Published Books
Return of the Ripper? The Murder of Frances Coles
This is the story of Frances Coles. Seen by many as the last Jack the Ripper murder. But is that true? Was Frances Coles his ...
Britain’s Unsolved Murders
Tells the stories behind thirteen of Britain’s most baffling murders, two from Scotland; the Madeleine Smith case of 1857, made into a Hollywood movie, Madeleine ...
Northampton in the Great War
No murder here- this is a history book and one I greatly enjoyed writing. It tells the story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in ...
Northamptonshire at War 1939-45
This follows on where the Great War ended. A book designed to show how the county had learned lessons from the First World War and ...
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and around Bedford
Sixteen historical cases between 1842-1961 covering the whole of the county starting at Wrestlingworth with the double murder of Jonas Mead and William Dazley (1842), ...
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths around Leicester
Eighteen historical cases ranging from 1853-1953 including the mysterious shooting of James Gray Lowe on a train in 1886 and, of course, the now famous ...
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & around Rotherham
Seventeen cases, a mix of solved and unsolved murders beginning with the highway robbery of John Whitaker (1856); the killing of Samuel Barker (1904); the ...
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Nottingham
Sixteen cases between 1937-1951 covering most of the county from the four child murders at Basford (1837); the strange shooting of Catherine Cross at Hyson ...
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Derby
Twenty-one cases ranging from the poisoning of Jane Grant (1818) to the killing of Ivy Warner (1951). Covering the county, it is again a mix ...
Warwickshire Murders
Twenty-one cases, not all solved, ranging from 1832-1958. The book includes the IRA bombing of Coventry in 1939; the fascinating case at Lower Quinton that ...
A Grim Almanac of South Yorkshire
Intended to read as a diary with 365 historical factual events, one for every day of the year. All truthful accounts of past events that ...
Northamptonshire Murders
Again, a mix of solved and unsolved cases covering 1850-1952, starting with the unsolved murder of Lydia Atley, 1850 at Ringstead, the book covers 14 ...
A Grim Almanac of Nottinghamshire
As with the Almanac of South Yorkshire this too tells a story of the past over 365 days and covers key events over some three ...