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Master Detective Magazine Master Detective May 2019 Back Issue

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In the history of British crime, there are few more colourful characters than the violent, womanising, hard-drinking, bearded fraudster and murderer John Donald Merrett, aka Ronald Chesney. His lifelong roller-coaster of a criminal career reached its climax in mid-1950s Ealing, west London, and ended abruptly in a German wood, following a Europe-wide manhunt. Read “Bloodbath At The Home For Gentlefolk” in this issue for the full, extraordinary story.

Ealing features again in our account of the curious 1943 slaying of mother and daughter Gladys and Shirley Brewer, brutally attacked in their home in Grove Place. See “Gladys’s Killing Was Triggered By Gaslight” in this month’s issue.

Finally, be sure to visit Belfast for “Unsolved Murders Of The 1950s” - this month’s report is a real puzzler.


Highlights of this issue include:

* Smiling Serial Killer Planted Gardens With Victims’ Body Parts

* European Crime Report: “He Killed His Wife - Then He Killed His Lawyer,” “Revenge Of The Sexy Lover,” “Student Ate His Girlfriend”

* MD Forum: Bloodbath At The Home For Gentlefolk

* US Executions - The Forgotten Decade: The Strangler And The Body In The Basement

* Gladys’s Killing Was Triggered By Gaslight

* Murder In Your Village: Gruesome Secret Of North Tyne Wood

* Unsolved Murders Of The 1950s: Belfast Mystery Of The Murdered Timekeeper

* Scotland’s Classic Cases: Macabre Murder Of The Fife Office Boy
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Master Detective May 2019 In the history of British crime, there are few more colourful characters than the violent, womanising, hard-drinking, bearded fraudster and murderer John Donald Merrett, aka Ronald Chesney. His lifelong roller-coaster of a criminal career reached its climax in mid-1950s Ealing, west London, and ended abruptly in a German wood, following a Europe-wide manhunt. Read “Bloodbath At The Home For Gentlefolk” in this issue for the full, extraordinary story. Ealing features again in our account of the curious 1943 slaying of mother and daughter Gladys and Shirley Brewer, brutally attacked in their home in Grove Place. See “Gladys’s Killing Was Triggered By Gaslight” in this month’s issue. Finally, be sure to visit Belfast for “Unsolved Murders Of The 1950s” - this month’s report is a real puzzler. Highlights of this issue include: * Smiling Serial Killer Planted Gardens With Victims’ Body Parts * European Crime Report: “He Killed His Wife - Then He Killed His Lawyer,” “Revenge Of The Sexy Lover,” “Student Ate His Girlfriend” * MD Forum: Bloodbath At The Home For Gentlefolk * US Executions - The Forgotten Decade: The Strangler And The Body In The Basement * Gladys’s Killing Was Triggered By Gaslight * Murder In Your Village: Gruesome Secret Of North Tyne Wood * Unsolved Murders Of The 1950s: Belfast Mystery Of The Murdered Timekeeper * Scotland’s Classic Cases: Macabre Murder Of The Fife Office Boy


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In the history of British crime, there are few more colourful characters than the violent, womanising, hard-drinking, bearded fraudster and murderer John Donald Merrett, aka Ronald Chesney. His lifelong roller-coaster of a criminal career reached its climax in mid-1950s Ealing, west London, and ended abruptly in a German wood, following a Europe-wide manhunt. Read “Bloodbath At The Home For Gentlefolk” in this issue for the full, extraordinary story.

Ealing features again in our account of the curious 1943 slaying of mother and daughter Gladys and Shirley Brewer, brutally attacked in their home in Grove Place. See “Gladys’s Killing Was Triggered By Gaslight” in this month’s issue.

Finally, be sure to visit Belfast for “Unsolved Murders Of The 1950s” - this month’s report is a real puzzler.


Highlights of this issue include:

* Smiling Serial Killer Planted Gardens With Victims’ Body Parts

* European Crime Report: “He Killed His Wife - Then He Killed His Lawyer,” “Revenge Of The Sexy Lover,” “Student Ate His Girlfriend”

* MD Forum: Bloodbath At The Home For Gentlefolk

* US Executions - The Forgotten Decade: The Strangler And The Body In The Basement

* Gladys’s Killing Was Triggered By Gaslight

* Murder In Your Village: Gruesome Secret Of North Tyne Wood

* Unsolved Murders Of The 1950s: Belfast Mystery Of The Murdered Timekeeper

* Scotland’s Classic Cases: Macabre Murder Of The Fife Office Boy
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