Download or read book Murder Crime Stirling written by Lynne Wilson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing collection delves into the villainous deeds that have taken place in Stirling during it’s long history. Cases of murder, robbery, assault and fraud are all examined as the darker side of this historic city's past is exposed. From cases as famous as the execution of Andrew Hardie and John Baird for high treason in 1820, to little-known crimes such as that of eighty-four-year old Allan Mair, hung for the murder of his eighty-five-year old wife, Mary, in 1843, this book sheds a new light on the city's criminal history. Illustrated with a wide range of archive material and modern photographs, Stirling Murder & Crime is sure to fascinate both residents and visitors alike as these shocking events of the past are revealed for a new generation.

Download or read book Stirling written by Lynne Wilson and published by Murder & Crime. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing collection delves into the villainous deeds that have taken place in Stirling during it's long history. Cases of murder, robbery, assault and fraud are all examined as the darker side of this historic city's past is exposed. From cases as famous as the execution of Andrew Hardie and John Baird for high treason in 1820, to little-known crimes such as that of eighty-four-year old Allan Mair, hung for the murder of his eighty-five-year old wife, Mary, in 1843, this book sheds a new light on the city's criminal history. Illustrated with a wide range of archive material and modern photographs, Murder & Crime Stirling is sure to fascinate both residents and visitors alike as these shocking events of the past are revealed for a new generation.

Download or read book Who Killed William Shakespeare written by Simon Andrew Stirling and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Shakespeare lived in violent times; his death passed without comment. By the time he was adopted as the national poet of England the details of his life had been concealed. He had become an invisible man, the humble Warwickshire lad who entertained royalty and then faded into obscurity. But his story has been carefully manipulated. In reality, he was a dissident whose works were highly critical of the regimes of Elizabeth I and James I. Who Killed William Shakespeare? examines the means, motive and the opportunity that led to his murder, and explains why Will Shakespeare had to be 'stopped'. From forensic analysis of his death mask to the hunt for his missing skull, the circumstances of Shakespeare's death are reconstructed and his life reconsidered in the light of fresh discoveries. What emerges is a portrait of a genius who spoke his mind and was silenced by his greatest literary rival.

Download or read book The Last Thread A DCI Stirling Investigation written by Ray Britain and published by Nielson. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accused of pushing a boy to his death, DCI Doug Stirling is suspended from duty. Attacked in the media and haunted by the boy's eyes as he let go of Stirling's hand, he watches helplessly as an incompetent colleague bent on destroying him investigates the boy's death. Weeks later, a burnt-out car containing a savagely murdered, unidentified man leads ACC Steph Tanner to take a professional risk in appointing Stirling to lead the investigation. With no witnesses, no forensic evidence and more theories than investigators, Stirling's investigation has too many 'loose threads' as a complex, interwoven history of deception, betrayal and sadistic relationships is revealed. Is the investigation as complex as it appears, or is there a simpler explanation? With time the enemy, and still traumatised by the boy's death, can Stirling bring the killer, or killers, to justice before his career is ruined? Things are difficult enough when DC Helen Williams joins the investigation, a determined woman intent on rekindling their past relationship. And is Ayesha, the beautiful lawyer Stirling has grown fond of, somehow connected to the murder?

Download or read book A Not So Shocking Murder written by Lily Stirling and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First, no coffee. Then a dead guy. This is one killer vacation. I thought being forced into a Mother's Day trip with my entire family on the Oregon Coast was bad. Then came the dead bodies. Turns out Mom's cozy vacation spot kept its high murder count a secret. So I'm stuck in a death trap. Either I can play detective for a few days or follow Mom's perfect schedule. Detective it is. But is my vacation long enough to solve a couple years' worth of crimes? Five days. Six murders. No pressure. Holt Jacobs isn't for everyone. He's a sarcastic introvert who can never get quite enough coffee. Becoming a sarcastic sleuth was unexpected, but as an engineer, Holt is used to solving puzzles.

Download or read book A Not So Shocking Murder written by Lily Stirling and published by Stirling Options. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First, no coffee. Then a dead guy. This is one killer vacation. I thought being forced into a Mother's Day trip with my entire family on the Oregon Coast was bad. Then came the dead bodies. Turns out Mom's cozy vacation spot kept its high murder count a secret. So I'm stuck in a death trap. Either I can play detective for a few days or follow Mom's perfect schedule. Detective it is. But is my vacation long enough to solve a couple years' worth of crimes? Five days. Six murders. No pressure. Holt Jacobs isn't for everyone. He's a sarcastic introvert who can never get quite enough coffee. Becoming a sarcastic sleuth was unexpected, but as an engineer, Holt is used to solving puzzles.

Download or read book Midnight Beach written by Kay Jennings and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brutally murdered federal agent and distrust among his close colleagues greet Port Stirling Police Chief Matt Horning as he faces down a second homicide in his new Oregon hometown. Federal agent Clay Sherwin, who was briefly a suspect in a murder in Shallow Waters, book one in A Port Stirling Mystery series, has been found shot through the heart and decapitated in a marshy area near the Pacific Ocean. Just when his police department gets back to normal after solving its first murder in decades, along comes another dead body, but this one has ominous overtones never seen before in Port Stirling. Did Matt Horning bring this trouble with him when he fled a painful professional experience in Texas four months earlier? With his colleagues Detective Jay Finley, Cadet Fern Byrne, and Oregon State Trooper Ed Sanders assisting him, Horning must also deal with the federal officials from the State Department to investigate Sherwin's death. Is there really an international drug ring operating in his remote coastal village where nothing ever happens? Is this what Matt Horning bargained for when he took this job last winter? As spring blooms on the Oregon coast, are there also blossoming forbidden feelings within him? The intimidating 300-foot bluffs ringing the white-sand pristine beaches may present the perfect locale for those intent on evil. Dogged by his own demons, Horning must quickly face the facts; this is more than a few bad guys exchanging pot for cash. Much more. Does he have the resources and the experience to take back Port Stirling from those who would harm its peaceful vibe before it's lost forever? Can he outsmart the bad guys? In this shocking story based on a real-life incident, Midnight Beach continues the saga of Matt Horning and Port Stirling.

Download or read book Whatever Happened to Molly Bloom written by Jessica Stirling and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a new series featuring Detective Jim Kinsella. Who murdered Molly? Was it Leopold Bloom, in the kitchen, with a teapot . . .? This finely crafted historical mystery, using several recognizable characters and the famous setting from James Joyce’s Ulysses, marks an intriguing departure for saga writer Jessica Stirling. Detective Inspector Jim Kinsella of the Dublin police force is called to the scene when the body of Molly Bloom has been found in her own kitchen where she has been beaten to death with a teapot. Although her husband, Leopold Bloom, is immediately taken into custody without a convincing alibi, Kinsella begins to have his doubts and suspicion falls upon Molly’s fellow singer and alleged lover, Hugh ‘Blazes’ Boylan. Kinsella, aided by his colleague, Inspector Tom Machin, probes the conflicting stories of Bloom and Boylan. Were the pair seen fighting outside a brothel the night of Molly’s murder? And what of the unusual scent, imported from America and found on a cotton ball beneath the Blooms’ bed, that Kinsella hopes will lead him to Leopold’s own dirty little secret? Kinsella is determined to ensure the wrong man doesn’t end up behind bars, and, in seeking the truth, stumbles upon more than he bargained for...

Download or read book Convicting the Innocent written by Brandon L. Garrett and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 20, 1984, Earl Washington—defended for all of forty minutes by a lawyer who had never tried a death penalty case—was found guilty of rape and murder in the state of Virginia and sentenced to death. After nine years on death row, DNA testing cast doubt on his conviction and saved his life. However, he spent another eight years in prison before more sophisticated DNA technology proved his innocence and convicted the guilty man. DNA exonerations have shattered confidence in the criminal justice system by exposing how often we have convicted the innocent and let the guilty walk free. In this unsettling in-depth analysis, Brandon Garrett examines what went wrong in the cases of the first 250 wrongfully convicted people to be exonerated by DNA testing. Based on trial transcripts, Garrett’s investigation into the causes of wrongful convictions reveals larger patterns of incompetence, abuse, and error. Evidence corrupted by suggestive eyewitness procedures, coercive interrogations, unsound and unreliable forensics, shoddy investigative practices, cognitive bias, and poor lawyering illustrates the weaknesses built into our current criminal justice system. Garrett proposes practical reforms that rely more on documented, recorded, and audited evidence, and less on fallible human memory. Very few crimes committed in the United States involve biological evidence that can be tested using DNA. How many unjust convictions are there that we will never discover? Convicting the Innocent makes a powerful case for systemic reforms to improve the accuracy of all criminal cases.

Download or read book Murder Exposed written by Saul Sterling and published by Saul Sterling SP. This book was released on 2022-02-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picturesque seaside wedding charms guests, until the moment a deadly explosion ends in multiple murders. Daniel Webster, local retired detective is back on the booze and fishing the Chesapeake, when he’s quickly re-deputized by the Local States Attorney, giving him a second chance to dismantle the crime-ridden Corbin Cult, implicated in the killer bombing. When Cult leaders unexpectedly begin to die, suspecting stares lock on an unlikely vigilante. From a monastery in nearby Virginia, a rebel priest joins Webster’s battle to end the evil advancing on the quaint bay side town overwhelmed by violent crime.

Download or read book Six Scottish Courtly and Chivalric Poems Including Lyndsay s Squyer Meldrum written by Rhiannon Purdie and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These six poems explore some of the courtly and chivalric themes that preoccupied late medieval Scottish society. The volume includes Sir David Lyndsay's Historie and Testament of Squyer Meldrum, as well as his Answer to the Kingis Flyting; and three anonymous fifteenth-century poems: Balletis of the Nine Nobles, Complaint for the Death of Margaret, Princess of Scotland, and Talis of the Fyve Bestes.

Download or read book SHALLOW WATERS written by Kay Jennings and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mad City written by Michael Arntfield and published by Little a. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A chilling, unflinching exploration of American crimes of the twentieth century and how one serial killer managed to slip through the cracks--until now."--

Download or read book The Accidental Vigilante written by Robert Sterling Hecker and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Delisted

Download or read book Code written by Kay Jennings and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decades-old skeleton with a bullet in its skull, and a natural disaster give Port Stirling, Oregon, police chief Matt Horning all he can handle. Contemporary problems and an ugly story in Oregon's history make this a riveting read.

Download or read book The Story of Stirling written by Dr Bruce Durie and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by well-known writer, broadcaster and genealogist Bruce Durie, this book tells the amazing story of Stirling's history from earliest times to the modern day. Some of the most pivotal moments in Scottish history occurred in the city's surroundings, including the Battle of Bannockburn – the greatest military victory in Scottish memory. But there is more to central Scotland's premier city than a battle, Robert Bruce and William Wallace. Illustrated with over 120 pictures – including 16 colour plates – and filled with curious, interesting and quirky facts throughout, The Story of Stirling will interest anyone who knows and loves this part of Scotland.

Download or read book Sterling A Brown written by Joanne V. Gabbin and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sterling A. Brown's achievement and influence in the field of American literature and culture are unquestionably significant. His poetry has been translated into Spanish, French, German, and Russian and has been read in literary circles throughout the world. He is also one of the principal architects of black criticism. His critical essays and books are seminal works that give an insider's perspective of literature by and about blacks. Leopold Sedar Senghor, who became familiar with Brown's poetry and criticism in the 1920s and 1930s, called him "an original militant of Negritude, a precursor of our movement." Yet Joanne V. Gabbin's book, originally published in 1985, remains the only study of Brown's work and influence. Gabbin sketches Brown's life, drawing on personal interviews and viewing his achievements as a poet, critic, and cultural griot. She analyzes in depth the formal and thematic qualities of his poetry, revealing his subtle adaptation of song forms, especially the blues. To articulate the aesthetic principles Brown recognized in the writings of black authors, Gabbin explores his identification of the various elements that have come together to create American culture.