In this book of amazing oddities, Jan Bondeson explores unexpected, gruesome, and bizarre aspects...

Known in Britain at least since the 1730s, Newfoundland dogs have been highly regarded for their ...

Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales-just think of The Premature Burial-may comfort themselves with...

One of the most notorious Victorian murders was committed by Dr George Henry Lamson, who stood tr...

This book makes use of a privately held archive of Illustrated Police News to describe strange, m...

New B-format paperback edition - This book features fifty-six Victorian murder cases from the fil...

When discussing unsolved murders of women in late Victorian London, most people think of the depr...

A century before Jack the Ripper haunted the streets of London, another predator held sway. In th...

The unusual tale of one of history’s earliest celebrity stalkers

Amazing Dogs tells the stories of some of the most extraordinary dogs in history.

A wry, compelling look at the mania surrounding the sensational case of the 'Monster' who terrori...

Which of London's most gruesome murders happened in your street? And were they committed by Jack ...

A successor to his popular book A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, this new collection of essays b...

WHEN JACK THE RIPPER first prowled the streets of London, an evening newspaper commented that his...

This book tells the full story of the Boy Jones, one of the first celerity stalkers in history

Explodes the myth of Edinburgh's Greyfriars Bobby.

Does this long-forgotten novel hold the key to the mystery of the Whitechapel Murders of 1888?

The complete collection of the famous postcard artist Phillimore's pictures of Edinburgh. It will...

Bondeson tells the stories of some of the most extraordinary dogs in history.

A historian's research skills combined with a physician's diagnostic flair, exploring our timeles...

R. P. Phillimore's East Lothian