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One of the most notorious Victorian murders was committed by Dr George Henry Lamson, who stood trial in 1882 for poisoning his crippled brother-in-law Percy Malcolm John, he was found guilty, sentenced to death, and executed.

The ghoulish handiwork of nineteenth-century London - the rivals of the Ripper.

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Which of Edinburgh's most gruesome murders has happened in your street? And were they committed by Burke and Hare, by the Stockbridge Baby-Farmer, by the Demon Frenchman of George Street, by the Triple Killer of Falcon Avenue, or perhaps by one of the Capital's many faceless, spectral slayers

Jan Bondeson, M.D., focuses his medical expertise and insightful wit on the great unsolved mysteries of disputed identity of the last two hundred years. Did the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette really die in the Temple Tower, or did the Lost Dauphin reappear among the throngs of pretenders to the throne? And what does DNA testing reveal about the Dauphin's mummified heart? Who was Kaspar Hauser: an abused child, the crown prince of Baden,...

New B-format paperback edition - This book features fifty-six Victorian murder cases from the files of the Illustrated Police News.

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A successor to his popular book A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, this new collection of essays by Jan Bondeson illustrates various anomalies of human development, the lives of the remarkable individuals concerned, and social reactions to their...

Meet the Victorians in their strangest forms. After reading this book, your views on Victorian culture will change forever.

The complete collection of the famous postcard artist Phillimore's pictures of Edinburgh. It will appeal both to those who know and love Edinburgh and to postcard collectors.

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A historian's research skills combined with a physician's diagnostic flair, exploring our timeless fascination with the unusual and downright bizarre people, events and theories in the colourful history of medicine.

This book features fifty-six Victorian murder cases from the files of the Illustrated Police News.

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The truth behind the man who terrorized women on the streets of eighteenth-century London.

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Ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like facts, concerning the animal kingdom.

An interesting book that addresses 17th and 18th attitudes to deformities and stigma

This is the remarkable story of the lives of individuals afflicted with severe deformities and how 17th and 18th century British society reacted to their extraordinary bodies. Illustrated with woodcuts, engravings and oil paintings.