Detective Files #3 – Paperback

DETECTIVE FILES #3

TEN CASES. TEN DARK STORIES. SOME QUESTIONS THAT MAY NEVER BE ANSWERED.

A killer who turned his home into a slaughterhouse. A doctor who preyed upon people desperate to escape Nazi persecution. A family murdered in their own home, with their killer seemingly vanishing without a trace.

And these are only the beginning.

In Detective Files #3, former detective Blake Patrick takes readers deep into ten extraordinary true crime investigations spanning different countries and generations.

Discover the shocking murders of Dr Buck Ruxton, the terrifying campaign of Belgium’s Brabant Killers, the sinister crimes of Marcel Petiot and Frederick Bailey Deeming, and the chilling mystery of Japan’s Setagaya family murders.

Explore the unsolved horrors of Cleveland’s Torso Murders, two haunting Suffolk murder investigations, and the nineteenth-century crimes that helped shape modern detective policing.

Drawing upon 29 years of police service, including 17 years as a detective, the author examines the evidence, the investigative breakthroughs, the mistakes and the unanswered questions behind each case.

Inside these pages, you will discover:

• Murder investigations that changed forensic science.
• Killers who escaped detection for years – and some who were never identified.
• The evidence that brought seemingly impossible cases to court.
• The investigative failures and unanswered questions that continue to haunt criminal history.
• The human stories behind some of the most disturbing crimes ever investigated.

Written in an absorbing, detailed style inspired by the classic true crime magazines, Detective Files #3 takes you beyond the headlines and into the investigations themselves.

Because sometimes the most frightening part of a murder investigation isn’t what the police discover.

It’s what they never manage to explain.