Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part 1 Murder and The Tudors
The Deadly Deed 2
Catching and Convicting Murderers 9
Punishments 16
Reporting Murder 24
Part 2 The Case Files
1 A King in the Frame for Murder, 1489 26
2 Murder Made to Look Like Suicide, 1514 32
3 Strangled with a Scarf, then Burned in an Oven, 1518 41
4 Butchered on the Bridge, 1527 46
5 The Cook who was Boiled Alive, 1531 51
6 Gunned Down in the Morning Mist, 1536 56
7 A Posh Poacher Snared in the Noose, 1541 61
8 Stabbed and Dangled from a Castle Window, 1546 65
9 Bludgeoned During a Game of Backgammon, 1551 71
10 Ambushed by the Red Bandits, 1555 80
11 Hanged by a Rope Made of Silk, 1557 83
12 The Body at the Bottom of the Stairs, 1560 90
13 Stabbed Fifty-Six Tunes, 1566 101
14 A Royal Corpse Under a Pear Tree, 1567 108
15 Strangled with a Towel, 1570 115
16 The Curious Case of the Corpse in a Cask, 1572 119
17 A Lust that Led to Double Murder, 1573 123
18 Murder Behind Bars, 1581 130
19 Buried in the Cellar on New Year's Eve, 1582 133
20 Pressed to Death for a Cunning Crime, 1589 138
21 The Bride who Poisoned Her Husband with Pancakes, 1590 142
22 The Man who Killed His Own Children for Money, 1590 147
23 Murdered for 'Pulling Another Man's Nose', 1591 152
24 Sir Francis Drake Investigates, 1591 156
25 Who Killed Christopher Marlowe? 1593 162
26 Death by Sex, 1594 168
27 Denounced by His Own Son, 1594 172
28 The Murder that Inspired Romeo and Juliet 1594 176
29 Strangled for Beating His Wife, 1600 182
30 Hacked to Pieces in a Muddy Lane, 1602 187
31 A Pair of Child Murderers Caught at Last, 1602 193
Select Bibliography 197
Index 201
