Only in New England - The Story of a Gaslight Crime

Murder in the bookshop: a story of crime

✍ Evans, Curtis J.;Wells, Carolyn 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 HarperCollins Publishers; Collins Crime Club 🌐 English ⚖ 175 KB 👁 4 views

Book 50 in the Detective Club Crime Classics series is Carolyn Wells' Murder in the Bookshop, a classic locked room murder mystery which will have a special resonance for lovers and collectors of Golden Age detective fiction. Includes a bonus murder story: 'The Shakespeare Title-Page Mystery'. When

Angel Killer: A True Story of Cannibalism, Crime Fighting, and Insanity in New York City

✍ Blum, Deborah 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 The Atavist 🌐 English ⚖ 25 KB

In the mid-1920s, young children began to vanish from neighborhoods around New York City. It took the police a decade to find their abductor, an unassuming 64-year-old handyman named Albert Fish. Fish had committed crimes of unspeakable horror: He had not only abducted and murdered the children, but

Trent's last case (The woman in black): a story of crime

✍ Bentley, Edmund Clerihew;Curran, John;Sayers, Dorothy Leigh 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 HarperCollins Publishers; Collins Crime Club 🌐 English ⚖ 157 KB 👁 2 views

Written in reaction to what Bentley perceived as the sterility and artificiality of the detective fiction of his day, Trent's Last Case features Philip Trent, an all-too-human detective who not only falls in love with the chief suspect but reaches a brilliant conclusion that is totally wrong. Trent'

Trent's last case (The woman in black): a story of crime

✍ Bentley, Edmund Clerihew;Curran, John;Sayers, Dorothy Leigh 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 HarperCollins Publishers; Collins Crime Club 🌐 English ⚖ 157 KB 👁 2 views

Written in reaction to what Bentley perceived as the sterility and artificiality of the detective fiction of his day, Trent's Last Case features Philip Trent, an all-too-human detective who not only falls in love with the chief suspect but reaches a brilliant conclusion that is totally wrong. Trent'

A History of Vampires in New England

✍ D'Agostino, Thomas 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 The History Press 🌐 English ⚖ 5 MB

New England is rich in history and mystery. Numerous sleepy little towns and farming communities distinguish the region's scenic tranquility. But not long ago, New Englanders lived in fear of spectral ghouls believed to rise from their graves and visit family members in the night to suck their lives

A comparison of victimization, crime ass

A comparison of victimization, crime assessment, and fear of crime in England/Wales, the Netherlands Scotland, and the United States(1)

✍ Block, Richard 📂 Article 📅 1988 🏛 Springer-Verlag ⚖ 772 KB