Contents
Part One: Murder and The Tudors
Catching and Convicting Murderers
1. A King in the Frame for Murder, 1489
2. Murder Made to Look Like Suicide, 1514
3. Strangled with a Scarf, then Burned in an Oven, 1518
4. Butchered on the Bridge, 1527
5. The Cook who was Boiled Alive, 1531
6. Gunned Down in the Morning Mist, 1536
7. A Posh Poacher Snared in the Noose, 1541
8. Stabbed and Dangled from a Castle Window, 1546
9. Bludgeoned During a Game of Backgammon, 1551
10. Ambushed by the Red Bandits, 1555
11. Hanged by a Rope Made of Silk, 1557
12. The Body at the Bottom of the Stairs, 1560
13. Stabbed Fifty-Six Times, 1566
14. A Royal Corpse Under a Pear Tree, 1567
15. Strangled with a Towel, 1570
16. The Curious Case of the Corpse in a Cask, 1572
17. A Lust that Led to Double Murder, 1573
19. Buried in the Cellar on New Year’s Eve, 1582
20. Pressed to Death for a Cunning Crime, 1589
21. The Bride who Poisoned Her Husband with Pancakes, 1590
22. The Man who Killed His Own Children for Money, 1590
23. Murdered for ‘Pulling Another Man’s Nose’, 1591
24. Sir Francis Drake Investigates, 1591
25. Who Killed Christopher Marlowe? 1593
27. Denounced by His Own Son, 1594
28. The Murder that Inspired Romeo and Juliet, 1594
29. Strangled for Beating His Wife, 1600
30. Hacked to Pieces in a Muddy Lane, 1602
31. A Pair of Child Murderers Caught at Last, 1602