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READ ABOUT WILLIAM AUSTIN JOHNSON'S LATEST SERIAL KILLER SEQUEL NOVEL: donhaleblog.blogspot.com/2025 :  Leading a Double Life Two (Book 2)  exciting new paperback by William Austin Johnson. NOW available on Amazon:   https://amzn.to/4awefr8 Synopsis: As a writer you somehow want to finish the story in your book with a good ending, but with this book I felt that I had run out of scenario’s to go on any further. Then one day out of the blue, a news story of a murdered family sparked my interest. I could not get this story out of my mind. So, as you can see from the title above. I was drawn back into trying to give these unspoken victims the justice that they deserved with the demise of Tony Fennel. To get the information that I needed on Fennel, of course, I had to go back to my old friend Mike Rodsinkski. Mike told me that he had missed me, and that he had several cases that he thought I could help him with. So came the scammers, the opportunist, a bent Police Officer...

BUSTER CRABB - Ian Fleming's favourite Spy, and the real inspiration for JAMES BOND - promoted by Coast and Country online magazine. This is the Amazon link to the book:   https://amzn.to/4mTMhJf LIONEL 'BUSTER' CRABB was a drinker, a gambler, a womaniser and a lover of fast cars and gadgets. On top of all that, he was a spy, an acquaintance of Ian Fleming and the inspiration for James Bond. donhaleblog.blogspot.com/2025 This latest book,  BUSTER CRABB , published by the History Press, this is the fascinating story of Buster Crabb, the naval spy who disappeared in bizarre circumstances in 1956. Entitled -  Buster Crabb - Ian Fleming's favourite spy and the inspiration for James Bond,  was released in Spring 2020 - originally to coincide with the launch of the new Bond film - which was later delayed due to the Covid-19 restrictions.    * Ian Fleming (*right) and above the front cover of this new and exciting spy story. A British naval frogman and bomb dispos...

Murder in the Graveyard Audio Book - a brutal murder and a wrongful conviction - narrated by author Don Hale. True facts finally revealed about a fascinating 50-year-old murder mystery. Order your audio copy via this link:  https://amzn.to/45WpYu3   https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/perryscope21/curation/5fbfda6b-ed53-4e19-8526-378b30b4f429 A gripping true crime investigation into the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history. In September 1973, Stephen Downing was convicted and indefinitely sentenced for the murder of Wendy Sewell, a young legal secretary in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District. Wendy was attacked in broad daylight in Bakewell Cemetery.  Stephen Downing, the 17-year-old groundskeeper with learning difficulties and a reading age of 11, was the primary suspect.  He was immediately arrested, questioned for nine hours, without a solicitor present, and pressured into signing a confession full of words he did not understand. Twenty-one year...

JUDGE RINDER INVESTIGATED RIPPER LINKS TO OTHER MURDERS...AND DON HALE'S REVEALING BOOK - MURDER IN THE GRAVEYARD... *This is the Amazon book link:   https://amzn.to/41srO6k   Report by Don Hale.   https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com   About five years ago, TV reality show icon, Judge Robert Rinder investigated whether the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe may have viciously attacked and murdered three other additional female victims in high-profile crime cases that still-remain unsolved. ** SEE JUDGE RINDER’S CRIME SHOW NOW:   https :// youtu . be / OfWGPGFT5b0 **SEE THE AWARD WINNING BBC TV DOCUMENTARY - MURDER IN THE GRAVEYARD ON YOUTUBE :  https://youtu.be/Y3Fe-KGQRUw **SEE STEPHEN DOWNING'S OWN STORY - ANOTHER AWARD WINNING BBC DOCUMENTARY:  https://youtu.be/zE1QEtfhXiE **SEE BBC TV'S SOPHIE RAWORTH AND HER INTERVIEW WITH DON HALE:  https://youtu.be/2XDiD3K6Fig   The experienced criminal barrister who normally presides as the popular Judge i...

This is a n exclusive 10-minute 1927 Fox Film Corporation newsreal interview with the author and spiritualist, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . He speaks about his greatest literary creation, Sherlock Holmes, and his controversial work and views about spiritualism.  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - the creator of the fictional  Sherlock  Holmes character This is an excellent vintage film on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, showing the passion, enthusiasm and commitment of the great man. Also somewhat poignant as it took place only three years before his passing at the age of 71 on 7 July 1930 at Windlesham in Crowborough, where this interview took place.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9yLtjm5zoI&list=UUiKpWeZxAkfuA-r_lyUI9Tg&index=6 SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE GHOST SHIP MYSTERY -  How a true story inspired Conan Doyle to write a fictional tale accepted as fact. This is a true story of how a ghost ship inspired  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  to investigate one of the world'...