What was the name of the best selling book about serial killers that was written by a former chief reporter of national red top newspaper published in the United Kingdom?
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James Weatherup After starting out in regional newspapers, he joined the "News of the World," serving in two stints over 25 years for nine editors. In his first stint he rose to Chief reporter. During this time he co-wrote the best selling book "Inside 25 Cromwell Street" about the serial killers Fred and Rosemary West.
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News of the World The News of the World was a national red top newspaper published in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the biggest-selling English-language newspaper in the world, and at closure still had one of the highest English-language circulations. It was originally established as a broadsheet by John Browne Bell, who identified crime, sensation and vice as the themes that would sell copies. The Bells sold to Henry Lascelles Carr in 1891; in 1969 it was bought from the Carrs by Rupert Murdoch's media firm News Limited. Reorganised into News International, itself a subsidiary of News Corporation, it was transformed into a tabloid in 1984 and became the Sunday sister paper of "The Sun". The newspaper concentrated on celebrity-based scoops and populist news. Its fondness for sex scandals gained it the nicknames, "Wanker's Weekly", "News of the Screws" and "Screws of the World". It had a reputation for exposing national or local celebrities' drug use, sexual peccadilloes, or criminal acts, setting up insiders and journalists in disguise to provide either video or photographic evidence, and phone hacking in ongoing police investigations. Sales averaged 2,812,005 copies per week in October 2010.
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John Kruse John Kruse (1921–2004) was an English film and television screenwriter, director and novelist. He is mostly remembered for his work on ITC classic TV series "The Saint", as well as several films of the franchise, and as the author of the best-selling novel "Red Omega".
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Richard Miniter Richard Miniter (born 1967) is an investigative journalist and author whose articles have appeared in "The New York Times", "The Washington Times", "The Washington Post", "The Wall Street Journal", "The Atlantic Monthly", "Newsweek", "The New Republic", "National Review", PJ Media, and "Reader’s Digest". A former editorial writer and columnist for "The Wall Street Journal" in Europe, as well as a member of the investigative reporting team of the "Sunday Times" of London, he is currently the National Security columnist for "Forbes". He also authored three "New York Times" best-selling books, "Losing bin Laden", "Shadow War", "Leading From Behind", and most recently "Eyes On Target". In April 2014, Miniter was included by CSPAN's Brian Lamb in his book "Sundays At Eight", as one of Lamb's top 40 book author interviews of the past 25 years for Miniter's investigative work on 9/11 Mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
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Harold King (author) Harold Raymond King, Jr. (February 27, 1945 – October 15, 2010), also known as Hal King, was an American author and journalist known for his 1975 novel "Paradigm Red," which became the 1977 NBC television movie "Red Alert."
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Joseph Paul Franklin Joseph Paul Franklin (born James Clayton Vaughn, Jr.; April 13, 1950 – November 20, 2013) was an American serial killer who gained notoriety for numerous murders in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His killing spree was the subject of a fictional novel entitled "Hunter" by White supremacist William L. Pierce, who said of Franklin that “he saw his duty as a white man and did what a responsible son of his race must do.”
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The Judas Window The Judas Window (also published as "The Crossbow Murder") is a famous locked room mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), writing under the name of Carter Dickson, published in 1938 and featuring detective Sir Henry Merrivale.
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Murder Being Once Done Murder Being Once Done is a novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1972. It is the seventh entry in her popular Inspector Wexford series.
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The Diamond Smugglers The Diamond Smugglers is a non-fiction work by Ian Fleming that was first published in 1957 in the United Kingdom and in 1958 in the United States. The book is based on two weeks of interviews Fleming undertook with John Collard, a member of the International Diamond Security Organisation (IDSO), which was headed by Sir Percy Sillitoe, the ex-chief of MI5 who worked exclusively for the diamond company De Beers.
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Frank Geyer Frank Geyer (July 28, 1853 – October 4, 1918) was an American detective from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, best known for arresting H H Holmes, one of the first known serial killers of the United States. Geyer was a member of the famed Pinkerton detective agency and caught Holmes while working on what would be known as the Holmes-Pitezel Case. He published the story in his book, "The Holmes-Pitezel Case: a history of the greatest crime of the century and of the search for the missing Pitezel children."
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John Wainwright (author) John William Wainwright (25 February 1921 – September 1995), was a British crime novelist and author of 83 books, four of which have been published under the pen name Jack Ripley. He also wrote some short stories (mostly uncollected in book format), 7 radio plays, and an indefinite amount of magazine articles and newspaper columns.
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Don Hale Don Hale OBE (born July 1952) is a British author and journalist known for his investigative work and campaigning against miscarriage of justice in specific legal cases.
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Peter Roebuck Peter Michael Roebuck (6 March 195612 November 2011) was an English cricketer who achieved later renown as an Australian newspaper columnist and radio commentator. A consistent county performer with over 25,000 runs, and "one of the better English openers of the 1980s", Roebuck captained the English county side Somerset between 1986 and 1988. During 1989, Roebuck also captained an England XI one-day cricket team in two matches. His post-playing career as an erudite writer earned him great acclaim as a journalist with the "Sunday Times" and later as an author. Roebuck committed suicide in Cape Town, South Africa, on 12 November 2011 after being asked by police to answer questions about an allegation of sexual assault. A book by Tim Lane and Elliot Cartledge titled "Chasing Shadows – The Life and Death of Peter Roebuck" was published in October 2015.
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Last Days (Nevill novel) Last Days is a 2012 horror novel by the British author Adam Nevill. The book was first published in the United Kingdom on 24 May 2012 by Pan Macmillan and was published in the United States on 26 February 2013 through St. Martin's Griffin. It won the 2013 "August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel" and film rights for "Last Days" were first optioned by Adam Storke in early 2014. The option has subsequently passed to another film production company.
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Smiley's People Smiley's People is a spy novel by John le Carré, published in 1979. Featuring British master-spy George Smiley, it is the third and final novel of the "Karla Trilogy", following "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "The Honourable Schoolboy". George Smiley is called out of retirement to investigate the death of one of his old agents: a former Soviet general, the head of an Estonian émigré organisation based in London. Smiley learns the general had discovered information that will lead to a final confrontation with Smiley's nemesis, the Soviet spymaster Karla.
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Death in Captivity Death in Captivity is a mystery novel by the British crime writer Michael Gilbert, first published in the United Kingdom in 1952 by Hodder and Stoughton and in the United States by Harper & Brothers as "The Danger Within". It was Gilbert's sixth novel and, unlike his previous ones, does not feature Chief Inspector Hazlerigg in any way. Nor is it set in Gilbert's usual locales of London, the English countryside, or France. Instead, while it has many of the elements of the classic detective story, it is also a gripping novel of mounting suspense that takes place in a 1943 prisoner of war camp for British officers in northern Italy—it was the first of Gilbert's numerous later works that would feature suspense and danger as much or more as elements of detection. Gilbert himself had been a British officer during the war, was captured, and interned in an Italian camp. He escaped and spent several months making his way through the Italian countryside trying to reach the British lines. Much of this book apparently reflects his own experiences. It was the basis of a 1959 British film, Danger Within (Breakout in the United States), that closely followed the events in the book. H.R.F. Keating, who wrote Gilbert's obituary for The Guardian, said that "Gilbert's time as a PoW prompted Death In Captivity (1952), surely the only whodunnit set in a prisoner-of-war camp."
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The Dead (novel) The Dead is a novel written by Charlie Higson. The book, published by Puffin Books in the UK on 16 September 2010, is the second book in a planned seven-book series, titled The Enemy. "The Dead" takes place in London, a year before the events in the previous book ("The Enemy", released in the UK by Puffin Books on 3 September 2009), two weeks after a worldwide sickness has infected adults turning them into something akin to voracious, cannibalistic zombies.
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The Murder of Princess Diana (book) The Murder of Princess Diana is a bestselling 2007 book by British journalist Noel Botham. Botham's book disputes the official account that the Death of Diana, Princess of Wales was an accident.
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Victim: The Other Side of Murder Victim: The Other Side of Murder (Delacorte Press, ISBN  ) is a 1982 true crime book by Gary Kinder. The book is based on actual characters and events of the so-called "Hi-Fi murders" that took place on April 22, 1974, in Ogden, Utah.
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Dave Courtney David John Courtney (born 17 February 1959) is an English self-proclaimed former gangster who has become both an author and celebrity.
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Peter Driscoll (author) Peter Driscoll (4 February 1942 - 30 October 2005) was a bestselling Irish author of international thrillers in the 1970s who first worked in South Africa then, in his later life, became Chief Radio News subeditor with Radio Telefís Éireann. He died of a heart attack.
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A Very English Scandal A Very English Scandal is a true crime non-fiction novel by author John Preston. It was first published on 5 May 2016 by Viking Press. The novel details the 1970s Thorpe affair in Britain, in which former Liberal Party leader, Jeremy Thorpe, was tried and acquitted of conspiring to murder his alleged former lover, Norman Scott.