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Author : Samuel Chessman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Genealogy of the Chesman Family, in the United States, from 1713 to 1893 written by Samuel Chessman and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caryl Chessman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Cell 2455, Death Row written by Caryl Chessman and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caryl Chessman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781479419463
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (194 download)
Download or read book The Kid Was a Killer written by Caryl Chessman and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember: The protagonist of the story, the kid, was a killer. That was and is the simple, stark fact; that was and remains my point in authoring the type of novel I did. I wanted to examine violence-its meaning, its psychological roots, its social implications-in dramatic terms. If I succeeded to any degree, the thrust and power of the story derives from its rawness, its unprettied crudities. The title squares with the unfortunate tendency of the public to oversimplify both the genesis and motivation of the disturbed, antisocial personality which, whether with a gun or boxing gloves, violently expresses its rebellion, its sickness. Let the reader, without being misled, discover for himself my thesis. Sincerely, Caryl Chessman
Author : M S Koll
Publisher : Memoirs Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1909020699
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Chessman Enigma written by M S Koll and published by Memoirs Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-06 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somebody is killing innocent people all over Wales leaving headless chess pieces as a calling card. The four Welsh Forces are at their wits' end and they have no clues. The killings seem to be without motive. A new dedicated unit, The Serious Crime Squad, is formed to work from a new base which is situated in a Cardiff terraced house. The team consists of two Detective Inspectors. Mike Karetzi is young, unorthodox and a maverick, whereas Evan Jones is pedantic, works by the book and is nearing retiring age. The third member is a big, black sixty-year-old woman who is an expert in computers and forensics. Later they recruit an ex-con for his special expertise on gaining access to places normally inaccessible. However, the killer, codenamed 'The Chessman' by the unit, is no fool and he's very clever and very cunning. The Chessman is hell-bent on completing his mission and won't be denied by anyone. He wants to be rich, very rich.
Author : Dolores Gordon-Smith
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1780107005
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Chessman written by Dolores Gordon-Smith and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wickedly entertaining new Jack Haldean mystery. The message consisted of one neatly typewritten line: I am killing you slowly. You are going to die. The Chessman. Isabelle Stanton and Sue Castradon always arranged the flowers in the village church on Fridays. But Sue was glad to escape the church that morning. She had rowed over breakfast with her husband Ned, who bitterly resented her association – however fleeting – with the handsome Simon Vardon. Sue didn’t think things could get worse – until she opened the cupboard... When a mutilated corpse is discovered in the sleepy village of Croxton Ferriers, Jack Haldean finds an odd clue at the scene of the crime: a black marble chess knight with crystal eyes. Is murder just a game? It could be – to a killer who calls himself The Chessman.
Author : David H. Caldwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905267941
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (679 download)
Download or read book The Lewis Chessmen Unmasked written by David H. Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written to accompany a travelling exhibition about new research on the Lewis chessmen. National Museums Scotland and the British Museum partnered in creating the exhibition, The Lewis Chessmen: Unmasked.
Author : Lewis Padgett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440566984
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Fairy Chessman written by Lewis Padgett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Cameron, trained in applied psychology, finds himself being driven insane by a strange, unfathomable force. As an experienced psychometrician he fights the terrifying hallucinations (a doorknob opens a blue eye and looks at him). He, too, knows his job is vital. American, dug into great, shielded cavern-cities, has been at war for decades with the European Falangists, a war planned by technicians and fought by robots. Now a new Falangist weapon has appeared to break the stalemate. And it is up to Cameron to find the man to provide the solution - before his own mind collapses under the weird and terrible madness!
Author : Ruth Chessman
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479407496
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)
Download or read book The Second Golden Age of Mystery & Crime MEGAPACK ®: Ruth Chessman written by Ruth Chessman and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I first encountered Ruth Chessman's work when browsing back issues of Manhunt magazine--and I was immediately intrigued. Manhunt was a noir/hardboiled digest-sized mystery magazine, and female bylines were uncommon. A quick check showed that she also published stories in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine as well as a 1965 middle-grade novel called "Bound for Freedom," which was adapted as a movie. She must have instilled her love of crime writing in her family, since her daughter turns out to be none other than mystery writer Jane K. Cleland -- who was kind enough to grant us permission to reprint her late mother's work. (Jane also supplied us with copies of hard-to-find stories.) Ruth Chessman was a very good, if far too infrequent writer. This collection assembles most of her published short fiction. Included are: ACCUSED THE SEARCH FOR A DEAD MAN'S BODY MURDER -- EARLY AMERICAN POOR SHERM THE HARRINGTON FARTHING IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? THE PERFECT HUSBAND SILENTLY, SILENTLY THE CRIME THAT DID NOT FOLLOW If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 260+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!
Author : Jeffrey B. Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849822428
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Chessman written by Jeffrey B. Burton and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Henderson
Publisher : Pokey Hat
ISBN 13 : 9781911279853
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (798 download)
Download or read book The Chessmen Thief written by Barbara Henderson and published by Pokey Hat. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 12-year-old Kylan is a Viking slave; when he gets the chance to return to the Hebrides, the Lewis Chessmen he helped carve become his only hope of escape and survival.
Author : Harriet Scott Chessman
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 9781583222720
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Lydia Cassat Reading the Morning Paper written by Harriet Scott Chessman and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2001-10-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harriet Scott Chessman takes us into the world of Mary Cassatt's early Impressionist paintings through Mary's sister Lydia, whom the author sees as Cassatt’s most inspiring muse. Chessman hauntingly brings to life Paris in 1880, with its thriving art world. The novel’s subtle power rises out of a sustained inquiry into art’s relation to the ragged world of desire and mortality. Ill with Bright’s disease and conscious of her approaching death, Lydia contemplates her world narrowing. With the rising emotional tension between the loving sisters, between one who sees and one who is seen, Lydia asks moving questions about love and art’s capacity to remember. Chessman illuminates Cassatt’s brilliant paintings and creates a compelling portrait of the brave and memorable model who inhabits them with such grace. Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper includes five full-color plates, the entire group of paintings Mary Cassatt made of her sister.
Author : Nancy Marie Brown
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1137279370
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Ivory Vikings written by Nancy Marie Brown and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among its most visited and beloved objects. Questions abounded: Who carved them? Where? Nancy Marie Brown's Ivory Vikings explores these mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board games. In the process, Ivory Vikings presents a vivid history of the 400 years when the Vikings ruled the North Atlantic, and the sea-road connected countries and islands we think of as far apart and culturally distinct: Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, and Greenland and North America. The story of the Lewis chessmen explains the economic lure behind the Viking voyages to the west in the 800s and 900s. And finally, it brings from the shadows an extraordinarily talented woman artist of the twelfth century: Margret the Adroit of Iceland.
Author : Alan Bisbort
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780786719402
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (194 download)
Download or read book When You Read This They Will Have Killed Me written by Alan Bisbort and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2007-08-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Caryl Chessman appeared on the cover of Time's March 21, 1960 issue, he was the most famous prisoner in America and arguably the best-known in the world. He not only put a face on the issue of capital punishment, he made one of the most remarkable transformations by any American writer. Through access to the papers and letters of his attorneys, George T. Davis and Rosalie Asher, the unpublished manuscripts and papers held by Joseph Longstreth; reminiscences with those who knew him, like Mr. Davis, Mr. Longstreth, his agent and executor; and country music legend Merle Haggard, the first definitive portrait of the enigmatic Caryl Chessman emerges.
Author : James Robinson
Publisher : British Museum Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780714150239
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Lewis Chessmen written by James Robinson and published by British Museum Publications Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lewis chessmen were found hidden on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in the early nineteenth century. Probably made in Norway around AD 1150-1200, they consist of elaborately worked walrus ivory in the forms of seated kings and queens, mitred bishops, knights on their mounts, standing warders and pawns. This book takes a look at the many theories surrounding the ownership of the pieces, why they were hidden and how exactly they were discovered, and places them in the wider context of the ancient game of chess and secular culture of the Middle Ages.
Author : John Bellairs
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497623340
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book The Chessmen of Doom written by John Bellairs and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a thrilling adventure, a young sleuth and his professor friend are challenged to solve a riddle and win a fortune Professor Roderick Childermass may be the strangest person Johnny Dixon has ever met, but compared to his brother Peregrine, the professor is practically normal. Peregrine is a born trickster, and when he knows his death is near, he sends a letter promising the professor his entire $10,000,000 estate—assuming he can solve one final riddle. The professor feels that his brother is mocking him from beyond the grave. If Peregrine were alive, he says, he’d kill him. To crack the puzzle and claim the fortune, Johnny and the professor head north to the wild countryside of far-off Maine. They’ll find that the riddle is the least of their problems. To inherit the money, the professor must stay alive until the end of the summer, and since everyone in Maine seems to want Peregrine’s heir dead, survival will be no easy task. From the author of the Lewis Barnavelt novels, including The House with a Clock in Its Walls, the Johnny Dixon series is full of fun, adventure, and supernatural chills, along with “believable and likable characters” who are a delight to spend time with (The New York Times).
Author : Lackawanna Historical Society, Scranton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Report of Curator written by Lackawanna Historical Society, Scranton and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald M (Donald Macy) B Liddell
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013822377
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Chessmen written by Donald M (Donald Macy) B Liddell and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
