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tables, catalogue concordances, typological charts and bibliography. 480 pages with 711 illus in b/w and 14 in colour.


£45 NOW £7.50 68972 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF


FURNITURE by Frederick Litchfield A monumental, now classic tome. Here are the Middle Ages, encompassing 1,000 years from the fall of Rome to the 14th century, when the chair, the buffet and the dressoir were developed. Next is the Renaissance with its high-backed leather chairs and the Great Bed of Ware. Then comes the Jacobean age of settles, couches, presses, oak work chimney-pieces and panelling. The chapter on furniture of Eastern Countries shows the dexterity of the Chinese in manipulating wood, ivory and stone. The Georgian period that follows highlights famous names - Chippendale, Heppelwhite, Sheraton and the introduction of mahogany. The 19th century is split in two, with the second part focusing on the Great Exhibition, the V&A Museum and art nouveau. 459 very large pages, lavishly illus in b/w with lists of artists and manufacturers of furniture. £25 NOW £13


CRIME


The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want. Men do not become tyrants so as not to suffer cold.


- Aristotle 70462 THE DEVIL AND


SHERLOCK HOLMES by David Grann


Subtitled Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession, here are 12 great real-life mysteries. Although Sherlock Holmes is the subject of just one of these mesmerising stories, all 12 are intriguing - a Polish detective trying to determine whether an author planted clues to a real murder in his post-modern


novel; an arson investigator racing to prove whether a man about to be executed is innocent; and scientists stalking a sea monster. All these tales are true. The protagonists are mortal and pieces of the puzzle often elude them. Some characters are driven to deception and murder and others go mad. In one story we enter the secret world of sand hogs digging water tunnels under New York City or the riddle of an ageing but ageless baseball star. As Holmes said, ‘Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.’ Some of the tales like the city who fell in love with the mob, called Crime Town USA have a distinctly US flavour. 338pp in paperback. £12.99 NOW £4


70711 A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH: Inside the Hidden World of the Pathologist


edited by Sue Armstrong For those who watch crime series on TV, pathology is to do with cutting up dead bodies to find out who stabbed or poisoned them. Not so, or not exclusively so. Pathology is now also the cornerstone of modern medicine. It is the science


that has progressively replaced the myth, magic and superstition of traditional beliefs. Pathologists are vital members of the clinical team, responsible for around 70% of all diagnoses in the UK National Health Service today. It is they who determine exactly what kind of cancer a patient is suffering from and what stage a tumour has reached, they who are responsible for recognising new diseases such as AIDS, SARS and bird flu when they first appear in a population, they who identify the bacterium, virus or other organism responsible for an outbreak of infection in a community and they who will be tasked with investigating why a seemingly healthy baby dies soon after birth. This enlightening book profiles some of the world’s most eminent and pioneering pathologists, telling awesome stories of mysterious illnesses and miraculous scientific breakthroughs. It is also crammed full of extraordinary characters, from the forensic anthropologist with his own Body Farm in Tennessee to the doctor who had a heart- and-lung transplant and ended up using her own lungs for research. 375 compelling paperback pages. £12.99 NOW £4


67835 JONATHAN WILD - CONMAN AND


CUTPURSE by John van der Kiste Born probably in 1683, Jonathan Wild was Britain’s most infamous criminal of the 18th century, known as the director of a ‘corporation of thieves’. He directed a large band of felons who dealt in stolen goods, kept the stolen goods himself and waited until the crime and theft was announced in the papers, at which point he would return them to their rightful owners, demanding a fee. He informed on about 120 men during his career and all went to the gallows. He himself was arrested on a minor felony charge, found guilty and hanged at Tyburn in May 1725. Woodcut illus, 96pp in paperback. £12.99 NOW £1.75


69827 DALI & I by Stan Lauryssens


Rumoured to be a movie-in-the-making with Pacino as Dalí, this exposé of art world skulduggery comes from a man who was jailed for selling fake Dalí masterpieces. Beginning when the young Lauryssens had a dead-end job. A magazine editor, who liked his literary efforts, offered him a job as Hollywood correspondent, which entailed sitting at home, cutting and pasting published interviews with stars to create “new” exclusives. His “interview” with Dalí fooled a local financier, who appointed him his art-investment manager. Lauryssens realised just how easily the public could be conned and he was soon mocking up Dalí prints for gullible trillionaires, gaining access to people like Gilbert Hamon whose exclusive print deal with Dalí allowed him to churn out unlimited “signed” copies. But Interpol was also interested in the market for “genuine fake” and “fake fake” Dalís, and Lauryssens’ luck finally ran out. A roller-coaster read. 224pp. £16.99 NOW £5.50


68329 A HANDBOOK ON HANGING: Being a


Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution by Charles Duff


A satiric tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilisation - the hangman. Duff not only writes on hanging but also of electrocution, decapitation and gassing, of innocent men executed and of executions botched, of bloodlust mobs and the political expedience of the great. Very detailed notes on the scaffold, an account of England’s last public hanging, anti-hanging campaigns, the popularity of murder trials and much more. 208pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £1.25


69476 CONNED: Scams, Frauds and Swindles by James Morton and Hilary Bateson


From schemes to turn water into petrol and paper into banknotes, boiler room scams and forgers and fakers. There are imposters and conmen like Caroline Morgan, a 36 year old who at various times claimed she had brain, liver and bowel cancer and took a number of


unsuspecting men for £30,000, or Raymond Fernandez who married and cheated women out of all their money and was responsible for 17 women dying. 248pp in paperback with line art. £10.99 NOW £3


68485 MUSSOLINI - THE SECRETS OF HIS DEATH by Luciano Garibaldi


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No one disputes that Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were shot on 29 April, 1945, and their bodies displayed for public inspection - but the events leading up to this brutal scenario have been much disputed. Some versions claim that the executioners were acting on behalf of the British SOE on the orders of Winston Churchill, and investigation is made difficult by the fact that the subject is perceived by Italian academics as being taboo. The resistance fighter, Captain Neri, who captured Mussolini appealed to the British for protection but was mysteriously murdered on 7 May. Garibaldi also examines related mysteries. 237pp, photos. £11.99 NOW £2


68883 QUEST FOR RADOVAN KARADZIC by Nick Hawton


For over a decade Radovan Karadzic, former Bosnian Serb President and Europe’s most wanted man, evaded the combined efforts of Western intelligence agencies. He travelled with apparent impunity, even making TV appearances in his guise as a guru of alternative medicine. That he was finally apprehended on 18 July 2008 was due in no small part to the efforts of journalist Nick Hawton. He met secret service agents who recruited him and became acquainted with the Karadzic family at their home in Bosnia, interviewed the Serbian politicians who held the levers of power and met those who had lost everything in the Bosnian war that Karadzic had helped to spark. Photos, 226pp in paperback.


£14.99 NOW £3.50 68906 EXECUTIONER: The Chronicles of a


Victorian Hangman by Stewart P. Evans When the public executioner William Marwood died in 1883, his friend John Berry applied for the post. Marwood had his own scientific system and Berry sought to equal him in efficiency, inventing a table of weights and drops. A noose would last for about 12 executions and sections of it were often sold off to collectors with a taste for the macabre. Berry went on to execute a number of notorious convicts, including names associated with the Ripper murders. 452pp, paperback, photos. £12.99 NOW £4


69586 STAND AND DELIVER! A History of


Highway Robbery by David Brandon


Of appeal to all readers interested in the murky underside of history, and particularly those with a dramatic turn of mind, this book investigates the economic, social and technological factors that made highway robbery an extremely lucrative way of earning a living. These thieves were really nothing


but bandits, who were often gratuitously violent, so why have they come to be regarded as swashbuckling heroes? How come that the highwayman is largely perceived as a romantic, glamorous and gallant figure? This entertaining and authoritative book will go a long way to answering all these questions. 219 paperback pages with b/w plates. £9.99 NOW £4


69232 SELLING HITLER by Robert Harris April 1945 - from the ruins of Berlin, a Luftwaffe transport plane takes off carrying secret papers belonging to Adolf Hitler. Half an hour later it crashes in flames. April 1983 - a German magazine offers to sell more than 50 volumes of Hitler’s secret diaries. The asking price is $4 million. Written with the pace of a thriller, ‘Selling Hitler’ tells the story of the biggest fraud in publishing history. Harris solves the mystery of how obvious fake was snatched as gold. 402pp in paperback with photos. £7.99 NOW £4


69323 OFFICIAL CIA MANUAL OF TRICKERY AND DECEPTION


by H. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace Electronic cloaks for invisibility, ‘dope’ coins, pickpocketing, facial expressions, the surreptitious removal of objects, special aspects of deception for women, practicing actions so as to do them naturally and remain unnoticed are the art of the spy. Magic or spy craft? Only a single copy survived from CIA files, now reprinted. 250pp with line art and photos. £9.99 NOW £3.50


69854 RAISING THE DEAD: The Men Who


Created Frankenstein by Andy Dougan Millions of cinema goers around the world were introduced to the concept of raising the dead in the iconic animation scene in James Whale’s 1931 version of Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff as the reanimated creature. Few however realised that Mary Shelley’s story had a basis in fact and that some of the greatest minds of the early 19th century pursued what it felt like to be God. In the winter of 1818, the year in which


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Mary Shelley’s book was published, the sensational story of a strange experiment that had taken place at the University of Glasgow swept through the city’s streets. Its architect and performer was Andrew Ure, a man who was at the very forefront of scientific knowledge in his day. His travels took him into dark and unexplored places and set him at odds with the religious establishment. Ure tried to bring back to life the executed murderer Matthew Clydesdale and his attempt caused sensation and scandal in equal measure. From the Ancient World to the latest medical developments, by way of 18th century galvanists and others who believed they stood on the threshold of immortality, here is a compelling study of a subject that has engrossed man for thousands of years. 210pp in paperback with woodcut illus plus 16 pages of b/w plates and photos. £9.99 NOW £4


69909 CSI - THE INTERACTIVE MYSTERY by Anthony Zuiker


Three neat gunshot wounds pierce the immaculate dress shirt of property tycoon Melvin R. Bledsoe. His palatial residence in Passion Lake Preserve is bristling with security cameras, but the footage self-destructs after four hours and identifying the intruder will be a challenge for Las Vegas Police Department officers Grissom and Brass. The sleuths produce six close-ups of the body for the reader’s inspection and deduction, while a bloodstained book of Haiku verse is a further mysterious piece of evidence reproduced in facsimile for the armchair detective’s consideration. Bledsoe’s wife Charlotte was away at a spa weekend and is over-keen to ascribe the crime to burglars. But could there be a second woman in Bledsoe’s life? Then another body turns up. As the story unfolds, there are pull-out evidence folders and the reader is invited to point the finger. 72pp, numerous colour photos, wallets and pullouts. £16.99 NOW £5


69913 HELLHOUND ON HIS TRAIL: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr and the


International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides


The killer of Martin Luther King ‘left his fingerprints...whether witlessly, incidentally, or on purpose, he left behind a massive body of evidence. Much of this account of his worldwide travels comes from his own words. The rest comes from the record’. James Earl Ray was a thief and con man who made a successful escape from the fearsome Missouri State Penitentiary, created a new identity for himself and became convinced of his mission to kill King. During the course of some nine months in the late 1960s, Ray trailed King as he journeyed all over the country bringing his message of goodwill to all men, and finally caught up with him in Memphis on 4th April 1968. There followed the most extensive manhunt in American history, ending with Ray’s final capture in London. So gripping is this record that the tension never lets up. 459 paperback pages. £16.99 NOW £4


CRIME FICTION


I’m not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare who says that it’s always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.


- P. G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves


70405 THE DOVE OF DEATH: A Mystery of Ancient


Ireland by Peter Tremayne It is A.D. 670, and Fidelma of Cashel is travelling home to Muman, in Ireland, from Burgundy by sea, aboard an Irish merchant ship. Suddenly, the ship is attacked by pirates off the coast of the Breton Peninsula. After the ship’s crew surrenders, Murchad, the captain, and Bressal, an Irish prince


from Fidelma’s home kingdom, are killed in cold blood. Among the passengers who manage to escape the slaughter on board in Fidelma herself, along with her husband and faithful companion, Brother Eadulf. Once safely ashore, Fidelma - who is sister to the King of Muman, and an advocate of the Brehon law courts - is faced with a grim task. She has ties to both of the murdered men, the prince as a cousin, and the captain as a long-time friend, and she is now determined to bring their killers to justice. However, it will be no easy task - her sole clue is that the sails of the killer’s ships had a dove design on them. Her determination will lead her deep into dangerous territory, far from the comfort and protections of home, and headlong into confrontation with the man known as The Dove of Death. A gripping and vivid tale from a renowned Celtic scholar. 369 pages.


$25.99 NOW £5 70366 HERESY: An Historical


Thriller by S. J. Parris Based on the real life of Giordano Bruno, this entertaining whodunit propels the reader breathlessly from gothic manors through seedy taverns and mysterious bookshops to the labyrinthine chambers of Oxford’s world-renowned library. It is 1583. Bruno - philosopher, poet, scientist and magician as well as one-time monk - is on the run from


the Holy Roman Inquisition, which has charged him with heresy for his belief in a heliocentric universe. He is recruited by Elizabeth I’s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, and sent on a mission to Oxford, a hotbed of Catholic rebellion and foreign plots to assassinate the queen. Officially, Bruno is to take part in a debate with the learned doctors of the university on the theories of Copernicus. In secret he must attempt to infiltrate the underground Catholic network and learn whatever he can about a deadly conspiracy. His success depends on whether he can tear his attention away from the beautiful and enigmatic daughter of the college rector! But when one of the Oxford fellows is brutally murdered just outside his window, his mission is dramatically thrown off course - even more so when yet another


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Spies & Spymasters 70522 MAN WITH THE


GOLDEN TOUCH by Sinclair McKay


Subtitled How the BOND Films Conquered the World, the book is written by a Daily Telegraph journalist and here in US first edition. When Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman set out to make what they expected to be the first of three or four movies based on the spy novels of Ian


Fleming they could hardly have dreamt of what would still be a business going strong over half a century later. The role of James Bond transformed Sean Connery’s career in 1962 when Dr No came out. This is the story of how, with the odd mis-step along the way, the owners of the Bond franchise, Eon Productions, have managed to keep James Bond abreast of the times and at the top of the charts for nearly 50 years with 22 films featuring six Bonds, three Ms, two Qs and three Moneypennies. Fleming’s original creation, thanks to the films, has been transformed from a black sheep of the post-war English upper classes into a figure with universal appeal keeping pace with changing social and political circumstances. Here are many inside stories of the supporting cast of Bond girls, Bond villains, Bond cars and Bond gadgetry. 396pp with eight pages of colour and b/w photos. Remainder mark. $25.95 NOW £6


70519 DEFEND THE REALM: The Authorized History of


MI5 by Christopher Andrew To mark the centenary of its founding, the British Security Service, MI5, opened its archives to an independent historian, the first time any of the world’s leading intelligence or security services had taken such a step. This monumental tome reveals the precise role of the Service in 20th


century British history, from its establishment by Captain Vernon Kell of the British army in October 1909 to root out ‘the spies of the Kaiser’ and his 31 years’ service, to its present role in countering terrorism. Another Director was Maxwell Knight. The first German agent who appeared in England after WWII was Carl Lody who was sentanced to death and executed at the Tower of London. It describes the distinctive ethos of MI5, how the organisation has been managed, its relationship with the government, where it has triumphed, and where it has failed. No restriction has been placed on the judgements made by the author in his “missing dimension of history”. The book also casts new light on many events and periods in British history, showing, for example, that through two well-placed sources MI5 was probably the pre-war organisation with the best understanding of Hitler’s objectives and that it had a remarkable willingness to speak truth to power - how it was so astonishingly successful at turning German agents during the Second World War, and revealing greater roles than have hitherto been realised during both the end of the Empire and in response to recurrent fears by successive governments of Cold War Communist subversion. The book has new information about the Profumo affair and its aftermath, in addition to data on the ‘Magnificent Five’ and facts concerning a range of formerly unconfirmed Soviet contacts. It reveals that, though MI5 had a file on Harold Wilson, it did not plot against him, and describes what really happened during the failed IRA attack on Gibraltar in March 1988. Describes this extremely secretive organisation more fully and concisely than any other book. A heavyweight value-for-money 1032 roughcut pages, including index, archived documents and black and white photos. $40 NOW £12


70351 DELUSION: The True Story of Victorian Superspy:


Henri le Caron by Peter Edwards Fenianism was an escalating concern at the Foreign Office in the latter 19th century, and it was well known at the time that Irish rebels living in the US had targeted the British Dominion of Canada. In 1866, Colchester born Thomas Beach was a Lieutenant


in the US Army and, becoming aware of the Fenian threat, used family connections to become a spy for the British government. Thus started a web of intrigue which enveloped the White House and Whitehall, as Thomas Billis Beach, alias Henri le Caron, became a cloak-and-dagger operative who for 25 years infiltrated the Irish revolutionary movement in the US, risking his life, career and family for Queen and country. In telling Beach’s astounding story Edwards reveals the early history of espionage in the US, Britain and Canada. A Victorian James Bond, Henri le Caron relied not on gadgets but his wits - death was just one false move, one misplaced glance, one intercepted message away. Everybody had something to hide, as le Caron realised and used to full advantage. With archival photos and exhaustive research thrillingly details not just the career of Thomas Beach, but the historic role that Canada played in the fight for Irish Independence. 344pp. £21.95 NOW £6


69456 DEVIL MAY CARE: The New James


Bond Novel by Sebastian Faulks Writing as Ian Fleming, the popular novelist has been a self-confessed Bond fan since school days. ‘It was a wet evening in Paris. On the slate roofs of the big boulevards and on the small mansards of the Latin Quarter, the rain kept up a ceaseless patter…Yusuf Hashim was sheltered by the walkway above him…after six years of fighting the French in Algeria, he had finally cut and run.’ It is great to see James Bond back in another fabulous adventure featuring his love of beautiful women, good food, travel, cars and this story is set in the area defined by the map at the beginning of the book covering the USSR and south to Persia (Iran). 284pp in paperback. $14 NOW £4.50


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