Victorian True Crime

This is the fascinating story of Mary Bateman, she is referred to as the Yorkshire Witch and her sorry story has been told for many years. Mary is said to have been a Wise Women and a murderer. In fact if what we know is to be believed she could well be the first women serial killer. As is usual with my writings, i tell her story in the first person, this allows me to be creative whilst making sure i incorporate what we do know about her into her story.

What if everything you admired about the Victorians—was built on denial? Beneath the lace gloves and gaslight of 19th-century England lay a darker world—one of public executions and private abuses, imperial brutality and official denial, moral posturing and systemic hypocrisy. The Dark Side of the Victorian Era pulls back the velvet curtain to reveal the crimes, cover-ups, and contradictions that polite society worked hard to ignore. From child migrants sent overseas under the banner of Christian charity to the macabre spectacles of execution day, from Parliament’s strategic silences ...

Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama - even into puppet shows and performing-dog acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other - the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P. D. James and Patricia Cornwell.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a lady in danger must be in need of rescue, but whether she wants to be rescued is up for debate—for fans of Evie Dunmore and Netflix's Bridgerton from the bestselling author of A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem! England, 1867: Miss Poppy...

'Ghoulishly entertaining' Jacqueline Banerjee, Times Literary Supplement 'This is a great book for dipping into . . . the cases themselves are written engagingly and with appealing dramatisation of key events.' Kim Fleet, Crime Review A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and...

The brutal murder of septuagenarian John Templeman shocks the little cottage community of Pocock's Fields. Rumours of illicit affairs, army desertion and violent confrontations spread as the community waits to see who will be sent to trial. An extraordinary power struggle develops between the Coroner, leading the Inquest, and the Police Magistrate, leading the Inquiry. As the case reaches a crisis point, just how far will the authorities be willing to go to bring the perpetrator to justice?

The shocking murders carried out by an unknown serial killer in London's East End during the autumn of 1888, haunted the public imagination at the time and have continued to exert a baleful influence ever since. But what was it like to live through those terrifying weeks? This audiobook looks at the crimes of Jack the Ripper through the eyes of Londoners, including the rumors that swept through the capital city, the alarms, the riots, the persecutions, the suspicions, and the sheer naked terror of the awful autumn when a killer stalked the streets.

On the morning of August 4, 1892, one of America’s most infamous murder mysteries began inside a quiet house at 92 Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. Andrew Borden was discovered brutally murdered on the sitting-room sofa. His wife, Abby, was found upstairs, killed earlier that morning. The house showed no clear sign of forced entry. No stranger had been seen escaping. The murder weapon was never conclusively identified. Suspicion soon settled upon Andrew’s thirty-two-year-old daughter, Lizzie. Through the eyes of Nellie Walsh, a fictional fifteen-year-old newspaper messenger, ...

A new compilation of Bram Stoker’s cult vampire novels for the 100th anniversary of his death. This delightful new compilation of Bram Stoker's cult classics will be sure to satisfy any lover of vampire fiction, from Dracula to Twilight. All three novels were published after Dracula debuted in 1897. They flirt with vampirism, horror, and human folly in the best Gothic tradition - all attempts to duplicate Stoker's only success.

THE LEGEND REEXAMINED – THE CRIME THAT SHOCKED A NATION RETURNS TO THE STAND On the sweltering morning of August 4, 1892, a scream shattered the stillness of Fall River, Massachusetts. Within minutes, a quiet home on Second Street became the most infamous address in America. Inside lay Andrew and Abby Borden—bludgeoned, brutalized, and left to bleed on the polished floors of their own home. Standing in the doorway was their daughter, Lizzie Borden—calm, pale, and soon to be accused of the most sensational crime of the nineteenth century. Axed: The Untold Shocking True Story of Lizzie ...

In August 1892, two people were brutally murdered inside a locked house in Fall River, Massachusetts. The case that followed would become one of the most enduring mysteries in American history. Lizzie Borden: A True-Crime Historical Account returns to the original record to examine what is known—and what remains uncertain—about the deaths of Andrew and Abby Borden. Drawing exclusively from police reports, inquest testimony, trial transcripts, and contemporary accounts, this book traces the lives, routines, and tensions within the Borden household, the events of 4 August 1892, and the ...

Lights! Camera! Action! The latest book in the Big Book Series takes us behind the curtain to uncover the stories that became some of the greatest films of the silver screen. Among these are Robert Louis Stevenson's horrifying tale that was later turned into the iconic movie The Body Snatcher, starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff; and "Cyclists' Raid", the short story that formed the basis for the legendary Brando film The Wild One. 

BRITISH LEGAL HISTORY - The Fielding Brothers & Bow Street Runners - the early days and beginnings of policing in England with the infamous Fielding Brothers, the early Bow Street Runners, Robert Peel, Jerome Caminada, and other brutal crime fighters, covering highway robberies, gruesome murders, street crime and a host of dangerous attacks on society. A fascinating slice of legal history and nostalgia, featuring Victorian & Edwardian Manchester crime.

The Erin Patterson Murders: Death Cap Mushrooms, Triple Murder, and the Family Lunch That Shocked the World Three people died after a family lunch in the quiet Victorian town of Leongatha. What initially appeared to be a tragic accident soon became one of the most scrutinised criminal investigations in Australian history, captivating audiences around the globe and raising questions that would dominate headlines for years. In Fatal Invitation, readers are taken beyond the sensational news coverage and into the full story of the Erin Patterson mushroom murders—through the evidence, the ...

“A tour de force of storytelling.” —Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache series “Jobb’s excellent storytelling makes the book a pleasure to read.” —The New York Times Book Review ”When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of...

In 1910, Dorothy Arnold, a vibrant socialite and aspiring writer, stepped out for a shopping trip and was never seen again. Her disappearance gripped the nation, sparking a media frenzy and one of the most confounding unsolved mysteries in American history. Was it a tragic accident? A calculated escape? Or something far more sinister? The Vanishing Heiress dives deep into the heart of this century-old enigma, unraveling the circumstances surrounding Dorothy’s disappearance and the ripple effects it had on her wealthy family, the media, and society at large.

The Victorian Underworld Was Not a Street Gang. It Was a Shadow Economy. Forget the romanticized tales of gaslit street toughs and penny-dreadful villains. Step into the brutal, economic reality of an interconnected black market operating directly beneath the gaze of Scotland Yard. The popular image of 19th-century crime focuses entirely on the frontline workers: the pickpockets, the burglars, and the footpads. But those visible crimes were only the acquisition phase of something far larger. Behind every stolen gold watch stood a highly structured, multi-tiered marketplace designed to ...

On Mother's Day, 1985, the bodies of Kathryn Eastburn and her two young daughters were found in their Fayetteville, North Carolina, home. Katie, an air force captain's wife, had been raped and stabbed to death. Kara and Erin's throats had been slit. Their toddler sister, Jana, was the only survivor. The Cumberland County Sheriff's Department soon focused its investigation on US Army soldier Tim Hennis. Detectives and local prosecutors built their case on circumstantial evidence and a jury convicted Hennis and sentenced him to death. But his defense team refused to give up.

A macabre domestic conspiracy, a stolen fortune, and a phantom wandering the streets of Victorian London. When the notoriously eccentric and tight-fisted widow Mrs. Clarissa Hargrave precipitously leaves her secluded Richmond villa for a health resort in the Swiss Alps, London’s financial markets are caught in an unexpected upheaval. Prime riverside properties, irreplaceable family heirlooms, and thousands of pounds in consols are liquidated at fire-sale speed by an unassuming clerk wielding an absolute power of attorney. Scotland Yard sees merely the erratic behavior of an aging recluse....

Victorian Criminals Did Not Evade Detection. They Exploited a Data Deficit. Forget the tales of genius detectives outsmarting criminal masterminds. Step into the mechanical reality of a 19th-century justice system that possessed no mechanism for data retention, and the scientific revolution that finally patched the vulnerability. In 1890, a career burglar could erase his penal history simply by moving to a new district and changing his name. Scotland Yard’s records were text-based, organized by alias, and lacked any unique identifiers. The most effective criminal strategy of the ...