Download or read book Cheating the Hangman written by Judith Cutler and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is Easter Day, and a body hangs crucified on a tree. Unlike the Master whom Tobias serves, it will not rise from the dead. Naked except for a loincloth and a crown of thorns, the victim is unrecognisable, his face bludgeoned to a pulp.
Download or read book Cheat the Hangman written by Gloria Ferris and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cheating the Hangman written by Nodar Kipshidze and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Oliver Woods makes his literary debut as England’s greatest mind of the early 20th century. With his successes comes his quirks, and left without any crimes to solve, he is soon convinced that he is dying a slow and painful death of boredom. Meeting with friend Tom Collins, detective Woods is submerged into a triangle of red herrings, broken hearts and past histories. Will he ever find the murderer, or for the first time will he be unable to solve a case? HOW did the murderer successfully enter and exit the house without leaving behind even one strand of hair? WHY did Mr. Collins have to die?WHO killed him?“The parlor was filled with anxiety, as the onset of suspicion plagued the faces of the guests. The moon just began to glow over the horizon as the light graciously perforated the windows.â€
Download or read book Cheating the Hangman written by Wade Agnew and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For me it was the ultimate experience, like a bank robber walking in with a gun and getting away with the cashMy mission was delivering forbidden fruit from foreign shores with forensic efficiency, right to your front door
Download or read book Cheat the Hangman written by E. X. Ferrars and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hangman s Brae written by Colin Duncan and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hangman's Brae is a vividly written account of the blood-curdling crimes and brutal forms of punishment of north-east Scotland. The book explores the area's underworld and features the grave-robbers, jail-breakers, rioters and other lawbreakers whose crimes led them to premature deaths at the end of a rope or at the not so delicate hands of The Maiden, a gruesome decapitating device predating the French guillotine. The stories of the men who enforced the law and meted out sentences to the ne'er-do-wells who broke it can be just as interesting and memorable as those of the criminals and Norman Adams introduces the reader to some of them. Here you'll find some real characters such as the Aberdeenshire sheriff and criminal officer who always got his man - once spending two chilling nights chained to a brutal murderer and rapist. And it wasn't just hangings that these men had to perform - their grisly work also involved execution by beheading and drowning, often with some witch-burning for good measure. The many true-crime cases in this book shed new light on just how violent and bloody the north-east of Scotland's past was.
Download or read book Bric a brac Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Louisette written by Lewis Marshall and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France 1792: the persecution of Aristos is underway and beheading machines – Louisettes – are being set up.Many Aristos have already fled, including the Count of Poitiers, who has settled in England. He returns to France on business and is arrested by militia under the command of Pierre Chabot, a member of a Revolutionary Committee who is trying to spread unrest throughout Europe.Meanwhile, his son, a midshipman in the French Navy, arrives in England and is abducted on Chabot’s orders. He is saved by Dr Russell, an associate of a secret agency run by Sir Horace Markham. His presence sparks a rescue attempt by ‘Markham’s Irregulars’ an unconventional military unit armed with some unusual weapons…
Download or read book Bric Brac Series of Selections from Various Authors written by Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Inglorious Passages written by Brian Steel Wills and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who died in the Civil War, two-thirds, by some estimates, were felled by disease; untold others were lost to accidents, murder, suicide, sunstroke, and drowning. Meanwhile thousands of civilians in both the north and south perished—in factories, while caught up in battles near their homes, and in other circumstances associated with wartime production and supply. These “inglorious passages,” no less than the deaths of soldiers in combat, devastated the armies in the field and families and communities at home. Inglorious Passages for the first time gives these noncombat deaths due consideration. In letters, diaries, obituaries, and other accounts, eminent Civil War historian Brian Steel Wills finds the powerful and poignant stories of fatal accidents and encounters and collateral civilian deaths that occurred in the factories and fields of the Union and the Confederacy from 1861 to 1865. Wills retrieves these stories from obscurity and the cold calculations of statistics to reveal the grave toll these losses exacted on soldiers and civilians, families and society. In its intimate details and its broad scope, his book demonstrates that for those who served and those who supported them, noncombat fatalities were as significant as battle deaths in impressing the full force of the American Civil War on the people called upon to live through it. With the publication of Inglorious Passages, those who paid the supreme sacrifice, regardless of situation or circumstance, will at last be included in the final tabulation of the nation’s bloodiest conflict.
Download or read book Chicago written by Dominic A. Pacyga and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a “City on the Make.” Carl Sandburg dubbed it the “City of Big Shoulders.” Upton Sinclair christened it “The Jungle,” while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it “the Second City.” At last there is a book for all of us, whatever we choose to call Chicago. In this magisterial biography, historian Dominic Pacyga traces the storied past of his hometown, from the explorations of Joliet and Marquette in 1673 to the new wave of urban pioneers today. The city’s great industrialists, reformers, and politicians—and, indeed, the many not-so-great and downright notorious—animate this book, from Al Capone and Jane Addams to Mayor Richard J. Daley and President Barack Obama. But what distinguishes this book from the many others on the subject is its author’s uncommon ability to illuminate the lives of Chicago’s ordinary people. Raised on the city’s South Side and employed for a time in the stockyards, Pacyga gives voice to the city’s steelyard workers and kill floor operators, and maps the neighborhoods distinguished not by Louis Sullivan masterworks, but by bungalows and corner taverns. Filled with the city’s one-of-a-kind characters and all of its defining moments, Chicago: A Biography is as big and boisterous as its namesake—and as ambitious as the men and women who built it.
Download or read book Fun with String written by Joseph Leeming and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 150 tricks, escapes, dissolving loops; 3- and 4-strand braiding; string figures from around the world. 140 illustrations.
Download or read book The Days of Makemie written by Littleton Purnell Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Crown Agent written by Stephen O'Rourke and published by Sandstone Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-04-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An assured debut that unashamedly harks back to classic thrillers... reads like a knowing blend of John Buchan's The 39 Steps and Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.' - The Irish Times A ship adrift, all hands dead. A lighthouse keeper murdered in the night. The Crown needs a man to find the truth. Doctor Mungo Lyon, his reputation tarnished by the Burke & Hare scandal, and forbidden to practise as a surgeon, is the wrong man. That's exactly why the Crown chose him.
Download or read book Beware the Banshee s Cry written by Steven J. Rolfes and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2024-09-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaze with Trembling Breath Upon the Dreaded Banshee Journey to the Emerald Isle and beyond as you explore the history and mystery of banshees. These beings bridge the gap between life and death, myth and reality. From the Morrigan to the Doppelgänger, Steven J. Rolfes examines what messengers of death are and how they have captivated humanity for centuries. Rolfes presents numerous examples of banshees, such as the ghostly maiden who appeared at Lady Fanshawe's window and the omens leading up to President Lincoln's murder. Experience the phantom washerwomen of Brittany, the Japanese ikiry?, the death hag of Wales, Scotland's Specter of the Bloody Hand, and much more. From ghostly white women in Germany to avian creatures in the jungles of Sri Lanka, this book will thrill you with tales of banshees across the world.
Download or read book The Politics of the Rope written by N. H. Twitchell and published by Arena books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating broad-based political and cultural study presents the definitive account of the campaign to abolish capital punishment in the period 1955-69. It comprises a work of contemporary history exploring the theme from a number of angles, both pro and contra, which have not been covered so extensively before. From the sphere of governmental and parliamentary politics, to the relevant pressure groups, to the role of the mass media, to the significance of the different churches, and the influence of professional bodies, such as those representing the police and prison officers, the book skilfully identifies their interaction with one another. It examines the effect on the campaign of fluctuations in public opinion, and of controversial murder cases such as those of Timothy Evans, Derek Bentley, Ruth Ellis and James Hanratty, which in turn often informed the state of public opinion The work sets the campaign in the context of the social and cultural ferment of the era (the advent of the permissive society), and contrasts the fortunes of the movement with those of other "conscience issues," such as the legalisation of abortion, homosexual law reform, divorce liberalisation and the abolition of theatre censorship. It seeks to account for the success of the campaign within a relatively short time span in the face of intense public antipathy and a concerted effort by various elements of the establishment to thwart its fulfilment. It asks why the campaign succeeded when so many others facing lesser institutional obstacles failed, and it asks why it succeeded when it did and in the way it did, and considers whether the success of the campaign can be accounted for by the Zeitgeist. On one level it is a study of the politics of social reform, but at a deeper level it is a study of the way in which social trends feed through into political action at the parliamentary level, and illustrates the process of policy formation in the area of private members legislation and free votes where "party" has voluntarily taken a back seat.
