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Anglo-Saxon invaders first introduced hanging by the neck as capital punishment to England, and it was used by William the Conqueror as punishment for his conspirators. Other forms of formal...
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Infamous Scandals contains articles on high-profile TV personalities, sports people, politicians and members of the Royal Family who have fallen from grace in the eyes of the public.
Even before The Day of the Jackal created the archetypal image of a professional hit man there had been no shortage of them in real life. Governments, terrorists, corporations, criminal...
Over the years informers have been called by many names - rat, snitch, squealer, grass, stool pigeon, mole, dobber, whistleblowers - their job is to dish the dirt on suspected felons.
The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise. Should such an assault occur, there is a strong...
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Behind the fashionable bars and clubs of Soho lies a fascinating history of criminal activity, featuring some of London's most notorious gangsters.From the razor gangs of the 1920s to the post-war...
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The murder of five women in late 2006 shocked the nation and kept many of us glued to our TV screens, horrified by the unfolding tragedy. For the quiet town of Ipswich it was fifty days of fear and...
A racy, highly entertaining history of cons and conmen. To the many people who've been the subject of a con, this book will be of personal interest: even if you haven't, there's still a fascination...
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Fiendish, evil, demonic, hellish - every one of these adjectives applies to the diabolical acts that the people in this book have committed.
Murders go unsolved, villains slip through the police nets and as time goes by it becomes more and more unlikely that these crimes will ever be solved. The list grows bigger as yet another...
KILLERS IN COLD BLOOD looks at the dark side of the criminal mind. These are the men and women who commit heinous acts with a gruesome disregard for human life. They do not conform to what...
A portrait of two kids from South Boston who grew up to control a state: Whitey, in his position as Boston’s most feared mobster, and Billy, from his gavel-wielding bastion in the Massachusetts...
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