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  • Sister Sleuths

    Female Detectives in Britain

    by Nell Darby ...
    Series series Trailblazing Women
    "A unique and inherently fascinating history that brings a particular aspect of the role of women in law enforcement up out of obscurity." — Midwest Book ReviewThe 1857 Divorce Act paved the way for a new career for women: that of the private detective. To divorce, you needed proof of adultery—and men soon realized that women were adept at infiltrating households and befriending wives, learning ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Britain's Greatest Private Detective

    The Rise and Fall of Henry Slater

    by Nell Darby ...
    Explores Henry Slater’s rise and fall as Britain’s leading private detective, revealing the golden age of detection and its dark side.From his offices at Basinghall Street in the City of London, Henry Slater presided over Britain's best-known private detective agency, king of all he surveyed. In the late Victorian era, and into the twentieth century, his name was synonymous with the Golden Age of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in the Cotswolds

    by Nell Darby ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    An exploration of the dark history lying at the heart of this scenic tourist destination, from the author of Britain's Greatest Private Detective .Behind the picture-postcard idyll of the 19th-century Cotswolds, everyday life in this largely rural area saw murders, beatings, jealousy and alcohol-fuelled crimes. Nell Darby's book examines a selection of these shocking events in vivid detail. ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Women's Lives in Oxford

    by Nell Darby ...
    Underneath the dreaming spires of Oxford's world-famous university, generations of women have lived their lives, fighting for the right to study there, and for a role within the city's educational, political and social spheres. Although a few of these women's names have been recorded for posterity, they have been largely because of their association with worthy or famous men; in this book, though, ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Olde Cotswold Punishments

    by Nell Darby ...
    Look beyond the pretty cottages and gentle landscapes of the Cotswolds, and you will find a dark history of crime and punishment. From child thieves, poachers, conmen, prostitutes and would-be suicides to bigamists, highwaymen and murderers, the Cotswolds has had its fair share of criminals – treated in what appears to us today to be an arbitrary and often unduly harsh manner by judges and juries. ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life on the Victorian Stage

    Theatrical Gossip

    by Nell Darby ...
    The expansion of the press in Victorian Britain meant more pages to be filled, and more stories to be found. Life on the Victorian Stage: Theatrical Gossip looks at how the everyday lives of Victorian performers and managers were used for such a purpose, with the British newspapers covering the good, the bad and the ugly side of life on the stage during the nineteenth century. Viewed through the ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American West

    History of the Wild West and Westward Expansion 1803–1890

    by Alice Barnes-Brown, Walter Borneman, Nell Darby ...
    Series series Visual History
    As the American Revolution drew to a close and the colonies claimed independence from Britain, the United States' gaze turned west to the vast expanse of land that was seemingly ripe for the taking. After all, according to their Manifest Destiny, it was their God-given right to expand. In American West, uncover the resistance that these enterprising settlers faced, from the Native Americans to the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • 1888

    London Murders in the Year of the Ripper

    by Peter Stubley ...
    In 1888 Jack the Ripper made the headlines with a series of horrific murders that remain unsolved to this day. But most killers are not shadowy figures stalking the streets with a lust for blood. Many are ordinary citizens driven to the ultimate crime by circumstance, a fit of anger or a desire for revenge. Their crimes, overshadowed by the few, sensational cases, are ignored, forgotten or written ... Read more

    $10.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Invention of Murder

    How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

    by Judith Flanders ...
    “We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.” Punch.Murder in nineteenth-century Britain was ubiquitous – not necessarily in quantity but in quality. This was the era of penny-bloods, early crime fiction and melodramas for the masses. This was a time when murder and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Britain's Most Notorious Hangmen

    by Stephen Wade ...
    A breathtaking history of Britain's executioners—from the seventeenth court of King Charles II to the UK's last official hangman of the twentieth century.In 1663, Jack Ketch delighted in his profession and gained notoriety not only because of those he executed—dukes and lords—but for how often he botched the job. Centuries later, in 1965, after nearly six hundred trips to the gallows, Albert ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yorkshire's Murderous Women

    Two Centuries of Killings

    by Stephen Wade ...
    Historical accounts of Englishwomen who have killed, their varying motives, and their final fates.Yorkshire history has its share of nasty and brutal murders, and the majority of these killers have been men. Statistics show that most homicides are men. But the records over the centuries have tales of murderous women too. Stephen Wade has investigated records across England to find stories of women ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Liverpool

    by Stephen Wade ...
    Series series Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths
    The disturbing, criminal history of Britain's "World Capital City of Pop"—home of murderers, thieves, bodysnatchers . . . and The Beatles.The city of Liverpool, England, was like every other city energized by the Victorian boon in industry and trade. It is best known today as the home of the British Invasion and music that changed the world. But Liverpool's history has a less harmonious side, and ... Read more

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