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Northumberland Murder & Crime features twelve historic criminal
cases that not only shocked the North East, but made headlines
throughout the country. Spanning a period of nearly one hundred
years, this book opens with the killing of Thomas Hamilton, whose
body was discovered lying at the foot of the town's walls at
Berwick-upon-Tweed. We have the wicked conspiracy by police
officers at Edlingham, near Alnwick, resulting in two innocent men
serving ten years' imprisonment; the case of John Dickman, hanged
for shooting a man on the railway; Jocker Amos, who shot three
people dead at the Sun Inn, Bedlington; Evelyn Foster, who burnt to
death on the Ottercaps; and Albert Edward Matheson, who murdered
15-year-old Gordon Lockhart and buried his remains under the boxing
ring at St James's Boxing and Wrestling Hall, Newcastle. Drawing on
a wide selection of sources and illustrated with more than fifty
images, this collection will appeal to everyone interested in true
crime and the shadier side of Northumberland's past.
"When one is tired of London, one is tired of life." - Samuel
Johnson London has long been a centre of the literary world. From
Shakespeare to Amis, Byron to Blake, Plath, Thomas, Christie and
Rowling; many of the greatest names in literature have made this
metropolis their home. Writers' London guides the reader through
homes, bookshops, pubs and cemeteries, in search of where literary
greats loved and lost, drank and died. Discover the Islington
building where Joe Orton was murdered by his lover, the Soho pub
where Dylan Thomas left his manuscript, the Chelsea hotel where
Oscar Wilde was arrested, and the Bank of England where Kenneth
Graham was shot at (and missed) three times. Gathering hundreds of
famous and less-well-known anecdotes, this meticulously researched
volume will entertain any lover of literature. Also in the series:
Vinyl London ISBN 9781788840156 Rock 'n' Roll London ISBN
9781788840163 Art London ISBN 9781788840385 London Peculiars ISBN
9781851499182
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