LIBROS DEL AUTOR: r michael gordon

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  • Murder Files from Scotland Yard and the Black Museum
    R Michael Gordon / R. Michael Gordon
    From the files of Scotland Yard’s 'Black Museum' (open only to police officers) come true crime stories of some of the most infamous murder cases of the 19th and 20th centuries--the Lambeth Poisoner, 'baby farmer' Amelia Elizabeth Dyer, the Gentleman Vampire of Bournemouth, the Brides in the Bath Murders, the Rillington Place murders and many others. Along the way, investiga...
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    42,63 €

  • The Infamous Burke and Hare
    R. Michael Gordon
    Body snatchers and grave robbers were the stuff of Victorian lore, but two real-life culprits took the crimes out of shadowy cemeteries and into criminal court. William Burke and William Hare aided Scottish surgeons competing for anatomical breakthroughs by experimenting on human corpses. As the duo evolved from petty theft to premeditated murder, they unwittingly brought at...
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    28,13 €

  • The Space Shuttle Program
    R Michael Gordon / R. Michael Gordon
    This critical study of NASA’s space shuttle program provides an in-depth examination of the events, decisions, and policies that may have contributed to the horrific destruction of the shuttles Challenger and Columbia. It first traces the early development of NASA’s shuttle program, specifically examining the problems associated with the designs of shuttles OV-099 (which was...
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    58,99 €

  • The Poison Murders of Jack the Ripper
    R. Michael Gordon
    Considered a primary suspect in the unsolved Jack the Ripper murders, Polish-born Severin Antoniovich Klosowski also gained considerable notoriety as 'The Borough Poisoner of Southwark' in the late 1800s. Within a span of five years, Klosowski took on three women as his wives and lethally poisoned each with deadly doses of antimony. This study of Klosowski’s murders of Mar...
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    43,94 €

  • The Thames Torso Murders of Victorian London
    R Michael Gordon / R. Michael Gordon
    The Thames Torso Murders have been overshadowed by Jack the Ripper and his crimes, but were just as brutal and gruesome. They began in 1887 in London’s East End, just north of the Thames River in Rainham, England. The killer took one victim that year, another in 1888, and two more in 1889. He resumed his crimes in 1902, taking his last victim south of the Thames and leaving ...
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    42,73 €

  • Alias Jack the Ripper
    R. Michael Gordon
    Over a century ago, a depraved killer skillfully moved through the dark and filthy slums of London’s East End. Despite the increasingly watchful eyes of investigators, the serial murderer--known as 'Jack the Ripper' from a signature on a piece of correspondence that has been attributed to him--was never certainly identified. R. Michael Gordon provides a comprehensive look at...
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    42,31 €