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List of contents of Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Barking, Dagenham & Chadwell Heath:
Chapter 1 Martyrs burned at the stake; witches; Eastbury House and the Gunpowder Plot; a Barking fisherman sold into slavery; a visit from Dick Turpin and his gang; bodysnatchers
Chapter 2 Robbery at the Whalebones: highwaymen; terror at the Toll Gate in 1829; the poisoned watchdog, 1845
Chapter 3 Murder or suicide? The strange case of Mary Dunsdon, 1845
Chapter 4 Cornfield killing: the murder of PC George Clark, 1846
Chapter 5 The City gent and the tramp: Thomas Toller is murdered on the High Road, 1853
Chapter 6 Lost at sea: the drowning of the three Byford brothers, 1845; sixty Barking fishermen are lost in the Great Storm of 1863
Chapter 7 Neglected and abused: sad tales of fishing apprentices - the deaths of John Jones in 1827, Joseph Morgan in 1844 and Robert Hennekey in 1870
Chapter 8 Oh fatal, cursed jealousy: the murder of Amelia Blunt by Francis Wane, 1864
Chapter 9 Till Death us to part: Sarah Ann Bacon (1867) and Bertha West (1912), killed by their husbands
Chapter 10 For whom the bell tolls: Henry Hall is killed while bellringing in St Margaret's Church, Barking, in 1871; James Palmer is buried alive while digging a grave in Dagenham parish churchyard, 1878
Chapter 11 The sinking of the Princess Alice paddle steamer off Creekmouth in 1878, with the loss of around 700 passengers
Chapter 12 By their own hand: the suicides of John McAllister at Creekmouth, 1868; Arthur Duffield in 1887; and the attempted suicides of Arthur Hill & Emily Spooner in 1894
Chapter 13 The infant witness: 6 month-old Amy Elizabeth Bodger was left covered in blood when her mother Martha was murdered in 1887
Chapter 14 Death on New Year's Eve: the mysterious case of 5 year-old Mary Jane Voller, 1898
Chapter 15 The Barking boiler explosion, 1899: ten were killed, and much of Barking was left in ruins
Chapter 16 A toast to death: six men accidentally drank poison instead of wine on board a ship at Creekmouth in 1911, with fatal consequences
Chapter 17 The Ajax factory disaster of 1917, resulting in the deaths of 13 female munitions workers
Chapter 18 The Becontree murder: the mysterious case of Grace Newing, 1933. Her boyfriend claimed "She wished to die and I did her the favour"
Chapter 19 The Colditz Rat: Walter Purdy made propaganda broadcasts on behalf of the Nazis, then was planted in Colditz to betray escape plans
Chapter 20 The watchmaker's wallet: Percy Busby was murdered in his Barking home, 1947
Chapter 21 The Ilford Kid, 1956: drama outside the Ford factory in Dagenham when a man attempted a double murder then killed himself
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