The Beauty of Murder

The Beauty of Murder
Author: A K Benedict
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1409144534

A serial killer with all the time in the world...From a stunning new voice in crime fiction. Stephen Killigan has been cold since the day he arrived in Cambridge. Seven hundred years of history staining the stones of the university have given him a chill he can't shake. Then he stumbles across the body of a missing beauty queen - a body which disappears before the police arrive... Unwittingly, Killigan has entered the sinister world of Jackamore Grass on a trail that reaches back to seventeenth-century Cambridge. It's a world of cadavers, philosophers and scholars of deadly beauty, a world where a person's corpse can be found before they even go missing, of a city and a person that hold far too many secrets written in blood.

Murder for Beauty

Murder for Beauty
Author: Beatrice Fairbanks Cayzer
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2011-11-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1462043151

Murder for Beauty describes the horrific murders by a serial killer planning to take over the cosmetics and perfume industry by killing off top executives of rival companies. Sleuth Happy Harrow, a Kentucky-born woman jockey married to a British race horse trainer based in Epsom, has a supernatural clairvoyant talent to find killers. Happy is drawn into these serial killings by a neighbor who is a Queen in the cosmetics and perfume business heading the WOW!Me Empire. Happy takes the case to save the Queens under threat. Travelling to Italy, Monaco, and Turkey, she stalks the killer in France.

Murder of a Sleeping Beauty

Murder of a Sleeping Beauty
Author: Denise Swanson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2002-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101119012

When school psychologist Skye Denison investigates the death of a popular teenager who was cast as Sleeping Beauty in the school play, she uncovers some shocking revelations about prominent Scumble River citizens. And even ever-optimistic Skye knows that in this case, finding the killer won't end this tale happily-end-after...

The Murder of A Beauty Queen

The Murder of A Beauty Queen
Author: Alex Josey
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2020-06-15
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9814893552

A beautiful, sensuous and rich widow is brutally murdered in the most questionable of circumstances. The last person to see her alive is her brother-in-law and lover—a man later found guilty on circumstantial evidence. Not until the condemned man appealed did a witness come forward and admit that he had given false evidence. How did she die? Who was the other mysterious lover to whom she constantly penned saucy letters? Why did the witness lie?

The Book of Murder

The Book of Murder
Author: Guillermo Martinez
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2009-07-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0143115804

A chilling new tale of literary intrigue from the author of the international sensation The Oxford Murders When Guillermo Martínez 's novel The Oxford Murders was first published in the United States, The New York Times Book Review called it "a scholarly whodunit [for] anyone who loves a good mystery." Now Martínez returns with a worthy followup: the mesmerizing The Book of Murder. A young writer finds himself unexpectedly tangled up in the story of Luciana, his former assistant and Kloster, bestselling author and rival. What he discovers about the deaths surrounding Luciana will make him question everything he had always believed-and taken for granted-about chance and calculation, cause and effect.

The Beauty Shop Murder

The Beauty Shop Murder
Author: Gloria V. Jones
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2017-05-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1543421326

Part one of his plan was now complete, and he was ready for part two. He rolled his special marijuana joint larger than normal. He wanted the full effect of the mixture to take effect quickly. The easier his victim was to handle, the better. There would be no chance of interruptions. He would be able to do whatever he wanted for as long as he wanted. Total gratification was what he was after this time.

The Beauty of a Social Problem

The Beauty of a Social Problem
Author: Walter Benn Michaels
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2015-07-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 022621026X

Bertolt Brecht once worried that how we feel about the victims of a social problem can get in the way of the beauty and attraction of the problem itself. In this book, Walter Benn Michaels explores the same dilemma through a study of several contemporary artist-photographers whose work speaks to questions of political economy. Michaels focuses on the work of several artists, mostly born in the 1970s and thus raised in a world where artistic ambition has been identified with a critique of autonomous form and of meaning as a function of intention. Michaels shows that these artists engage but also push beyond this critique of autonomy and intentionality, producing works that embody a new commitment to form and meaning. The explanation for this commitment, he argues, is these artists consciousness of making art in an economy riven by structural conflict, especially an unprecedented rise in inequality. For them, he argues, the relationship of the art work to the worldto its subject and to its beholderfunctions as an emblem of the relation between classes (rather than identities or subject positions). This book will join the short shelf of essential writings about the medium of photography."

JonBenet Murder Case

JonBenet Murder Case
Author: J.D. Rockefeller
Publisher: J.D. Rockefeller
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2016-01-04
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1523261722

JonBenet Patricia Ramsey was a young promising beauty queen at an early age of six. Unfortunately, it was in this age when tragic incident shocked not only the beauty pageant scene but the entire world. The young beauty queen was brutally murdered in Boulder, Colorado. The brutal crime happened in the basement of the young star's own home 26th of December 1996. Nineteen years has passed, yet, the crime is unresolved. Up until this moment, no one has been convicted of the crime. Experts say that this is due to the fact that when the incident happened, the Boulder Police Department were inexperienced in handling murder and homicide cases. In fact, a lot of people who were extremely interested in this particular case revealed that the authorities were not able to execute the standard operating procedures right after receiving the 911 emergency calls. Also, they did not accept help from more experienced agencies such as the Denver Police Department available nearby. This paper reviews and analyzes the procedural mistakes made by the Boulder Police Department in Boulder, Colorado throughout the course of the kidnapping and subsequent murder investigation. These mistakes are specified and interpreted as to how the department should have handled the investigation in order to protect and preserve the crime scene evidence that was eventually damaged due to carelessness. Next, the theory of the main suspects, John and Patsy Ramsey, as well as a possible intruder are discussed while addressing the physical and circumstantial evidence gathered during the case and how the mistakes of the police investigation might have hindered a conviction. So what really happened? This eBook aims at providing you the answers.

CŽzanne, Murder, and Modern Life

CŽzanne, Murder, and Modern Life
Author: AndrŽ Dombrowski
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520273397

"Cézanne, Murder and Modern Life changes the way we think about—and see—Cézanne’s entire oeuvre. Dombrowski’s arguments are convincing and bold, especially on the theme of murder as a vehicle for representation. Modern Olympia has never before been so satisfactorily analyzed." Susan Sidlauskus, Rutgers University, author of Cezanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense “Exciting and intelligent, Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life will be important for modernists, and essential for scholars of Cézanne, early Impressionism, and painting in the 1860s. Dombrowski shows us a Cézanne we did not know.” Nancy Locke, author of Manet and the Family Romance

Look Three Ways at Murder

Look Three Ways at Murder
Author: John Creasey
Publisher: House of Stratus
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0755137620

Once a murder is committed, the perpetrators have nothing to lose – they can murder again, although the chances of being caught rise, especially if Roger West, one of Scotland Yard’s finest detectives, is on their trail. But there are always three ways of viewing the crime: that of the hunter, the hunted, and the victim’s.