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Unforgettable cases are featured - a mother who murdered her son, a police officer who hid the body of his mother, a farmer brutally murdered for his money, a dustman who killed a local girl, the headless body of a woman who has never been identified. Glenda Goulden's chronicle of the hidden history of the Fens will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the sinister side of human nature and the social conditions that nurture it.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49524324368657,"sku":"GOR003261800","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49638873071889,"sku":"GOR006946585","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1845630726.jpg?v=1751445131"},{"product_id":"foul-deeds-and-suspicious-deaths-in-and-around-cambridge-book-glenda-goulden-9781845630102","title":"Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Cambridge","description":"Death and villainy always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths In and Around Cambridge the chill is brought close to home as each chapter investigates the darker side of humanity in notorious cases of murder, deceit and pure malice that have marked the history of this famous university town. From crimes of passion to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of murder, the full spectrum of criminality is recounted here, revealing Cambridge's sinister history from medieval times to the modern day. For this journey into a bloody, neglected aspect of the past, Glenda Goulden has selected over 20 notorious episodes that give a fascinating insight into criminal acts and the criminal mind. Recalled here are violent deaths that took place in the city's great colleges - the murder of a baby at Trinity, the shooting of a tutor at King's - as well as the public executions that were a feature of town life until recent times. The variety of cases covered is remarkable and revealing - poisonings by arsenic and strychnine; insanity driving a mother to drown her daughter; a father who shot his children, then himself; a fatal duel; the shooting of a gamekeeper; the boy strangled with a length of string. The personal dramas Glenda Goulden explores are often played out in the most commonplace of circumstances, but others are so odd as to be stranger than fiction. Her grisly chronicle of the history Cambridge would prefer to forget will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the dark side of human nature.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49570902311185,"sku":"GOR005445910","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52748142084369,"sku":"GOR014608303","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53731861365009,"sku":"GOR005392378","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1845630106.jpg?v=1750995456"},{"product_id":"east-anglian-disasters-book-glenda-goulden-9781845631208","title":"East Anglian Disasters","description":"Disasters are part of our national history and some were so terrible in their consequences, like the Black Death, the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, that they have come to define an era. In regional history, too, they have had an extraordinary effect, and this is the theme of Glenda Goulden's gripping book. From the long history of East Anglia she has selected those disasters that have had the deepest impact and reconstructed them in telling detail. The episodes she recounts were remarkable when they occurred, and they have a grim fascination for us today. She chronicles fires and explosions, the collapse of buildings and bridges, lethal accidents at sea and on the roads and railways, and tragedies resulting from enemy action and acts of God. Glenda Goulden has a passionate interest in the history of Cambridge, the Fens and East Anglia. As well as writing The Cam and Cambridge, she has compiled a history of Wisbech and the River Nene, and she has made a comparative study of immigration and far-right politics in England and France. Her most recent books are Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths In and Around Cambridge and Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths In and Around the Fens.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49613628866833,"sku":"GOR005623904","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/184563120X.jpg?v=1751154639"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-glenda-goulden.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}