The True Crime Collection | The Clue That Solved the Crime

Every criminal makes a plan. Every plan has an edge. This book is about what lies beyond it.

In ten gripping true stories, Colin Ashford follows real investigations as they actually unfolded, with false leads, frustrating dead ends, and suspects who seemed untouchable. Then comes the turn: the one small, overlooked detail that brought everything down.

A dying couple in a London shop, and the faint mark no one thought to look for.

Three brides who drowned in three different towns, linked by a few lines in a Sunday newspaper.

A train robbery in the Oregon mountains, and a pocket nobody bothered to check.

A pair of eyeglasses, and a hinge that only three people in Chicago had ever bought.

Bodies left in a Scottish ravine, carefully made unrecognizable and wrapped in the wrong newspaper.

A killer convinced that without a body there could be no crime.

A bomber who couldn’t stop writing letters.

A kidnapping in Sydney solved by two kinds of garden tree.

The first DNA manhunt in history, rescued by a conversation in a pub.

An attack on the World Trade Center, and a number stamped into steel.

The cases run from 1905 to 1993, from the first murder conviction in Britain built on fingerprint evidence to the first murder case solved by DNA. Each one is told with the pace of a crime novel and nothing invented. The heroes are often the people no one expected, people who simply looked twice.

If you love true crime, classic detective stories, forensic history, or short mysteries you can finish in a single sitting, this book is for you.

The True Crime Collection, Book 1.

Pagine	79
Formato	[EU] Stampa bianco e nero - standard - 127x203 mm - Carta crema - Copertina opaca
Peso	86 gr.