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  • Failed Justice

    The Craig and Bentley Case Revisited

    by M J Trow ...
    Uncovers the wrongful conviction of Derek Bentley, revealing new evidence that challenges his unjust execution in 1953.On 2 November 1952, two teenagers, Derek Bentley and Christopher Craig, tried to break into a warehouse in Croydon, Surrey. The police were called and in the minutes that followed, Craig wounded one policeman and shot another dead.At 16, Craig was too young to hang, but Bentley, ... Read more

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  • Jack the Ripper: The First Suspects

    by M J Trow ...
    This book reconstructs the 1888 investigation, revealing why investigators faltered and what detectives pursued.In the journalese of the time, he was called ‘the fiend’ and ‘the monster’. That was before an anonymous journalist invented the ‘trade name’ Jack the Ripper. In the 140 years since the Whitechapel murders, a whole industry has grown up discussing the tortuous issues of the case, ... Read more

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  • In the Shadow of the Ripper

    How Forensic Science Failed to Catch Jack

    by M J Trow ...
    For centuries, it was believed that a corpse would ‘bleed anew’ in the presence of its murderer. Chaucer wrote about it; so did Shakespeare. Only slowly, as the Renaissance and the Age of Reason drove away the shadows of superstition, did forensic science find its feet.From the Ratlciffe Highway murders of 1811 to the first murder trial with fingerprint technology (the Stratton brothers in 1905), ... Read more

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  • The JFK Assassination

    Conspiracies and Coverups

    by M. J. Trow ...
    The JFK assassination stirs enduring conspiracy theories and questions of accountability, justice, and governmental transparency. The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy is one of the milestones of history. Everyone, it is said, remembers where they were when they heard the news. Because the official investigation, the Warren Commission, set up by Kennedy's successor in the White House, ... Read more

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  • The Killer of the Princes in the Tower

    A New Suspect Revealed

    by M. J. Trow ...
    A new investigation into the most infamous crime of the Middle Ages: the supposed murders of Edward V and his brother Richard of York in the 15th century.The disappearance of two boys during the summer of 1483 has never been satisfactorily explained. They were Edward, Prince of Wales, nearly thirteen at the time, and his brother, Richard of York, nearly ten. With their father, Edward IV, dying ... Read more

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  • Dodging the Bullet

    Failed Assassinations Throughout History

    by M J Trow ...
    Explores the most remarkable assassination attempts throughout history, highlighting the chaotic intersection of fame, danger, and the human psyche.Everybody remembers where they were the day John F. Kennedy died. The president’s assassination shocked the world and raised questions that have still not been answered today.Almost as shocking is attempted assassination – the bullet that missed; the ... Read more

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  • The English Bowman in the Hundred Years War

    The Secret Weapon of the Middle Ages

    by M J Trow ...
    Reveals the brutal lives, battles, and legacy of England’s feared longbowmen during the Hundred Years War.They were often half-starved, marching through an alien land with few signposts and no maps. They were often suffering from dysentery, their legwear rolled down and they sometimes fought naked from the waist down. They were paid 6d a day – the same as a civilian craftsman – and they swore like ... Read more

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  • The Thames Torso Murders

    by M. J. Trow ...
    The author of Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer examines a different series of grisly unsolved murders in Victorian-era London.Dismembered corpses are discovered scattered along the banks of the river Thames, a calculating clinical multiple murderer is on the loose, and the London police have no inkling of the killer's identity – and, more than a century later, they still don't. In this, M.J. ... Read more

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  • The Children's Crusade

    by M. J. Trow ...
    In the summer of 1212, 30,000 children from towns and villages all over France and Germany left their homes and families and began a crusade. Their aim; to retake Jerusalem, the holiest city in the world, for God and for Christ. They carried crosses and they believed, because the Bible told them so, that they could cross the sea like Moses. The walls of Jerusalem would fall, like Jericho's did for ... Read more

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  • History vs Hollywood

    How the Past is Filmed

    by M. J. Trow ...
    A look into the historical films that were pivotal in terms of our understanding of the past.Film studios have been making historical movies now for over a century. In that time, thousands of films have been made covering not just centuries but millennia. Did Neanderthal woman really look like Raquel Welch in her bearskin bikini? Did six,zero rebellious slaves claim that they were Spartacus? Did ... Read more

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  • Domestic Physics Sucks

    by E. X. Asperated, M. J. Trow ...
    Ever wondered why life is so irritating? It's not the hopelessly inept government, the selfish behaviour of other motorists, the endless pap they feed us on our televisions and computers. Well, yes, actually, it is all these things.But there's more. It's the unopenable cat food sachet, the constantly growing weeds on the patio, the incomprehensibility of instruction booklets, the circle of death ... Read more

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  • The Meon Hill Murder, 1945

    Unsolved Crime in Witch Country

    by M. J. Trow ...
    In the closing months of the Second World War, an old hedger was found bludgeoned and hacked to death in a Warwickshire field. His name was Charles Walton and the place was the little village of Lower Quinton, under the shadow of Meon Hill. They called in the local CID; they called in Scotland Yard; they interviewed hundreds of people; they asked thousands of questions. But somebody wasn't talking ... Read more

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