Books about Crime and Punishment
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'Tanky' Smith: Leicester's First Private Detective
Price: £4.50
Francis 'Tanky' Smith was Leicester's first private detective after being a member of the Borough Police Force between 1840 and 1864. He achieved much success clearing up street crime in Victorian … [more]
Accident? Suicide? or Murder? In Leicestershire!
Price: £6.00
Accident, Suicide or Murder is a murder story set around a murder story.
Tony and Veronica have moved from Lower Cloisters to Leicestershire to retire until a man asks them to use their efforts to … [more]
Among The Broad-Arrow Men of Leicester Gaol - A Plain Account of English Prison Life (1924)
Price: £6.00
First published anonymously in 1924 by R. A. Castle, under his prison identity of Convict B-2-15. B stood for the tier he was on, 2 denoted the kind of work he was assigned and 15 was the cell. The … [more]
Crime and Murder in Victorian Leicestershire (1981)
Price: £4.50
'Murder, most foul, as in the best it is', or so the ghost of Hamlet's murdered father thought. Murder is a subject that never fails to evoke macabre curiosity. Whether murdered or murderer, those … [more]
Nottingham: A Place Of Execution From 1201 To 1928 (1981)
Price: £4.50
This book is a collection of interesting facts concerning all recorded executions in Nottinghamshire. There is no doubt that in the olden days, before records were kept, there must have been a number … [more]
The Green Bicycle Murder and New Evidence
Price: £6.00
An in-depth look at this most controversial murder case from Leicestershire history.
Bella Wright, a young girl from Stoughton in south Leicestershire, was found dead in a country lane with a … [more]
The Green Bicycle Mystery: The Story of Bella Wright and Ronald Light
Price: £3.50
Bella Wright, a young girl from south Leicestershire, was found dead in a country lane with a gunshot wound in July 1919. The chief suspect in the case was a man riding a green bicycle, identified as … [more]
The Leicestershire Mystery of the Green Bicycle Murder of 1919
Price: £6.00
Full acknowledgement is given to H R Wakefield, the author of this 1930s publication. This story of these events was brought to my attention some time ago and I have and I have just had to find out … [more]
The Life And Times Of Francis 'Tanky' Smith (Leicester's first private detective)
Price: £3.50
An in-depth account of the life of this legendary man, with many never-before published facts.
From the introduction of the book:
"Having scoured most of the local history books for information … [more]