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Murder and mayhem in Georgian Britain: the scandalous work of Johnson’s
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Nell Darby's historical cold cases
The Money Murders
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Grisly killings & mysterious motives: murder in early modern Britain
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Nell Darby's historical cold cases
The strange case of 'Mr Francis'
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Historical cold cases
Murder in the year of the Ripper
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An audacious kidnapping in 1970s Paris
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Billy the Kid
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Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate: how a mid-life crisis created the ‘worst pirate of all time’
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Emmett Till: the murder that reshaped the American civil rights movement
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How J Edgar Hoover secretly ruled America
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The Dreyfus Affair: how France was divided over a miscarriage of justice
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Historical cold cases
The mystery of the vanishing widow
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Historical cold cases with Nell Darby
The mystery of Miss Lamond
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