The Great Pictorial History Of World Crime
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Author | : Jay Robert Nash |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781442238435 |
This unparalleled reference spans the entire scope of world history offering a thorough investigation into the most infamous crimes and their perpetrators throughout recorded time. Each chapter begins with an essay that introduces the topic and provides a concise overview of the historical, social, and often, political significance of the crime.
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Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Assassination |
ISBN | : 9780810859432 |
Investigation into the most infamous crimes and their perpetrators throughout recorded time. An all-inclusive history of every major crime category is represented with essays and in-depth profiles that introduce the topics and individuals, providing a concise overview of the historical, social, and very often, political significance of the crime.
Author | : Jay Robert Nash |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1755 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Crime |
ISBN | : 9781928831228 |
A narrative, illustrated history of worldwide crimes and criminals from ancient times to the present.
Author | : Julian Symons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Crime |
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Author | : Phil Carradice |
Publisher | : Fonthill Media |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2014-03-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1781552789 |
Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in the English imagination: the Artful Dodger, Mr Pickwick, Pip, David Copperfield, Little Nell, Lady Dedlock and many more. At the age of twelve he was sent to work in a blacking factory by his affectionate but feckless parents. From these unpromising beginnings, he rose to scale all the social and literary heights, entirely through his own efforts. When he died, the world mourned, and he was buried - against his wishes - in Westminster Abbey. Yet the brilliance concealed a divided character: a republican, he disliked America; sentimental about the family in his writings, he took up passionately with a young actress; usually generous, he cut off his impecunious children. This pictorial history will shed a new and alternative light on this literary giant.
Author | : Dorothy L. Sayers |
Publisher | : Peschel Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2011-06-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1461060443 |
We’ve Got A Body In The Bath This is the 2nd edition of the fully annotated “The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?” with revised and added footnotes and essays, a gallery of book covers, and more contemporary reviews. This fully annotated edition of “The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?” includes: * More than 600 footnotes (32,000 words) on English history, aristocracy, religion, society and literature. * Essays about the Argentina economic boom, Adolf Beck, English anti-semitism, William Palmer, Edmond De La Pommerais, the Brides in the Bath, and how Sayers invented Lord Peter Wimsey. * Three maps of London showing locations important to the novel. * Contemporary reviews from U.S. and British newspapers, and judgments from critics and even Sayers herself! * A gallery of book covers from Britain, the U.S., France, Netherlands, and other nations. * Timelines of the life of Dorothy L. Sayers and Lord Peter Wimsey's cases. When a church architect finds a naked man in his Battersea bathroom, Lord Peter Wimsey is on the case! The aristocratic amateur detective, accompanied by his camera-bearing manservant Bunter, follows a trail of blood as he pursues stock market manipulation, medical malpractice, and Lord Brocklebury’s edition of Dante. But the curious case of the bathing body turns darker and deadlier as Lord Peter uncovers a ghastly crime. Published in 1923, Whose Body? was Dorothy L. Sayers’ debut novel. Bill Peschel provided hundreds of footnotes to guide the reader through Lord Peter's world, describing words, objects and ideas that were familiar to Sayers' readers but obscure or unknown today.
Author | : Marvin Mondlin |
Publisher | : Carroll & Graf Publishers |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780786716524 |
The city has eight million stories, and this one unfolds just south of 14th Street in Manhattan, mostly on the seven blocks of Fourth Avenue bracketed by Union Square and Astor Place. There, for nearly eight decades, from the 1890s to the 1960s, thrived a bibliophiles' paradise. They called it the New York Booksellers' Row, or, more commonly, Book Row. It's an American story, the story that this richly anecdotal historical memoir amiably tells: as American as the rags-to-riches tale of the Strand, which began its life as book stall on Eighth Street and today houses 2.5 million volumes in twelve miles of space. It's a story cast with colorful characters: like the horse-betting, poker-playing go-getter and book dealer George D. Smith; the irascible Russian-born book hunter Peter Stammer, the visionary Theodore C. Schulte; Lou Cohen, founder of the still-surviving Argosy Book Store; gentleman bookseller George Rubinowitz and his legendary shrewd wife Jenny. Rising rents, street crime, urban redevelopment, television-the reasons are many for the demise of Book Row, but in this volume, based on interviews with dozens upon dozens of the book people who bought, sold, and collected there, it lives again.
Author | : Henry Brodribb Irving |
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Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Crime |
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Author | : Amy Reading |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013-02-26 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0307473597 |
In 1919, Texas rancher J. Frank Norfleet lost everything he had in a stock market swindle—twice. But instead of slinking home in shame, he turned the tables on the confidence men. Armed with a revolver and a suitcase full of disguises, Norfleet set out to capture the five men who had conned him, allowing himself to be ensnared in the con again and again to gather evidence on his enemies. Through the story of Norfleet’s ingenious reverse-swindle, Amy Reading reveals the fascinating mechanics behind the big con—an artful performance targeted to the most vulnerable points of human nature—and invites you into the crooked history of a nation on the hustle, constantly feeding the hunger and the hope of the mark inside.
Author | : Robert Escobar |
Publisher | : Catoblepas Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1619848759 |