Download or read book The Tichborne Tragedy written by Maurice Edward Kenealy and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Great Pretenders written by Jan Bondeson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most countries have their own national mysteries that have never been solved, enigmatic figures who have disappeared, pretenders who have surfaced to claim their rights, and many of these are now in the realms of folklore and legend. However, in this study, six case studies are reopened and re-examined using modern historical and medical science, including DNA technology. Among those investigated by Bondeson are the fate of the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, the identity of the German Kaspar Hauser, the faked death of Tsar Alexander I, and the alleged secret marriage of George III. A light-hearted read for the curious.

Download or read book The Tichborne Claimant written by Rohan McWilliam and published by Bloomsbury Continuum. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary case in 1874 of the Tichborne Claimant generated the longest trial, to that point, in British legal history. The case divided the nation along political, religious and social lines, and the campaign for justice for the Claimant proved a focus for political activism between the defeat of the Chartists and rise of the Labour Party.

Download or read book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher written by Kate Summerscale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling account of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction. In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land. At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking, as Kate Summerscale relates in her scintillating new book, that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher. Whicher quickly believed the unbelievable--that someone within the family was responsible for the murder of young Saville Kent. Without sufficient evidence or a confession, though, his case was circumstantial and he returned to London a broken man. Though he would be vindicated five years later, the real legacy of Jonathan Whicher lives on in fiction: the tough, quirky, knowing, and all-seeing detective that we know and love today . . . from the cryptic Sgt. Cuff in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher is a provocative work of nonfiction that reads like a Victorian thriller, and in it Kate Summerscale has fashioned a brilliant, multilayered narrative that is as cleverly constructed as it is beautifully written.

Download or read book Identifying the English written by Edward Higgs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal identification is very much a live political issue in Britain and this book looks at why this is the case, and why, paradoxically, the theft of identity has become ever more common as the means of identification have multiplied. Identifying the English looks not only at how criminals have been identified - branding, fingerprinting, DNA - but also at the identification of the individual with seals and signatures, of the citizen by means of passports and ID cards, and of the corpse. Beginning his history in the medieval period, Edward Higgs reveals how it was not the Industrial Revolution that brought the most radical changes in identification techniques, as many have assumed, but rather the changing nature of the State and commerce, and their relationship with citizens and customers. In the twentieth century the very different historical techniques have converged on the holding of information on databases, and increasingly on biometrics, and the multiplication of these external databases outside the control of individuals has continued to undermine personal identity security.

Download or read book Kenealy and the Tichborne Cause written by Michael Roe and published by Melbourne : Melbourne University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1852 Roger Charles Doughty-Tichborne abandoned the army and sailed for South America; toured Chile, crossed the Andes, and was last sighted alive on a ship called the Bella, which left Rio de Janeiro on 20 April 1854, bound for Kingston, Jamaica; it was never seen again; in 1865, a butcher calling himself Tomas Castro from Wagga Wagga, Australia, came forward, claiming to be Sir Roger; in Paris, Lady Tichborne recognized him as her son on 10 January 1867; most of the Tichborne family insisted that the new arrival was an impostor; The Claimant looked nothing like Roger, he was also unable to speak French, in which Roger had been fluent, and he had scant knowledge of Roger's past; enquiries in Australia and South America then began to connect the Claimant with Arthur Orton (b. Mar. 20, 1834); a former sweetheart of Orton's identified the Claimant as Orton; d Apr. 1, 1898).

Download or read book The Englishman written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca written by Alden Nowlan and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1981 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy written by Claire McEachern and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.

Download or read book The Tichborne Claimant written by Douglas Woodruff and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Roger Charles Doughty-Tichborne, the heir to an English baronetcy, who disappeared at sea in the 1850s, and the man who appeared, years later, and claimed to be Roger. This claimant was subsequently tried and convicted of perjury.

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Download or read book Annual Supplement to the Catalogue of the Library of Parliament in Alphabetical and Subject Order written by Canada. Library of Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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