Summary: In 1920s London, brutal and bloodthirsty murder has stained the plush carpets of a handsome London townhouse. The victim is the glamorous and rich Emily French. All the evidence points to Leonard Vole, a young chancer to whom the heiress left her vast fortune and who ruthlessly took her life. At least, this is the story that Emily's dedicated housekeeper Janet Mcintyre stands by in court....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WITAckroyd, Peter
Summary: In Victorian London, an actress is hanged for poisoning her husband, when she should have been awarded a medal, the husband being a serial killer. Lots of atmosphere and period detail on immigrants and criminals, including an appearance by Karl Marx.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: N.A. Talese/Doubleday 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACKHanson, Neil.
Summary: Draws on contemporary accounts to describe the ordeal of three shipwreck survivors who resorted to cannibalism to survive while adrift at sea, but were arrested and tried for murder after their rescue.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 HANPerry, Anne
Summary: In this first book in a new series, Thomas Pitt's son Daniel races to save his client from execution, setting him against London's Special Police Branch. It's 1910, and Daniel Pitt is a reluctant lawyer who would prefer to follow in the footsteps of his detective father. When the biographer Russell Graves, who Daniel is helping defend, is sentenced to execution for the murder of his wife,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERCollins, Sara
Summary: 1826, and all of London is in a frenzy. Crowds gather at the gates of the Old Bailey to watch as Frannie Langton, maid to Mr and Mrs Benham, goes on trial for their murder. The testimonies against her are damning - slave, whore, seductress. And they may be the truth. But they are not the whole truth. For the first time Frannie must tell her story. It begins with a girl learning to read on a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLSummary: Young & innocent: Robert is the estranged husband of a beautiful actress with a bad reputation. When he discovers her lifeless body on the beach, he is mistaken for the murderer and soon finds himself on the run, learning that the murder makes for very strange bedfellows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BCI Eclipse 2007