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1 online resource (189 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white) |
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20161130 IP |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
On the morning of 14 January 1975, Mrs Dorothy Whittle wakes to be faced with every mother's worst nightmare: finding her daughter has been abducted from her room. A note has been left downstairs, demanding a ransom. Later, a recorded message comes from Lesley herself saying where to leave the money but not to tell the police or she'll be killed. The family disobeys the instructions and informs the authorities, and together they struggle to understand and carry out their instructions in a complex cat-and-mouse game with one desperate aim: to get Lesley back alive. The recent release of Home Office papers allows author Gordon Lowe to go behind the scenes and examine how a combination of bad luck and mistakes on the part of both the police and Donald Neilson stacked the odds against a successful resolution to one of the century's most despicable crimes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Neilson, Donald, 1936-2011.
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Neilson, Donald, 1936-2011. |
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Murder -- Great Britain -- Case studies.
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Murder. |
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Great Britain. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780750969666 |
| ISBN |
0750969660 (electronic book) |
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9780750969666 (electronic book) |
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0750967382 |
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9780750967389 |
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