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Author : Rose Pascoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473627904
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Murder in the Devil's Half Acre written by Rose Pascoe and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Perry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Death in the Devil's Acre written by Anne Perry and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Perry
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345514041
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Death in the Devil's Acre written by Anne Perry and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a doctor is found brutally murdered in the lurid section of London aptly named “Devil’s Acre,” even its most hardened residents are stunned. But shock soon turns to horror when Inspector Thomas Pitt discovers three more bodies with the same gruesome “calling card”: a stab wound in the back and a rather inexpertly executed mutilation. As Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, race against time to find the killer, a treacherous mystery unfolds. And no one, not the lowest brand of ruffian or the most established aristocrat, will escape unscathed.
Author : Margaret Maron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780739499030
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Death's Half Acre written by Margaret Maron and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Margaret Maron is back with a new mystery featuring her critically acclaimed sleuth Judge Deborah Knott"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Susan Jonusas
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984879855
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Hell's Half-Acre written by Susan Jonusas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of NPR's "Books We Love" New York Times Book Review's "The Best True Crime of 2022" "Rich in historical perspective and graced by novelistic touches, grips the reader from first to last.”—Wall Street Journal A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes gripped the attention of a nation still reeling from war. In 1873 the people of Labette County, Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried by a trailside cabin beneath an orchard of young apple trees were the remains of countless bodies. Below the cabin itself was a cellar stained with blood. The Benders, the family of four who once resided on the property were nowhere to be found. The discovery sent the local community and national newspapers into a frenzy that continued for decades, sparking an epic manhunt for the Benders. The idea that a family of seemingly respectable homesteaders—one among the thousands relocating farther west in search of land and opportunity after the Civil War—were capable of operating "a human slaughter pen" appalled and fascinated the nation. But who the Benders really were, why they committed such a vicious killing spree and whether justice ever caught up to them is a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. Set against the backdrop of postbellum America, Hell’s Half-Acre explores the environment capable of allowing such horrors to take place. Drawing on extensive original archival material, Susan Jonusas introduces us to a fascinating cast of characters, many of whom have been previously missing from the story. Among them are the families of the victims, the hapless detectives who lost the trail, and the fugitives that helped the murderers escape. Hell’s Half-Acre is a journey into the turbulent heart of nineteenth century America, a place where modernity stalks across the landscape, violently displacing existing populations and building new ones. It is a world where folklore can quickly become fact and an entire family of criminals can slip through a community’s fingers, only to reappear in the most unexpected of places.
Author : Paul French
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101580380
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Midnight in Peking written by Paul French and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, is home to the maliciously seductive fox spirits. As British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han investigate, the mystery only deepens and, in a city on the verge of invasion, rumor and superstition run rampant. Based on seven years of research by historian and China expert Paul French, this true-crime thriller presents readers with a rare and unique portrait of the last days of colonial Peking.
Author : Stephen Brady
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595126707
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The Quickening written by Stephen Brady and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man is brutally ripped apart in a vacation cabin. His girlfriend turns up dead a week later. And the local police are frightened by the way she was tortured and murdered. Former Philadelphia cop Derek Sanderson is assigned what looks like a simple murder, until he gets the autopsy report back and realizes he is chasing a faceless monster who will stop at nothing to satisfy his twisted needs. Sanderson is the only cop who can see the one simple clue the serial killer leaves behind. But he is used to doing things his way and bending as many rules as possible to get his job done. This time his impulsiveness may backfire on him and not only leave him out in the cold but also leave a clear path for the killer to take away someone he is very close to. The Quickening is a heart-stopping thriller that will keep you turning the pages, as Sanderson unveils one desperate clue after another. In a bone-chilling finale, that will have you checking the locks on your doors, Sanderson must track down the madman before it is too late.
Author : Colin Dickey
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101980206
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Ghostland written by Colin Dickey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of NPR’s Great Reads of 2016 “A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories…absorbing…[and] intellectually intriguing.” —The New York Times Book Review From the author of The Unidentified, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history that takes readers on a road trip through some of the country’s most infamously haunted places—and deep into the dark side of our history. Colin Dickey is on the trail of America’s ghosts. Crammed into old houses and hotels, abandoned prisons and empty hospitals, the spirits that linger continue to capture our collective imagination, but why? His own fascination piqued by a house hunt in Los Angeles that revealed derelict foreclosures and “zombie homes,” Dickey embarks on a journey across the continental United States to decode and unpack the American history repressed in our most famous haunted places. Some have established reputations as “the most haunted mansion in America,” or “the most haunted prison”; others, like the haunted Indian burial grounds in West Virginia, evoke memories from the past our collective nation tries to forget. With boundless curiosity, Dickey conjures the dead by focusing on questions of the living—how do we, the living, deal with stories about ghosts, and how do we inhabit and move through spaces that have been deemed, for whatever reason, haunted? Paying attention not only to the true facts behind a ghost story, but also to the ways in which changes to those facts are made—and why those changes are made—Dickey paints a version of American history left out of the textbooks, one of things left undone, crimes left unsolved. Spellbinding, scary, and wickedly insightful, Ghostland discovers the past we’re most afraid to speak of aloud in the bright light of day is the same past that tends to linger in the ghost stories we whisper in the dark.
Author : Mara Leveritt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471131076
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Devil's Knot written by Mara Leveritt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story, this edition of Devil's Knot will tie-in to a major motion picture starring Academy Award winners Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth. This riveting portrait of a small Arkansas town recounts the all-too-true story of a brutal triple murder and the eighteen-year imprisonment of three innocent teenagers. For weeks in 1993, after the grisly murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas, seemed stumped. Then suddenly, detectives charged three teenagers - alleged members of a satanic cult - with the killings. Despite the witch-hunt atmosphere of the trials and a case that included stunning investigative blunders, the teenagers, who became known as the West Memphis Three, were convicted. Jurors sentenced Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley to life in prison and Damien Echols, the accused ringleader, to death. The guilty verdicts were popular in their home state - even upheld on appeal - and all three remained in prison until their unprecedented release in August 2011. In Devil's Knot, award-winning investigative journalist Mara Leveritt presents the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on this story - one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history. In-depth research, meticulous reconstruction of the investigation and close-up views of its key participants unravel the many tangled knots of this endlessly shocking case.
Author : Samuel Halkett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature: D-G written by Samuel Halkett and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. W. Orsman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of New Zealand English written by H. W. Orsman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of New Zealand English provides a unique historical record of New Zealand words and phrases, from their earliest use to the present day. The 6,000 main headword entries and 9,300 separate sub-entries provide fascinating insights into New Zealand's diverse linguistic heritage. The definitions are illustrated by 47,000 select quotations arranged in chronological order from the earliest to the latest. The origin of each headword is discussed. The Dictionary of New Zealand English is an essential reference for those interested in New Zealand society, history and culture, and makes an invaluable contribution to the study of the English language worldwide.
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ISBN 13 : 9780787680039
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)
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Author : Susan Casey
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1466800518
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Devil's Teeth written by Susan Casey and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators--and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, their dark fins swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary. These sharks were the alphas among alphas, some longer than twenty feet, and there were too many to count; even more incredible, this congregation was taking place just twenty-seven miles off the coast of San Francisco. In a matter of months, Casey was being hoisted out of the early-winter swells on a crane, up a cliff face to the barren surface of Southeast Farallon Island-dubbed by sailors in the 1850s the "devil's teeth." There she joined Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle, the two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building, a haunted, 135-year-old house spackled with lichen and gull guano. Two days later, she got her first glimpse of the famous, terrifying jaws up close and she was instantly hooked; her fascination soon yielded to obsession-and an invitation to return for a full season. But as Casey readied herself for the eight-week stint, she had no way of preparing for what she would find among the dangerous, forgotten islands that have banished every campaign for civilization in the past two hundred years. The Devil's Teeth is a vivid dispatch from an otherworldly outpost, a story of crossing the boundary between society and an untamed place where humans are neither wanted nor needed.
Author : Andrew Michael Hurley
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 1328489884
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Devil's Day written by Andrew Michael Hurley and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2018 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gripping and unsettling new novel by the award-winning author of The Loney that asks how much we owe to tradition, and how far we will go to preserve it"--
Author : Charlotte Laws
Publisher : Stroud House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0996133542
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (961 download)
Download or read book Devil in the Basement written by Charlotte Laws and published by Stroud House Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most bizarre set of tragic events ever to occur…” – Fairmont Times “Gritty… Fascinating.” – Robert Markowitz, New York Times essayist “Alone and bitter, [the killer] fabricated a horrible revenge—on the world and himself.” – The West Virginian “Charlotte Laws is a tsunami.” – Snatch Magazine Devil in the Basement reveals the shocking truth about my family. I learned about the murders, bombings, and devil worship when I visited my ancestors’ hometown of Fairmont, West Virginia. As a former private eye, I investigated what had happened and even ventured into the eerie basement where the satanic rituals had occurred. The story begins in 1928 when thousands of Ku Klux Klan members march through this sleepy town. My great uncle Jal’s passions were ignited that day, as were those of my grandfather Tucker, who changed his Italian name to “sound white” with hopes of escaping poverty and racism, and of becoming a U.S. Senator. Meanwhile, my great-grandmother set up a criminal enterprise in the back barn, and my great aunt was hauled off to an insane asylum before becoming the mistress of a Detroit mobster. But this story is not just about my family. It is also about their creepy neighbor Ernie, who had a ghoulish, life-sized doll. He abused his wives and dabbled in his favorite pastime: evil. He liked evil. He was creative when it came to evil. He was all about evil. Devil in the Basement is a story of love and horror, racism and hope, of Christian piety and satanic ritual. It is a book that shines a light on one of the most ghastly real life incidents in West Virginia history. It is a story you will never forget.
Author : James Monroe Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Chisolm Massacre written by James Monroe Wells and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Anti-Slavery Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book American Slavery as it is written by American Anti-Slavery Society and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
