The disturbing, criminal history of Britain’s “World Capital City
of Pop”—home of murderers, thieves, bodysnatchers . . . and The
Beatles. The city of Liverpool, England, was like every other city
energized by the Victorian boon in industry and trade. It is best
known today as the home of the British Invasion and music that changed
the world. But Liverpool’s history has a less harmonious side, and a
dark past that reaches back centuries. True crime historian, Stephen
Wade, goes there. In Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Liverpool,
Wade reveals the city’s most shocking crimes: a notoriously deadly
duel in 1806; gang wars and the infamous nineteenth-century “Cholera
Riots”; a killer butcher and a terrorist bombing; grandma killers
and sinister sisters; swindlers and crimes of passion; poisonings,
bodysnatchers, and serial killers; a murderer who claimed to be
possessed by demons; and a terrifying hunt for the fiend behind the
Ripper murders. Wade invites readers into the shadowy backstreets of a
fabled city in this criminally fascinating chronicle of misdeeds,
madmen, and real-life mysteries.
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ISBN
9781783037414
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Wharncliffe Books (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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