Ruxton: The First Modern Murder 9781901514841, 1901514846

The First British Railway Murder

The murder in 1864 shocked the whole nation. On a busy London train on a humid summer’s evening, an elderly man, Thomas

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Ruxton: A Biography 1741142229, 9781741142228

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1688: The First Modern Revolution 9780300156058

For two hundred years historians have viewed England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689 as an un-revolutionary revolutio

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Murder, Inc.: The story of "The Syndicate" [First Thus ed.]

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The 'Perfect' Murder 9789814893565

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The Bookshop Murder 9781800196810

Bookshop owner Flora Steele escapes the sleepy English village of Abbeymead through the adventures in the stories she se

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The Subject of Murder: Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer 022600368X, 9780226003689

The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. But, since at least the nineteenth century, we ha

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The Murder Squad 9781922863836

Set against the backdrop of our greatest economic crisis, as the federal and state governments headed for a showdown and

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The Art of Cooking: The First Modern Cookery Book 9780520928312

Maestro Martino of Como has been called the first celebrity chef, and his extraordinary treatise on Renaissance cookery,

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The First Modern Japanese: The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku 9780231542234

A biography of Japanese tanka master Ishikawa Takuboku, who pioneered an unmistakably modern poetic style.

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