The College Farm Mystery
The True Story of the Finchley Murder of 1898
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An intriguing true crime story set in Victorian England....
On a dark winter’s night in January 1898, the head cowman at the Express Dairy Company’s College Farm was shot dead. The picturesque dairy farm located on Regent’s Park Road in Finchley provided the unlikely crime scene. The victim, Thomas Webb, had no known enemies but eerily had predicted the shocking event.
Chief Inspector Henry Moore, one of Scotland Yard’s most experienced detectives, was assigned the difficult task of unraveling the mystery of the Finchley Murder. Previously he had led the investigation into the Whitechapel murders and had failed to identify Jack the Ripper. Approaching his retirement, did he succeed in bringing Thomas’ killer to justice?
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In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection. At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tragic Murder at dawn of detective bureau
- De Kindle Customer en 08-20-14
De: Kate Summerscale
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The Complete Jack the Ripper
- De: Donald Rumbelow
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 14 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 121
Laying out all the evidence in the most comprehensive summary ever written about the Ripper, this book, by a London police officer and crime authority, has subjected every theory - including those that have emerged in recent years-to the same deep scrutiny. The author also examines the mythology surrounding the case and provides some fascinating insights into the portrayal of the Ripper on stage and screen and on the printed page. More seriously, he also examines the horrifying parallel crimes of the Düsseldorf Ripper and the Yorkshire Ripper.
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3 out of 5 stars
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catch the facts if you can
- De Alexandra en 11-17-19
De: Donald Rumbelow
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The Invention of Murder
- How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
- De: Judith Flanders
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 19 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 94
Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama - even into puppet shows and performing-dog acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other - the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P. D. James and Patricia Cornwell.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent, awesome and educational!
- De Janalyn en 03-14-20
De: Judith Flanders
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Butcher's Work
- True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 119
A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. crime. A nineteenth-century female serial killer whose victims included three husbands and six of her own children. A Gilded Age “Bluebeard” who did away with as many as fifty wives throughout the country. A decorated World War I hero who orchestrated a murder that stunned Jazz Age America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another necessary work by Schector
- De Brandon en 12-27-22
De: Harold Schechter
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The Wicked Boy
- The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
- De: Kate Summerscale
- Narrado por: Corrie James
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 335
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 300
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 299
Early in the morning of Monday, July 8, 1895, 13-year-old Robert Coombes and his 12-year-old brother, Nattie, set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbors, and their mother was visiting her family in Liverpool. Over the next 10 days, Robert and Nattie spent extravagantly, pawning their parents' valuables to fund trips to the theatre and the seaside. But as the sun beat down on the Coombes house, a strange smell began to emanate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing True Story
- De Lisa Belle en 01-08-17
De: Kate Summerscale
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Hell's Princess
- The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,533
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,338
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,339
In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy of it. Between 1902 and 1908, she lured a succession of unsuspecting victims to her Indiana “murder farm". Some were hired hands. Others were well-to-do bachelors. All of them vanished without a trace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can a book about a serial killer be entertaining?
- De Lori Hanson en 05-08-18
De: Harold Schechter
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Murder, Misadventure and Miserable Ends
- Tales from a Colonial Coroner's Court
- De: Dr. Catie Gilchrist
- Narrado por: Emma Grant Williams
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
Most of us today rarely see a dead body. In 19th-century Sydney, when health was precarious and workplaces and the busy city streets were often dangerous, witnessing a death was rather common. And any death that was sudden or suspicious would be investigated by the coroner. Henry Shiell was the Sydney city coroner from 1866 to 1889. In the course of his unusually long career, he delved into the lives, loves, crimes, homes, and workplaces of colonial Sydneysiders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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very interesting and enlightening
- De Barbara J Allison en 08-29-19
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American Brutus
- John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
- De: Michael Kauffman
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 21 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 103
In American Brutus, popular historian Michael W. Kauffman delivers a history that reads more like a best-selling novel. This definitive masterwork dispels commonly held myths and reveals the truth about John Wilkes Booth. Luring Southern sympathizers into a “noble” presidential kidnapping, Booth stunned his puzzled pawns by murdering Lincoln. From Booth’s early life and acting career to his escape and death, this meticulously researched book re-examines it all using a wealth of primary sources.
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4 out of 5 stars
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informative
- De Sue Ogle en 11-27-20
De: Michael Kauffman
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Jack the Ripper and the Case for Scotland Yard's Prime Suspect
- De: Robert House, Roy Hazelwood - foreword
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 160
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 144
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 145
Dozens of theories have attempted to resolve the mystery of the identity of Jack the Ripper, the world's most famous serial killer. Ripperologist Robert House contends that we may have known the answer all along. The head of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department at the time of the murders thought Aaron Kozminski was guilty, but he lacked the legal proof to convict him. By exploring Kozminski's life, Robert House here builds a strong circumstantial case against him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A restrained and humane account
- De Tad Davis en 01-08-13
De: Robert House, y otros
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The First Family
- Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia
- De: Mike Dash
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
Before the Five Families who so notoriously dominated U.S. organized crime for a bloody half-century, there was the one-fingered, surpassingly cunning Giuseppe Morello and his murderous coterie of brothers. Born into a life of poverty in rural Sicily, Morello became an American nightmare, pioneering the bizarre initiation rituals, imaginative protection rackets, influential underworld reigns, and Mafia wars later popularized by countless books, television shows, and movies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The truth about the origins of the American mafia
- De J. Sovar en 01-09-13
De: Mike Dash
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Midnight in Peking
- How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
- De: Paul French
- Narrado por: Erik Singer
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 438
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 387
Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumors and superstition. The Japanese are encircling the city, and the discovery of Pamela Werner's body sends a shiver through already nervous Peking. Is it the work of a madman? One of the ruthless Japanese soldiers now surrounding the city? With the suspect list growing and clues sparse, two detectives - one British and one Chinese - race against the clock to solve the crime before the Japanese invade and Peking as they know it is gone forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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When history can be stranger than fiction
- De Jeremy en 01-04-13
De: Paul French
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The Italian Secretary
- De: Caleb Carr
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 584
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 309
The best-selling author of the Alienist series returns with a chilling elaboration on the Sherlock Holmes canon, as the famed detective investigates a pair of gruesome murders, which cast an otherworldly shadow as far as Queen Victoria herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A True Delight for the Holmes Enthusiast
- De Sagar en 06-03-05
De: Caleb Carr
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Ripper
- The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
- De: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrado por: Mary Stuart Masterson
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 870
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 755
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 752
Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert made a name for himself as a painter in Victorian London. But the ghoulish nature of his art - as well as extensive evidence - points to another name, one that's left its bloody mark on the pages of history: Jack the Ripper. Cornwell has collected never-before-seen archival material - including a rare mortuary photo, personal correspondence and a will with a mysterious autopsy clause - and applied cutting-edge forensic science to open an old crime to new scrutiny.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I thought this was a new book.
- De Stephanie en 03-01-17
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Manhunt
- The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
- De: James L. Swanson
- Narrado por: Richard Thomas
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,507
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 785
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 794
The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history, the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild 12-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia, while the nation, still reeling from the just-ended Civil War, watched in horror and sadness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating!
- De F. Elizabeth Hauser en 12-14-08
De: James L. Swanson
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Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- De: Edward Steers Jr.
- Narrado por: William Coon
- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 119
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is usually told as a tale of a lone deranged actor who struck from a twisted lust for revenge. This is not only too simple an explanation; Blood on the Moon reveals that it is completely wrong. John Wilkes Booth was neither mad nor alone in his act of murder. He received the help of many, not the least of whom was Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd, the Charles County physician who has been portrayed as the innocent victim of a vengeful government.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thrilling and informative
- De Sean en 06-21-12
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Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
- De: David Grann
- Narrado por: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22,825
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19,982
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19,938
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An outstanding story, highly recommended
- De S. Blakely en 06-22-17
De: David Grann
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The House of Silk
- A Sherlock Holmes Novel
- De: Anthony Horowitz
- Narrado por: Derek Jacobi
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,641
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,150
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,145
Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective in literary history. For the first time since the death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a new Holmes story has been sanctioned by his estate, whetting the appetites of fans everywhere. Information about the book will be revealed as deliberately as Holmes himself would unravel a knotty case, but bestselling novelist and Holmes expert Anthony Horowitz is sure to bring a compelling, atmospheric story to life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A disapointment
- De GP en 05-05-12
De: Anthony Horowitz