From his offices at Basinghall Street in the City of London, Henry Slater presided over Britain's best-known private detective agency, king of all he surveyed. In the late Victorian era, and into the...
Between 2016 and his retirement in 2022, Assistant Garda Commissioner John O’Driscoll was the public face of Garda operations targeting organized crime. This put him at the center of a long-running...
‘Serial killers experience the power over life and death as omnipotence…When I interrogate a serial killer, I dive into the abyss of his soul.’From 1994 to 2000, when South Africa was a young...
Reflections from a Life Spent in Ireland's Criminal Courts
by Gillian Hussey
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780717192687
Publisher: Gill Books
Pub Date: 2022-09-15
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Gill Books
362 Pages
A fascinating insight into the career of one of Ireland’s first female judges, revealing the inner workings of Ireland’s criminal courts, exploring the changes in Irish society and sharing timeless truths learned from almost 20 years on the bench.
This book provides a detailed account of the men tasked with tracking down the most notorious thieves in British history. It examines the investigation in detail and asks how it would contrast with the methods used today should a similar incident take place.
Having become one of Canada’s first police detectives in 1882, Nicholas Power developed a reputation as the nation’s very own super sleuth, hailed in the newspapers as a homegrown 'Sherlock Holmes'.He...
The first full-length biography of Victorian detective Jerome Caminada, exploring his fascinating career fighting crime in 19th century Manchester's turbulent underworld.On 6 December 1886, Arthur Foster...
The trial of the year in 1950 was of Donald Hume, a North London petty thief accused of stabbing car dealer Stanley Setty to death, of cutting up his corpse and dropping his body parts from an aeroplane. The press and public were horrified and fascinated by the details.
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