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Index
Cover
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Murder and The Tudors
The Deadly Deed
Catching and Convicting Murderers
Punishments
Reporting Murder
Part Two: The Case Files
Chapter 1: A King in the Frame for Murder, 1489
Chapter 2: Murder Made to Look Like Suicide, 1514
Chapter 3: Strangled with a Scarf, then Burned in an Oven, 1518
Chapter 4: Butchered on the Bridge, 1527
Chapter 5: The Cook who was Boiled Alive, 1531
Chapter 6: Gunned Down in the Morning Mist, 1536
Chapter 7: A Posh Poacher Snared in the Noose, 1541
Chapter 8: Stabbed and Dangled from a Castle Window, 1546
Chapter 9: Bludgeoned During a Game of Backgammon, 1551
Chapter 10: Ambushed by the Red Bandits, 1555
Chapter 11: Hanged by a Rope Made of Silk, 1557
Chapter 12: The Body at the Bottom of the Stairs, 1560
Chapter 13: Stabbed Fifty-Six Times, 1566
Chapter 14: A Royal Corpse Under a Pear Tree, 1567
Chapter 15: Strangled with a Towel, 1570
Chapter 16: The Curious Case of the Corpse in a Cask, 1572
Chapter 17: A Lust that Led to Double Murder, 1573
Chapter 18: Murder Behind Bars, 1581
Chapter 19: Buried in the Cellar on New Year’s Eve, 1582
Chapter 20: Pressed to Death for a Cunning Crime, 1589
Chapter 21: The Bride who Poisoned Her Husband with Pancakes, 1590
Chapter 22: The Man who Killed His Own Children for Money, 1590
Chapter 23: Murdered for ‘Pulling Another Man’s Nose’, 1591
Chapter 24: Sir Francis Drake Investigates, 1591
Chapter 25: Who Killed Christopher Marlowe? 1593
Chapter 26: Death by Sex, 1594
Chapter 27: Denounced by His Own Son, 1594
Chapter 28: The Murder that Inspired Romeo and Juliet, 1594
Chapter 29: Strangled for Beating His Wife, 1600
Chapter 30: Hacked to Pieces in a Muddy Lane,1602
Chapter 31: A Pair of Child Murderers Caught at Last, 1602
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