The Teacup Poisoner

The Teacup Poisoner
Author: Fergus Mason
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-06-05
Genre: Poisoners
ISBN: 9781490368955

★★★ A page-turning true crime story ★★★ Graham Young had an unusual obsession from a young age. Where most youths might be interested in music and sports, Young was fascinated by poisons. By the age of 14, he was using his family (who, of course, didn't know) as experiments. In 1962, still a teen, his stepmother died from one of his poisoning experiments. Young eventually confessed to the murder of his stepmother and the attempted murder of several other members of his family; he was sent to a mental hospital for nine years, where he was ultimately released fully recovered. Unknown to the hospital, however, Young was actually using his time in the mental hospital to study medical texts and improve his poisoning skills. His true work as a poisoner had only just begun! This gripping narrative gives you a page-turning look at one of England's most notorious serial killers: Graham Young.

A Passion for Poison

A Passion for Poison
Author: Carol Ann Lee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2022
Genre: Large type books
ISBN: 9781444848366

In the summer of 1962, fourteen-year-old Graham Young stood in the Old Bailey dock charged with poisoning family members and a schoolfriend by methodically lacing their food and drink with such substances as thallium and antimony. Diagnosed with 'a psychopathic disorder', he was detained under the Mental Health Act and committed to Broadmoor, the youngest patient there since 1885. Nine years later, Graham was released, believed to be no longer a danger to others. He found employment at Hadlands, a photographic supplies firm. In his role as an assistant storekeeper, Graham's duties included collecting and serving his colleagues' morning and afternoon tea. Very soon, members of staff began falling ill, experiencing debilitating pain - and dying...

Affairs of Poison True Crime's Deadliest Poisoners

Affairs of Poison True Crime's Deadliest Poisoners
Author: Dylan Frost
Publisher: epubli
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2023-11-29
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 3758435552

Poison is a fairly popular method of murder in true crime history because it doesn't require brute force or a weapon of any kind. You can simply slip it in a cake or a drink. Anything you want. A lot of poisoners think they stand a much better chance of getting away with murder but this is a misguided view. It might be more complex to capture a poisoner than a mad axeman but the police tend to catch up with poisoners in the end. In this book we'll take a look at some of the deadliest poisoners in true crime history. What follows is a grisly gallery of heartless rogues who you definitely wouldn't want making the tea.

The Poisoner's Ring

The Poisoner's Ring
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2023-05-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250820049

A modern-day homicide detective is working as an undertaker's assistant in Victorian Scotland when a serial poisoner attacks the men of Edinburgh and leaves their widows under suspicion. Edinburgh, 1869: Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson is adjusting to her new life in Victorian Scotland. Her employers know she’s not housemaid Catriona Mitchell—even though Mallory is in Catriona’s body—and Mallory is now officially an undertaker’s assistant. Dr. Duncan Gray moonlights as a medical examiner, and their latest case hits close to home. Men are dropping dead from a powerful poison, and all signs point to the grieving widows... the latest of which is Gray’s oldest sister. Poison is said to be a woman’s weapon, though Mallory has to wonder if it’s as simple as that. But she must tread carefully. Every move the household makes is being watched, and who knows where the investigation will lead. New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong is known for her exquisite world building, and this latest series is no exception. The Poisoner's Ring brings the intricacies of Victorian Scotland alive as Mallory again searches for a 19th-century killer as well as a way home.

Sex, Lies, and Handwriting

Sex, Lies, and Handwriting
Author: Michelle Dresbold
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2008-07-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0743288106

Explains how to use handwriting analysis to interpret people's character traits, personalities, and backgrounds, and examines the handwriting of such dangerous individuals as Ted Bundy, Jack the Ripper, and Osama bin Laden.

The Parkhurst Years

The Parkhurst Years
Author: Bobby Cummines
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2017-05-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 147355067X

‘The next stage meant that there was no going back. An Irish prisoner stepped forward and slipped a blade into my hand. I felt the ice cold metal and pressed it against the governor’s cheek. I thought to myself: would they ever release me after this?’ Bobby Cummines was only 28 when he passed through the grim gates of Parkhurst, Britain’s Alcatraz, as a category-A prisoner with a host of crimes to his name. Joining the most notorious gangsters and criminals of the day – from the Krays, the Yorkshire Ripper and Charles Bronson, to high ranking members of the IRA – nothing could have prepared him for the brutal regime, violent convicts, vindictive screws and riots on the inside. It’s the story of Britain’s most hellish prison, from one of its hardest inmates.

Deadly Darlings

Deadly Darlings
Author: William Webb
Publisher: Absolute Crime
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2020-09-03
Genre: True Crime
ISBN:

★★★ The scariest children you'll ever meet ★★★ If you've ever thought your child was bad, then you haven't seen anything yet! In the pages that follow, you are about to meet some of the most vicious children who ever lived. The kids in this book are as young as ten-years-old and they are ruthless. The nice ones killed in cold blood—but many of these kids weren’t nice…they wanted their victims to suffer. Some were turned killers by their brutal home environments; others were just inherently evil. They were all deadly darlings you’d never want to meet on the street.

The Art of Murder

The Art of Murder
Author: Elaine Viets
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2017-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 045147614X

Originally published: New York: Obsidian, 2016.