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Author:
Mark Stevens
Broadmoor Revealed gives the reader a glimpse behind the walls of Englandâs first Criminal Lunatic Asylum.
Focused on the Victorian period, the book tells the stories of some of the hospitalâs best-known patients. There is Edward Oxford, who shot at Queen Victoria, and Richard Dadd, the brilliant artist and murderer of his father. There is also William Chester Minor, the surgeon from America who killed a stranger in London, and then played a key part in creating the world's finest dictionary. Finally, there is Christiana Edmunds, âThe Chocolate Cream Poisonerâ and frustrated lover.
To these four tales are added new ones, previously unknow...
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Author:
Paddy Kane
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Amazon
At the age of 52 Paddy Kane with a previously unblemished record was sentenced to serve in Britain's highest security prison. In a few hours he went from having being a husband, father and grandfather living a suburban lifestyle to a world of daily struggle dominated by major criminals, terrorists and drug barons.
At any time over 80,000 people are confined in Britain's penal system and around two million of todays adult population are expected to serve at least one custodial sentence. IT COULD BE YOU!!
This book is designed to help people learn the real world of inside prison so if you ever found yourself in the same position, and you'd be amazed how easy i...
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Author:
Oscar Wilde
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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Author:
Alexandre Dumas
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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Author:
Emily Brontë
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Public Domain Books
A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife", Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden." As Hallward tries to make sense ...
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Author:
Dougie Brimson
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Category C Publishing
The Crew is Dougie Brimson's first novel, following a series of books on the subject of football hooliganism written with his brother Eddy. Once again, the territory covered relates to the violence that surrounds football. This time, however, things aren't for real--still, the characters and story line seem real enough, especially for those familiar with any of the tales told in the author's factual volumes. Marrying the football violence theme with a well-established genre, Brimson turns his tale into a thriller. Using the master hooligan and the police detective as counterpoints, he weaves a believable and gripping story line, truly guaranteed to keep...
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Author:
T.S. O'Rourke
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Breffni Books
It was all he could do to stop his hangover from spilling out onto the victim as he studied her neck and what he made out to be the initial puncture wound in her abdomen. From that point, he thought, she had been opened like an envelope with a paper knife, revealing a mess of entrails and blood.
With a deranged serial killer on the loose, Detective Sergeant Dan Carroll and his new partner Detective Constable Samuel Grant find themselves trawling the seedy side of London in search of a brutal killer who preys on prostitutes.
A Shot of Modern Noir.
T.S. O'Rourke's writing has been declared powerful, beautiful and hard-boiled by both readers and critics ...
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Author:
Arthur Conan Doyle
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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Author:
Sophie Hayes
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HarperCollins
Heâd been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didnât know him at allâ¦When everything seemed to be falling apart in Sophieâs life, she was thankful for her friend Kas, who was always at the end of a phone, ready to listen and to offer comfort and advice.Her fatherâs cold dislike of her and then her parentsâ divorce had left her with a deep distrust of men. But, gradually, Kas made her believe there was at least one man who truly cared about her.But she was wrong.At first when Sophie went to stay for a few days with Kas in Italy, he was kind and caring, as heâd always been. But three days after she arrived, ev...
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