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MURDER CASEBOOK
MARSHALL CAVENDISH PARTWORK (1989 - 1993)
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Launched in 1989, Murder Casebook was a weekly partwork from Marshall Cavendish. At 150 issues, it was one of their longest running partworks (running for 3 years).
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SERIAL MURDERERS - omnibus - produced by Marshall Cavendish for W H Smith - published 1992. Features the full contents of 5 Issues - Peter Sutcliffe (Yorkshire Ripper), Dennis Nilsen, Charles Manson, Reginald Christie and David Berkowitz (Son of Sam)
MAGAZINES
1 The Yorkshire Ripper. PETER SUTCLIFFE: The man whose obsession lead to Britain's biggest ever manhunt
2 The Muswell Hill Murders. DENNIS NILSEN: He confessed and became the biggest multiple killer in British criminal history
3 The Sharon Tate Killings. CHARLES MANSON: The Californian cult leader whose followers killed for him
4 The Rillington Place Murders. JOHN CHRISTIE: The killer who allowed another man to be sent to the gallows in his place
5 The Boston Strangler. ALBERT DESALVO: Thirteen women died in his two-year reign of terror
6 The Acid Bath Murders. JOHN GEORGE HAIGH: The charming con man who murdered for greed
7 The White House Farm Murders. JEREMY BAMBER: The family inheritance killer who tried to commit the perfect crime
8 The College Girl Killings. TED BUNDY: A handome young man who roamed the USA in search of victims
9 The Mild-Mannered Murderer. DR CRIPPEN: The London doctor who killed for the woman he loved
10 Too Young To Be Hanged. CRAIG & BENTLEY: One shot a police officer and was jailed. The other surrendered and went to the gallows.
11 Crimes of Passion. RUTH ELLIS, THE SCARSDALE DIET CASE, BYWATERS & THOMPSON: Three tragedies where obsessive love led to violent death
12 The Son of Sam Killings. DAVID BERKOWITZ: The .44 calibre killer whose year-long rampage terrorized New York City
13 The Lord Lucan Mystery. RICHARD BINGHAM: The peer who vanished after the murder of the children's nanny
14 London's Godfathers of Crime. THE KRAY TWINS: They ruled over London's underworld using violence and fear
15 Three Crimes of Sadism. NEVILLE HEATH, PETER KURTEN, 'BLACK DAHLIA': They murdered for pleasure
16 The Black Panther. DONALD NEILSON: The post office killer who turned to kidnap to make his fortune
17 The McKay Kidnap. THE HOSEIN BROTHERS: Bungling kidnappers who turned to murder
18 The Hillside Stranglers. BIANCHI & BUONO: The cousins who left a trail of victims across the hillsides of Los Angeles
19 Death Wish in Utah. GARY GILMORE: The double killer who fought for the right to die
20 The Mystery of Deadman's Hill. JAMES HANRATTY: Vicious perpetrator of a senseless crime or victim of miscarried justice?
21 Rise and Fall of God's Banker. THE CALVI AFFAIR: Bozarre suicide - or ritual murder involving money, Masons and the Vatican?
22 America's King of Crime. LUCKY LUCIANO: The gangster who rose to the top of the Mafia and turned it into America's top industry
23 The Paperboy Killing. THE BRIDGWATER FOUR: Were they sentenced for a murder they could not have committed?
24 The Plainfield Butcher. EDWARD GEIN: The midwest psycopath who turned his farmhouse into a human abattoir
25 The Perfect Murder. THE WALLACE CASE: A true-life whodunnit in which the real killer remains unknown
26 Glasgow's Multiple Killer. PETER MANUEL: The Glasgow braggart who became Scotland's most notorious murderer
27 Chicago's Rich Kid Killers. LEOPOLD & LOEB: The wealthy prodigies who planned the perfect crime
28 The Lady Killers. LIZZIE BORDEN, STYLLOU CHRISTOFI, PARKER & HUME: Women who kept murder in the family
29 The Lyndbergh Kidnap. BRUNO RICHARD HAUPTMANN: The carpenter convicted of killing the son of an American legend
30 The Deadly Fantasist. DONALD HUME: The ingenious liar whose games led to murder.
31 The Evil Butler. ROY FONTAINE: The gentleman's gentleman who dished out death
32 All American Tragedy. DR SAMUEL SHEPPARD: The wholesome values that he stood for conspired to destroy him
33 Jack The Stripper. THE HAMMERSMITH NUDES CASE: The unknown sex fiend who preyed on prostitutes
34 Murder in Paradise. THE SIR HARRY OAKES CASE: The mystery of the tycoon and friend-of-royalty brutally slain in the Bahamas
35 Green Eyed Monsters. THE HAPPY VALLEY MURDER, THE RATTENBURY CASE, ELVIRA BARNEY: Three cases where all-consuming jealousy led to tragic consequences
36 Killer Couples. FERNANDEZ & BECK, GALLEGO & SMITH, THE BIRNIES: The masters and the slaves
37 Ordeal of Innocence. GEORGE INCE: The gangland figure whose face fitted a crime he could not have committed
38 The Rebel Killer. CHARLIE STARKWEATHER: The teenager who dreamt of becoming an outlaw
39 France's Public Enemy. JACQUES MESRINE: The swaggering bandit who killed for pride and vowed not to die in captivity
40 Eastbourne's Doctor Death. DR BODKIN ADAMS: Widow-killer or wronged man of mercy?
41 The Poisoners. MAYBRICK & SEDDON: Stealthy killers whose crimes left lasting mysteries
42 Killers Unknown. ANN CHAPMAN, HARVEY & JEANETTE CREWE, HENRY MORSHEAD: Three murder mysteries which have baffled the experts
43 The James Shepherd Killing. DAVID LASHLEY: The rapist who murdered out of sheer hate
44 The Fatal Triangle. HARRY THAW: To save his wife's honour, he gunned her lover down in a crowded theatre
45 The Luton Post Office Murder. COOPER, McMAHON & MURPHY: Three men convicted on the word of a man with a motive to lie
46 Wanted Dead or ALive. JOHN DILLINGER: The 1930s outlaw who blazed a trail of destruction across the USA
47 Death for Sale. JUDGE PEEL, MOTHER DUNCAN, CHILDS & MACKENNY: They traded in human life
48 The Savage Surgeon. DR BUCK RUXTON: The doctor who dismembered his wife and his children's nursemaid
49 Martyrs of Anarchy. THE SACCO-VANZETTI CASE: They were foreigners and radical, and so they were guilty of murder
50 France's Angel of Death. DR MARCEL PETIOT: The mass killer who claimed that his victims were wartime traitors
51 Scarface. AL CAPONE: The bootleg emperor whose scarred face bore the mark of violence, ruled Chicago during Prohibition
52 Suicide by Proxy. ROUSE, HEALEY & TETZNER: Three men whose desperation led them to flirt with suicide - but the lives they took were not their own
53 The Croydon Poisonings. MURDER AT BIRDHURST RISE: Did Grace Duff cold-bloodedly kill three members of her own family
54 Orgy of Killings. JOHN WAYNE GACY: The respectable businessman with a sinister, secret compulsion
55 Written in Blood. COLIN PITCHFORK, IAN SIMMS AND TIMOTHY SPENCER: Three vicious killers trapped by science
56 A Killing Love. BONNIE & CLYDE: Young and wild, their passionate love drove them to a frenzy of murder
57 The Modern Bluebeard. HENRI DESIRE LANDRU: He seduced and robbed dozens of women and sometimes - like the fairytale Bluebeard - he killed them
58 Murder in Hollywood. WILLIAM DESMOND TAYLOR, THELMA TODD: Two leading lights - a director and a screen idol - whose deaths shook Tinseltown
59 A Passion for Posion. GRAHAM YOUNG: The teenager whose interest in poison became a game of death
60 Mother Killers. STEVEN BENSON, SIDNEY FOX & SEAN SELLERS: Three men who committed the ultimate, unspeakable crime - matricide
61 Body in The Trunk - John Robinson, Tony Mancini, Winnie Judd: Three killers whose luggage concealed their grisly secrets
62 The Deadly Couple - Snyder & Gray: Adulterous lovers who brutally killed for profit and for passion
63 Mad Bad Bill - William Heirens: The Chicago teenager whose fetishism drove him into a frenzy of apalling savagery
64 The Atlanta Lynching - Leo Frank: The scapegoat for a crime that outraged the state of Georgia
65 Adultery and Arsenic - Armstrong, Greenwood, Waite: Three men in thrall to the Queen of Poison
66 Brides in the Bath - George Joseph Smith: He won the hearts of lovelorn women - then plunged them to their deaths
67 Who Killed Miss Gilchrist? - Oscar Slater: A case of mistaken identity that shamed Scottish justice
68 Blood on the Streets - Enemies of the State: Political refugees who shocked London with their violent crimes
69 The Barbaric Buccaneer - Donald Merrett: the flamboyant adventurer who dealt in diamonds, drugs and death
70 Badmen of the Wild West - Jesse James & Billy The Kid: The glamour of the Old West enshrines their dark deeds
71 Ritual Killings - Lower Quinton, Hagley Wood and the Labbe Case: the eerie and unnatural deaths of an old man, a mystery woman and a baby
72 Blackout Killers - Gordon Cummins, August Sangret, Karl Hulten: Three murderers who struck amid the chaos of war
73 The Baby Farmer - Gary Heidnik: He claimed that he wanted children. He stopped at nothing to get them
74 Sex Fiends - Harvey Glatman and Jerry Brudos: Two deviants who used women as toys, to dress up, undress - and discard
75 The Railway Killers - Duffy, Muller, Matuschka: Three men who made passengers their prey
76 The Grim Reaper of Paris - Thierry Paulin: He stalked the old women of Paris, bringing a sad and brutal end to their long lives
77 Canadian Killers - Peter Demeter and Evelyn Dick: When love died, so did their partners
78 High Priests of Death - Rev Jim Jones and Adolfo Constanzo - Cult leaders whose creeds involved sex, 'revolutianary suicide', and murder
79 Victims of Desire - Vicki Morgan, Dorothy Stratten & Robin Benedict: Their beauty drove men into a murderous frenzy
80 Killing Machines - Paul John Knowles & Harvey Carignan: Two serial murderers who cruised America's highways looking for victims
81 Summer of Slaughter - Richard Speck & Charles Whitman: An alcoholic and an ex-marine who both turned spree-killer - lashing out in the heat of '66
82 Monster of the Rivers - Arthur Shawcross: Released after serving a life sentence for child murder, he turned to killing prostitutes, leaving them in watery graves
83 The Vampire Killers - Tracey Wigginton & Lisa Ptaschinski: The lesbian lovers with a thirst for blood
84 Trial By Coroner - Philip Yale Drew & Evelyn Foster: Two classic cases of 'wilful murder by persons unknown'
85 She-Devil - Simone Weber: The 60-year old french housewife accused of poisoning her husband and slicing up her lover
86 Shots in the Dark - Marguerite Fahmy & Lock Ah Tam: Two exotic scandals of the 1920s that brought echoes of the mysterious East to British courtrooms
87 Above Suspicion? - Dr Jeffrey Macdonald: Why would the perfect all-American family man savagely kill his own wife and young children?
88 The Body Snatchers - Burke & Hare and H.H. Holmes: A medical interest in corpses led these infamous men into mass murder
89 The Lonely Head-Hunter - ED KEMPER: The American giant who obtained his ultimate sexual thrill from cutting the heads off his women victims
90 Australian Nightmare - Eric Edgar Cooke: A cat burglar whose random killings held Perth in a grip of terror
91 The Drowned Girl - Starr Faithfull: The Jazz Age beauty who suffered a sordid, secret life and a sad, violent end
92 The Avengers - Henriette Caillaux and Yvonne Chevallier: Two proud, passionate women who killed to protect their honour
93 Outback Outlaw - NED KELLY: The legendary bushranger whose daring and ruthless escapades made him the greatest Australian folk-hero
94 The Whisperings - Marie Besnard and Louisa Merrifield: The public condemned them long before they were brought to trial. But was it slander or was it true?
95 Mysteries of Motive - Thomas Ley and Ronald Light: The Chalkpit Murder and the Green Bicycle Case - two classic stories that continue to intighue the armchair detective
96 Starbabies - Cheryl Crane and Christian Brando: Two wild Hollywood children who briefly stole the limelight
97 Police Killers - Guenther Podola and Browne & Kennedy: Two famous cases in which small-time crooks tried to shoot their way out of trouble
98 Deadly Delusions - Ronald True and Reginald Buckfield: Two killers who took great care to be convicted of murder while proclaiming their innocence
99 Family Bloodbath - Ronald 'Butch' Defeo, James Ruppert and Harry De La Roche: Three sons who, high on drugs, massacred their own families
100 Tourist Trap - Gaston Dominici: A French peasant farmer who casually slaughtered an English family on holiday
101 The Night Stalker - RICHARD RAMIREZ: The sadistic kille whose two-year orgy of violence terrorized Los Angeles
102 The Candy Man - DEAN CORLL: With two henchmen, he preyed on the boys of Houston. He gained their trust, lured them to his home and raped and murdered them at his leisure
103 Death on Duty - Harry Roberts and Howard Wilson: Trigger-happy criminals who turned routine police work into a tragic bloodbath
104 Mothers on Trial - Alice Crimmins and Christine Villemin: Did they murder their own children simply to get revenge on their husbands?
105 A Woman's Weapon - Charlotte Bryant, Ethel Major and Violette Nozieres: Three women who resorted to poison to solve family crises
106 Handsome Devil - Eugen Weidmann: He was charming and good-looking. He was also a compulsive killer
107 Traces of Poison - Florence Bravo and Adelaide Bartlett: They shocked society with their love affairs, but did either woman actually murder her husband?
108 Unfinished Business - Cleveland's Mad Butcher and the Green River Killer*: Vicious serial slayers never brought to justice [*published before the capture of Gary Ridgway]
109 Left-Luggage Killers - Devereux, Singh and Goold: They despatched their victims in locked trunks, but the grisly contents refused to remain hidden
110 Alcatraz Breakout - Bernie Coy: His plan to break out of Alcatraz cost the lives of eight people, including his own
111 Deadly Duo of Sex Killers - John Norman Collins and Leonard Lake: Between them they killed more than 50 people; many of them have not been identified
112 Murder for Money - De Stempel and Von Bulow: A Baroness and a Baron were each charged with murder and acquitted, with a fortune at stake
113 Killers on the Shore - Patrick Mahon and Herbert Bennett: When a woman becomes a nuisance, murder may seem an attractive solution
114 Inner City Sadists - THE STOCKWELL STRANGLER and BIBLE JOHN: Two killers who exploited the cover of city life to prey on their helpless victims
115 Anarchist Gangsters - THE BONNOT GANG: A group of idealists who ruthlessly disposed on anyone who disagreed with their extremist views of society
116 Visions of Murder - HENRY LEE LUCAS and THE ZODIAC KILLER: A psycopath who confessed and unknown visionary claimed dozens of lives
117 Deadly Partners - Sheila Garvie and Ronald Cohen: A woman who, with her lover, was convicted of killing her husband, and a rich man who killed his wife
118 Imperfect Parents - Dale Cavaness and Marie Hilley: An American doctor who killed his two sons, and a loving mother who poisoned her husband and daughter
119 Bodyless Murders - Edward Ball, Michael Onufrejczyk and James Camb: Three murderers who felt safe because there was no corpse - but all were convicted
120 Murder and Mutilation - JEFFREY DAHMER: An American who killed 17 young men, chopped up their corpses and kept body parts in his home
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