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  Daddy's Little Secret - A...

  Denise Wallace

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  The true crime story of a father’s murder and a daughter’s discovery of his Jekyll-and-Hyde double-life in pursuit of his killer. Denise Wallace had spent years hiding deadly secrets about her enigmatic father, Wesley Wallace. Wes was a trusted security guard of the Ritz Carlton Palm Beach. He was supposed to protect those who found themselves in his care. But a closer look into his brutal murder revealed a split personality—one that his daughter may have seen but tried to ignore. However, detectives assigned to the case persuaded her to assist them in the capture of her father's killer. The trail would lead from the glitz of Palm Beach to the murky streets of Dixie Highway and end in a courtroom where her father's secret life, and his dangerous penchant for sex slaves, would be revealed.“An engrossing true story about alternative lifestyles, domination, hidden secrets and a late night murder.”—John Ferak, bestselling author of Failure of Justice

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  Without Trace – Ireland's...

  Barry Cummins

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  Without Trace is an informative and heart-stopping read by Barry Cummins, the bestselling author of Missing, back with more cases of Ireland's disappeared — men, women and children who have vanished without trace while going about their normal lives.
  
  What happened to two young boys who vanished in Belfast while waiting for a bus in 1974? Where is Trevor Deely, last seen walking in Dublin in December 2000? What happened to Dutch woman Leidy Kaspersma, last seen walking in Co. Kerry on a summer's day in 1978? In Without Trace Barry Cummins profiles these and other cases of people who have vanished across Ireland in the last four decades.
  
  He also explores dozens of cases of unidentified bodies which lie in graveyards and morgues from Donegal to Wexford. He examines ongoing efforts to find the bodies of IRA victims buried in secret graves in Monaghan, Meath and Louth, and delves into the cases of people abducted, murdered and secretly buried by Ireland's criminal gangs.
  
  And there are many other types of cases in this intriguing book, from a twenty-year campaign by the family of one missing woman to get answers about her case, to the amazing story of one missing Irishman's return 'from the grave' in England.
  Without Trace: Table of Contents
  
  - Predator
  - IRA Disappeared
  - Hidden Bodies
  - Two Boys
  - Unidentified Bodies
  - For the Record—Priscilla Clarke
  - Missing in Kerry
  - Trevor
  - Mystery in Mayo
  - Limerick's Missing Men
  - Missing from Darndale
  - Failure to Find Bodies
  - Stranger than Fiction

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  The Murder That Defeated...

  Paul Stickler

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  A real-life murder mystery in turn-of-the-century London, and Scotland Yard’s “greatest detective of all time” who was determined to discover whodunit.   By 1919, Det. Chief Inspector Fred Wensley was already a legend, having investigated the Jack the Ripper slayings, busted crime syndicates, and risked his life at the notorious Siege of Sidney Street. But the brutal murder of kindly fifty-four-year-old widow and shopkeeper Elizabeth Ridgley was an unexpected challenge in a storied career.   Elizabeth and her dog were both found dead in her blood-spattered shop in Hitchin. But even in the early days of forensics, Wensley was stunned by the inept conclusion of local Hertfordshire police: it was a freak, tragic accident that had somehow felled Elizabeth and her Irish terrier. At Wensley’s urging, Scotland Yard proceeded with a second investigation. It led to the arrest of an Irish war veteran. The only real evidence: a blood-stained shirt. But the Ridgley case was far from over.   Drawing on primary sources and newly-discovered material, Paul Stickler exposes the frailties of county policing in the years after WWI, reveals how Ridgley’s murder led to fundamental changes in methods of investigation, and attempts to solve a seemingly unsolvable crime.

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  Poisoning the Pecks of Grand...

  Tobin T. Buhk

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  “Traces the footsteps of poisoner Arthur Waite from his marriage to Clara Peck . . . in 1915 to his death by electrocution at Sing Sing Prison in 1917” (MLive.com).   With his boyish good looks, Arthur Warren Waite charmed into marriage the daughter of wealthy Grand Rapids business tycoon John E. Peck in 1916. He then wasted no time executing what he believed to be a flawless scheme to hijack his wife’s inheritance. The plot went awry when a mysterious telegram set off a sequence of events that ultimately exposed his immoral ambition to poison all other Peck heirs. Follow Waite’s fingerprints of indiscretion around Grand Rapids and New York City as author Tobin T. Buhk details this audacious plan of staggering complexity.   Includes photos!   “Follow Waite’s trail around Grand Rapids and New York City as the author, Tobin Buhk details his complex plan meant to make him a rich man.” —Holland Sentinel

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  Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths...

  Kevin Turton

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  Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Nottingham' is part of the new established series by Wharncliffe Books. Covering the period 1830 –1950, the book examines murder and suspicious deaths in and around the city of Nottingham and what impact they had on the people of the city.Murder, mystery and suspicious deaths are often considered to be the province of the fiction writer. However, each story contained within 'Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Nottingham' is a true account of real events that had a serious impact upon all the lives of those involved. These are stories that once shocked, horrified and captivated, the people of Nottingham as they followed the unfolding events through the pages of the newspapers that hit their doormats each evening. From the strange and macabre to murder and mystery this book examines those cases. Analysing both motive and consequence alongside the social conditions prevalent at the time. It is a fascinating insight into a less well known period of Nottingham's past.Take a journey into the darker and unknown side of your area as you read 'Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Nottingham'.

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  Lifers - Ireland's evil killers...

  Barry Cummins

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  There have never been so many killers in Irish prisons.
  
  Nearly 1 in 10 Irish prisoners are serving life sentences for murder — and many more are on temporary release.
  
  Hardened crime reporter Barry Cummins tells the shocking true stories of some of Ireland's most notorious murderers and their horrific crimes. Lifers covers savage killings going back more than 50 years. This book gives a full account of these depraved crimes, through the investigation, trial and sentencing of the killers to life in prison.
  
  They include:
  - Father-of-five John Crerar, convicted on DNA evidence from a semen sample 23 years after he brutally raped, battered and strangled an innocent young woman who had been out Christmas shopping;
  - Mark Nash, who stabbed a couple to death in a frenzied attack and seriously assaulted another woman in a house where six children lay sleeping;
  - Brian Willoughby, who jumped and danced on his teenage victim's head, while out on bail for three horrific random assaults on men in Dublin city.As this harrowing but compelling book shows, the criminals may not get away with murder, but it's the victims' families who really suffer a life sentence.

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