A History of the Waikato Police 1886-1986 New Zealand Police Centenary by Brian Walters

$45.00 NZD

Category: NZ Crime & Policing

A Parson in Prison

$30.00 NZD

Category: NZ Crime & Policing

A Thorn In Their Side: The Hilda Murrell Murder by Robert Green

$37.50 NZD

Category: NZ Crime & Policing | Reading Level: Near Fine

A Thorn in Their Side is Robert Green’s extraordinary pursuit of the truth about how and why his aunt Hilda Murrell, a noted English rose grower, met a violent and bizarre death. In 1984, at the age of 78, Hilda Murrell was found brutally murdered in the Shropshire countryside. She had just gaine d approval to testify on the unsolved problems of radioactive waste at the first British planning inquiry into a new nuclear power plant. The police theory that a lone, panicking burglar robbed and abducted Hilda in her own car for petty cash erupted into a sensational political conspiracy involving PM Margaret Thatcher’s plans for British nuclear energy and the controversial sinking of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano in the 1982 Falklands War. The West Mercia Police, accused of initial negligence, a bungled investigation and ignoring key evidence, took until 2005 to secure the conviction of Andrew George as Hilda’s unlikely murderer – in 1984 he was a 16-year-old truant from a local foster home who could not drive. The case has spawned numerous books, plays and TV programmes as it became one of the most baffling British murders of the 20th century. Now Robert Green exposes the implausibility of the police theory; how key witnesses were leant on to change statements, and information suggesting political motives was dismissed. He has also uncovered explosive new evidence that George should have been acquitted. As the current British government presses to replace nuclear power plants and weapons, despite the nuclear catastrophe in Japan, this deeply disturbing saga about a distinguished British woman and law-abiding patriot is powerfully topical. ...Show more

Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story Crewe Murders: New Evidence by Ian Wishart

$30.00 NZD

Category: NZ Crime & Policing

Backtracking New Zealand Police Dog Handler 1974 – 1987 by Jim Field

$30.00 NZD

Category: NZ Crime & Policing

Built for Justice Visits to old North Island Courthouses by Terry Carson

$47.50 NZD

Category: NZ North Island

Hardback with no dust jacket. 176 pages. SECONDHAND

Death round the Bend by J. Halket Millar

$55.00 NZD

Category: NZ Crime & Policing

First Offender - Inside A New Zealand Prison by Ken Berry

$15.00 NZD

Category: NZ Crime & Policing

Hanlon - A Casebook by Ken Catran

$23.50 NZD

Category: NZ Crime & Policing

In the Line of Duty 100 years of the New Zealand Police by Murray Hill

$20.00 NZD

Category: NZ Crime & Policing

Land Police Sharing the Challenge A Social and Pictorial History of the Christchurch Police District by Barry G. Thomson; Bob Neilson

$65.00 NZD

Category: Christchurch City & Banks Peninsula

Mutiny, Terrorism, Riots and Murder : A history of sedition in Australasia by K. Baker

$37.50 NZD

Category: NZ Crime & Policing

Dr Kevin Baker takes a clear-headed and historical look at civil and military unrest in Australasia from the earliest times of European colonisation to the riots at Cronulla in 2005 whose intensity and aftermath took Australia by surprise. In the process, he examines many insurrections, the best know of which and most notorious - the Rum Rebellion, Vinegar Hill, Eureka - took place in the nineteenth century and relates them to an ongoing, but diminishing number of not just tilts at authority, but direct challenges to it. These include goldfield disturbances, the Melbourne police strike, prison and detention centre riots, the New Zealand naval mutiny of 1947, a number of naval and military attempts to challenge and buck authority, and attempted political assassinations. Many of these incidents - of various degrees of seriousness - are less well known than they deserve to be. Baker also takes the reader through a careful examination of the key terms - sedition, riot, mutiny - which are examined in legal terms and in relation to larger ethical issues and ongoing debates that can be traced back to the beginnings of Western civilization. ...Show more