Author : Daniel Smith
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 17,92 MB
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1782438475
The real-life mystery featuring the two men - Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn - who inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes.
Author : Alfred John Monson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Trials (Murder)
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Author : Martin Edwards
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1728267714
"Readers who know Scotland will glow with recognition; those who don't will want to pack their bags and maybe a gun." —Kirkus Reviews From the Highlands to the borders, the bustling cities to the remote isles in cold seas, the unique landscapes and locales of Scotland have long inspired writers of the very best Golden Age mysteries. Beginning with the adventures of Sherlock Holmes from Edinburgh-born Arthur Conan Doyle, this new collection includes the ingenious scientific mysteries of Anthony Wynne, the dark and sardonic work of Margot Bennett and contributions from neglected yet brilliant authors such as Scobie Mackenzie and R. T. Campbell.
Author : Daniel Smith
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1789297338
In 1893, young army officer Cecil Hambrough was murdered at the sprawling Ardlamont estate in Scotland, unleashing one of the most gripping court cases Victorian Britain had ever known. Even more remarkably, the case brought together two pioneering forensic experts - Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn - two men upon whom Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes happened to be based. It is their involvement in the Ardlamont affair that reveals how the world's most famous detective came to be: the worlds of crime fiction and crime fact were about to collide spectacularly. In this extraordinary book, Daniel Smith outlines the key roles of the two men whose powers of deduction had so inspired Doyle and explores the real-world origins of Sherlock Holmes through the prism of a mystery as engrossing as any case the Great Detective ever tackled.
Author : William Roughead
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 2000-08-31
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780940322462
Dorothy Sayers called William Roughead "the best showman who ever stood before the door of the chamber of horrors," and his true crime stories, written in the early 1900s, are among the glories of the genre. Displaying a meticulous command of evidence and unerring dramatic flair, Roughead brings to life some of the most notorious crimes and extraordinary trials of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and Scotland. Utterly engrossing, these accounts of pre-meditated mayhem and miscarried justice also cast a powerful light on the evil that human beings, and human institutions, find both tempting to contemplate and all too easy to do.
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Page : 640 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 1909
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Author : Henry Warburton
Publisher :
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Criminal law
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Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 17,64 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN :
Author : William Henry Hill
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Glasgow (Scotland)
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Author : Megan Richardson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108419690
With the inclusion of original and archival material, this book is a unique contribution to the history of the modern right to privacy. This book will appeal to an audience of academic and postgraduate researchers, as well as to the judiciary and legal practice.
