Greater Manchester Murders

Greater Manchester Murders
Author: Alan Hayhurst
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2012-02-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0752483854

Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in the history of Greater Manchester. They include the case of cat burglar Charlie Peace, who killed 20-year-old PC Nicolas Cock in Seymour Grove, and only confessed after he had been sentenced to death for another murder; the sad tale of William Robert Taylor, whose young daughter was killed in a boiler explosion and who, later, desperate and in debt, murdered his landlord as well as his three remaining children; Jack Jackson, who escaped from Strangeways Gaol by killing a prison warder while mending a gas pipe for the prison matron; and the death of Police Sergeant Charles Brett, who stuck bravely to his post despite an armed attack on his prison van by the 'Manchester Martyrs.'

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Manchester

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Manchester
Author: Martin Baggoley
Publisher: Wharncliffe
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1903425654

Martin Baggoley was born in Eccles . He spent several years working in London and Salford as a civil servant, before qualifying as a probation officer in 1976. Since then, he has worked in the Greater Manchester area, and during this period gained a masters degree in criminology. He has written for a number of UK and American professional journals on criminal justice issues. His main interest is the history of crime and punishment and for this book, he has combind his professional experience and academic expertise with his interest in local history.

Lured to Their Deaths

Lured to Their Deaths
Author: John Scheerhout
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-07
Genre: Police murders
ISBN: 9781908695185

When PCs Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone attended a routine morning call in September, 2012, a brutal tragedy unfolded that shocked and saddened a nation. Lying in wait for them was Dale Cregan - the one-eyed fugitive already being hunted by police for a previous double murder. He mercilessly gunned down the defenceless officers with a hail of bullets before handing himself in. Manchester Evening News crime reporter John Scheerhout followed the case from the start to finish. This is his inside account of what triggered Cregan's bloodlust and how the city's underworld imploded during a black summer of guns and grenades.

Murder at the Manchester Museum

Murder at the Manchester Museum
Author: Jim Eldridge
Publisher: Allison & Busby Ltd
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2020-01-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0749024542

1895. Former Scotland Yard detective Daniel Wilson, famous for working the notorious Jack the Ripper case, and his archaeologist sidekick Abigail Fenton are summoned to investigate the murder of a young woman at the Manchester Museum. Though staff remember the woman as a recent and regular visitor, no one appears to know her and she has no possessions from which to identify her.When the pair arrive, the case turns more deadly when the body of a second woman is discovered hidden in the depths of the museum. Seeking help from a local journalist, Daniel hopes to unravel this mystery, but the journey to the truth is fraught with obstacles and the mistakes of the past will not be forgotten ...

The Manchester Murders Books One to Three

The Manchester Murders Books One to Three
Author: Pamela Murray
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 714
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504071212

The first three mysteries in the compelling police procedural series set in gritty Northern England. Murderland DI Joe Burton and DS Sally Fielding are called to investigate a suspicious death in a care home—and soon more bodies are discovered, with playing cards placed beside them. With the press closing in, they have no choice but to call in a criminal profiler to untangle the killer’s motive. Bloodline The murder victim lying in the doorway looked like a homeless man—but in fact, he was an undercover cop who’d traveled all the way from London. But now his DNA has been linked to cold case—and Burton and Fielding must untangle a web of lies . . . Duplicity Hannah Sanderson, recently retired from the force, has noticed that a series of deaths in Manchester resemble the work of a popular crime novelist. Even more shocking, the death of DS Fielding’s father from a heart attack may be connected to the mystery . . .

Manchester Murders and Misdemeanours

Manchester Murders and Misdemeanours
Author: Adrian and Dawn L. Bridge
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2023-06-15
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1398114561

This collection of true life crime stories gives a vivid insight into life in Manchester in the past.

Brady and Hindley

Brady and Hindley
Author: Fred Harrison
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1504036751

The shocking true crime story of child murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Great Britain’s most horrific serial killers. During the early 1960s, just as Beatlemania was exploding throughout the United Kingdom, a pair of psychopathic British killers began preying on the very young, innocent, and helpless of Greater Manchester. Between 1963 and 1965, Ian Brady and his lover and partner, Myra Hindley, were responsible for the abduction, rape, torture, and murder of five young victims, ranging in age from ten to seventeen years old. The English press dubbed the grisly series of homicides “the Moors Murders,” named for the desolate landscape where three of the corpses were eventually discovered. Based in part on the author’s face-to-face prison interviews with the killers, Fred Harrison’s fascinating and disturbing true crime masterwork digs deeply into Brady and Hindley’s personal histories to examine the factors that led to their mutual attraction and their evolution into the UK’s most notorious pair of human monsters. It was during these interviews that new details about the killers’ terrible crimes surfaced, compelling the police to reopen what was arguably the most shocking and sensational homicide case in the annuls of twentieth-century British crime. With a new introduction by the author, meticulously researched and compellingly written, Brady and Hindley is the definitive account of Britain’s most hated serial killers.

Crime City

Crime City
Author: Joseph O'Neill
Publisher: Milo Books Ltd
Total Pages: 289
Release:
Genre: History
ISBN:

MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS 'A rollicking tale packed with characters and incident.' IRISH POST 'Fascinating.' FAMILY HISTORY MONTHLY 'A thought-provoking history and sociology punctuated by passages that would grace a well-written thriller.' YOUR FAMILY TREE 'A a great collection of stories and fascinating social history.' ANCESTORS MAGAZINE 'A masterly survey.' Product Description Victorian Manchester was once described as a 'city of two classes', a rogue's paradise where vast wealth sat beside grinding poverty. It was unique, and so was its underworld. Historian Joseph O'Neill recreates the sights, sounds and smells of a lost milieu in all their fascinating detail. He chronicles the era's crooks, cracksmen, pimps, prostitutes, conmen, garrotters and bareknuckle fighters, and the gin palaces, dance halls and cheap brothels that were as much a part of Manchester as giant cotton mills. . Here are legendary detective Jerome Caminada, the super-criminal Charlie Peace, street gangs like the Bengal Tigers, and myriad other characters like One-Armed Dick, the infamous fence, all denizens of a time when brutality was commonplace and death lurked down every alley.

Manchester Vice

Manchester Vice
Author: Jack D. McLean
Publisher: Next Chapter
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2022-02-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

After a dramatic change in character, a rather usual middle-aged man begins carrying out a series of rather unusual murders. Meanwhile Brad Shape, a crime beat reporter for the Manchester Daily News, is looking for the big scoop to revive his flagging career - and his crumbling marriage. But when he finds one of England's most notorious serial killers, it will be Brad's biggest break... in more ways than one. Note: this taut, edge-of-your-seat thriller contains graphic violence, and is not for the faint of heart. You've been warned.

Murders in Manchester: 1890-1899

Murders in Manchester: 1890-1899
Author: Joseph Hilditch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2016-06-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781326722074

Manchester of the late C19th was a grisly and challenging place to live. The slums of the city were rife with crime, and the very worst of those crimes are detailed in this book.