| Unsolved London Murders: The 1920s & 1930s Contributor(s): Oates, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1845630750 ISBN-13: 9781845630751 Publisher: Wharncliffe OUR PRICE: $29.69 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - True Crime | Historical |
| Dewey: 364.152 |
| LCCN: 2010290360 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9.2" (1.32 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 1920's - Chronological Period - 1930's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Unsolved crimes have a special fascination, none more so than unsolved murders. The shock of the crime itself and the mystery surrounding it, the fear generated by the awareness a killer on the loose, the insight the cases give into outdated police methods, and the chance to speculate about the identity of the killer after so many years have passed - all these aspects of unsolved murder cases make them compelling reading. In this companion volume to his best-selling Unsolved Murders of Victorian and Edwardian London, Jonathan Oates has selected over 20 haunting, sometimes shocking cases from the period between the two world wars. Included are the shooting of PC James Kelly in Gunnersbury, violent deaths associated with Fenian Conspiracies, the stabbing of the French acrobat Martial Lechevalier in Piccadilly, the strychnine poisoning of egg-seller Kusel Behr, the killing by arsenic of three members of a Croydon family, and, perhaps most gruesome of all, the case of the unidentified body parts found at Waterloo Station. Jonathan Oates describes each of these crimes in precise, forensic detail. His case studies shed light on the lives of the victims and summon up the ruthless, sometimes lethal character of London itself. |
Contributor Bio(s): Oates, Jonathan: - Dr Jonathan Oates is the Ealing Borough Archivist and Local History Librarian, and he has written and lectured on the Jacobite rebellions and on aspects of the history of London, including its criminal past. He is also well known as an expert on family history and has written several introductory books on the subject including Tracing Your London Ancestors, Tracing Your Ancestors From 1066 to 1837 and Tracing Villains and Their Victims. |