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Retracing the Ratcliffe Highway Murders, Part Two
Posted On: December 29, 2011Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
A young linen draper and his family are cruelly murdered at night in their home at 29 Ratcliffe Highway in Wapping. Twelve days later, a publican and members of his household are slaughtered in similar fashion, just half a mile away. Paul Bonner’s amazing maps follow the murderous events of 200 years ago this month…
Read More...The Ratcliffe Highway Murder Maps, Part One
Posted On: December 23, 2011Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
A young linen draper and his family are cruelly murdered at night in their home at 29 Ratcliffe Highway in Wapping. Twelve days later, a publican and members of his household are slaughtered in similar fashion, just half a mile away. Paul Bonner’s amazing maps follow the murderous events of 200 years ago this month…
Read More...Retracing the Ratcliffe Highway Murders, Part One
Posted On: December 21, 2011Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
Between now and the end of December, retrace the locations of the notorious 1811 Ratcliffe Highway Murders, described in P. D. James & T. A. Critchley’s The Maul and the Pear Tree, with The Gentle Author from the Spitalfields Life blog. And, read on for details of the Ratcliffe Highway Murder Walk…
Read More...An extract from The Maul and the Pear Tree, by P.D. James and T. A. Critchley
Posted On: December 14, 2011Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Faber
December 1811, a young linen draper and his family were cruelly murdered at night in their home at 29 Ratcliffe Highway in Wapping. Twelve days later, a publican and members of his household were slaughtered in similar fashion, just half a mile away …
Read More...Enter to win an advance copy of Eat Him If You Like [closed]
Posted On: October 10, 2011Posted In: Competitions
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
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Enter to be one of three winners to take home an advance copy of Jean Teule’s upcoming book, Eat Him If You Like.
Read More...Eat Him If You Like
Posted On: October 6, 2011Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
Read an extract from Eat Him If You Like, a cannibalistic story based on real events in nineteenth-century France. Due to come out from Gallic 1 November.
Read More...Judas Pig remembered…
Posted On: April 6, 2011Posted In: Articles
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
In a special extended review-reminiscence, Bookgeeks’ Mike Stafford recalls real-life criminal Horace Silver’s fictionalised career, Judas Pig.
Read More...Douglas Starr on Killer of Little Shepherds
Posted On: March 18, 2011Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Douglas Starr, author of The Killer of Little Shepherds, discusses how real life crime-fighters managed to solve crimes before modern technology.
Read More...The Martin Edwards Column: The invention of murder
Posted On: March 14, 2011Posted In: The Martin Edwards Column
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
Crime novelist, editor and commentator Martin Edwards looks at how true crime can inspire the best of fictional works in the latest of his exclusive columns for Bookdagger.
Read More...November crime round-up
Posted On: November 17, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
A selection of the best in new crime fiction and non-fiction from the Bookdagger publishers for the eleventh month featuring new novels from new and established authors, and re-printed true-crime investigative classics.
Read More...Criminal Profiling and Serial Murders: The Theory Behind Investigations
Posted On: November 1, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Chris Carter, author of The Crucifix Killer and The Executioner, looks at the psychological make-up of the serial killer.
Read More...Nicolai Lilin interviewed
Posted On: September 16, 2010Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Canongate
Set in a small and tight-knit community of ‘honest criminals’ in a remote part of Russia, Siberian Education is a tale of an extreme boyhood – exotic, violent and completely unique. Author Nicolai Lilin answers questions put to him by Bookdagger readers.
Read More...A little too much irony
Posted On: July 3, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Craig Robertson on the differences between the harrowing facts of the Cumbria shooting and the plotted fiction of his serial killer thriller Random.
Read More...Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade
Posted On: June 4, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
Drug smuggler turned author and campaigner for legalisation of cannabis Howard Marks introduces the new edition of Snowblind. the story of the legendary Zachary Swan, a mover in the cocaine trade in the sixties who set the standard for all who followed.
Read More...Siberian education, according to Nicolai Lilin
Posted On: May 13, 2010Posted In: Extracts, Interviews, Video
Publisher: Canongate
Nicolai Lilin was born in 1981 and grew up in the small republic of Transnistria which declared its independence from Moldova in 1990 but has never been recognised. In this video, Lilin tells us more about his experiences in Siberian Education, his memoir of growing up in a society of ‘honest criminals’.
Read More...The Bookdagger Author Panel: Crime
Posted On: June 29, 2009Posted In: Author panels
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
We asked three very different crime writers to share their thoughts on the modern crime, and give us their responses to each other’s answers, with some intriguing results.
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