eBooks „murders“
106 eBooks were found for the search term „murders“.
Dylan Frost
Britain's Strangest True Crime Cases
- True Crime
- English
- 53412 Words
- Ages 16 and up
- 74
The history of true crime in Britain is a long and, as we shall see, often stranger than fiction tale. The book that follows offers an eclectic stew of strange and perplexing British true crime cases. These cases are all disconcertingly odd and in many instances downright bizarre.
We have the murder of an elderly famer brutally killed with a pitchfork in what may or may not have been a case involving witchcraft. Then there is a shocking train murder which took place in a closed carriage in broad daylight during an afternoon commuter run to London. We also have the baffling case of a retired spinster who was gruesomely killed for no apparent reason in her own home on Halloween night. We shall also be examining the modern legend of the alleged maniac said to randomly push his victims into Manchester's murky canals. Then we'll take a look at the monstrous Victorian terror known as Spring-Heeled Jack. We shall stop too to consider the unsolved murder of a young man in Sussex who was found dissected inside two abandoned suitcases. We shall also explore the high profile killing of Jill Dando - a case which surely ranks as one of the most shocking and baffling celebrity deaths ever to occur in Britain. As if that wasn't enough we also have grave robbers, cannibals, the Brighton trunk murders, a woman who staged a crackpot hoax abduction of her own daughter, a gruesome murderer who operated at the same time as Jack the Ripper and had the macabre signature of leaving torsos and body parts scattered around London, and a suave post-war con artist who in reality was a depraved sexual serial killer.
So, draw the curtains, turn off the lights, make sure the doors are locked, and settle down to explore some of the strangest true crime cases Blighty has to offer... [more]
Keywords: british criminals, british police, true crime story, murder & mayhem, criminal women, life stories crime, english crime
$3.99
Arthur Anderson
The Face of Terror: The Legend of Saintpotden
- Horror
- English
- 3487 Words
- Ages 6 and up
- 17
In the tranquil and enigmatic town of Saintpotden, a dark legacy insinuated itself amidst the shadows of everyday routine. It all began with what seemed like an innocent family heirloom: a porcelain doll, ancient and delicate, found its new home within Friedrich's family.
But as weeks slipped by and clocks marked the passage of time, the dark secrets of this doll chillingly revealed themselves. Its inert face lay as a silent witness to a subtle malevolence slowly emerging.
The first signs of its malevolent power manifested when the doll shifted its position in the dimness of the room, a subtle yet unsettling metamorphosis. The changes were barely perceptible at first, but with time, they became as noticeable as they were disturbing.
A laughter emanating from its sealed lips, increasingly sinister with each repetition, echoed through the corners of the house, suffocating the peace that once reigned in that home. Unexplainable incidents plagued the tranquil family life, hinting at a terror that extended beyond the borders of human understanding.
As the doll unleashed its malevolent influence, nights in Saintpotden were tainted by a series of murders, a dark omen that plunged the town into a cloak of fear and bewilderment.
In this seemingly serene haven, hints of unsettling neighbors emerged. Kurt, Friedrich's enigmatic neighbor, displayed disturbing behaviors, casting suspicions on the connection between his strange conduct and the curse looming over the doll.
The conclusion loomed amidst sacrifice, forging a path to peace at an unfathomable cost. The culmination of this battle against the bewitched doll would unfold, leaving the people of Saintpotden with heavy hearts and a peace obtained at an unimaginable price. [more]
Keywords: Fiction Terror, Ghost, Occult & Supernatural, Thrillers / Suspense, Horror
$2.99
Maria Thermann
Inspektor Beagle ermittelt
Kurzgeschichten ohne Speck & Würstchen, aber mit viel Mord und Humor
- Short Story
- German
- 22880 Words
- Ages 16 and up
- 411
In drei spannenden Krimi Kurzgeschichten fahnden Inspektor Beagle und seine Kollegen mit viel Humor nach Bösewichtern, obwohl doch im Hintergrund die Welt in die Hose zu gehen scheint. Es ist 1941; in der Stadt Mumsgate an der Ostküste von England plagen sich die Einwohner mit unerwünschten Besuchen von Herrn Hitler & Co. herum, während Inspektor Beagle und Sergeant Beanstalk, Constable Roddy Winters und Polizeihund Monty von einer Serie von Morden geplagt werden. Ein reicher Lord ist plötzlich weg und niemand weint ihm eine Träne nach. Eine alte Frau scheint in Spionage verwickelt zu sein und wird abgemurkst. Ein Richter verliert erst seinen moralischen Standpunkt und später noch seinen Kopf. Wortwörtlich. Da krachen die Bomben und Gebäude fallen um, bevor man den Durchsuchungsbefehl geben kann. Der Dienstwagen wird zum Gemüsebeet umgewandelt, denn Benzin gibt’s ja ohnehin nicht mehr. Es mag zwar keinen Speck, Eier oder Würstchen mehr geben, aber was Inspektor Beagle angeht, wird’s nie an Gerechtigkeit und Menschlichkeit mangeln. In three humorous murder mystery short stories set against the backdrop of WWII Inspector Beagle and his colleagues try to uphold the law, while all around them the world is falling to bits. It is 1941; the town Mumsgate on the east coast of England is plagued by unwanted visits from Hitler & Co. Meanwhile, Inspector Beagle and Sergeant Beanstalk, Constable Roddy Winters and police dog Monty are plagued by a series of murders. A rich aristocrat vanishes without trace and nobody sheds a tear. A seemingly harmless old woman is brutally murdered in a baffling crime that leads to a German spy ring. A respected judge first loses his moral scruples and then his head. Literally. Bombs fall and buildings crumble before Inspector Beagle’s even shown his warrant card. His police car has run out of petrol and is turned into a vegetable patch. There may be no bacon, eggs or sausages, but as far as Inspector Beagle is concerned, justice and humanity will never be in short supply. [more]
Keywords: Krimi, Kurzgeschichte, Humor, Kurzgeschichten; Kriminalgeschichten
$1.49
Tarak Ghosh
SILENT SHRIEK
Monster Serial Child Killers of recent India
- True Crime
- English
- 24218 Words
- Ages 16 and up
- 200
These true crime stories about three serial child killers from recent India will scare you to the bone. They are the most brutal and sickening murders in modern times. They Killed children, raped their dead bodies and even ate their limbs by cooking. The truth is really strange and will totally make you gasp out.
So you may better get an insight into the mind of these devilish killers...
This book introduces you with the three Monster Serial Child Killers of recent India and their method of operation, their criminal activities and their psychology. This book also gives you the police investigation report, trial and punishment and how they managed to strike fear into the hearts of the laborers. One of them was Surinder Koli who killed girls and cooked their limbs.
He cooked a breast of the first women he murdered and ate it. He ate the arm of the second woman, the liver of his third victim.
Another killer Darbara Singh suffered from pedophilia and the third Ravinder Singh suffered from necrophilia. Both of them targeted the migrant laborers’ 3-8 years old children, abducted them and sexually abused the dead bodies after killing them brutally. Ravinder had been raping and killing minors since 2008 and only four out of his alleged thirty victims managed to survive.
During the period of 7 months (April to October 2004), twenty three children of non-Punjabi migrants, went missing from Jalandhar, India. Many of these children were sexually assaulted and 17 of them were killed by Darbara, six children managed to escape. Darbara also loved to rape the dead bodies. He was such a devilish killer that his family refused to claim his body after his death in 2018.
These true crime stories about three serial child killers from recent India will scare you to the bone. They are the most brutal and sickening murders in modern times. They Killed children, raped their dead bodies and even ate their limbs by cooking. The truth is really strange and will totally make you gasp out.
So you may better get an insight into the mind of these devilish killers...
This book introduces you with the three Monster Serial Child Killers of recent India and their method of operation, their criminal activities and their psychology. This book also gives you the police investigation report, trial and punishment and how they managed to strike fear into the hearts of the laborers. One of them was Surinder Koli who killed girls and cooked their limbs.
He cooked a breast of the first women he murdered and ate it. He ate the arm of the second woman, the liver of his third victim.
Another killer Darbara Singh suffered from pedophilia and the third Ravinder Singh suffered from necrophilia. Both of them targeted the migrant laborers’ 3-8 years old children, abducted them and sexually abused the dead bodies after killing them brutally. Ravinder had been raping and killing minors since 2008 and only four out of his alleged thirty victims managed to survive.
During the period of 7 months (April to October 2004), twenty three children of non-Punjabi migrants, went missing from Jalandhar, India. Many of these children were sexually assaulted and 17 of them were killed by Darbara, six children managed to escape. Darbara also loved to rape the dead bodies. He was such a devilish killer that his family refused to claim his body after his death in 2018.
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Keywords: true crime, serial killers, rape and kill, india, killers, murder, suspense, mystery, serial child killers, abduction, tarak ghosh, best non fiction, non fiction, non fiction murder
$2.49
Ronald Alexander Malloy
The Yonge Street Strip
- Drama
- English
- 165934 Words
- Ages 14 and up
- 525
A 40 Chapter, fast-moving drama centered within Toronto’s Downtown Core in the mid 1980’s; several years after the 1970’s Massage Parlor Era is phased out! As a consequence of mysterious deaths related to the Yonge Street Strip; its initial cause is mysterious! Initially defined as somewhat related to recent epidemics - but far more worrisome inasmuch as it evolves into a ‘Sudden-Death Syndrome’. Whatever it be its source; such symptoms appear to affect the more ‘street-wise’ generally-engaged in characteristic sub-cultural activities; perhaps even a release of ‘bad home-made drugs’?
The City Morgue soon contains several victims - many of whom are therein stored awaiting identification! Also rapidly rising so-close upon an “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome” the medical profession - fearing another potential epidemic - so as to avoid any potential public-oriented-panic - has a need for ‘secrecy’. During an all-out Nation-wide effort to identify the source, its potential dangers are ‘prematurely-released’. Authorities concerned over the consequence of there yet being another epidemic so close upon the heels of both the Hepatitis, Herpes and Aids scares, intending only to withhold incidents until some “Cause” can be discerned - an undesired effect sets in - the Media is alerted thereby inciting a series of clandestine activities.
Within these chapters there are several dramatic sub-plots featuring acts of ‘pure vengeance’ that escalate into a sequence of murders; in which violent confrontation among various ‘Constabulary’ levels also erupts.
Weaved into this intrigue is a major RCMP Drug Enforcement ‘under-cover investigation’ entirely-independent of Metro cops and which also becomes both hindrance and help.
Several colorful characters are built into this drama involving the Metro Police; featuring Arnie Fuller - a Uniformed Officer who develops a close association with Dr. Carl Sylinski - Medical Research Specialist; both share center stage as the book’s main characters. As the plot thickens, Fuller is mostly pitted up against his arch-foes - Homicide Detectives Joseph Mancuso and Detective Bruno Ferrani; in this exchange of both personal and professional personalities, Fuller often fares 2nd best.
Long before Epidemiologist, Carl Sylinski, can arrive at a solution to the mysterious deaths - the “Yonge Street Strip” gradually-becomes “Stripped” of patrons. The disease - one that will be given a title, cause and cure before the story ends - is defined as ‘an elusive microorganism continuously present within the human population’; and which can become ‘viral’ under certain conditions; it drawing its menace to humankind from a non-human reservoir becoming a ‘microbe’ able to ‘transmigrate’ to humans”! Sylinski, assisted by dedicated researchers across the U.S. and Canada eventually discovers the source; he then defines as a “chameleon virus”! Adding a touch of substance is a taste of ‘romance and tragedy’ - mixed within a wisp of philosophy. [more]
Keywords: cultural, epidemic, intrigue, mystery, drama, romance, sub-plots, police, murder
$1.49
William Harrison Ainsworth
Old Saint Paul's (Illustrated)
- Literary Collections
- English
- 193532 Words
- Ages 10 and up
- 177
One night, at the latter end of April, 1665, the family of a citizen of London carrying on an extensive business as a grocer in Wood-street, Cheapside, were assembled, according to custom, at prayer. The grocer's name was Stephen Bloundel. His family consisted of his wife, three sons, and two daughters. He had, moreover, an apprentice; an elderly female serving as cook; her son, a young man about five-and-twenty, filling the place of porter to the shop and general assistant; and a kitchen-maid. The whole household attended; for the worthy grocer, being a strict observer of his religious duties, as well as a rigid disciplinarian in other respects, suffered no one to be absent, on any plea whatever, except indisposition, from morning and evening devotions; and these were always performed at stated times. In fact, the establishment was conducted with the regularity of clockwork, it being the aim of its master not to pass a single hour of the day unprofitably.
The ordinary prayers gone through, Stephen Bloundel offered up along and fervent supplication to the Most High for protection against the devouring pestilence with which the city was then scourged. He acknowledged that this terrible visitation had been justly brought upon it by the wickedness of its inhabitants; that they deserved their doom, dreadful though it was; that, like the dwellers in Jerusalem before it was given up to ruin and desolation, they "had mocked the messengers of God and despised His word;" that in the language of the prophet, "they had refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears that they should not hear; yea, had made their heart like an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law and the words which the Lord of Hosts had sent in his spirit by the former prophets." He admitted that great sins require great chastisement, and that the sins of London were enormous; that it was filled with strifes, seditions, heresies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and every kind of abomination; that the ordinances of God were neglected, and all manner of vice openly practised; that, despite repeated warnings and afflictions less grievous than the present, these vicious practices had been persisted in. All this he humbly acknowledged. But he implored a gracious Providence, in consideration of his few faithful servants, to spare the others yet a little longer, and give them a last chance of repentance and amendment; or, if this could not be, and their utter extirpation was inevitable, that the habitations of the devout might be exempted from the general destruction-might be places of refuge, as Zoar was to Lot. He concluded by earnestly exhorting those around him to keep constant watch upon themselves; not to murmur at God's dealings and dispensations; but so to comport themselves, that "they might be able to stand in the day of wrath, in the day of death, and in the day of judgment." The exhortation produced a powerful effect upon its hearers, and they arose, [more]
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