Murders of the Black Museum, 1875-1975: The Dark Secrets Behind More Than a Hundred Years of the Most Notorious Crimes in England - Honeycombe, Gordon
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New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police, houses the notorious Black Museum, a unique collection of exhibits, photographs, and other items connected with some of the most famous crimes of the last century. Fifty of those crimes were murders and they are explored in detail in this compelling book. Gordon Honeycombe was given privileged access to its darkest secrets of the place that was renamed The Crime Museum. His book spans a hundred years of murder, manslaughter, and attempted assassinations and reveals the true facts behind some of the U.K.'s most notorious…mehr

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New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police, houses the notorious Black Museum, a unique collection of exhibits, photographs, and other items connected with some of the most famous crimes of the last century. Fifty of those crimes were murders and they are explored in detail in this compelling book. Gordon Honeycombe was given privileged access to its darkest secrets of the place that was renamed The Crime Museum. His book spans a hundred years of murder, manslaughter, and attempted assassinations and reveals the true facts behind some of the U.K.'s most notorious murder cases, including Jack the Ripper, Dr. Crippen, and the Krays.
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Gordon Honeycombe's bestselling books include Neither the Sea Nor the Sand, Dragon Under the Hill, Adam's Tale, Red Witch, The Edge of Heaven and Royal Weddings. He has also written for television, the theatre, film and radio. An ITN newscaster for 12 years, Gordon Honeycombe was born in Karachi, British India, in 1936 and went to University College, Oxford. For two years he acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford and London. In 1984 he joined TV-AM as their chief newsreader and remainded with the company for five years. He starred in Suspects in Swansea in 1989 and toured in Run for Your Wife! with Les Dawson in 1990. He also appeared in Aladdin with Cilla Black.