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Author : Bernard Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780285623873
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Cruelly Murdered written by Bernard Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Noeline Kyle
Publisher : Boolarong Press
ISBN 13 : 1921555343
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (215 download)
Download or read book A Greater Guilt written by Noeline Kyle and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brutal murder of a child in a small English village in 1860 which remained an unsolved crime until the sensational confession of Constance Emilie Kent in 1865. If you are a true crime enthusiast, if you wonder about what happens to a woman, a human being, after they confess, are tried and then imprisoned for twenty years you will enjoy Noeline Kyle's tracing of Constance Kent's extraordinary life before, during and after this awful crime. Constance Kent trained as a nurse at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, worked at the Coast Hospital at Little Bay, was matron of the notorious Parramatta Industrial School for girls and matron of a nurses' home in Maitland, she was a convicted murderess but lived to the grand old age of 100 under an assumed name and not once did anyone in the Antipodes suspect her true identity.
Author : Cecil John Charles Street
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Case of Constance Kent written by Cecil John Charles Street and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Chambers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780752448732
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (487 download)
Download or read book Murder Most Foul written by Paul Chambers and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into one of the most famous murder cases of the nineteenth century
Author : Kate Summerscale
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408801582
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher written by Kate Summerscale and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________ A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list _______________ WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK _______________ 'A remarkable achievement' - Sunday Times 'A classic, to my mind, of the finest documentary writing' - John le Carré 'Absolutely riveting' - Sarah Waters, Guardian _______________ On a summer's morning in 1860, the Kent family awakes in their elegant Wiltshire home to a terrible discovery; their youngest son has been brutally murdered. When celebrated detective Jack Whicher is summoned from Scotland Yard he faces the unenviable task of identifying the killer – when the grieving family are the suspects. The original Victorian whodunnit, the murder and its investigation provoked national hysteria at the thought of what might be festering behind the locked doors of respectable homes – scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing. _______________ 'Nothing less than a masterpiece' - Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday 'Terrific' - Ian Rankin 'A triumph' - Observer 'Gripping, unputdownable' - Sunday Telegraph 'A terrific read in the Wilkie Collins tradition' - Susan Hill 'The best whodunnit of the year - and it's all true ... Agatha Christie, eat your heart out' - Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler
Author : Cecil John Charles Street
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Case of Constance Kent written by Cecil John Charles Street and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kate Summerscale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher written by Kate Summerscale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery- an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, reaches Road Hill House a fortnight later. He faces an unenviable task- to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects. The murder provokes national hysteria. The thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes - scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing - arouses fear and a kind of excitement. But when Whicher reaches his shocking conclusion there is uproar and bewilderment.
Author : Iain McCalman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374248192
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change written by Iain McCalman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A journey into the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef, as experienced by explorers, scientists, and artists"--
Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250024889
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Murder written by Judith Flanders and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, fictional detectives, and real-life cause célèbres will appeal to devotees of true crime and detective fiction alike." -Publishers Weekly, starred review In this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama-even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other-the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P.D. James and Patricia Cornwell. In this meticulously researched and engrossing book, Judith Flanders retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder in Great Britain, both famous and obscure: from Greenacre, who transported his dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus, to Burke and Hare's bodysnatching business in Edinburgh; from the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper, to the tragedy of the murdered Marr family in London's East End. Through these stories of murder-from the brutal to the pathetic-Flanders builds a rich and multi-faceted portrait of Victorian society in Great Britain. With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the utterly dangerous, The Invention of Murder is both a mesmerizing tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable.
Author : Yseult Bridges
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Tragedy at Road-Hill House written by Yseult Bridges and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Curtis Evans
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786490896
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery written by Curtis Evans and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1972, in an attempt to elevate the stature of the "crime novel," influential crime writer and critic Julian Symons cast numerous Golden Age detective fiction writers into literary perdition as "Humdrums," condemning their focus on puzzle plots over stylish writing and explorations of character, setting and theme. This volume explores the works of three prominent British "Humdrums"--Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, and Alfred Walter Stewart--revealing their work to be more complex, as puzzles and as social documents, than Symons allowed. By championing the intrinsic merit of these mystery writers, the study demonstrates that reintegrating the "Humdrums" into mystery genre studies provides a fuller understanding of the Golden Age of detective fiction and its aftermath.
Author : John Rhode
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781561696222
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The Case of Constance Kent written by John Rhode and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kate Summerscale
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0747582157
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher written by Kate Summerscale and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-04-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction.
Author : Gary Day
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349267422
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Varieties of Victorianism written by Gary Day and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-11-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected here all take issue with the claim that the Victorian period is the antithesis of our own. They show how characteristic postmodern anxieties and celebrations concerning truth, certainty and identity informed Victorian culture at all levels. Covering everything from attitudes to drink to the poetry of Browning, from the Great Exhibition to the Elephant Man, this volume shows not only how the Victorians coped with these challenges but also what lessons they have for us today.
Author : Shani D'Cruze
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135030784X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Women, Crime and Justice in England since 1660 written by Shani D'Cruze and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shani D'Cruze and Louise A. Jackson provide students with a lively overview of women's relationship to the criminal justice system in England, exploring key debates in the regulation of 'respectable' and 'deviant' femininities over the last 4 centuries. Major issues include: - Attitudes towards murder and infanticide - Prostitution - The decline of witchcraft belief - Sexual violence - The 'girl delinquent' - Theft and fraud. The volume also examines women's participation in illegal forms of protest and political activism, their experience of penal regimes as well as strategies of resistance, and their involvement in occupations associated with criminal justice itself. Assuming that men and women cannot be studied in isolation, D'Cruze and Jackson make reference to recent studies of masculinity and comment on the ways in which relations between men and women have been understood and negotiated across time. Featuring examples drawn from a rich range of sources such as court records, autobiographies, literature and film, this is an ideal introduction to an increasingly popular area of study.
Author : Margaret Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429814372
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book The Aesthetics of the Undersea written by Margaret Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among global environments, the undersea is unique in the challenges it poses – and the opportunities it affords – for sensation, perception, inquiry, and fantasy. The Aesthetics of the Undersea draws case studies in such potencies from the subaqueous imaginings of Western culture, and from the undersea realities that have inspired them. The chapters explore aesthetic engagements with underwater worlds, and sustain a concern with submarine "sense," in several meanings of that word: when submerged, faculties and fantasies transform, confronting human subjects with their limitations while enlarging the apparent scope of possibility and invention. Terrestrially-established categories and contours shift, metamorphose, or fail altogether to apply. As ocean health acquires an increasing share of the global environmental imaginary, the histories of submarine sense manifest ever-greater importance, and offer resources for documentation as well as creativity. The chapters deal with the sensory, material, and formal provocations of the underwater environment, and consider the consequences of such provocations for aesthetic and epistemological paradigms. Contributors, who hail from the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, include scholars of literature, art, new media, music and history. Cases studies range from baroque and rococo fantasies to the gothic, surrealism, modernism, and contemporary installation art. By juxtaposing early modern and Enlightenment contexts with matters of more recent – and indeed contemporary – importance, The Aesthetics of the Undersea establishes crucial relations among temporally remote entities, which will resonate across the environmental humanities.
Author : Tom Ruffles
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786484217
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Ghost Images written by Tom Ruffles and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The possibility of life after death is a significant theme in cinema, in which ghosts return to the world of the living to wrap up unfinished business, console their survivors, visit lovers or just enjoy a well-wreaked scaring. This work focuses on film depictions of survival after death, from meetings with the ghost of Elvis to AIDS-related ghosts: apparitions, hauntings, mediumship, representations of heaven, angels, near-death experiences, possession, poltergeists and all the other ways in which the living interact with the dead on screen. The work opens with a historical perspective, which outlines the development of pre-cinematic technology for "projecting" phantoms, and discusses the use of these skills in early ghost cinema. English-language sound films are then examined thematically with topics ranging from the expiation of sins to "hungry" ghosts. Six of the most significant films, Dead of Night, A Matter of Life and Death, The Innocents, The Haunting, The Shining, and Jacob's Ladder, are given a detailed analysis. A conclusion, filmography, and bibliography follow.
