Download or read book A Date with the Hangman written by Gary Dobbs and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true-crime history of 20th-century, British judicial hangings from 1900 to 1964, and a look at the overall history of executions in Great Britain. It is a sobering thought that until the closing years of the twentieth century, Britain’s courts were technically able to impose the death penalty for several offenses, both civil and military. Although the last judicial hangings took place in 1964, the death penalty, in theory at least, remained for a number of crimes. During the twentieth century, 865 people were executed in Britain. This book examines each and every one of those executions, and in many cases highlights the crimes that brought these men and women to the gallows. The book also details the various forms of capital punishment used throughout British history. During past centuries people were burned at the stake, had the skin flayed from their bodies, were beheaded, garroted, hung, drawn and quartered, stoned, disemboweled, buried alive—and all under the guidance of a vengeful law, or at least what passed for law at any given period. The author, Gary M. Dobbs, has painstakingly collected together every available piece of evidence to provide as clear a picture as possible of a time when the law operated on the principle of an eye for an eye. Dobbs is a true-crime historian and has spent many hours researching the cases featured herein to bring the reader a definitive history of judicial punishment during the twentieth century, and this carefully researched, well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to anyone interested in the darker side of history. “A brilliant read.” —Books Monthly (UK)
Download or read book A Date with the Hangman written by T. J. Leech and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Date with the Hangman written by Random House and published by . This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Year of the Hangman written by Gary Blackwood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-02-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1776, the rebellion of the American colonies against British rule was crushed. Now, in 1777-the year of the hangman-George Washington is awaiting execution, Benjamin Franklin's banned rebel newspaper, Liberty Tree, has gone underground, and young ne'er-do-well Creighton Brown, a fifteen-year-old Brit, has just arrived in the colonies. Having been shipped off against his will, with nothing but a distance for English authorities, Creighton befriends Franklin, and lands a job with his print shop. But the English general expects the spoiled yet loyal Creighton to spy on Franklin. As battles unfold and falsehoods are exposed, Creighton must decide where his loyalties lie...a choice that could determine the fate of a nation.
Download or read book Date with the Hangman written by E. C. Herbert and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So far in the game of life, Deuce Morgan has been a lucky man. Accused of killing fifteen, if not more men, he has escaped the Hangman's noose every time.Deuce, a quick tempered card shark, was known throughout the gambling circuit as a shoot now ask questions later gambler. All one had to do was challenge the legitimacy of his hand, if lucky you would have a chance to recall that challenge, if not so lucky, you would weigh an extra ounce, this being the weight of one of Deuce's lead bullets fired from his pearl handled Colt Peacemaker.
Download or read book The Hangman written by Louise Penny and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Chief Inspector Gamache novella is set in Three Pines. This novella is a short and easy read for people on the go.
Download or read book Date with the Hangman written by E. C. Herbert and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So far in the game of life, Deuce Morgan has been a lucky man. Accused of killing fifteen, if not more men, he has escaped the Hangman's noose every time. Deuce, a quick tempered card shark, was known throughout the gambling circuit as a shoot now ask questions later gambler. All one had to do was challenge the legitimacy of his hand, if lucky you would have a chance to recall that challenge, if not so lucky, you would weigh an extra ounce, this being the weight of one of Deuce's lead bullets fired from his pearl handled Colt Peacemaker.
Download or read book Year of the Hangman written by Glenn F. Williams and published by Westholme Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two years of fighting, Great Britain felt confident that the American rebellion would be crushed in 1777, the "Year of the Hangman." Britain devised a bold new strategy. Turning its attention to the frontiers, Britain enlisted its provincial rangers and allied warriors, principally from the Iroquois Confederacy, to wage a brutal backwoods war in support of General John Burgoyne's offensive as it swept southward from Canada. With the defeat of Burgoyne at Saratoga, the Continental command decided to end any further threat along the frontier. In the award-winning Year of the Hangman: George Washington's Campaign Against the Iroquois, historian Glenn F. Williams recreates the riveting events surrounding the largest coordinated American military action against American Indians during the Revolution, including the checkered story of European and Indian alliances, the bitter frontier wars, and the bloody battles of Oriskany and Newtown.
Download or read book Date with the Hangman written by T. J. Leech and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prison officer T.J. Leech recalls the crimes of many killers who, prior to that one act of madness, had led perfectly blameless lives. In each case he focuses on the murderer to try to discover what devil drove him or her along the awful path of self-destruction.
Download or read book The Hanged Man written by K.D. Edwards and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last member of a murdered House tries to protect his ward from forced marriage to a monster while uncovering clues to his own tortured past. The Tarot Sequence imagines a modern-day Atlantis off the coast of Massachusetts, governed by powerful Courts based on the traditional Tarot deck. Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Throne, is backed into a fight of high court magic and political appetites in a desperate bid to protect his ward, Max, from a forced marital alliance with the Hanged Man. Rune's resistance will take him to the island's dankest corners, including a red light district made of moored ghost ships; a surreal skyscraper farm; and the floor of the ruling Convocation, where a gathering of Arcana will change Rune's life forever.
Download or read book Hangman written by Jack Heath and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “Brilliant!” —Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author “Two well-chewed thumbs up.” —Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author An addictive debut thriller starring an FBI consultant with a peculiar taste for crime and punishment… A boy vanishes on his way home from school. His frantic mother receives a ransom call: pay or else. It’s only hours before the deadline, and the police have no leads. Enter Timothy Blake, an FBI consultant with a knack for solving impossible cases but whose expertise comes at a price. Every time he saves a life, he takes one, trying to satisfy an urge he fears he can only control for so long. And this time Blake may have met his match. The kidnapper is more cunning and ruthless than any he’s faced before. And he’s been assigned a new partner within the Bureau: a woman linked to the past he’s so desperate to forget. Because he has a secret, one so dark he will do anything to keep it hidden. For fans of Dexter and Hannibal, Hangman introduces a darkly mesmerizing character whose skill at finding criminals comes from a knowledge that can only be learned firsthand.
Download or read book The Hangman s Tale written by Syd Dernley and published by Trans-Atlantic Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marrying the Hangman written by Sheila Weller and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The account of the murder of Diane Whitmore Pikul describes how her wealthy and violent Wall Street husband murdered her and then won custody of her children while under indictment for her murder. “A young mother, so full of promise, is killed by the ‘perfect’ husband. Sheila Weller takes a domestic tragedy and reveals every nuance so that we see the compelling anatomy of a murder in slow motion, from the dynamics of a marriage to the crime itself, to its chilling aftermath. Powerful reporting of an unforgettable story.”—Vincent Bugliosi
Download or read book The Hangman s Game written by Karen King-Aribisala and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘They wanted me dead. I don’t mean physical death. I’m not afraid of that any more ... The death they wanted for me was spiritual – I think that’s what I mean – to have me beset by fears, doubts; the insecurities of action and word that take their toll and make you live a life of death.’
Download or read book The Hangman s Replacement written by Taona D. Chiveneko and published by Chiveneko Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you had to interview the candidates for a country's new hangman, what questions would you ask them? If your family was on the verge of starvation, and becoming a hangman was the only job available, would you apply? If you were hired, what would you do if the prisoners looked like your loved ones? If you knew that another good man was taking the job out of desperation, would you do anything to prevent him from getting it? What if that man's recruitment would somehow guarantee your own survival, would you encourage his candidacy? All these questions were asked of people who never thought they would find themselves in such a position, until they became mired in the chaos surrounding the hangman's replacement.
Download or read book The Kindness of the Hangman written by Henry Oster and published by Higgins Bay Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young German boy's true story of tragedy and triumph, from the depths of despair in Auschwitz and Buchenwald to an extraordinary life in America.
Download or read book The Hangman s Secret written by Laura Joh Rowland and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Laura Joh Rowland, a story about the darkness that lurks within and the deadly secrets that beg to be revealed. Intrepid photographer Sarah Bain and her motley crew of friends are back to hunt criminals in the dark, seedy underbelly of Victorian London, but little do they know, the darkness may lurk closer than they first divined. Photographer Sarah Bain and her friends Lord Hugh Staunton and sometime street urchin Mick O’Reilly are private detectives with a new gig—photographing crime scenes for London’s Daily World newspaper. The Daily World is the latest business venture of their sole client, Sir Gerald Mariner, a fabulously wealthy and powerful banker. One cold, snowy January morning, Sarah, Hugh, and Mick are summoned to the goriest crime scene they’ve ever encountered. A pub owner named Harry Warbrick has been found hanged and decapitated amid evidence of foul play. His murder becomes a sensation because he was England’s top hangman and he’s met the same fate that he inflicted on hundreds of criminals. Sir Gerald announces that the Daily World—meaning Sarah and her friends—will investigate and solve Harry Warbrick’s murder before the police do. The contest pits Sarah against the man she loves, Police Constable Barrett. She and her friends discover a connection between Harry Warbrick’s murder and the most notorious criminal he ever executed—Amelia Carlisle, the “Baby-Butcher,” who murdered hundreds of infants placed in her care. Something happened at Amelia’s execution. The Official Secrets Act forbids the seven witnesses present to divulge any information about it. But Harry had a bad habit of leaking tips to the press. Sarah and her friends suspect that one of the other witnesses killed Harry to prevent him from revealing a secret related to the execution. What is the secret, and who hanged the hangman?
