New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police, houses the notorious Black Museum, a unique collection of exhibits, photographs and other items connected with some of the most famous crimes of the last century. Fifty of those crimes were murders and they are explored in detail in this compelling book. Recently renamed The Crime Museum the author Gordon Honeycombe was given privileged access to its darkest secrets. His book spans a hundred years of murder, manslaughter and attempted assassinations and reveals the true facts behind some of the country's most notorious murder cases, including Jack the Ripper, Dr Crippen and the Krays. This is the ultimate guide to the most incredible crimes ever committed, featuring contemporary photographs never seen outside Scotland Yard. • Closely researched and objective, this book is a fascinating guide to murder and a grim insight into the minds of those who practice it. Honeycombe takes an unflinching look at why people murder and asks important questions about this most appalling of crimes, execution and the law itself.
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Gordon Honeycombe. Murder of the Black Museum - The Dark Secrets Behind A Hundred Years of the Most Notorious Crimes in England
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
CHARLES PEACE
JACK THE RIPPER
FLORENCE MAYBRICK
MRS PEARCEY
DR CREAM
FREDERICK DEEMING
WILLIAM SEAMAN
MILSOM AND FOWLER
MRS DYER
RICHARD A PRINCE
SAMUEL DOUGAL
ALFRED AND ALBERT STRATTON
DR CRIPPEN
STEINIE MORRISON
MR AND MRS SEDDON
GEORGE SMITH
ALFRED BOWES
DAVID GREENWOOD
MAJOR ARMSTRONG
RONALD TRUE
FREDDY BYWATERS AND EDITH THOMPSON
PATRICK MAHON
NORMAN THORNE
JOHN ROBINSON
BROWNE AND KENNEDY
SAMUEL FURNACE
PARKER AND PROBERT
CHARLOTTE BRYANT
LESLIE STONE
EDWARD CHAPLIN
WILLIAM BUTLER
UDHAM SINGH
HAROLD TREVOR
GORDON CUMMINS
JONES AND HULTEN
JACK TRATSART
NEVILLE HEATH
JENKINS, GERAGHTY AND ROLT
DONALD THOMAS
HARRY LEWIS
JOHN HAIGH
DANIEL RAVEN
CRAIG AND BENTLEY
JOHN REGINALD CHRISTIE
JOHN DONALD MERRETT
GINTER WIORA
MICHAEL DOWDALL
GUENTHER PODOLA
ROBERTS, WITNEY AND DUDDY
REGGIE AND RONNIE KRAY
STANLEY WRENN
MUSTAPHA BASSAINE
ARTHUR AND NIZAMODEEN HOSEIN
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
APPENDIX C
APPENDIX D
AFTERWORD
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The author and publishers wish to thank the following: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office for permission to reproduce the 1980 criminal statistics (pp xii, xiii); George Walpole & Company, Official Shorthand Writers to the Central Criminal Court, London EC4, for permission to quote from trial transcripts; Times Newspapers for permission to quote from trial reports; Michael Joseph Limited for permission to quote from No Answer to Foxtrot Eleven by Tom Tullett (pp 246-55); and Harrap Limited for permission to quote from Executioner: Pierrepoint by Albert Pierrepoint (pp 283-87); Pierrepoint, A Family of Executioners by Steve Fielding, published by John Blake Publishing.
1 Charles Peace: The Murder of Arthur Dyson, 1876
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37 Neville Heath: The Murder of Margery Gardner, 1946
38 Jenkins, Geraghty and Rolt: The Murder of-Alec de Antiquis, 1947
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