Unsolved London Murders
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Unsolved London Murders

The 1920s & 1930s

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Unsolved London Murders

The 1920s & 1930s

About this book

The real-life murder mysteries that rocked London between two world wars—from the author of Unsolved Murders of Victorian and Edwardian London.
 
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the mystery surrounding it, the fear generated by the awareness a killer on the loose, the insight the cases give into outdated police methods, and the chance to speculate about the identity of the killer after so many years have passed—all these aspects of unsolved murder cases make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 twenty 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 Irish Republican Army 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.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1 The Police of London in the 1920s and 1930s
  8. Chapter 2 Crime in London between the World Wars
  9. Chapter 3 Death in Chelsea, 1920
  10. Chapter 4 The Murder of a Policeman, 1921
  11. Chapter 5 The IRA Murders, 1921
  12. Chapter 6 Murder in Shoreditch, 1923?
  13. Chapter 7 Death of a French Acrobat, 1924
  14. Chapter 8 The Death of a Landlady, 1924
  15. Chapter 9 The Poisoned Egg Merchant, 1924
  16. Chapter 10 The Murder of a Shopkeeper, 1926
  17. Chapter 11 The Railway Murder, 1929
  18. Chapter 12 Did Frederick Field Kill Annie Upchurch? 1931
  19. Chapter 13 Violation and Murder, 1931
  20. Chapter 14 The Most Dangerous Game, 1932
  21. Chapter 15 The Croydon Mystery, 1932
  22. Chapter 16 Whose Body? 1935
  23. Chapter 17 Was there a Serial Strangler in Soho, 1935–1936?
  24. Chapter 18 Murder in Southall, 1938
  25. Chapter 19 Death in Hyde Park, 1938
  26. Conclusion
  27. Bibliography