Maxwell are scrutinised. These & many other cases still continue to baffle & challenge all those involved & provide a fascinating backdrop to crimes of the 20th century & beyond.

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Unsolved crimes have a special fascination none more so than unsolved murders. The shock of the crime itself & the mystery surrounding it the fear generated by the awareness a killer on the loose the insight the cases give into outdated police methods & the chance to speculate about the identity of the killer after so many years have passed
- all these aspects of unsolved murder cases make them compelling reading. In this companion volume to his bestselling Unsolved Murders of Victorian & Edwardian London Jonathan Oates has selected over 20 haunting sometimes shocking cases from the period between the two world wars. Included are the shooting of PC James Kelly in Gunnersbury violent deaths associated with Fenian Conspiracies the stabbing of the French acrobat Martial Lechevalier in Piccadilly the strychnine poisoning of egg-seller Kusel Behr the killing by arsenic of three members of a Croydon family & perhaps most gruesome of all the case of the unidentified body parts found at Waterloo Station. Jonathan Oates describes each of these crimes in precise forensic detail. His case studies shed light on the lives of the victims & summon up the ruthless sometimes lethal character of London itself.
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' Truth will come to light murder cannot be hid long a man's son may but at the length truth will out.' said Launcelot in The Merchant of Venice. Whilst the passage of time can & has uncovered many secrets killers could get away with their crimes in 1596 when Shakespeare penned these words & this is certainly the case in more recent times as Unsolved Murders in South Yorkshire clearly demonstrate. The early chapters include cases of historic interest where killers certainly went to the grave in the knowledge they had got away with murder. Cases include suspicious deaths which left detectives in South Yorkshire baffled but which were it would seem acts of callous murder which were not recognised as such due to dubious police opinions & practices. There are also cases of clear murder such as a man shot in the head during the Victorian period whose killer was never identified. The later chapters however feature more recent cold cases where there is still the possibility that the wicked men or women who were responsible for such acts of inhumanity may remain within our society. Cases include a man murdered for less than GBP70 in a city centre multi storey car park a teenage girl abducted sexually assaulted & left dead on a dung hill a young mother who entered prostitution & died at the hands of a man with more than sex on his mind a pregnant woman who left home one day to go shopping but was found days later dead in a ditch with her throat cut & a disabled woman who was strangled in her home which was then set ablaze. For some of these cases there is the chance that someone has information which despite the passage of decades could lead to one or more individuals standing trial for murder. Justice can still prevail. ...

Unsolved crimes have a particular fascination none more so than unsolved murders. The horror of the crime itself the mystery surrounding it the notion of a killer on the loose the insight into primitive police work the chance to speculate about the identity of the killer after so many years have passed
- all these aspects of unsolved murder cases make them compelling reading. For this collection Jonathan Oates has selected over 20 varied & intriguing cases from the late 1830s to just before the Great War. Among them are the headless body found in a bag at Waterloo Bridge the pregnant maid who was bludgeoned to death the blackmailer whose corpse was discovered in the gutter the shooting of the night watchman at the Caf A (c) Royal the barmaid whose corpse rode the train from Hounslow to Waterloo the dead girl packed in a parcel & the enigmatic case of Frances Coles the Whitechapel prostitute who may have been Jack the Rippers ultimate victim. Each of these case histories is recounted in precise sometimes shocking detail. The inadequacy of the detection & forensic techniques employed over a century ago is revealed as is the corrupt & brutal side of life in the Victorian city.
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State Of Grace
- Money makes the world go round
- thats what twenty-something Grace Reeves is learning. Stuck in a grind where

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This is a Cordelia Gray Mystery. Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two tough intelligent & now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender to investigate the death of his son Mark a young Cambridge student found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Required to delve into the hidden secrets of the Callender family Cordelia soon realizes it is not a case of suicide & that the truth is entirely more sinister. ...

After eleven years of coupled-up domesticity Rory Carmichael is single for the first time in her adult life. Even she would admit that her ex-boyfriend Martin wasnt the most exciting man in the world -- lets face it his idea of a rocking night was one spent updating his Excel spreadsheets -- but Rory could rely on him & having watched her mother rack up four turbulent marriages thats what matters. But when she discovers that her supposedly reliable Mr Right is a distinctly unreliable cheater shes forced to consider the possibility that everything she knows about relationships is wrong. In an effort to reinvigorate both her love life & her lacklustre career at posh magazine Country House she sets herself a mission to date as many unsuitable men as possible. Toyboys. Sugar daddies. Fauxmosexuals. Maybe the bad boys shes never dated can show her what shes been missing in life. But if Mr Right can turn out to be so wrong maybe one of her Mr Wrongs will turn out to be just right.. . ...

One hundred years ago in March 1909 Shackletons Nimrod Expedition came home safely. When Scott heard the news he immediately contacted Tom Crean with the intention of planning his own adventure. & thus the Terra Nova Expedition was born. The remarkable Tom Crean ran away to sea aged fifteen & spent more time in the unexplored Antarctic than Scott or Shackleton & was one of the few to serve & outlive both. Michael Smiths original biography of this enigmatic figure spawned a Guinness ad a one-man play that is still touring today & a childrens version of the Ice Man which has been chosen as the One Book for literacy groups in Cork & Limerick. Toms story continues to fascinate people because of his extraordinary feats of survival his bravery & his dedication to his comrades. At the end of his expedition days Tom came home to Ireland married & built a pub the South Pole Inn in Annascaul County Kerry. He was an ordinary man who did incredible things a modest man who became a hero. An unforgettable story of triumph over unparalleled hardship & deprivation. ...

Kevin Fultons story is shocking & unique. He is the only double agent to have infiltrated the upper echelons of the Provisional IRA & agreed to tell his shocking story. No known spy has spent longer within the organisation or risen higher in its ranks than Kevin. In order to maintain his cover within one of the worlds most feared terrorist groups Fulton was forced to take part in some of its most heinous crimes including making bombs that would kill & maim. So highly was he thought of by the IRA leaders that they made him a member of their feared internal police
- ironically his job was now to root out & kill informers.
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TROUBLESHOOTERS: THEY NEVER LET YOU DOWN. The first addictive romantic suspense novel in New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann's Troubleshooters series filled with thrilling adventure excitement & passion. In THE UNSUNG HERO Lieutenant Tom Paoletti faces a fight with the enemy of his nightmares if he is to have a chance of a life with the woman of his dreams Kelly Ashton. After a near-fatal head injury Navy SEAL Lieutenant Tom Paoletti is ordered to take a leave of absence from his team. Although it's the last thing he wants Tom decides to make the best of a visit home to New England
- & a chance to reconnect with childhood sweetheart Kelly Ashton. Kelly now a doctor has returned home to lick her wounds following a failed marriage but she has never forgotten Tom the once infamous bad boy of the town. When Tom catches a terrifying glimpse of an international terrorist in their hometown & the Navy dismisses the danger as injury-induced imaginings Kelly is the one person who never doubts him. Creating his own makeshift counterterrorist team from his most loyal officers & the town's residents Tom knows they must save the day if he is to have one last chance for happiness with Kelly...
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