THE CRIMES. THE STORIES. THE LAW‘Fascinating’ – Sunday Times‘Masterful’ – Judith Flanders‘A page-turning read' – Prof. David WilsonTotally gripping and brilliantly told, Murder: The Biography is a gruesome and utterly captivating portrait of the legal history of murder.The stories and the people involved in the history of murder are stranger, darker and more compulsive than any crime fiction.There’s Richard Parker, the cannibalized cabin boy whose death at the hands of his hungry crewmates led the Victorian courts to decisively outlaw a defence of necessity to murder. Dr Percy Bateman, the incompetent GP whose violent disregard for his patient changed the law on manslaughter. Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in England in the 1950s, played a crucial role in changes to the law around provocation in murder cases. And Archibald Kinloch, the deranged Scottish aristocrat whose fratricidal frenzy paved the way for the defence of diminished responsibility. These, and many more, are the people – victims, killers, lawyers and judges, who unwittingly shaped the history of that most grisly and storied of laws.Join lawyer and writer Kate Morgan on a dark and macabre journey as she explores the strange stories and mysterious cases that have contributed to UK murder law. The big corporate killers; the vengeful spouses; the sloppy doctors; the abused partners; the shoddy employers; each story a crime and each crime a precedent that has contributed to the law’s dark, murky and, at times, shocking standing.

Murder: The Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Morgan, Kate

Historical

Mudlark

THE CRIMES. THE STORIES. THE LAW 
‘Fascinating’ – Sunday Times 
‘Masterful’ – Judith Flanders 
‘A page-turning read' – Prof. David Wilson 
Totally gripping and brilliantly told, Murder: The Biography is a gruesome and utterly captivating portrait of the legal history of murder. 
The stories and the people involved in the history of murder are stranger, darker and more compulsive than any crime fiction. There’s Richard Parker, the cannibalized cabin boy whose death at the hands of his hungry crewmates led the Victorian courts to decisively outlaw a defence of necessity to murder. Dr Percy Bateman, the incompetent GP whose violent disregard for his patient changed the law on manslaughter. Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in England in the 1950s, played a crucial role in changes to the law around provocation in murder cases. And Archibald Kinloch, the deranged Scottish aristocrat whose fratricidal frenzy paved the way for the defence of diminished responsibility. These, and many more, are the people – victims, killers, lawyers and judges, who unwittingly shaped the history of that most grisly and storied of laws. 
Join lawyer and writer Kate Morgan on a dark and macabre journey as she explores the strange stories and mysterious cases that have contributed to UK murder law. The big corporate killers; the vengeful spouses; the sloppy doctors; the abused partners; the shoddy employers; each story a crime and each crime a precedent that has contributed to the law’s dark, murky and, at times, shocking standing.

Small-town librarian and amateur sleuth Dewey James investigates the murder of a local horsebreeder's boyfriend, in a case involving race-fixing

A Slay at the Races

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

BERKLEY

Small town librarian Dewey James gets some exercise in detection when the man in charge of providing grants to an ornithological research station is found murdered, and the staff of birdwatchers provides a long list of suspects

Murder Most Fowl (A Drew James Mystery Series)

When Broadway celebrity Jenny Riley's triumphant return to her home town turns out to be her last great performance, amateur sleuth and horse lover Dewey James tackles the case, hoping to find out who killed Hamilton's most famous citizen

Home Sweet Homicide

While in Hamilton to visit a friend, Harrison Powell, an all-American type and a true charmer, is murdered, and town librarian Dewey James must find out who killed the newcomer

Mystery Loves Company

In New York to visit her friend Jane, a patroness of the arts, Dewey becomes involved in yet another crime when the director of the Bentley Foundation, a group of art lovers with whom Jane is involved, is murdered

Days Of Crime & Roses

Small-town librarian and amateur sleuth Dewey James must use all her detection skills when she heads for a dude ranch plagued by a mysterious saboteur with a penchant for nasty pranks, including murder

Wanted:dude Or Alive

When the pompous and abrasive Victor Salgo lands the headmaster position at Hamilton's prestigious Jefferson School and then subsequently dies, Dewey James suspects that Salgo has been murdered

Old School Dies

The Story of Things

Children's Books

Walker Co

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Murder: The Biography

Murder: The Biography

A Slay at the Races

Murder Most Fowl (A Drew James Mystery Series)

Home Sweet Homicide

Mystery Loves Company

Days Of Crime & Roses

Wanted:dude Or Alive

Old School Dies

The Story of Things