Download or read book The Devil s Ribbon written by D. E. Meredith and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trail of beribboned murders. A ticking bomb. A city about to explode. July, 1858: London swelters under the oppressive heat of the hottest summer on record, and trouble is brewing. Forensic scientist Professor Adolphus Hatton and his trusty assistant, Albert Roumande, have a morgue full of cholera victims. The dead are all Irish, the poorest of London's poor. They came in their thousands ten years ago, forced into the London slums by the terrible famine. Now they live segregated from the rest of Victorian society, a race apart in this heaving city who are at once everywhere and nowhere. But they are a close knit people, and deeply politicised. From the docks in Limehouse to the taverns of St Giles, Fenian groups are talking of violence and of liberation. When a series of violent murders threatens to cause tensions to boil over, Scotland Yard calls on Hatton and Roumande to help investigate. The seemingly unconnected victims, who hail from all strata of society, are linked by the same macabre calling card: a bright Fenian green ribbon placed strategically about their corpses. While Hatton's search for clues leads him into the spell of a blindingly beautiful woman, a widow of one of the slain, rumblings of a bombing campaign led by an agitator priest and his gang of would-be terrorists build throughout the slums. As the orchestra of veiled motives, divided loyalties, and violent retribution reaches a crescendo, Hatton's skills are tested to the limit. With Roumande, he must race across London to an island with a shipwreck and a secret on a nail-biting race against time in this gripping, elegantly executed Victorian mystery in the tradition of The Dante Club and The Somnambulist.
Download or read book The Devil s Grip written by Neal Drinnan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven shots ring out in the silence of Victoria’s rolling Barrabool Hills. As the final recoil echoes through the paddocks, a revered sheep-breeding dynasty comes to a bloody and inglorious end. No one could have anticipated the orgy of violence that wiped out three generations of the Wettenhall family, much less the lurid scandals about Darcy Wettenhall, the man behind the world famous Stanbury sheep stud, that would emerge from the aftermath. Almost three decades later, the web of secrets and lies that led to this bizarre and seemingly motiveless murder spree are unravelled with the help of Bob Perry, Darcy Wettenhall’s secret lover for a decade prior to his murder. From the bucolic majesty, privilege and snobbery of the Western District’s prized pastoral lands and dynasties to the bleak, loveless underworld of orphanages, rodeo stables and homeless shelters, The Devil’s Grip is a courageous and thought-provoking meditation on the fragility of reputation, the folly of deception and the power of shame. Praise for The Devil’s Grip ‘A remarkable piece of work. It is a strange, unusual and beautiful book with an incredibly unique setting. I don't think I've read anything quite like it. It is compulsive reading. True crime. Memoir. History. How do you live a life honestly and with dignity? It's difficult to categorise because it traverses so many genres. But it WORKS.’ Matthew Condon, author of the Three Crooked Kings trilogy ‘On its face this is the story of a family steeped in the pursuit of the perfect ram, but beneath the surface lies a riveting and ribald tale of lust, loss, manipulation, unbridled ambition and ultimately murder.’ Mark Tedeschi AM QC and author of Eugenia, Kidnapped and Murder at Myall Creek ‘An unforgettable, courageous and deeply tragic local story which manages to become a universal tale’ Gregory Day, author of Archipelago of Souls and A Sand Archive ‘It’s got it all: sex, domestic violence, ‘the land’ – such an important concept resonating in the Australian mind – land-holders and property, privilege, prejudice, skulduggery and murder!’ David Bradford, author of The Gunners’ Doctor and Tell Me I’m Okay
Download or read book Painted Devils written by Margaret Owen and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Instant New York Times Bestseller! An Instant Indies Bestseller! A scrappy former maid and jewel thief must outwit gods, injustice, and her own past in this sequel to the Indie Next Pick, Little Thieves by Margaret Owen. Let's get one thing straight - Vanja Schmidt wasn't trying to start a cult. After taking down a corrupt margrave, breaking a deadly curse, and finding romance with the vexingly scrupulous junior prefect Emeric Conrad, Vanja had one great mystery left: her long-lost birth family . . . and whether they would welcome a thief. But in her search for an honest trade, she hit trouble and invented a god, the Scarlet Maiden, to scam her way out. Now that lie is growing out of control—especially when Emeric arrives to investigate and the Scarlet Maiden manifests to claim him as a virgin sacrifice. For his final test to become a prefect, Emeric must determine if Vanja is guilty of serious fraud or if the Scarlet Maiden—and her claim to him—is genuine. Meanwhile, Vanja is chasing an alternative sacrifice that could be their way out. The hunt leads her not only into the lairs of monsters and the paths of gods, but also the ties of her past. And with what should be the simplest way to save Emeric hanging over their heads, he and Vanja must face a more dangerous question: Is there a future for a thief and a prefect, and at what price? From the indie bestselling author Margaret Owen comes the thrilling next installment in the Little Thieves trilogy with all new interior illustrations from the author.
Download or read book Devils Lake North Dakota Integrated Planning Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Devils Alliance written by Roger Moorhouse and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: antly, the pact laid the groundwork for Soviet control of Eastern Europe, a power grab that would define the post-war order. Drawing on memoirs, diaries, and official records from newly opened Soviet archives, The Devils' Alliance is the authoritative work on one of the seminal episodes of World War II. In his characteristically rich and detailed prose, Moorhouse paints a vivid picture of the pact's origins and its enduring influence as a crucial turning point, in both the war and in modern history.
Download or read book The Devils written by Molière and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Long ago in Sicily, the legend of Don Juan began. In this, Moliére's version of the tale, we meet Don Juan again. He is a man who appreciates beauty wherever and whenever he sees it--and beauty is almost always a pretty woman, who he appr
Download or read book Urbain Grandier and the Devils of Loudon written by Alexandre Dumas and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1634 France, this play tells the story of demonic possession and religious prosecution. Father Urbain Grandier is accused of witchcraft and promiscuous behavior against the nuns. Grandier appears to have genuine psychic powers, but he is innocent of his other supposed crimes. Ultimately, he's brought to trial. One of Dumas's most intense psychodramas.
Download or read book Public Documents of the State of North Dakota Being the Annual and Biennial Reports of Various Public Officers and Institutions to the Governor and Legislative Assembly for the Fiscal Period Ending written by North Dakota and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canonization of Gods and Tribulation of Devils written by Lian Hongwen and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amongst the gods, there was a saying that a deity had committed a murder a thousand years ago. The massacre over a thousand years ago was in fact a struggle between human cultivators and animal cultivators. After a thousand years, there would be another contest. However, the contest from a thousand years ago was even more bitter. Who would be the final victor in the battle between the Immortal Path's Ancestor and the Devil Realm's Ancestor? This was heavenly tribulation. Only a person with heavenly destiny could survive this. He was born into the world!
Download or read book Demons the Possessed or the the Devils written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 925 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demons is an allegory of the potentially catastrophic consequences of the political and moral nihilism that were becoming prevalent in Russia in the 1860s. A fictional town descends into chaos as it becomes the focal point of an attempted revolution, orchestrated by master conspirator Pyotr Verkhovensky. The mysterious aristocratic figure of Nikolai Stavrogin—Verkhovensky's counterpart in the moral sphere—dominates the book, exercising an extraordinary influence over the hearts and minds of almost all the other characters. The idealistic, western-influenced generation of the 1840s, epitomized in the character of Stepan Verkhovensky (who is both Pyotr Verkhovensky's father and Nikolai Stavrogin's childhood teacher), are presented as the unconscious progenitors and helpless accomplices of the 'demonic' forces that take possession of the town.
Download or read book Devils Drugs and Doctors written by Howard Wilcox Haggard and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Download or read book A Devils Story as told to Norm written by Norman Merritt and published by Norman Merritt. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is not easy in these last days. When you need help, nothing or nobody is willing to come along side of you. The 948 have build a brick fortress around you life, so you dis-spare and hate the very day you were born. I call it sin justice. They will create so many hurts in your life it seems to you that it is just not worth living. They will bring you to point that you will not know what Normality is. Do you know what a loving marriage is like? Whats a good holiday feel like? How many good days have you had lately, or peaceful nights sleep? Are fear and anxiety in control of your mind? Is doubt ruler of your heart. The 948 are doing this all the time. They are masters at stealing your joy, peace, happiness. But they always give you something back in return. Its call trauma. Welcome to A Devils story as told to Norm
Download or read book Devils Grace written by C.A. Wittchen and published by Casey Wittchen. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tempest Laurier appears to be an average seventeen year old who fits right in as a high school senior, but she has a secret she’s been hiding since she was adopted as a small child. Although she cannot remember much of her life before her adoption, nightmares, sightings and odd things have always happened to her. With a memory of a hallway taken by fire and a closed door at its end, Tempest unwittingly discovers that danger reaches close to home. Finding herself caught in the middle, she sees things that no one else can, giving her clues into a conflict among two worlds of the Species within our world, laced with faeries and demons, truth and deception. This leads her onto a crumbling road of physical and psychological pain, along with loss as relationships are tried and truths are discovered. When Tempest’s adoptive “perfect family” starts to act differently toward her, she decides to search for her birth father, bringing more than demons out of the shadows. The one thing Tempest never saw coming is an ugly secret straight into the heart of what should be her normal human life as she struggles to link her past with her present before it kills her.
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Download or read book The Devils Demons MEGAPACK 25 Modern and Classic Tales written by Mack Reynolds and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories about devils and demons were literary staples long before the modern horror field came into existence. Our earliest story in this volume, by Washington Irving, was published in 1824...and the fact that these tales span almost 200 years shows how enduring the theme remains. Here, then, are 25 great modern and classic tales of devils, demons, and the macabre. Enjoy! THE CONTRACT OF CARSON CARRUTHERS, by William P. McGivern BURNT TOAST, by Mack Reynolds CRIME CLEAN-UP IN CENTER CITY, by Robert Moore Williams THE CRACKS OF TIME, by Dorothy Quick THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER, by Washington Irving HIDEAWAY, by Everil Worrell THE STRANGER FROM KURDISTAN, by E. Hoffmann Price HEREAFTER, INC., by Lester del Rey NIGHTMARE ON THE NOSE, by Evelyn E. Smith THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER, by Mark Twain AUT DIABOLUS AUT NIHIL: THE TRUE STORY OF A HALLUCINATION, by X.L. (Julian Osgood Field) CAN SUCH BEAUTY BE? by Jerome Bixby MARKHEIM, by Robert Louis Stevenson MONSIEUR BLUEBEARD, by Emil Petaja YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN, by Nathaniel Hawthorne ROOM WITHOUT WINDOWS, by Manly Banister THE BARGAIN OF RUPERT ORANGE, by Vincent O’Sullivan THE BOTTLE IMP, by Dwight V. Swain THE CASE OF MR. LUCRAFT, Walter Besant and James Rice WHO SUPS WITH THE DEVIL, by S.M. Tenneshaw THE SHOEMAKER AND THE DEVIL, by Anton Chekhov SPAWN OF HELL, by William P. McGivern YOUR SOUL COMES C.O.D., by Mack Reynolds ST. JOHN'S EVE, by Nikolai Gogol WOLFIE, by Theodore R. Cogwell If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 260+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!
Download or read book The Devil and the Red Ribbon written by Theo Rion and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Download or read book THE COVENANT BETWEEN THE KING OF DEVILS AND DEATH written by JAMES DE ROUSSEAU and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is important pay attention to the character Death as a spirit, and >death
