Unsolved London Murders: the 1920s and 1930s by Jonathan Oates

Unsolved London Murders: the 1920s and 1930s by Jonathan Oates

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the mystery surrounding it, the fear generated by the awareness a killer on the loose, the insight the cases give into outdated police methods, and the chance to speculate about the identity of the killer after so many years have passed - all these aspects of unsolved murder cases make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 bestselling 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.

Dr. Jonathan Oates, the Ealing Borough Archivist and Local History Library, has published and spoken about the Jacobite rebellions as well as other parts of London's history, notably its criminal past. He's also a family history expert who's produced several introductory books on the topic, including Tracking Your London Ancestors, Tracing Your Ancestors From 1066 to 1837, and Tracing Villains and Their Victims.

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ISBN 13	9781845630751
ISBN 10	1845630750
Title	Unsolved London Murders: the 1920s and 1930s
Author	Jonathan Oates
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Year published	2009-06-20
Number of pages	160
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