True Crime Library magazines

24/03/2024

After 53 years publishing True Detective monthly, Master Detective monthly magazines in the UK with True Crime Monthly published early 1980 and Murder Most foul just after, we are closing the company and will no longer publish the four title's.
Thanks to all our readers over the years.
"End of an era"

23/12/2023

03/12/2023

IMPORTANT NEWS
With effect from January 2024, we will no longer be publishing new issues of True Detective, Master Detective, True Crime and Murder Most Foul. Back issues will still be available from this website or by calling 020 8778 0514 in the UK.

Attention subscribers: we will be contacting you soon about refunding you for all unshipped issues. Refunds will be made via your original payment method.

Many, many thanks to all our readers for your interest and loyalty over the years.

01/12/2023

IMPORTANT NEWS
With effect from January 2024, we will no longer be publishing new issues of True Detective, Master Detective, True Crime and Murder Most Foul. Back issues will still be available from this website or by calling 020 8778 0514 in the UK.

Attention subscribers: we will be contacting you soon about refunding you for all unshipped issues. Refunds will be made via your original payment method.

Many, many thanks to all our readers for your interest and loyalty over the years.
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28/10/2023

True Crime November 2023

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Highlights this issue include:

CASES FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND…
MAJOR BRITISH MURDER CASES: EALING’S EVIL MR. RIPLEY
It was said Fabio Pereira had been inspired by the Hollywood film The Talented Mr. Ripley when he killed reclusive cancer patient John Goodman

LAST MEN ON THE GALLOWS: COP-KILLER’S “THREE FATAL ERRORS”
It was meant to be a night of celebration for Ronald Marwood. Instead, he killed PC Raymond Summers. Did police alter his statements to help get a conviction?

ASK TC: WHY THEY HANGED “LORD HAW HAW”
How acts of treason took World War Two propagandist William Joyce to the gallows

KILLERS RELEASED TO KILL AGAIN: “A SHARED PR******TE AND AN UNPAID CAFÉ BILL”
When labourer William Rodgers killed his first victim the trial judge told him, “keep your temper under control.” It was a lesson Rodgers failed to learn – and just three years later he killed again…

FROM THE USA…
“KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON”
The true story behind Martin Scorsese’s new blockbuster

GANGLAND CONFIDENTIAL: S*X WITH MARILYN AND MEETINGS WITH THE MAFIA
President John F. Kennedy’s colourful private life – including his affair with actress Marilyn Monroe – was known to the FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. But the Mafia were in on the secret too

DOUBLE-KILLER ELBOWS HIS ATTORNEY IN COURT
The murders of Lisa Story and Robin Cornell shocked Florida in 1990 but remained unsolved until, more than a quarter of a century later, Joseph Zieler became the prime suspect. He proved to be a troublesome defendant

REVENGE OF THE CHILD S*X SLAVE
The dark secret at the heart of the murder in South Carolina of Dr. Eric Davis

SOLVED: 20-YEAR MYSTERY OF THE MURDERED MODEL
How TV actress Kim Delaney helped cold-case cops to finally identify the killer of Marie-Josee Saint-Antoine

AND FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD…
MURDER THE FRENCH WAY:
WHEN A MARRIED MUM TAKES A LOVER…
Nadine Baude wanted her husband dead. And burning him alive seemed the best solution…

NEWS & VIEWS
* Chronicles Of Crime
* Comment
* Movie Quiz
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True Detective, Master Detective, True Crime Monthly

05/10/2023

Master Detective October 2023

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This issue we reach part 6 of Matthew Spicer’s ground-breaking Whitechapel Murders casebook, with perhaps the most shocking case so far. The brutal evisceration of Catherine Eddowes would have been horrifying enough on its own, but the fact that it was the second attack in one night by the man soon to be known as Jack the Ripper made it seem far, far worse.

We’ve two modern serial killer sagas for you this month too. From the USA comes the lengthy killing history of Joel Rifkin, who to this day remains a suspect in numerous unsolved murders. Then there’s the equally ghastly tale of Donato Bilancia, thought to be Italy’s most prolific serial killer.

And that’s just the tip of this issue’s iceberg-sized helping of must-read crime stories, all of them true…

Highlights this issue include:

* The Stepmother From Hell
* European Crime Report: “Murder On The Hamburg Express,” “Nurse ‘Talked Boyfriend Into Killing,’” “S*x-Worker, Bound And Beaten, Found Dead In Locked Room”
* Scotland’s Classic Cases: Sympathy For A Wife-Killer
* “He Was Just A Nerdy Guy”
* The Whitechapel Murders: Two Women Butchered In One Night
* Eighteen Victims For The Terminator
* MD Forum: Evil Couple Killed Auntie Ivy For Her Money
* International Casebook Of Women Executed For Their Crimes: Why Louisa Was Tried Four Times For Murder
* Kimberly – The “Insatiable Black Widow”
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True Detective, Master Detective, True Crime Monthly

28/08/2023

Murder Most Foul 129

Hearing life-changing news about an illness or disease can sometimes bring out the very best in people. How many of us have been truly humbled by the courage and stoicism shown by terminally ill cancer sufferers, for example? Michael Lupo, though, was cut from a different cloth. When in the 1980s he was diagnosed with AIDS, his world fell apart. Lupo had enjoyed a hedonistic lifestyle and was well known in London’s gay community and society circles. Now he chose to exact revenge on the gay community. See this issue’s “Four Victims For ‘The Wolfman’ Of London” for the full story.

“Why Kill And Dismember Elizabeth?” in this issue takes us back to 1940s Los Angeles and the haunting and still-unsolved Black Dahlia murder mystery. All the signs were that Hollywood wannabe Elizabeth Short had been tortured before being savagely slashed and mutilated. Who was the frenzied killer who had taken her life so brutally? And what on earth was the motive?

Finally, don’t miss the case of cold-blooded killer Stephen Morin, one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives. Read “I Helped A Mass Killer Build His Torture Chamber” for the full story.

Highlights this issue include:

* Heidnik: Terror In His Pit Of Death
* Disgusting Crimes Of Grace’s Callous Killer
* Four Victims For “The Wolfman” Of LondonDescription
Hearing life-changing news about an illness or disease can sometimes bring out the very best in people. How many of us have been truly humbled by the courage and stoicism shown by terminally ill cancer sufferers, for example? Michael Lupo, though, was cut from a different cloth. When in the 1980s he was diagnosed with AIDS, his world fell apart. Lupo had enjoyed a hedonistic lifestyle and was well known in London’s gay community and society
* Couples Who Kill: Double-Killing Made Sarah America’s Most Wanted
* Agony In Adelaide
* Point-Blank Shooting of A Gunnersbury Policeman
* Why Kill And Dismember Elizabeth?
* The Bourne End Love Tragedy
* “I Helped A Mass Killer Build His Torture Chamber”
* The Scottish Adventurer’s Daughter Who Went To The Gas Chamber
* Shocking Crimes Of The Cincinnati Strangler

27/08/2023

True Detective September 2023
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Sixty years ago, on August 8th, 1963, the largest-ever robbery committed in Britain happened. It quickly became known as the Great Train Robbery – and the names of many of the culprits were subsequently written into the nation’s criminal folklore. Bruce Reynolds, Ronnie Biggs, Buster Edwards, Charlie Wilson: just some of the 15 masked men who attacked the Glasgow to London Royal Mail train. In the space of some 20 minutes, the gang stole 119 mailbags and escaped with a haul of more than £2.5 million – the equivalent of £45 million in today’s money. It was, therefore, a sensational heist, one which dominated the front pages of the national newspapers as investigators went on the hunt for the guilty men. And even after most of them were captured, the story was far from over….Marking the anniversary of the crime, we present “Crimes That Made The Headlines Extra – The True Story Of The Great Train Robbery”.

Ahead of that comes a disturbing tale of murder from New Zealand, involving a Colombian victim and a culprit who was a former prisoner. As in so many of today’s criminal investigations, technology played its part in nailing the suspect. See “Fear Thy Neighbour” for the full story.

Finally, don’t miss the story of how a robbery at a Dublin candle factory led to a significant moment in Ireland’s legal history. Read “First Ex*****on In The New Irish State” for the full story.

Highlights this issue include:

* Fear Thy Neighbour
* Crimes That Made The Headlines: Horror Of The Hanging Model
* Hanged In Australia: South Australian Killer Released To Kill Again
* Death In The Line Of Duty: Part 9
* Crimes That Made The Headlines – Extra: The True Story Of The Great Train Robbery
* Questions & Answers: Was Walter Perry A Double-Killer?
* First Ex*****on In The Irish New State
* Ex*****on USA
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05/07/2023

True Crime July 2023
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CASES FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND…
MAJOR BRITISH MURDER CASES: THE BEAST OF CANNOCK CHASE
In the 1960s, Britain was horrified by the abduction, r**e and murder of three little girls in the Midlands. Hard-working and intelligent, Raymond Morris was the last person you’d have expected to have commit such appalling crimes. Yet he did…

ASK TC: DUBLIN’S “HOUSE OF HORRORS” MURDER
Grandmother Patricia O’Connor, 61, had been missing for nearly two weeks from her home in Churchtown, Dublin, when a human torso was discovered by a couple out picnicking in the Wicklow Mountains. It signalled the beginning of a murder investigation like no other

LAST MEN ON THE GALLOWS: TOO YOUNG TO HANG?
In the twilight years of capital punishment in Great Britain, the case of the Worthing Bank Robbery murderer Victor Terry proved controversial

TAMWORTH’S SHOTGUN TERROR
She was the love of his life, but Lily Spencer had left Frederick Williams and gone off and married another man. Now he was after revenge…

KILLERS RELEASED TO KILL AGAIN: HORRIFIC CRIMES OF MIDDLESBROUGH’S OUT-OF-CONTROL KILLER
Mark Nigel Robinson was still a teenager when he committed his first murder, taking the life of a mother in her early 30s. But a decade behind bars failed to reform him. Weeks after he’d regained his freedom, another life was taken

FROM THE USA…
HALLOWEEN HORROR AS ANDREA SLAYS PARENTS
The shocking killings of devoted Maine parents Antonio and Alice Balcer at the hands of their transgender daughter

GANGLAND CONFIDENTIAL: WHO STRANGLED THE QUEEN OF BLACKMAILERS?
The story of Vivian Gordon, the flame-haired racketeer and blackmailer of New York

KILLING HIS WIFE WASN’T ROCKET SCIENCE
Renowned rocket scientist Dr. Andrew Pakhomov advised the US government, but science and not murder was definitely his speciality

AND FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD…
MURDER THE FRENCH WAY: HE SLAUGHTERED OLD LADIES
Yvan Keller confessed to eight murders but police suspected him of many more

NEWS & VIEWS
* Comment
* Movie Quiz
* Chronicles Of Crime
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True Detective, Master Detective, True Crime Monthly

11/03/2023

True Crime March 2023
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Highlights this issue include:

CASES FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND…
MAJOR BRITISH MURDER CASES: NEW YEAR’S DAY KILLER HID RACHEL’S BODY IN CUPBOARD
Hull student Rachel Moran had spent the evening at a fancy dress party celebrating the incoming new year. But when she headed for home her path crossed that of an evil loner and the bright future she seemed destined for came to an abrupt end

KILLERS RELEASED TO KILL AGAIN: MARGARET AND MARCELLA – AND THE MONSTERS WHO KILLED THEM
Mark Leicester and Paul Brumfitt had both killed before and spent years behind bars before being released. Within days of each other, the pair were back in court facing new murder charges – to public outrage

NEW SERIES: LAST MEN ON THE GALLOWS – CARLISLE’S MURDER BENEATH THE STAIRS
Sweet shop owner Jane Duckett was wary of burglars raiding her shop. Little did she realise how her business was being targeted by a vicious thug who was prepared to kill her to steal the takings. His hanging would make legal history

ASK TC: OXFORD’S WEIRD “DREAM OF DEATH” CASE
When teenager Glenys Jewell went out she told her parents she had a date. She never made it back home

FROM THE USA…
KNIFEWOMAN IN A BABY-BUMP SUIT
Taylor Parker already had two children of her own, but after having a hysterectomy she couldn’t have any more. Then she conceived a deadly plan…

KELSEY IN LAS VEGAS SUGAR-DADDY MURDER
Dr. Thomas Burchard’s successful career had brought him considerable wealth. He’d been touched by the plight of former Pl***oy model Kelsey Turner. But helping her out financially had deadly consequences…

GANGLAND CONFIDENTIAL: CHICAGO’S CRAZY COWBOY GANGSTER
Of all the mad-hatters in Chicago gangland, Louis Alterie was up there with the best – or worst

SLAUGHTER IN THE COURTROOM
The Allen gang were notorious in Virginia. When one of their own was sentenced to a year in jail, a bloodbath ensued…

AND FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD…
MURDER THE FRENCH WAY: THE GENDARME WHO TURNED MASS-KILLER
The extraordinary story of Jean Dauga

NEWS & VIEWS
* Comment
* Chronicles Of Crime
* Movie quiz
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16/02/2023

Master Detective Spring Special 2023

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Don’t miss this hand-picked collection of cases from earlier issues of Master Detective and its sister magazines True Detective, True Crime and Murder Most Foul – a concentrated dose of the best non-fiction murder stories from across the world.

Highlights include:

* Oxford’s Wind In The Willows Murder
* Why Sugar-Daddy Strangled Georgina
* Three Murdered For 30 Dollars
* Eighteen Years To Catch A Rape-Killer
* Wakefield’s Dentist Of Death
* Why Tiffany Is On Death Row
* Helen And Olga Murdered Men For Their Millions
* “I Killed 87,” Claimed Angel Of Death
* Black Widow Traded S*x For A Slow Death
* “We’re About To Do The Most Evil Thing This Town Has Ever Seen”
* When A Hit-Man “Missed” – A Wealthy Wife Survived
* Who Really Killed Ginger?
* Bearded Woman Battered Sister To Death
* Don’t Turn Your Back On Husband-Killer Claudia…That’s When She Shoots
* Tragedy Of The “Ketchup” Killer And The Body In The Cupboard
* Scunthorpe’s Sad Story Of Mary And Kenny
* The Villisca Axe Murders
* Hollywood Couple Slain And Cut Up By Handyman
* Class Assignment For Today: Double Murder
* Murder In The Rockies

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28/12/2022

Master Detective February 2023

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The deadly deeds of American serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer have hooked many TV viewers recently. A true crime drama – Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, aired on Netflix, and starring Evan Peters, has proved a big hit. A perfect time, then, for MD to present the full story. See this issue’s “Dahmer – Inside His Kitchen Mortuary”.
You’ll find this – plus a further nine amazing true crime stories – in Master Detective February…

Highlights this issue include:

* Dahmer – Inside His Kitchen Mortuary

* European Crime Report: “Male Nurse Killed Two Patients In Anger,” “When Lawyers Fall Out”

* Scotland’s Classic Cases: Who Cut Betty’s Arm Off?

* International Casebook Of Women Executed For Their Crimes: Meet Irene. She Sang Her Way To The Electric Chair

* Deadly Th*****me: The Pastor, The Scheming Wife And Her Lethal Lover

* Murder Was My Business: Part Five

* A Five-Minute Trial For Sally’s Slayer

* After 38 Years, DNA Found Roberta’s Killer

* MD Forum: Why He Put The Old Man In The Oven
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