Crippen

Crippen
Author: Roger Dalrymple
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2020-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783275081

How did the case of the 'mild mannered murderer', Hawley Harvey Crippen, come to have such an enduring cultural resonance?

Supper with the Crippens

Supper with the Crippens
Author: David James Smith
Publisher: Orion
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2010-11-25
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 140913413X

Edwardian London in 1910, the notorious tale of Dr Crippen and Ethel Le Neve re-investigated by a prizewinning journalist. At a time when Edwardian Britain seemed a golden place, basking in its imperial glory, Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen and his wife Belle lived among the suburban villas of North London, renting a house at 39 Hilldrop Crescent. After supper on 31 January 1910, their friends went home and Crippen killed Belle with poison, dismembered her body and buried some of her remains beneath the brick floor of the coal cellar. Crippen never admitted killing his wife and took the secrets of the crime with him when he was hanged, following his conviction for murder. It is assumed that Crippen killed for the love of his mistress, Ethel le Neve. They began living together as man and wife, but under intense suspicion they fled disguised as father and son. The chase - indeed everything about the murder - was reported in fine detail, in Britain, in America and the rest of the western world. Crippen was finally arrested and with Ethel was brought back to England for trial. David James Smith has investigated afresh this celebrated murder case, and his researches have uncovered unexpected and startling information about 'Chamber of Horrors' stalwart Dr Crippen, Belle and Ethel.

Death Diary

Death Diary
Author: Gary Powell
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2017-01-15
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1445665034

Gary Powell takes the reader through a year of crime and punishment in London, covering over 400 years of history.

Written in Blood

Written in Blood
Author: Colin Wilson
Publisher: Diversion Publishing Corp.
Total Pages: 997
Release: 2015-05-19
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1626818681

Extraordinary accounts of forensic crime detection—from poisoners in ancient Rome to modern day serial killers—by the bestselling author of The Outsider. In 44 BC, a Roman doctor named Antistius performed the first autopsy recorded in history—on the corpse of murder victim Julius Caesar. However, not until the nineteenth century did the systematic application of scientific knowledge to crime detection seriously begin, so that the tiniest scrap of evidence might yield astonishing results—like the single horsehair that betrayed the murderer in New York’s 1936 puzzling and sensational Nancy Titterton case. Many such dramatic tales appear in this updated edition of the most gripping catalog of crimes by acclaimed criminologist Colin Wilson. The book follows the progress of forensic science from the first cases of suspected arsenic poisoning right up to investigations using an impressive armory of high-tech methods: ballistic analysis, blood typing, voice printing, textile analysis, psychological profiling and genetic fingerprinting. “Colin Wilson has made himself the Philosopher-King of forensic speculation, the Diderot of the path labs.” —The Times Literary Supplement “Will enthrall connoisseurs of violent crime.” —The Glasgow Herald

Mr Crippen, Cora and the Body in the Basement

Mr Crippen, Cora and the Body in the Basement
Author: Matthew Coniam
Publisher: Pen and Sword True Crime
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2021-11-01
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1399009737

It was an 'open and shut' case. Hawley Harvey Crippen, an American quack doctor, had murdered his wife, the music hall performer Belle Elmore, and buried parts of her body in the coal cellar of their North London home. But by the time the remains were discovered he had fled the country with his mistress disguised as his son. After a thrilling chase across the ocean he was caught, returned to England, tried and hanged, remembered forever after as the quintessential domestic murderer. But if it was as straightforward as the prosecution alleged, why did he leave only some of the body in his house, when he had successfully disposed of the head, limbs and bones elsewhere? Why did he stick so doggedly to a plea of complete innocence, when he might have made a sympathetic case for manslaughter? Why did he make no effort to cover his tracks if he really had been planning a murder? These and other questions remained tantalising mysteries for almost a century, until new DNA tests conducted in America exploded everything we thought we knew for sure about the story. This book, the first to make full use of this astonishing new evidence, considers its implications for our understanding of the case, and suggests where the real truth might lie.

The Private Life Of Doctor Crippen

The Private Life Of Doctor Crippen
Author: Richard Gordon
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0755147146

Doctor Crippen's murder of his wife ranks among the most notorious crimes of the twentieth century. Richard Gordon skilfully recreates the chilling atmosphere of the murder - and how it shook respectable society to the core. Using the character as his case study, Gordon also reveals the conflicting suavity and savagery of the Edwardian age.

Doctor Crippen

Doctor Crippen
Author: Nicholas Connell
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2013-01-15
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1445620200

When Scotland Yard found the remains of Doctor Crippen’s wife under the cellar floor of their London home, a trial began that would fascinate and shock the world. In this carefully researched, gripping book, the whole remarkable story unfolds

Transactions

Transactions
Author: Congregational Historical Society
Publisher:
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1969
Genre: Congregationalism
ISBN:

Blood on the Stage, 1925-1950

Blood on the Stage, 1925-1950
Author: Amnon Kabatchnik
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 869
Release: 2010
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0810869632

In this volume, Amnon Kabatchnik provides an overview of more than 150 important and memorable theatrical works of crime and detection between 1925 and 1950. Each entry includes a plot synopsis, production data, and the opinions of well known and respected critics and scholars.