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Before They Are Hanged

Author : Joe Abercrombie
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316387347
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Before They Are Hanged written by Joe Abercrombie and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second novel in the wildly popular First Law Trilogy from New York Times bestseller Joe Abercrombie. Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It's enough to make a torturer want to run -- if he could even walk without a stick. Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country. Crown Prince Ladisla is poised to drive them back and win undying glory. There is only one problem -- he commands the worst-armed, worst-trained, worst-led army in the world. And Bayaz, the First of the Magi, is leading a party of bold adventurers on a perilous mission through the ruins of the past. The most hated woman in the South, the most feared man in the North, and the most selfish boy in the Union make a strange alliance, but a deadly one. They might even stand a chance of saving mankind from the Eaters -- if they didn't hate each other quite so much. Ancient secrets will be uncovered. Bloody battles will be won and lost. Bitter enemies will be forgiven -- but not before they are hanged. First Law Trilogy The Blade Itself Before They Are Hanged Last Argument of Kings For more from Joe Abercrombie, check out: Novels in the First Law world Best Served Cold The Heroes Red Country

The Hanged Man

Author : Robert Bartlett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691126046
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Hanged Man written by Robert Bartlett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he dead? While no less than nine eyewitnesses attested to his demise, Cragh later proved to be very much alive, his resurrection attributed to the saintly entreaties of the defunct Bishop Thomas de Cantilupe. The Hanged Man tells the story of this putative miracle--why it happened, what it meant, and how we know about it. The nine eyewitness accounts live on in the transcripts of de Cantilupe's canonization hearings, and these previously unexamined documents contribute not only to an enthralling mystery, but to an unprecedented glimpse into the day-to-day workings of medieval society. While unraveling the haunting tale of the hanged man, Robert Bartlett leads us deeply into the world of lords, rebels, churchmen, papal inquisitors, and other individuals living at the time of conflict and conquest in Wales. In the process, he reconstructs voices that others have failed to find. We hear from the lady of the castle where the hanged man was imprisoned, the laborer who watched the execution, the French bishop charged with investigating the case, and scores of other members of the medieval citizenry. Brimming with the intrigue of a detective novel, The Hanged Man will appeal to both scholars of medieval history and general readers alike.

Resuscitation of a Hanged Man

Author : Denis Johnson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466807059
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Resuscitation of a Hanged Man written by Denis Johnson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1991-03-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resuscitation of a Hanged Man is Denis Johnson's most fully realized novel to date, an enthralling and shattering reading experience, which probes the mysteries of faith, hope and love.

The Man They Couldn't Hang

Author : Michael Crowley
Publisher : Waterside Press
ISBN 13 : 1906534977
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Man They Couldn't Hang written by Michael Crowley and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A play in two Acts with an Introduction by the author. The story of John 'Babbacombe' Lee is one of the most bizarre in English criminal history. Lee is the only person to have been reprieved by a Home Secretary after standing on a gallows trap which failed to open. This happened at Exeter Prison in 1885 when the notoriously inept public hangman James Berry gave up after three abortive attempts. Lee spent 22 years in prison before being released. On retirement, Berry from Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, who carried out 134 executions, was the first executioner to write about his experiences in My Experiences As An Executioner. His resulting celebrity led to him taking to the boards, spinning gruesome tales of his former trade and showing audiences his dark souvenirs. Michael Crowley's imaginative play is set in a down-at-heel northern music hall where the proprietor is bent on reviving the venue's glory days by persuading the now released Lee to team up with Berry in a double act. Did John Lee commit the murder for which he was due to hang? Did poetic justice intervene on that fateful day in Exeter to prevent a miscarriage of justice? Will Lee stand on the scaffold once again with the noose around his neck, on stage and for the paying public? And will the truth come out or not as Lee begins to confide in the woman designated as leading lady during rehearsals? 'The Man They Couldn't Hang' by prison writer in residence Michael Crowley is an ideal vehicle for raising issues of crime and punishment. It will be particularly useful for drama groups in and out of prison, and tutors or group leaders seeking innovative ways of involving those they work with in issues of criminal justice and crime and punishment. The play is also suitable for full-scale drama productions.

The Hanged Man

Author : P. N. Elrod
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429946644
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Hanged Man written by P. N. Elrod and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hanged Man is the first book all-new Gaslamp Fantasy series by P. N. Elrod. On a freezing Christmas Eve in 1879, a forensic psychic reader is summoned from her Baker Street lodgings to the scene of a questionable death. Alexandrina Victoria Pendlebury (named after her godmother, the current Queen of England) is adamant that the death in question is a magically compromised murder and not a suicide, as the police had assumed, after the shocking revelation contained by the body in question, Alex must put her personal loss aside to uncover the deeper issues at stake, before more bodies turn up. Turning to some choice allies—the handsome, prescient Lieutenant Brooks, the brilliant, enigmatic Lord Desmond, and her rapscallion cousin James—Alex will have to marshal all of her magical and mental acumen to save Queen and Country from a shadowy threat. Our singular heroine is caught up in this rousing gaslamp adventure of cloaked assassins, meddlesome family, and dark magic. "Murder, mayhem and tea—a well-bred Victorian urban fantasy thriller. Prepare, o reader, to be enthralled."—Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times Best Selling Author of the Mercy Thompson series on P.N. Elrod's The Hanged Man At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

John Lee: the man they could not hang

Author : Clifford Lee and Derek Lee
Publisher : www.lulu.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Lee: the man they could not hang written by Clifford Lee and Derek Lee and published by www.lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using contemporary newspaper reports, letters and other documents, this book reveals the story of an horrific murder and the infamous attempts to hang John Lee for the crime. The book has a special focus on the letters of Stephen Bryan, who campaigned not only for the benefit of John Lee, but many others. Tragically, most of his activities have been forgotten, although his reputation lasted a long time after his death at the local level.

The Hanged Man

Author : K.D. Edwards
Publisher : Pyr
ISBN 13 : 1633884937
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book The Hanged Man written by K.D. Edwards and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last member of a murdered House tries to protect his ward from forced marriage to a monster while uncovering clues to his own tortured past. The Tarot Sequence imagines a modern-day Atlantis off the coast of Massachusetts, governed by powerful Courts based on the traditional Tarot deck. Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Throne, is backed into a fight of high court magic and political appetites in a desperate bid to protect his ward, Max, from a forced marital alliance with the Hanged Man. Rune's resistance will take him to the island's dankest corners, including a red light district made of moored ghost ships; a surreal skyscraper farm; and the floor of the ruling Convocation, where a gathering of Arcana will change Rune's life forever.

Justice on Fire

Author : J. Patrick O'Connor
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700626719
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Justice on Fire written by J. Patrick O'Connor and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the city’s firefighters. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. But for veteran crime writer and crusading editor J. Patrick O’Connor, the facts—or a lack of them—didn’t add up. Justice on Fire is O’Connor’s detailed account of the terrible explosion that led to the firefighters’ deaths and the terrible injustice that followed. Justice on Fire describes a misguided eight-year investigation propelled by an overzealous Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agent keen to retire; a mistake-riddled case conducted by a combative assistant US attorney willing to use compromised “snitch” witnesses and unwilling to admit contrary evidence; and a sentence of life without parole pronounced by a prosecution-favoring judge. In short, an abuse of government power and a travesty of justice. O’Connor’s own investigation, which uncovered evidence of witness tampering, intimidation, and prosecutorial misconduct, helped give rise to a front-page series of articles in the Kansas City Star—only to prompt a whitewashing inquiry by the Department of Justice that exonerated the lead ATF agent and named other possible perpetrators who remain unidentified and unindicted. O’Connor extends his scrutiny to this cover-up and arrives at a startling conclusion suggesting that the case of the Marlborough Five is far from closed. Journalists are not supposed to make the news. But faced with a gross injustice, and seeing no other remedy, O’Connor felt he must step in. Justice on Fire is such an intervention.

The Hanged Man

Author : Simon Kernick
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473535204
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Hanged Man written by Simon Kernick and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of David Baldacci, Stuart MacBride and Peter James will devour this intensely addictive and adrenalin-fuelled thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick - the UK's answer to Harlan Coben. 'Brutal, bruising and brilliant' -- The Sun 'Has enough breakneck action and suspense to be a real page turner' -- Sunday Mirror 'An enthralling, twisted and absolutely unputdownable read' -- ***** Reader review 'Thrilling, gripping, shocking and a complete page-turner. I literally couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review 'I had to finish the book and did so in the early hours' -- ***** Reader review 'Fast paced and gripping from the start - absolutely loved it' -- ***** Reader review 'My pulse rate has finally returned to normal. What a fantastic ending to an excellent book' -- ***** Reader review *********************************************************************************** SEVEN VICTIMS. THREE KILLERS. ONE DEADLY SECRET. A house deep in the countryside where the remains of seven unidentified women have just been discovered. A cop ready to risk everything in the hunt for their killers. A man who has seen the murders and is now on the run in fear of his life. So begins the race to track down this witness before the killers do. For Ray Mason and PI Tina Boyd, the road ahead is a dangerous one, with bodies and betrayal at every turn...

The Man They Could Not Hang

Author : Mike Holgate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750936521
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book The Man They Could Not Hang written by Mike Holgate and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Lee is the most infamous Victorian criminal after Jack the Ripper. Found guilty of the murder of his employer, he was sent for execution but three times the trap failed to open. Released from gaol after 23 years, he married, then abandoned his family and disappeared. This text pieces together his story, reviewing and presenting new evidence.

Ghost of a Hanged Man

Author : Vivian Vande Velde
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761451549
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Ghost of a Hanged Man written by Vivian Vande Velde and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outlaw condemned to be hanged threatens to wreak vengeance from the grave on those responsible for his death.

The Hanged Man and the Body Thief

Author : Alexandra Roginski
Publisher : Monash University Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922235660
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book The Hanged Man and the Body Thief written by Alexandra Roginski and published by Monash University Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1860. An Aboriginal labourer named Jim Crow is led to the scaffold of the Maitland Gaol in colonial New South Wales. Among the onlookers is the Scotsman AS Hamilton, who will take bizarre steps in the aftermath of the execution to exhume this young man’s skull. Hamilton is a lecturer who travels the Australian colonies teaching phrenology, a popular science that claims character and intellect can be judged from a person’s head. For Hamilton, Jim Crow is an important prize. A century and a half later, researchers at Museum Victoria want to repatriate Jim Crow and other Aboriginal people from Hamilton’s collection of human remains to their respective communities. But their only clues are damaged labels and skulls. With each new find, more questions emerge. Who was Jim Crow? Why was he executed? And how did he end up so far south in Melbourne? In a compelling and original work of history, Alexandra Roginski leads the reader through her extensive research aimed at finding the person within the museum piece. Reconstructing the narrative of a life and a theft, she crafts a case study that elegantly navigates between legal and Aboriginal history, heritage studies and biography. The Hanged Man and the Body Thief is a nuanced story about phrenology, a biased legal system, the aspirations of a new museum, and the dilemmas of a theatrical third wife. It is most importantly a tale of two very different men, collector and collected, one of whom can now return home.

The Blade Itself

Author : Joe Abercrombie
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316387339
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Blade Itself written by Joe Abercrombie and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel in the First Law Trilogy and debut fantasy novel from New York Times bestseller, Joe Abercrombie. Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he's on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian -- leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, Captain Jezal dan Luthar has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules. Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. His latest trail of corpses may lead him right to the rotten heart of government, if he can stay alive long enough to follow it. Enter the wizard, Bayaz. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make the lives of Logen, Jezal, and Glokta a whole lot more difficult. Murderous conspiracies rise to the surface, old scores are ready to be settled, and the line between hero and villain is sharp enough to draw blood. Unpredictable, compelling, wickedly funny, and packed with unforgettable characters, The Blade Itself is noir fantasy with a real cutting edge.

The Hanged Man's Tale

Author : Gerald Jay
Publisher : Nan A. Talese
ISBN 13 : 0385537557
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Hanged Man's Tale written by Gerald Jay and published by Nan A. Talese. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the shadowy back alleys and opulent homes of Paris, hard-nosed police inspector Paul Mazarelle of The Paris Directive sets out on the trail of a serial killer. A murdered man is discovered dangling inside the tunnels of a Paris canal--the only clue, the tarot card in his pockets: the Hanged Man. When an innocent suspect is railroaded into prison for the homicide, Mazarelle sets off on the hunt for the real killer. For the charming, hot-tempered, impulsive Frenchman--now back from the provinces and leading his own homicide unit out of Paris’s famed Quai des Orfevres--it’s an investigation that takes him far from the comforts of Beaujolais and bouillabaisse, and plunges him into an underworld of ruthless white supremacists looking for scapegoats in Paris’s growing immigrant community, corrupt cops eager to cover up a shady side business, and a conspiracy of secrets that threaten his own life. Meanwhile, Claire Girard, an irresistible and ambitious journalist at a popular tabloid, is wrapped up in the same story. On the trail of the Tarot Card killer, Mazarelle finds himself blindsided by their growing attraction. And when his team’s case collides with Girard's latest scoop, and the body count keeps rising, Mazarelle himself becomes a prime suspect who must clear his own name. Gerald Jay’s latest Mazarelle adventure is a riveting, fast-paced thriller about a classic French detective making his way through the dangerous streets of a very modern world.

A Hanging

Author : George Orwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781804470886
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book A Hanging written by George Orwell and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels of all time, this new series of his essays seeks to bring his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. A Hanging, the ninth in the Orwell's Essays series, tells the story of the execution of an unnamed convict in Burma. With the veracity of the story unknown, but thought to be loosely based on Orwell's own experiences in Burma, the haunting tale leaves the reader contemplating the heavy topic of colonialism, and the right of one to take the life of another.

The Hanged Man Rises

Author : Sarah Naughton
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Children's UK
ISBN 13 : 9780857078643
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book The Hanged Man Rises written by Sarah Naughton and published by Simon & Schuster Children's UK. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A creepy supernatural thriller set in Victorian London, by a talented debut author. When their parents are killed in a fire, Titus Adams and his little sister, Hannah, are left to fend for themselves in the cruel and squalid slums of Victorian London. Taking shelter with his friend and savior, Inspector Pilbury, Titus should feel safe. But though the inspector has just caught and hung a notorious child-murder, the murders haven’t stopped. Now everyone is a suspect, even the inspector himself, and unless Titus can find a way to end the killings, he will lose all that is dear to him. For this evil cannot be contained, even by death…

The Last Sun

Author : K.D. Edwards
Publisher : Pyr
ISBN 13 : 1633884244
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book The Last Sun written by K.D. Edwards and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this debut novel and series starter, the last member of a murdered House searches for a missing nobleman, and uncovers clues about his own tortured past. Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Court, is hired to search for Lady Judgment's missing son, Addam, on New Atlantis, the island city where the Atlanteans moved after ordinary humans destroyed their original home. With his companion and bodyguard, Brand, he questions Addam's relatives and business contacts through the highest ranks of the nobles of New Atlantis. But as they investigate, they uncover more than a missing man: a legendary creature connected to the secret of the massacre of Rune's Court. In looking for Addam, can Rune find the truth behind his family's death and the torments of his past?