July 2018 Issue
Stephen Bates
Fit-Up Most Foul
Conan Doyle for the Defence: A Sensational Murder, the Quest for Justice and the World’s Greatest Detective Writer
By Margalit Fox
LR
June 2018 Issue
Catherine Peters
The Day He Missed the Train
The Murderer of Warren Street: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary
By Marc Mulholland
LR
February 2018 Issue
Marcel Berlins
Mute Justice
Blood on the Page: A Murder, a Secret Trial and a Search for the Truth
By Thomas Harding
LR
February 2018 Issue
Angela Tilby
Matricide Who Found God
The Minister and the Murderer: A Book of Aftermaths
By Stuart Kelly
December 2017 Issue
Lucy Moore
Honour among Thieves
Playboys & Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London
By Angus McLaren
LR
February 1997 Issue
Margaret Forster
No Nearer an Answer
As If
By Blake Morrison
LR
February 1993 Issue
Colin Wilson
The Problem of Boredom in America
The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer
By Brian Masters
LR
May 2016 Issue
Jerry Hayes
Liberal with the Truth
A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment
By John Preston
LR
May 2016 Issue
Stephen Bates
Teenage Kicks
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
By Kate Summerscale
LR
July 2003 Issue
Simon Heffer
The Enemy Within
An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War
By Donald Thomas
LR
March 2004 Issue
Tim Heald
Pub Idol
Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman
By James Sharpe
LR
March 2004 Issue
Andrew Taylor
The Fraudulent Philanthropist
Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Scoundrel
By David McKie
LR
March 2004 Issue
Lilian Pizzichini
Lemon Squeezers
Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia
By John Dickie
LR
April 2015 Issue
Deborah Bosley
Unfathomable Acts
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial
By Helen Garner
LR
July 2004 Issue
John Laughland
Who Are the Real Criminals?
Judgement Day: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic
By Chris Stephen
LR
September 2004 Issue
Christopher Ondaatje
The Time of the Bodysnatchers
The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London
By Sarah Wise
LR
February 2015 Issue
Cosmo Landesman
Pros & Cons
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
By Walter Kirn
LR
December 2014 Issue
Andrew Lycett
Murder Most Fouled-Up
A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan
By Laura Thompson
LR
December 2010 Issue
Andrew Lycett
Inspector Bucket Calls
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
By Judith Flanders
LR
April 2008 Issue
Andrew Lycett
Day of the Detective
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, or The Murder at Road Hill House
By Kate Summerscale
LR
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