The Case That Foiled Fabian
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The Case That Foiled Fabian
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Author : Simon Read
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2014-06-02
The Case That Foiled Fabian written by Simon Read and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-02 with True Crime categories.
On Wednesday 14 February 1945, the body of Charles Walton was discovered on the lower slopes of Meon Hill near the sleepy Warwickshire village of Lower Quinton, his torso pinned to the ground by a pitchfork. Myths and rumours soon swirled about the crime. Accounts claim Walton, a retired labourer and a lifelong resident of Lower Quinton, was believed by many to be a clairvoyant who could talk to birds and exercise control over animals. It has even been reported that many villagers attributed Walton's death to ritual witchcraft. But what is fact and what is fiction? The most famous police officer in Britain, Chief Inspector Robert Fabian, was promptly dispatched by Scotland Yard to solve this increasingly peculiar and foreboding mystery. 'Fabian of the Yard' was not a man prone to superstition and had dealt with some of the most notorious killers of his time – but there was something strange about the Walton murder. Did the clues point to ritual witchcraft as the modus operandi, or was the black magic angle merely a ruse? With the villagers unable – or unwilling – to shed light on the matter, Fabian faced, for the only time in his glittering career, the daunting prospect of failure. The Case That Foiled Fabian lays out for the first time what actually happened and distills the truth from the many myths about this case that are today mistaken for facts.
Dark City
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Author : Simon Read
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2019-04-09
Dark City written by Simon Read and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-09 with True Crime categories.
The blackout went into effect three days before the declaration of war and transformed nocturnal London into a criminal's paradise. As the city pulled together in the face of terrible adversity, the bomb-ravaged streets became the stalking grounds for killers, rapists, looters and gangs. The number of bodies retrieved during the Blitz made it impossible for the authorities to autopsy them all, providing cover to those who worked with blades, guns and more sinister tools. Scotland Yard – its resources stretched to the limit – did its best to tackle a rogues' gallery born of bombs and blackout, and crimes that continue to fascinate from history's darkest corners. In Dark City, award-winning crime writer Simon Read paints a vivid picture of the other side of wartime London, from the Blackout Ripper and the Acid Bath Murders, to the notorious Rillington Place killer and his house of corpses.
The Exorcist Effect
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Author : Joseph P. Laycock
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-11-07
The Exorcist Effect written by Joseph P. Laycock and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-07 with Fiction categories.
The Exorcist Effect examines the relationship between horror films and religious culture, focusing on the period from 1968 to the present. Films like Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Exorcist (1973), and The Omen (1976) claimed to be based on actual events, religious traditions, and Biblical texts. These films inspired subsequent beliefs and experiences, which became the basis for yet more horror films. This book draws on archival research to shed new light on such figures as Ed and Lorraine Warren and Malachi Martin, who inserted themselves into this cycle. It also incorporates interviews with horror authors, film writers, and paranormal investigators.
Argentine Perspectives On The Falklands War
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Author : Nicholas van der Bijl
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2023-09-14
Argentine Perspectives On The Falklands War written by Nicholas van der Bijl and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-14 with History categories.
A new assessment of the Falklands War from the Argentine perspective. In 1982, the United Kingdom and Argentina fought a war over an historical disagreement over the colonial “ownership” or rights over the Falkland Islands. Within months of the Argentinian defeat, General Edgardo Calvi, then the Argentine Head of the Army Joint Chief of Staff, was instructed to undertake a wide-ranging and formal inquiry to investigate the performance of the Argentine Army during the Falklands. Calvi concluded that while the Army had the motivation, it lacked the organization, equipment, training, and ability to oppose an army capable of operating in a variety of environments. The war exposed political, military, and public weaknesses in a period of considerable internal unrest during the seven years of the Dirty War. Several senior officers who fought in the Falklands were imprisoned for offenses committed during the Dirty War. Secrecy and political disagreements isolated the Service chiefs of staff from the logistic and operational planning. This book tells the story of the Falklands War from the Argentine Army perspective.
The Meon Hill Murder 1945
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Author : M J Trow
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword True Crime
Release Date : 2023-10-30
The Meon Hill Murder 1945 written by M J Trow and has been published by Pen and Sword True Crime this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-30 with True Crime categories.
In the closing months of the Second World War, an old hedger was found bludgeoned and hacked to death in a Warwickshire field. His name was Charles Walton and the place was the little village of Lower Quinton, under the shadow of Meon Hill. They called in the local CID; they called in Scotland Yard; they interviewed hundreds of people; they asked thousands of questions. But somebody wasn’t talking. The whole village was silent, as if someone had drawn down a blind. After the case was scaled down, the rumors remained. Was Meon Hill the center of a witches’ coven? And was old Charlie Walton, with his ability to talk to birds and toads and his magic watch, a witch himself? For eighty years, the supernatural has hovered over the murder of Charles Walton, with vague, haunted memories of secret rites and black dogs. Even the dead man’s grave has vanished. Rumor has been piled on innuendo, adding to the excesses of writers determined to make a supernatural mystery out of a very local tragedy, until the dead man himself has disappeared into a morass of hocus pocus. This is the first book to get past the nonsense, accessing original police files that say precisely nothing about witchcraft. Analyzing the facts from the time and removing the ever-more ludicrous layers of fiction, it gets as near to solving the mystery as we are ever likely to.
Spooky Archaeology
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Author : Jeb J. Card
language : en
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Release Date : 2018
Spooky Archaeology written by Jeb J. Card and has been published by University of New Mexico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Archaeology categories.
By exploring the development of archaeology, this book helps us understand what archaeology is and why it matters.
In The Dark
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Author : Simon Read
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2006-11-07
In The Dark written by Simon Read and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-07 with True Crime categories.
In February, 1942, a woman was found strangled in a London air raid shelter. Chief Superintendent Frederick Cherrill, head of Scotland Yard’s revolutionary fingerprint division, knew just how well the wartime blackout concealed crime. But this was a brutal, senseless killing with few clues, no apparent motive—and no sign of the terror to come. The nightly air raids had darkened London’s neon dazzle but not its urge to live it up. With death a daily possibility, drinks and sex were everywhere. But one man had other urges. Over a five-day period, he murdered with a lightning-fast ferocity that stunned and baffled investigators. Dubbed “The Blackout Ripper,” he left few clues in his bloody wake—until a slip-up revealed his true identity, and shocked a city that thought it had seen it all.
Dark City
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Author : Simon Read
language : en
Publisher: History Press
Release Date : 2019
Dark City written by Simon Read and has been published by History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Crime categories.
Dark City is the first book to explore how London became a criminals' paradise during the Second World War
Fabian News
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Fabian News written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Socialism categories.
Ideological Heritage Vol 2
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Author : William Howard Greenleaf
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-08
Ideological Heritage Vol 2 written by William Howard Greenleaf and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-08 with Political Science categories.
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.