Bøger af Keith McCloskey

"Killed a Young Girl, It was Fine and Hot" is the true story of the murder of eight year old Fanny Adams in Alton in 1867. It outlines the details of the dreadful murder itself, the arrest and subsequent trial of Frederick Baker and also compares it to the case of Daniel McNaughton whose case laid down the guidelines for the treatment of the criminally insane in court. The book also explains how the expression "Sweet FA" came into common usage in the English Language.

Mike and Isla are very happy together until one night, a Fado singer comes into their lives and Mike makes a decision which has far reaching consequences for all of them. It is a story of how easy it is to walk down a different path in life and facing up to the consequences of making the wrong decisions. Set in Edinburgh and Lisbon, against the backdrop of the soulful music of Fado, the story follows each of the three people from the fork in the road taken from a chance meeting and ends in tragedy.

A fresh assessment of five of the most compelling unresolved aviation mysteries

On 26 December 1900, the vessel Hesperus arrived at Eilean Mor in the remote Outer Hebrides with a relief lighthouseman and fresh provisions. The relief keeper, Joseph Moore, found the lighthouse to be completely deserted, and a subsequent search of the island failed to reveal any sign of what had happened to the three keepers.

The main independent airline in the 1950s, it became part of British United Airways in 1960, also establishing many airlines around the world, including Deutsche Flugdienst (Condor), Misr-Airwork (Egyptair), and the Sudanese National Airline.

In January 1959, ten experienced young skiers set out for Mount Otorten in the far north of Russia. While one of the skiers fell ill and returned., the remaining nine lost their way and ended up on another mountain slope known as Kholat Syakhl (or 'Mountain of the Dead').