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A Tale of Two Murders

Author : Laura Thompson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681779374
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book A Tale of Two Murders written by Laura Thompson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting account of the notorious “Ilford murder” by the New York Times bestselling author of The Six. The death penalty is never without its ethical conflicts or moral questions. Never more so than when the person being led to the gallows may very well be innocent of the actual crime, if not innocent according social concepts of femininity. A Tale of Two Murders is an engrossing examination of the Ilford murder, which became a legal cause ce´le`bre in the 1920s, and led to the hanging of Edith Thompson and her lover, Freddy Bywaters. On the night of October 3, 1922, as Edith and her husband, Percy, were walking home from the theatre, a man sprang out of the darkness and stabbed Percy to death. The assailant was none other than Bywaters. When the police discovered his relationship with Edith, she—who had denied knowledge of the attack—was arrested as his accomplice. Her passionate love letters to Bywaters, read out at the ensuing trial, sealed her fate, even though Bywaters insisted Edith had no part in planning the murder. They were both hanged. Freddy was demonstrably guilty; but was Edith truly so? In shattering detail and with masterful emotional insight, Laura Thompson charts the course of a liaison with thrice-fatal consequences, and investigates what a troubling case tells us about perceptions of women, innocence, and guilt.

Rex V. Edith Thompson

Author : Laura Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784082468
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Rex V. Edith Thompson written by Laura Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The case of Edith Thompson and her lover Frederick Bywaters, both hanged for murder in 1923.

Rex v Edith Thompson

Author : Laura Thompson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784976091
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Rex v Edith Thompson written by Laura Thompson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Another dark parable of society's vilification of women. Intelligent... A tantalizing investigation' Kate Colquhoun. On the night of 3 October 1922, in the quiet suburb of Ilford, Edith Thompson and her husband Percy were walking home after an evening spent at a London theatre, when a man sprang out of the darkness and stabbed Percy to death. The assailant was Frederick Bywaters, a twenty-year-old merchant seaman who had been Edith's lover. When the police learned of his relationship with Edith, she was arrested as his accomplice, despite protesting her innocence. The remarkably intense love letters Edith wrote to Freddy – some of them couched in ambiguous language – were read out at their trial for murder at the Old Bailey. They would seal her fate: Edith and Freddy were hanged for the murder of Percy Thompson in January 1923. Freddy was demonstrably guilty; but was Edith truly so? In shattering detail and with masterful emotional insight, Laura Thompson charts the course of a liaison with thrice-fatal consequences, and investigates what the trial and execution of Edith Thompson tell us about perceptions of women in early twentieth-century Britain.

Agatha Christie

Author : Laura Thompson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681777118
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Agatha Christie written by Laura Thompson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant and award winning biographer, Laura Thompson now turns her sharp eye to Agatha Christie. Arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, Christie's books still sell over four million copies each year—more than thirty years after her death—and it shows no signs of slowing.But who was the woman behind these mystifying, yet eternally pleasing, puzzlers? Thompson reveals the Edwardian world in which Christie grew up, explores her relationships, including those with her two husbands and daughter, and investigates the many mysteries still surrounding Christie's life, most notably, her eleven-day disappearance in 1926.Agatha Christie is as mysterious as the stories she penned, and writing about her is a detection job in itself. With unprecedented access to all of Christie's letters, papers, and notebooks, as well as fresh and insightful interviews with her grandson, daughter, son-in-law and their living relations, Thompson is able to unravel not only the detailed workings of Christie's detective fiction, but the truth behind this mysterious woman.

Analysis of Evidence

Author : Terence Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113944526X
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Analysis of Evidence written by Terence Anderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-11 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensively revised second edition is a rigorous introduction to the construction and criticism of arguments about questions of fact, and to the marshalling and evaluation of evidence at all stages of litigation. It covers the principles underlying the logic of proof; the uses and dangers of story-telling; standards for decision and the relationship between probabilities and proof; the chart method and other methods of analyzing and ordering evidence in fact-investigation, in preparing for trial, and in connection with other important decisions in legal processes and in criminal investigation and intelligence analysis. Most of the chapters in this new edition have been rewritten; the treatment of fact investigation, probabilities and narrative has been extended; and new examples and exercises have been added. Designed as a flexible tool for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on evidence and proof, students, practitioners and teachers alike will find this book challenging but rewarding.

A Tale of Two Murders

Author : Laura Thompson
Publisher : Pegasus Crime
ISBN 13 : 9781643133553
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book A Tale of Two Murders written by Laura Thompson and published by Pegasus Crime. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting account of the notorious “Ilford murder” by the New York Times bestselling author of The Six. The death penalty is never without its ethical conflicts or moral questions. Never more so than when the person being led to the gallows may very well be innocent of the actual crime, if not innocent according social concepts of femininity. A Tale of Two Murders is an engrossing examination of the Ilford murder, which became a legal cause ce´le`bre in the 1920s, and led to the hanging of Edith Thompson and her lover, Freddy Bywaters. On the night of October 3, 1922, as Edith and her husband, Percy, were walking home from the theatre, a man sprang out of the darkness and stabbed Percy to death. The assailant was none other than Bywaters. When the police discovered his relationship with Edith, she—who had denied knowledge of the attack—was arrested as his accomplice. Her passionate love letters to Bywaters, read out at the ensuing trial, sealed her fate, even though Bywaters insisted Edith had no part in planning the murder. They were both hanged. Freddy was demonstrably guilty; but was Edith truly so? In shattering detail and with masterful emotional insight, Laura Thompson charts the course of a liaison with thrice-fatal consequences, and investigates what a troubling case tells us about perceptions of women, innocence, and guilt.

A Different Class of Murder

Author : Laura Thompson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788545141
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book A Different Class of Murder written by Laura Thompson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sensational. The most minutely researched and brilliantly told account ever' MAIL ON SUNDAY. Laura Thompson re-examines the truths behind one of post-war Britain's most notorious murders: the bludgeoning to death of nanny Sandra Rivett in a Belgravia basement on 7 November 1974. Lord Lucan, found guilty of the murder, was only granted a death certificate in 2016. His wife Veronica – last surviving participant in this dark episode – died in September 2017. In this revised edition, Laura Thompson sheds new light on the volatile mental state of Veronica Lucan, and on the theories surrounding the murder, to which she adds a new, extraordinary and shocking possibility.

The Last Landlady

Author : Laura Thompson
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783525037
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book The Last Landlady written by Laura Thompson and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for Harper's Bazaar Book of the Year 2019 A Guardian, Spectator and Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2018 'A lyrical portrait of a fast-vanishing way of life . . . Thompson is a terrific writer'New Statesman Laura Thompson’s grandmother Violet was one of the great landladies. Born in a London pub, she became the first woman to be given a publican’s licence in her own name and, just as pubs defined her life, she seemed in many ways to embody their essence. Laura spent part of her childhood in Violet’s Home Counties establishment, mesmerised by her gift for cultivating the mix of cosiness and glamour that defined the pub’s atmosphere, making it a unique reflection of the national character. Her memories of this time are just as intoxicating: beer and ash on the carpets in the morning, the deepening rhythms of mirth at night, the magical brightness of glass behind the bar... Through them Laura traces the story of the English pub, asking why it has occupied such a treasured position in our culture. But even Violet, as she grew older, recognised that places like hers were a dying breed, and Laura also considers the precarious future they face. Part memoir, part social history, part elegy, The Last Landlady pays tribute to an extraordinary woman and the world she epitomised.

Criminal Justice

Author : Rene Weis
Publisher : Viking Press
ISBN 13 : 9780140294620
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book Criminal Justice written by Rene Weis and published by Viking Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since her execution at Holloway prison in 1923, Edith Thompson has haunted the conscience of the nation. Grave doubts were expressed at the time about the extent to which she was responsible for her husband's murder in Ilford by her handsome young lover Frederick Bywaters. The Home Office files on the case were marked not to be opened for 100 years. The case against her rested largely on the evidence provided by 70 letters which she wrote to Bywaters. The truth is that these letters offer a unique insight into the workings of an overwrought romantic imagination, ultimately unable to free itself from the constraints of a suburban marriage and respectability. Through this correspondence and a painstaking reconstruction of the era, the author argues that Mrs Thompson was innocent.

Au Revoir Now Darlint

Author : Laura Thompson
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800182473
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Au Revoir Now Darlint written by Laura Thompson and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen on Woman's Hour, BBC Newsnight and in the Daily Telegraph A hundred years ago, on the night of 3 October 1922, a thirty-two-year-old clerk named Percy Thompson was stabbed to death as he walked home to his suburban villa in Ilford. With him was his wife, twenty-eight-year-old Edith. His killer was Edith’s lover: Frederick Bywaters, a merchant seaman aged twenty. Bywaters was hanged for murder on 9 January 1923. So too was Edith Thompson. There was no evidence, of any kind, that she was involved with the killing. What condemned Edith were the letters that she had written to her lover, which were interpreted by the law as incitement to murder. These letters are remarkable documents. Charged with the vitality of Edith's voice, they are moving, perplexing, maddening, banal, spectacularly sensual, infused with a stream-of-consciousness immediacy. And they have never been collected in print, until now. In Au Revoir Now Darlint Laura Thompson – author of the CWA Gold Dagger-shortlisted Rex vs Edith Thompson – gathers the letters together alongside illuminating commentary to tell the story of an ordinary life and an extraordinary imagination that ultimately led to appalling tragedy.

Court Number One

Author : Thomas Grant
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 147365162X
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Court Number One written by Thomas Grant and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 'Superbly told' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph 'A hamper of treats' Sunday Telegraph '[Grant employs] scholarship and depth of evidence' London Review of Books 'These tales of eleven trials are shocking, squalid, titillating and illuminating: each of them says something fascinating about how our society once was' The Times 'Deceptively thrilling' Sunday Times 'Excellent . . . Thomas Grant offers detailed accounts of eleven cases at the Old Bailey's Court Number One, with protagonists ranging from the diabolical to the pathetic. There is humour . . . but this is ultimately an affecting study of how the law gets it right - and wrong' Guardian Court Number One of the Old Bailey is the most famous court room in the world, and the venue of some of the most sensational human dramas ever to be played out in a criminal trial. The principal criminal court of England, historically reserved for the more serious and high-profile trials, Court Number One opened its doors in 1907 after the building of the 'new' Old Bailey. In the decades that followed it witnessed the trials of the most famous and infamous defendants of the twentieth century. It was here that the likes of Madame Fahmy, Lord Haw Haw, John Christie, Ruth Ellis, George Blake (and his unlikely jailbreakers, Michael Randle and Pat Pottle), Jeremy Thorpe and Ian Huntley were defined in history, alongside a wide assortment of other traitors, lovers, politicians, psychopaths, spies, con men and - of course - the innocent. Not only notorious for its murder trials, Court Number One recorded the changing face of modern British society, bearing witness to alternate attitudes to homosexuality, the death penalty, freedom of expression, insanity and the psychology of violence. Telling the stories of twelve of the most scandalous and celebrated cases across a radically shifting century, this book traces the evolving attitudes of Britain, the decline of a society built on deference and discretion, the tensions brought by a more permissive society and the rise of trial by mass media. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories, Court Number One is a mesmerising window onto the thrills, fears and foibles of the modern age.

The Weekly Notes

Author : Frederick Pollock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Weekly Notes written by Frederick Pollock and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

All India Reporter

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1130 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All India Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rethinking Evidence

Author : William Twining
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810111424
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Evidence written by William Twining and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence, proof and probabilities, rationality, skepticism and narrative in legal discourse, and the reform of criminal evidence have all been the subject of lively debates in recent years. This book brings together seminal and new essays from a leading contributor to this new evidence scholarship. Rethinking Evidence contains a series of linked essays which consider historical, theoretical, and applied themes from a broad interdisciplinary perspective. It brings together well-known papers and also includes substantial new essays on the nature and scope of the law of evidence, lawyers' stories, and the case of Edith Thompson. These readable and provocative essays represent a major contribution not only to legal theory but also to the general study of discourse about evidence in many disciplines.

Heiresses

Author : Laura Thompson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250202744
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Heiresses written by Laura Thompson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses, a fascinating look at the lives of heiresses throughout history and the often tragic truth beneath the gilded surface. Heiresses: surely they are among the luckiest women on earth. Are they not to be envied, with their private jets and Chanel wardrobes and endless funds? Yet all too often those gilded lives have been beset with trauma and despair. Before the 20th century a wife’s inheritance was the property of her husband, making her vulnerable to kidnap, forced marriages, even confinement in an asylum. And in modern times, heiresses fell victim to fortune-hunters who squandered their millions. Heiresses tells the stories of these million dollar babies: Mary Davies, who inherited London’s most valuable real estate, and was bartered from the age of twelve; Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American “Dollar Heiress”, forced into a loveless marriage; Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress who married seven times and died almost penniless; and Patty Hearst, heiress to a newspaper fortune who was arrested for terrorism. However, there are also stories of independence and achievement: Angela Burdett-Coutts, who became one of the greatest philanthropists of Victorian England; Nancy Cunard, who lived off her mother's fortune and became a pioneer of the civil rights movement; and Daisy Fellowes, elegant linchpin of interwar high society and noted fashion editor. Heiresses is about the lives of the rich, who—as F. Scott Fitzgerald said—are ‘different’. But it is also a bigger story about how all women fought their way to equality, and sometimes even found autonomy and fulfillment.

Agatha Christie

Author : Laura Thompson
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 1472269551
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book Agatha Christie written by Laura Thompson and published by Headline. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Laura Thompson's outstanding biography . . . is a pretty much perfect capturing of a life' - Kate Mosse It has been 100 years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. In this biography, Laura Thompson describes the Edwardian world in which she grew up, explores the relationships she had, including those with her two husbands and daughter, and investigates the mysteries still surrounding Christie's life - including her disappearance in 1926. Agatha Christie is a mystery and writing about her is a detection job in itself. But, with access to all of Christie's letters, papers and writing notebooks, as well as interviews with her grandson, daughter, son-in-law and their living relations, Thompson is able to unravel not only the detailed workings of Christie's detective fiction, but the truth behind her private life as well. First published in 2007 as 'Agatha Christie: An English Mystery', this is a fully updated edition with a new introduction by the author

Annual Report of the Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction of New Jersey, with Accompanying Documents, for the School Year Ending ...

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Author : New Jersey. State Board of Education
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction of New Jersey, with Accompanying Documents, for the School Year Ending ... written by New Jersey. State Board of Education and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: