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  • Deadly Encounters

    Two Victorian Sensations

    In July 1861 London newspapers excitedly reported two violent crimes, both the stuff of sensational fiction. One involved a retired army major, his beautiful mistress and her illegitimate child, blackmail and murder. In the other, a French nobleman was accused of trying to kill his son in order to claim the young man's inheritance. The press covered both cases with thoroughness and enthusiasm, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Deadly Encounters

    Two Victorian Sensations

    In July 1861 London newspapers excitedly reported two violent crimes, both the stuff of sensational fiction. One involved a retired army major, his beautiful mistress and her illegitimate child, blackmail and murder. In the other, a French nobleman was accused of trying to kill his son in order to claim the young man's inheritance. The press covered both cases with thoroughness and enthusiasm, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • 221B

    Studies in Sherlock Holmes

    A collection of works on everyone's favorite gentleman sleuth: Sherlock Holmes.This compendium of Sherlockiana compiled by Vincent Starrett, one of the world's foremost Holmes experts, is sure to please fans everywhere. Enjoy scholarly works on such topics as: "Was Sherlock Holmes an American?," "On the Emotional Geology of Baker Street," "Dr. Watson's Secret," "The Care and Feeding of Sherlock ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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    This is the story of a national obsession.Ever since the Ratcliffe Highway Murders caused a nation-wide panic in Regency England, the British have taken an almost ghoulish pleasure in 'a good murder'. This fascination helped create a whole new world of entertainment, inspiring novels, plays and films, puppet shows, paintings and true-crime journalism - as well as an army of fictional detectives ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Invention of Murder

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

    “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

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  • The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes

    The Complete Short Stories: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

    Series series The Annotated Books
    Classic short stories of Sherlock Holmes now available in a separate, attractively priced individual volume.The publication of Leslie S. Klinger's brilliant new annotations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic Holmes short stories in 2004 created a Holmes sensation. Available again in an attractively-priced edition identical to the first, except this edition has no outer slipcase (Volume Two is ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Prisons and Prisoners in Victorian Britain

    by Neil R Storey ...
    Prisons and Prisoners In Victorian Britain provides an illustrated insight into the Victorian prison system and the experiences of those within it - on both sides of the bars. Featuring stories of crime and misdeeds, this fascinating book includes chapters on a typical day inside a Victorian prison - food, divine service, exercise and medical provision; the punishments inflicted on convicts - such ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • TRUE CRIME COLLECTION - Real Murders Mysteries in 19th Century England (Illustrated) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Real Life Murders, Mysteries & Serial Killers of the Victorian Age

    TRUE CRIME COLLECTION - Real Murders Mysteries in 19th Century England (Illustrated) gathers Arthur Conan Doyle's fascination with actual criminal cases into a volume where fact is treated with the narrative urgency of fiction. Moving through murder, suspicion, forensic uncertainty, and courtroom drama, the book reflects the nineteenth-century appetite for sensational crime while retaining a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mad or Bad

    Crime and Insanity in Victorian Britain

    In a violent 19th century, desperate attempts by the alienists - a new wave of 'mad-doctor' - brought the insanity plea into Victorian courts. Defining psychological conditions in an attempt at acquittal, they faced ridicule, obstruction - even professional ruin - as they strove for acceptance and struggled for change. It left 'mad people' hanged for offenses they could not remember, and bad ... Read more

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  • Better Dead (Mobi Classics)

    by J.M. Barrie ...
    As for that, they like it -- the leading spirits, I mean. It gives them a reputation. Besides, they hurt as well as help us. It was after their appearance that the authorities were taught to be distrustful. You have little idea of the precautions taken nowadays. There is Sir William Harcourt, for instance, who is attended by policemen everywhere. I used to go home from the House behind him nightly ... Read more

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  • My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles

    by Alec Waugh ...
    First published in 1967, this tells of an Author, publisher, traveller, cricketer, lover of wine: Alec Waugh has been all these in the course of a life which has brought him a host of friends around the world. He is a warm person who knows a good friend when he sees one and is revered by all those with whom there has been mutual acceptance.This book contains his memories of many famous writers and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • 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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