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Minimal shelfwear w/owner label inside front cover, scuffed edges. No markings. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight.

Based on a true story about the mass murder of a farm family, The Murdered Family raises questions about the guilt of the man convicted of the crime. A wave of fear sweeps across the barren prairies of central North Dakota in April of 1920 with the tragic news that seven members of a farm family and their hired boy have been brutally murdered at their home just north of Turtle Lake in McLean County. A massive search for the killers begins immediately in the midst of an intense statewide election campaign. Three weeks later, eager investigators encouraged by nervous politicians get a signed confession from one of the prime suspects in the case. He is sentenced that same day to life in the state penitentiary in what the New York Times referred to then as ''the most rapid administration of justice in the country.'' From the beginning, the man denies his guilt and says his confession was obtained under duress, intimidation and fear. In November, his lawyers file a motion in district court asking that his plea of guilty be withdrawn and for a trial upon the merits. Their motion is strengthened when some new evidence is discovered on the Wolf family farm only days before the motion is filed. Some ninety years later, people in the area still recall the words the convicted man was supposed to have said: ''My eyes have seen but my hands are clean!''

This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:0398068208

An editor murdered. A midlife romance. A small-town writer with the pen name of Sexy Cissy. So who hated steamy novels enough to kill?The secret life of Kat, a widow, falls apart when her true identity becomes known, and she’s the one who finds her murdered editor. Will she be the next victim? Kat has to find the murderer to save her reputation and her life, but who did it? Her editor’s husband? A woman obsessed with any book she considered to be morally objectionable? Or even the local banker's “trophy wife” who was worried that a character in Sexy Cissy’s novel was based on her?Plenty of dogs, food & recipes. Download it now by scrolling up this page and clicking on the Buy button.

A gold mine. A millionaire. An island paradise. An unsolved murder. A missing fortune. The story of the infamous Sir Harry Oakes as only Charlotte Gray can tell it On an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes, gold mining tycoon, philanthropist and "richest man in the Empire," was murdered. The news of his death surged across the English-speaking world, from London, the Imperial centre, to the remote Canadian mining town of Kirkland Lake, in the Northern Ontario bush. The murder became celebrated as "the crime of the century."             The layers of mystery deepened as the involvement of Oakes' son-in-law, Count Alfred de Marigny, came quickly to be questioned, as did the odd machinations of the Governor of the Bahamas, the former King Edward VIII. Despite a sensational trial, no murderer was ever convicted. Rumours were unrelenting about Oakes' missing fortune, and fascination with the Oakes story has persisted for decades.                Award-winning biographer and popular historian Charlotte Gray explores, for the first time, the life of the man behind the scandal, a man who was both reviled and admired - from his early, hardscrabble days of mining exploration, to his explosion of wealth, to his grandiose gestures of philanthropy. And Gray brings fresh eyes to the bungled investigation and shocking trial in the remote colonial island streets, proposing an overlooked suspect in this long cold case. Murdered Midas is the story of the man behind the newspaper headlines, who, despite his wealth and position, was never able to have justice.

While investigating a possible wormhole, Captain Janeway discovers a solar system being destroyed by warring Akerians and is forced to aid them in order to protect the Veruna Four population

p>Sex trafficking, exotic dancing, online pornography, and massage brothels all have one thing in common: they generate billions of dollars while murdering the souls of exploited women, many of whom were the victims of childhood abuse. “Soul murder” is a psychological term used to describe the intentional and traumatic neglect and abuse of children, resulting in impaired emotional development. The condition acts as a barrier to feelings of self-worth and joy. Soul murder occurs among exploited women of all races, ethnicities, and faiths. Faith and religion can help women heal the scars of soul murder, but as veteran minister Irie Lynne Session discovered, traditional biblical interpretations often negatively affect exploited women’s self-concepts, making many churches dangerously unhealthy communities for soul-murdered women. In Murdered Souls, Resurrected Lives, Session focuses on exploited women’s understanding of God and how that understanding shapes their self-perception. Based on her own work with victims of the sex trade, Session offers a theological framework for preaching and teaching resurrection from soul murder, based on tenets of womanist theological ethics, including radical subjectivity, traditional communalism, redemptive self-love, and critical engagement with biblical stories featuring women. With help, soul-murdered women can reclaim their lives.

In The Murdered Magicians, Dr. Peter Partner provides a full and succinct account of the history and mythical metamorphosis of the military crusading order known as the Knights Templar. The Murdered Magicians is both the history of the Knights Templar as it is thought to have occurred, in fact, and an account of the beliefs invented about the Templars in early and modern times.

Describes how, in 1991, four teenage girls were brutally raped, murdered, and set on fire in a small yogurt shop, a shocking crime that rocked the town of Austin, Texas and resulted in false confessions and an unexpected twist. Original.

It's 2007 and the capital is booming, but Lily Cane of The London Evening News is struggling. The twenty-something journalist has been demoted from Features to Obituaries by her new boss. Meanwhile, aristocrat and fashion muse Lady Zuleika Winters has been found dead - the result of a suspected cocaine overdose - in her Chelsea apartment. When Lily's editor assigns her the task of exposing decadent London, she must infiltrate an impenetrable clique to find out more. Her mission takes an unusual turn when another socialite is killed at the Serpentine Gallery's Summer Party. Determined to prove the deaths are connected, Lily searches for answers. As all signs point to one suspect - and the police, newspapers and public think they've got their man - Lily's not convinced...Murdered in Chelsea holds up a mirror to High Society, exposing some of the more dubious practices of the police and the media. With Lily's articles interposed throughout as the story unfolds, this glamorous and witty novel is also a journalistic thriller - the first in a mystery series from an exciting new voice.

In March 1778, Joshua Spooner, a wealthy gentleman farmer in Brookfield, Massachusetts, was beaten to death and his body stuffed down a well. Four people were hanged for the crime: two British soldiers, a young Continental soldier, and Spooner's wife, Bathsheba, who was charged with instigating the murder. She was thirty-two years old and five months pregnant when executed. Newspapers described the case as "the most extraordinary crime ever perpetrated in New England." Murdered by His Wife provides a vivid reconstruction of this dramatic but little-known episode. Beautiful, intelligent, high-spirited, and witty, Bathsheba was the mother of three young children and in her own words felt "an utter aversion" for her husband, who was known to be an abusive drunk. A year before the murder, she took in and nursed a sixteen-year-old Continental soldier who was returning from a year's enlistment under George Washington. The two became lovers and conceived a child. Divorces were all but impossible for women at that time and adulteresses were stripped to the waist and publicly whipped. Bathsheba's pregnancy occasioned a series of desperate plots to murder her husband, finally brought to fruition with the aid of two British deserters from General Burgoyne's defeated army. The plots, the crime, the trial, and the aftermath are presented against a backdrop of revolutionary turmoil in Massachusetts. As the daughter of the state's most prominent and despised Loyalist, Bathsheba bore the brunt of the political, cultural, and gender prejudices of her day. When she sought a stay of execution to deliver her baby, the Massachusetts Council rejected her petition and she was promptly hanged before a crowd of 5,000 spectators.

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Although Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973) is widely regarded as one of the most important twentieth-century authors writing in German, her novels and stories have sometimes been viewed narrowly as portraits of women as victims. In this innovative study, Sara Lennox provides a much broader perspective on Bachmann's work, at the same time undertaking an experiment in feminist methodology.Lennox examines Bachmann's poetry and prose in historical context, arguing that the varied feminist interpretations of her writings are the result of shifts in theoretical emphases over a period of more than three decades. Lennox then places her own essays on Bachmann in similar perspective, showing how each piece reflects the historical moment in which it was written. Making use of recent interdisciplinary approaches―Foucauldian theories of sexuality, post-colonial theory, materialist feminism―she explores the extent to which each of her earlier readings was shaped by the methods employed, the questions asked, and the political issues that seemed most germane at the time. Out of this analysis comes a new understanding of the significance of Bachmann's work and new insight into the theory and practice of feminist criticism.

THE ELLERY QUEEN-TENNIAL!!!!! Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, who wrote under the pseudonym “Ellery Queen,” and whose fictional sleuth was also named “Ellery Queen,” were probably the most important American mystery writers from 1929 until the early 1970's. “Ellery Queen is the American detective story,” wrote Anthony Boucher – and he meant not only their detective novels, but also their critical writings, their editing, and their appearance on television and the radio. From 1939 until 1948, Lee and Dannay wrote a hugely popular radio mystery show, The Adventures of Ellery Queen, which like the EQ books stopped the action toward the end and challenged the audience to deduce whodunit. From the more than 350 surviving scripts, we have chosen fourteen of the most challenging: · The case of the Tontine whose members die off one by one · The disappearance of Napoleon’s Razor on a cross-country railroad train · The case that Sherlock Holmes failed to solve · The strangling in a haunted cave with only the victim’s footprints leading to the corpse · A dying message which seems to name all the suspects · The clue of the dead moth · and 8 other extraordinary mysteries This book is published in honor of the centennial of the births of Lee and Dannay, and (n the fictional world of EQ), the centennial of Ellery himself. The publisher: Founded in 1994 as the only publishing house to specialize in mystery short story collections, Crippen & Landru has been described as “a monument in the making” (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine) and “the best edited, most attractively packaged line of mystery books introduced in this decade” (Mystery Scene), and even “God bless Crippen & Landru” (The Strand). In many ways, however, in introducing completely unknown EQ detections to a new generation of readers, The Adventure of the Murdered Moths may be our most important book.

John Parker researched into J.Edgar Hoover's files on Elvis Presley at FBI headquarters and listened to tape-recorded interviews with members of Presley's entourage. This book examines Elvis's career, his relationships with successive girlfriends and his gradual dependence on prescription drugs. It also offers evidence pointing to his involvement as a victim of a million-dollar sting by the Mafia. He had been due to testify at a special hearing which was expected to expose some of the Mafia members involved in the fraud, but he died the day before, and the book considers the possibility that he was murdered. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Book is in NEW condition. 1.89

A Masao Masuto Mystery E.V. Cunningham is a pseudonym of Howard Fast - A corpse has been found in a Beverly Hills bathtub; nobody, not even the police, knows who the dead man is. And the killer will stop at nothing to cover his tracks. Only Masao Masuto, with his Zen-like mind, can figure out the mystery of the dead man's identity. But will Masuto reach the killer before he himself falls prey to this wave of vicious murders?

Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library. 1.89

331pp .Documents from the WRP. Spine a bit faded; faint stain at bottom edge of a couple of pages.

Helen Hawthorne's new job at a bridal salon becomes downright funereal when a bride-to-be's mother is murdered. Now, Helen must find the killer before this turns into another dead-end position for her-literally.