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  The Addiscombe Mystery - A...

  Cane Hills

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  In March 1932 Miss Sushannah Emberton, the 55-year-old housekeeper of Mr Ells Dagnall, was attacked in a semi-detached house in Addiscombe Road, East Croydon. She received such severe injuries that she died within two days of the assault.
  
  By the time the police arrived, the perpetrator(s) had fled, leaving a majority of their booty behind. What followed was the biggest manhunt in the history of crime in Croydon, involving over one hundred police officers.
  
  The investigations spread throughout Croydon, into some of the more seedy areas of central London and even to Dumbarton and Glasgow, but to no avail.
  
  Until this very day the crime remains unsolved.
  
  The author of The Addiscombe Mystery has supplied the reader with all the details of the murder reported in the local press. He has also included details of two similar crimes that were committed in the same area within two years of the demise of Miss Emberton. As an added bonus, he has retrieved, from the National Archives at Kew, all the statements taken by the police and included these for the reader's consideration.
  
   Even though the trail now may be a little cold, there should still be enough clues to assist the reader in determining where the responsibilities lie. Was it "Bottles" Philpot and "The Masher", or were the identities of the perpetrators to be found elsewhere? Perhaps the reader would like to continue the work of "The Sedgemore Sleuths".
  
   Should you, the reader, believe that, after having read this book, you can succeed where the Croydon Constabulary failed and identify the villain(s) responsible for this most heinous of crimes, then perhaps you should consider contacting the Metropolitan Police at New Scotland Yard and inform them of your findings.
  
  There are still many unanswered questions, even though a significant number of individuals were apprehended and then released when insufficient evidence was found against them. Why was Sushannah Emberton buried in the same grave as an ex-army major, fifteen years her senior? Why did she return from a shopping expedition empty-handed just before being attacked? Why did Mr Ells Dagnall lie to the police when giving evidence about his train journey from London to the scene of the crime, and why did the police not take more notice of this anomaly?
  
   If you can answer any, or all, of these questions, then you may have solved The Addiscombe Mystery.

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  Broken Envelopes - Inside the...

  Ph.D. Gary Covella

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  STEP BEYOND THE ENVELOPE AND UNLOCK EXTRAORDINARY WEALTH 
  Have you ever wondered how a small, unassuming piece of mail could spark fortunes beyond imagination? How everyday hopefuls turned unremarkable letters into lavish lifestyles, and how certain entrepreneurs rode the waves of public desire—sometimes skating dangerously close to the edge of legality? In these pages, you’ll dive headfirst into the history, drama, and backstage machinations of the most infamous and profitable mail-based schemes ever devised. 
  DISCOVER THE DARING TACTICS BEHIND MASSIVE MAIL ORDER GAINS 
  Far from the humdrum image of envelopes piling up on the kitchen counter, the stories you’ll encounter reveal how postcards, catalogs, and bulletins offered up miraculous opportunities—at least on the surface. From audacious “work-from-home” promises that lured tens of thousands, to glossy promotions that promised utopian lifestyles, these tales showcase human ingenuity for better or worse. Part marketing brilliance, part psychological manipulation, the most successful mail order campaigns exploited a timeless combination of aspiration and social proof. Through each wild twist, you’ll witness how cunning copywriters pushed emotional buttons, how multi-step funnels reeled in unsuspecting buyers, and how certain “insiders” walked away with fortunes rivaling the biggest corporate moguls. 
  So whether you’re an entrepreneur seeking a competitive edge, a curious reader fascinated by the extremes of human ingenuity, or a cautious skeptic wanting to shield yourself from dubious pitches, this in-depth look will captivate and educate you. 
  Step inside, and discover just how far creativity, ambition, and a willingness to push ethical boundaries can take someone when the entire world is just an envelope away.

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  The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker

  Mark Beaver

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  On a June night in 1983, twenty-three-year-old Karla Faye Tucker and her boyfriend, fueled by a sinister cocktail of illicit drugs, broke into a Houston apartment. "We were very wired," Tucker later testified, "and we was looking for something to do." Though they later claimed they entered the premises with no murderous intent, they ended up slaughtering two people—one a sworn enemy, the other an utter stranger. The weapon: a pickax they found in the apartment.
  
  Fourteen years later, in early 1998, Tucker was facing lethal injection. But after her religious conversion in prison, Texas would be executing a different woman than the one who'd committed the murders. Her change was so dramatic that the most powerful and influential voices in American televangelism—Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell among them—were urging viewers to contact Texas's governor, George W. Bush, and plead for clemency. One follower was author Mark Beaver's father, a devout Southern Baptist deacon who asked Beaver to put his fledgling literary ambitions to work by composing a letter on his behalf to Governor Bush.
  
  Through a merger of true crime, social history, and memoir, The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker illustrates how a seemingly distant news story triggers a national reckoning and exposes a growing divide in America's evangelical community. It's a tale of how one woman defies all conventions of death row inmates, and her saga serves as an unlikely but fascinating prism for exploring American culture and the limits of forgiveness and transformation. It's also a deeply personal reflection on how a father's request leads his son to struggle with who he was raised to be and who he imagines becoming.

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  Killer Psychopaths - The Inside...

  Paul Roland

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  Discover the psychological motivations behind the world's most dangerous killers. 
   
  In Killer Psychopaths, Paul Roland examines reveals the methods and insights behind criminal profiling that have helped bring some of the world's worst criminals to justice. Drawing on the harrowing real-life experiences of leading profilers and forensic psychologists, he examines a range of serial killers, sexual predators, extortionists and terrorists to help understand what makes criminals do what they do. In this book you will discover the depths of human evil. 
   
  Includes: 
  - Jack the Ripper 
  - Ted Bundy 
  - Ed Kemper 
  - Charles Manson 
  - John List 
  - Aileen Wuornos 
   
  This edition includes a unique interview with the former FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood.

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  Steel City Mafia - Blood...

  Paul N. Hodos

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  Pittsburgh's small but lucrative Cosa Nostra mafia family was on the rise in 1985 with a newly crowned Don . . . The men who came to dominate the rackets in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia opened the family to massive profits from drug trafficking and a street tax on other criminal activities. At the same time, the Youngstown, Ohio, faction of the family launched a brutal mob war against the weakening Cleveland mafia and the Altoona, Pennsylvania, crew violently clamped down on their city. Discover gritty stories of a made member who controlled who a local police department hired, an informant who betrayed his own mafia grandfather and father, numerous unsolved murders and a mob mole in the Pittsburgh office of the FBI. This is the tale of a mafia family at the pinnacle of its power, willing to do anything to hold on to that power and its downfall in the criminal underworld.

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  The Prisoner - Behind Bars in...

  Vladimir Pereverzin

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  'A bleak and vivid account' BBC Radio 4 
  ‘I am haunted by the feeling that it is not me I’m writing about, but some other man who lived through it all. It is as though I was watching a film about him, reading a book on him. And here is that book’ 
  Shocking, but laced with wry humour, Vladimir Pereverzin’s extraordinary story is of an ordinary man whose comfortable life is upended. Refusing to give false testimony against Yukos owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, he is plunged into lengthy, brutal incarceration in Russia’s nightmarish prisons and penal colonies, including some in which political prisoner Alexei Navalny has been held. 
  Vividly told in this skilful translation, Vladimir’s ultimately uplifting memoir was first published in Russian in 2013, but, given new laws enacted in Russia to punish those who oppose its ongoing ‘special operation’ in Ukraine, it is, if anything, even more topical today. 
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  ‘A very Russian story, and topical for all times . . . it tells you how to become truly free when deprived of liberty’ – Boris Akunin, author of the Erast Fandorin books

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