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Murder in the First Class Carriage
Author | : Kate Colquhoun |
Publsiher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2013-04-30 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 9781590208861 |
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This story of a real-life Victorian mystery is a “meticulously researched true-crime account . . . its final revelation is a showstopper” (The New York Times). In July 1864, Thomas Briggs was traveling home after visiting his niece and her husband for dinner. He boarded a first-class carriage on the 9:45 pm Hackney service of the North London railway. A short time later, two bank clerks entered the compartment and noticed blood pooled in the seat cushions and smeared all over the floor and windows. But there was no sign of Thomas Briggs. All that remained was his ivory-knobbed walking stick, his empty leather bag, and a bloodstained hat that, strangely, did not belong to Mr. Briggs. The race to identify the killer and catch him as he fled on a boat to America was eagerly followed by the public on both sides of the Atlantic. The investigation and subsequent trial became a fixture in New York newspapers—and a frequent distraction from the Civil War that ravaged the nation. In Murder in the First-Class Carriage, Gold Dagger Award nominee Kate Colquhoun tells the gripping tale of a crime that shocked an era. “A suspenseful, well-paced account of a baffling mystery.” —The Washington Post “Deploying her skill as a historian, Colquhoun turns a single curious murder case into a fascinatingly quirky portrait of the underside of mid-Victorian London. I found it unputdownable.” —Daily Telegraph
Murder on the Tracks Stories of Mayhem and Murder on the Railways
Author | : Various Authors |
Publsiher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781447480594 |
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A collection of short stories concerning the strange and terrible events that can occur within the anonymous, shifting environment of a moving train. Including stories by such masterful writers as Freeman Wills Crofts and Francis Lynde.
The Meanings of Violence
Author | : Elizabeth A Stanko |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2005-08-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781134418220 |
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The media often makes sense of violence in terms of 'randomness' and 'evil'. But the reality, as the contributors to The Meanings of Violence demonstrate, is far more complex. Drawing on the diverse subject matter of the ESRC's Violence Research Programme - from interviews with killers to discussions with children in residential facilities - this volume locates the meaning of violence within social contexts, identities and social divisions. It aims to break open our way of speaking about violence and demonstrate the value in exploring the multiple, contradictory and complex meanings of violence in society. The wide range of topics include: *Prostitute and client violence *Violence amongst young people at school and on the streets *Violence in bars and nightclubs *Violence in prison *Racist and homophobic violence This book will be fascinating reading for students of criminology and academics working in the field of violent crime.
First Class Murder
Author | : Robin Stevens |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2015-07-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781448193172 |
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From the author of Murder Most Unladylike. Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are taking a holiday on the world-famous Orient Express - and it's clear that each of their fellow first-class passengers has something to hide. Even more intriguing: there is rumour of a spy in their midst. Then, during dinner, there is a scream from inside one of the cabins. When the door is broken down, a passenger is found murdered, her stunning ruby necklace gone. But the killer has vanished - as if into thin air. Daisy and Hazel are faced with their first ever locked-room mystery - and with competition from several other sleuths, who are just as determined to crack the case.
Curiosities of street literature
Author | : Anonymous |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2023-02-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783382118259 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
The Examiner
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 868 |
Release | : 1842 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : SRLF:E0000239988 |
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La B te Humaine
Author | : Émile Zola |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0192838148 |
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Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his `most finely worked' novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new locomotives and railways it was building. While expressing the hope that human nature evolves through education and gradually frees itself of the burden of inherited evil, he is constantly reminding us that under the veneer of technological progress there remains, always, the beast within. This new translation captures Zola's fast-paced yet deliberately dispassionate style, while the introduction and detailed notes place the novel in its social, historical, and literary context.
Curiosities of Street Literature Comprising cocks Or catch Pennies
Author | : Charles Hindley |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Broadside |
ISBN | : IND:39000005759712 |
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