True crime Books
Monsoon Books Bangkok Hard Time
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£7.59
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd Crime Scene Asia: When forensic evidence becomes
Book SynopsisCrime Scene Asia: when forensic evidence becomes the silent witness is a casebook of fascinating true stories from Singapore, Malaysia, HK, The Philippines and Indonesia. Its opening case begins when the body of a woman is found in a Singapore nature park. Nobody has reported her missing. Nobody knows who she is. The only clue to her identity is a set of tiny numbers etched into a series of implants in her teeth. Police door-knock the dentists of Singapore until they find the one who treated her. Then, following a trail of numbers called from her phone, they unmask her killer. In another case, set 300 kms away, in Kuala Lumpur, a married man is arrested for the murder of his mistress. Police are adamant that he is her killer. But the man's lawyer can point to forensic evidence that tells a different story altogether. Meanwhile one of the book's Hong Kong cases tells the story of a humble truck driver facing jail for his apparent involvement in a bombing plot allegedly masterminded by two of the former British colony's most notorious gangsters. Then the evidence of a forensic scientist sets him free.
£20.30
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd Malaysian Murders and Mysteries: A century of
Book SynopsisOver the past century, Malaysia has seen criminal cases that have gripped the attention of the entire nation and beyond. These crimes vary in nature and details, and in some instances, the perpetrators have been caught and punished, while others remain unresolved. What most of them have in common is that they were real life dramas played out through the media and carried into every home. This compilation brings together 42 of the most well-known and notorious cases, based on the authors’ research and consultations with some of the most eminent historians, criminal lawyers, crime reporters and police officers in the country, who were able to breathe new life into some of the cases and shed new light on the notorious events. These cases go as far back as 1875, beginning with colonial-era intrigues that remain unresolved to this day, and investigate over a century of Malaysian murders and mysteries.
£11.39
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd The Murder of a Beauty Queen
Book SynopsisA beautiful, sensuous and rich widow is brutally murdered in the most questionable of circumstances. The last person to see her alive is her brother-in-law and lover—a man later found guilty on circumstantial evidence. Not until the condemned man appealed did a witness come forward and admit that he had given false evidence. How did she die? Who was the other mysterious lover to whom she constantly penned saucy letters? Why did the witness lie?
£11.92
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd The Perfect Murder- The Trial of Sunny Ang
Book SynopsisBankrupt and desperate for money, a brilliant psychopath planned the perfect crime. Sunny Ang selected his victim with care. Jenny was a young divorced bar girl with little schooling, flattered that an educated, charming man should notice her. He seduced her and promised marriage. He also insured Jenny’s life for a million dollars; the sum would go to his mother if she died an accidental death. Then he plotted murder: first, an unsuccessful car accident, and then the fatal scuba diving trip off the dangerous waters of Sisters’ Islands. Jenny went down and never came up. Only a cut flipper was found. Without a body, the Prosecution had no medical evidence and no witnesses to claim unnatural death. How did the law finally catch up with Sunny Ang?
£12.32
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd The Tenth Man: The Gold Bar Murders
Book SynopsisTen men were involved in the robbery and the gruesome murder of a gold merchant and his two employees. Stolen from them were 120 bars of pure gold. Nine of the men were subsequently found guilty. Seven were hung. Two narrowly escaped the gallows because of their youth. The tenth man, however, escaped death. A fast-paced account that captures the sinister excitement and drama of the plotting, and merciless and savage execution of the victims, by a twisted bunch of felons. Just who betrayed whom?
£12.22
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd Pulau Senang: The Experiment that Failed
Book SynopsisIn 1965, 18 convicted criminals were sentenced to death for murder – a haunting testimony to the failure of a bold experiment on Pulau Senang to reform seasoned criminals in a gaol without bars. Right to the end, Daniel Dutton, director of the model penal settlement, could not believe that the men he had befriended and worked so hard to rehabilitate would want to destroy him. Too late he realised the extraordinary hold secret society leaders had over their men. Pulau Senang reconstructs the events that led to the tragedy and the trial, and throws light on a question that has never been answered satisfactorily – Why did the experiment fail?
£12.22
Blacksmith Books Kitchen Tiles A Collection of Salty Wet Stories
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£12.56
Blacksmith Books Women, Crime and the Courts: Hong Kong 1841-1941
Book SynopsisKwan Lai-chun was sick of being made to feel second-class by her husbands concubine; sick of her mother-in-laws endless carping about the money she spent; sick of the whole family. Late one sticky, humid night, something snapped in her -- and she grabbed the meat chopper. Within minutes, three people were dead: the concubine with over 70 gashes, many of them to the bone. Kwan was found guilty and became the second and last woman in Hong Kong to suffer the death penalty. But behind her story, and those of the citys other female murderers, lie complex webs of relationships and jealousies, poverty and despair. Taking the first 100 years of Hong Kongs colonial history, this book unravels the lives of women -- Chinese and Westerners alike -- who found themselves on the wrong side of the law. Hong Kongs female prison population was a tiny fraction of that in Britain or America, but there are still plenty of tales from its women kidnappers, smugglers, bomb-makers, thieves and cruel mistresses.
£12.59
Blacksmith Books King Hui: The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong
Book SynopsisScandal and corruption, drugs and pirates, triads and flower boats; the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and the Communist take-over of Canton. Peter Hui was there. He knew everybody and saw everything. This is the real story of Hong Kong, told with the rich flavours of the street. If Peter had been only a little bit different he could have been an important man. But this is a riches to rags to riches to rags story. As we follow Peter''s life, we see in sharp focus what it was like to be a Chinese man in the British territory of Hong Kong through most of the years of the 20th century. And yet this book is not just one man''s tale. It is the story of a time and place -- colonial Hong Kong, Portuguese Macau and the South China hinterland -- seen from the unique point of view of a man who was at home at all levels of society. This is the bizarre story of a man who really did, for a very short time, own all the opium in Hong Kong. If Suzie Wong had been a real person, Peter Hui would have known her.
£10.79
Austin MacAuley Publishers Fze Hijacked for 10 Months the True Story of the
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£12.75
Blackstone Publishing Killer Triggers
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£14.39
Penguin Putnam Inc Murderland
£15.00
Dylan Tallman The Cell Next Door
£22.21
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. White Mischief
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£18.80
Maple Spring Publishing Mein Spy The Ultimate German Espionage Collection
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£16.19
Bookbaby Flew Too High
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£23.91
Bookbaby Flew Too High
£16.58
Independently Published The Fix
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£12.84
Independently Published The Killing Game: True Crime Collection
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£14.73
Independently Published I Love You, I Love You Not
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£11.65
Independently Published True Crime Of Horrific Events: Shocking true
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£22.21
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Practice Run
£33.95
Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage Company The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the
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£37.97
Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage Company What the Dead Know: Learning about Life as a New
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£34.71
Thorndike Press Large Print Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
£32.29
Greenleaf Book Group Press Hometown Betrayal
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£20.36
Permuted Press Dark Tide
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£19.80
Post Hill Press My Right Hand to Goodness
£15.99
Post Hill Press After Escobar
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£16.14
Permuted Press The Velvet Hammer
Book SynopsisWinner of the Literary Titan Book Award Winner of the International Impact Book Award Reviewers'' Choice Award for Nonfiction After retiring from twenty-five years on the bench, former chief judge, Belvin Perry Jr., reveals a rare and disturbingly vivid first-hand perspective of the most gruesome death penalty cases in which he played a key role, including the infamous Casey Marie Anthony, who was dubbed “America’s Most Hated Mom” after her shocking acquittal.The Velvet Hammer is the gripping, true crime memoir of former Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr., who sentenced some of Florida’s most evil and notorious murderers to death, fulfilling his oath to uphold justice. Perry provides a clear, accurate description of America’s criminal justice system and explains why the death penalty can, and should, work and how it was applied to certain capital murder cases he either prosecuted or presided over. Perry discusses his journey as an African American growing up in the segregated South, his life as a prosecutor and chief judge, and how he ended up presiding over one of the world’s most intriguing capital murder trials of the century: State of Florida v. Casey Marie Anthony. From the widow who slowly poisoned her lovers; to the lust murderer who mutilated his victim while she was still alive; to the serial killer who slayed a family of four, including his own child; as well as several other violent and frightening murders, Perry spares none of the gory details when bringing each case back to life in his debut, true crime memoir.
£13.49
Post Hill Press What Happened to Ellen
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£19.80
Post Hill Press Justice Never Rests
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£16.99
Post Hill Press A Life for a Life
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£15.99
Post Hill Press Monkey Morales
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£15.29
Austin Macauley Peeling the Onion: From Matthew Shepard's Murder
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£12.34
Austin Macauley Peeling the Onion: From Matthew Shepard's Murder
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£18.99
Europa Editions The City of the Living
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£17.06
Berrett-Koehler Publishers Catching Cheats
£18.40
Advantage Media Group, Inc. Polygraphs and Paper Clip Bracelets
£13.29
Post Hill Press Duplicity
£15.08
Bookbaby Quest for Love
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£20.82
