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  • Victorian Murders

    Mysteries of Police and Crime

    Victorian Murders contains all the most shocking cases of murder from Victorian true-crime classic Mysteries of Police & Crime. The author, Major Arthur Griffiths (1838–1908), was Inspector of Her Majesty's Prisons and deputy governor of Millbank and Wormwood Scrubs, and was most famous for his association with the Whitechapel case. He knew many of the greatest detectives of the day, and, as a ... Read more

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  • The Dead Witness

    A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories

    by Michael Sims ...
    Series series The Connoisseur's Collections
    The Dead Witness gathers the finest adventures among private and police detectives from the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth--including a wide range of overlooked gems creating the finest ever anthology of Victorian detective stories. "The Dead Witness," the 1866 title story by Australian writer Mary Fortune, is the first known detective story by a woman, a suspenseful clue-strewn ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The True Crime Short Stories

    Selected Shorts Collection

    Timeless collection of 20 selected true crime short stories. The stories have variety in style and subject, but are all masterpieces with enduring quality of writing.Finding time for reading can often be a difficult task for many people with hectic and busy schedules. Committing oneself to a novel often involves a major investment of time and daily distractions, and tasks interfere with the ... Read more

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  • A Book of Remarkable Criminals

    by H. B. Irving ...
    This classic study profiles serial killers, gentleman murderers, and every stripe of madman in betweenBenjamin Pitezel should never have trusted H. H. Holmes. In 1894, the two men conspired to fake Pitezel's death for the sake of a $10,000 insurance settlement. But Holmes decided murder would be simpler. He killed his partner, kidnapped three of his children, and tried to claim the insurance money ... Read more

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  • The Life of Charles Dickens, (Complete)

    by John Forster ...
    Such has been the rapidity of the demand for successive impressions of this book, that I have found it impossible, until now, to correct at pages 31, 87, and 97 three errors of statement made in the former editions; and some few Other mistakes, not in themselves important, at pages 96, 101, and 102. I take the opportunity of adding that the mention at p. 83 is not an allusion to the well-known ... Read more

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  • A TALE OF TWO CITIES (Illustrated) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Historical Novel - London & Paris In the Time of the French Revolution (Including "The Life of Charles Dickens" & "Dickens' London" by M. F. Mansfield)

    Set between London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities is Dickens's great historical novel of social upheaval, sacrifice, and moral resurrection. Its famous opening antitheses announce a work shaped by contrasts: aristocratic cruelty and popular vengeance, private tenderness and public violence, despair and redemption. In a style at once melodramatic, symbolic, ... Read more

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  • Selected Journalism 1850-1870

    Throughout his writing career Charles Dickens was a hugely prolific journalist. This volume of his later work is selected from pieces that he wrote after he founded the journal Household Words in 1850 up until his death in 1870. Here subjects as varied as his nocturnal walks around London slums, prisons, theatres and Inns of Court, journeys to the continent and his childhood in Kent and London are ... Read more

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  • The Life of Charles Dickens

    by John Forster ...
    Charles John Huffam Dickens, English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. ... Read more

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  • Tracks in the Snow

    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    Robert Driver is temporarily fulfilling the post of parson at Long Wilton, a position he finds tedious in the extreme. But the monotony is relieved in terrible fashion when, one snowy evening, his friend Peters is found murdered at his country house, Grenvile Comb. Driver takes an interest in the case, and when a chance discovery leads him to suspect that the police's suspicions about the culprit ... Read more

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  • Dickens' Dreadful Almanac

    A Terrible Event for Every Day of the Year

    Edited by Cate Ludlow ...
    Under the headings of 'Narrative of Law and Crime' and 'Narrative of Accident and Disaster' may be found an astonishing catalogue of terrible, grisly and most dreadful Victorian events. Fires and railway disasters abound; shipwrecks, floods and 'horrible affairs' leap from every page. Some of the crimes would surprise even the most ardent fan of crime fiction - it is doubtful that so many cases of ... Read more

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  • The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete - The Original Classic Edition

    by Forster John ...
    Forster was Dickens best friend and had an intimate knowledge of the man and his family unmatched by any other biographer. This book is not just a cold recitation of facts placed in chronological order. It is a wonderful study of the moods and character of this greatest of English novelists and an unabashed appreciation of his works. If you love Dickens, this is the biography for you.Charles ... Read more

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  • The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (Illustrated)

    by John Forster ...
    Series Book 57 - Delphi Parts Edition (Charles Dickens)
    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Charles Dickens’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in ... Read more

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