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Foul deeds & suspicious deaths in London's East End

For centuries London's East End has been associated with some of the worst elements of human depravity, where foul deeds and murder were commonplace; and in 1888 the area's notoriety was added to by the horrific murders committed by Jack the Ripper. The East End was populated by people cra...

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Основен автор: Howse, Geoffrey.
Формат: Електронен
Език: English
Публикувано: Havertown : Wharncliffe, 2005.
Серия: Foul deeds and suspicious deaths series.
Предмети:
Crime > England > London > History.
Homicide > England > London > History.
Murder > England > London > History.
Death > Fiction.
Deeds > Fiction.
Mystery > Fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Crime.
Homicide.
MURDER.
East End (London, England) > History.
England > London.
England > London > East End.
Electronic books.
History.
Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=612944
Подобни документи: Print version:: Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in London's East End.
Съдържание:
  • FOUL DEEDS AND SUSPICIOUS DEATHS Series; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; This will print a lot clearer than proof looks; Introduction; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1
  • Foul Deeds Through the Ages; CHAPTER 2
  • Foul Deeds Within the Precincts of the Tower of London & on Tower Hill; (1) The murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, 1613; (2) Thomas Wentworth: Murdered by the Foulest Means of All, the Sword of Justice, Tower Hill, 1641; (3) William Laud: Death of the Red-Faced Archbishop, 1645; (4) An Ignoble End for a Would-be King, 1685; CHAPTER 3
  • Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811.
  • CHAPTER 4
  • Henry Wainright and the Murder of Harriet Lane 1874
  • 75CHAPTER 5
  • Jack the Ripper 1888; CHAPTER 6
  • Rival Butchers Fight in Whitechapel 1893; CHAPTER 7
  • Kidnapping in Bethnal Green 1893; CHAPTER 8
  • Coffee-House Keeper Slays his Wife and Stepson, then Shoots Himself 1893; CHAPTER 9
  • Tragedy in Hackney on Bonfire Night 1893; CHAPTER 10
  • William Seaman and the Turner Street Murders 1896; CHAPTER 11
  • Mysterious Death of a Reputed Bethnal Green Miser 1897; CHAPTER 12
  • Garrotting in the East End 1897 & 1899; CHAPTER 13
  • Whitechapel Ruffians Find their Match 1897.
  • CHAPTER 14
  • Suicides 1899 & 1903(1) A Publican's Worry Ends in Suicide, 1899; (2) Grieving Cabman Hangs Himself, 1899; (3) Terrible Assault on Wife and Suicide of Husband, 1903; (4) Sad Suicide of a Youthful Husband, 1899; CHAPTER 15
  • A Mad Cow's Antics Bring Memories of Foul Deeds Flooding Back 1899; CHAPTER 16
  • Edgar Edwards and the Murder of the Darby Family 1902; CHAPTER 17
  • Foul Murder in the Lord Nelson, Whitechapel 1903; CHAPTER 18
  • Vile Murder and Suicide, a Family Wiped Out in Walthamstow 1903.
  • CHAPTER 19
  • Two Stabbings During Desperate Fighting between Girls in Spitalfields 1903CHAPTER 20
  • An Alleged Burglar's Mistake 1903; Sources & Bibliography; Index.

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