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A Criminal Magic
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Author : Lee Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Gallery / Saga Press
Release Date : 2017-01-31
A Criminal Magic written by Lee Kelly and has been published by Gallery / Saga Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-31 with Fiction categories.
In Lee Kelly’s “electric” (Publishers Weekly) fantasy novel, two young sorcerers experiment with magic and mobsters in 1920s Prohibition when a new elixir is created that turns their lives upside down. Washington, DC, 1926. Sorcery opponents have succeeded in passing the 18th Amendment, but the Prohibition of magic has only invigorated the city’s underworld. Smuggling rings carry magic contraband in from the coast. Sorcerers cast illusions to aid mobsters’ crime sprees. Gangs have even established “magic havens,” secret venues where the public can lose themselves in immersive magic and consume a mind-bending, highly addictive elixir known as “the sorcerer’s shine.” Joan Kendrick, a young sorcerer from the backwoods of Norfolk County, accepts an offer to work for DC’s most notorious crime syndicate, The Shaw Gang, when her family’s home is repossessed. Alex Danfrey, first-year Federal Prohibition Unit trainee with a complicated past and talents of his own, becomes tapped to go undercover and infiltrate the Shaws. When Joan meets Alex at the Shaws’ magic haven, she discovers a confidante in her fellow partner and he begins to fall under her spell. But when a new breed of the addictive sorcerer’s shine is created within the walls of the magic haven, Joan and Alex are forced to question their allegiances as they become pitted against one another in a dangerous, heady game of cat-and-mouse.
Crime Spells
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Author : Martin H. Greenberg
language : en
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Release Date : 2009-02-03
Crime Spells written by Martin H. Greenberg and has been published by Astra Publishing House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-03 with Fiction categories.
Sixteen original stories about magic-fueled crimes and those who investigate them When magic is used for criminal purposes, all sorts of ethical and logistical questions arise beyond the realm of everyday law and order. Now, sixteen top tale-tellers offer fascinating new stories of those who commit magic crimes, those who investigate them, and those who prosecute them. From a young woman who uses out-of-body excursions to research paranormal crimes to a bookie who?s been paying for hex protection against magical interference to an artist who does divination through his sketched visions which may lead to a murderer?s undoing, here are powerful tales of magical crimes and punishments.
Executing Magic In The Modern Era
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Author : Owen Davies
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-07-19
Executing Magic In The Modern Era written by Owen Davies and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-19 with History categories.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows site. The use of corpses in medicine and magic has been recorded back into antiquity. The lacerated bodies of Roman gladiators were used as a source of curative blood, for instance. In early modern Europe, a great trade opened up in ancient Egyptian mummies and the fat of executed criminals, plundered as medicinal cure-alls. However, this is the first book to consider the demand for the blood of the executed, the desire for human fat, the resort to the hanged man’s hand, and the trade in hanging rope in the modern era. It ends by look at the spiritual afterlife of dead criminals.
Sleight Of Crime
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Author : Cedric E. Clute
language : en
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Release Date : 1976-01-01
Sleight Of Crime written by Cedric E. Clute and has been published by Regnery Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976-01-01 with Detective and mystery stories, American categories.
Murder By Magic
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Author : Rosemary Edghill
language : en
Publisher: Aspect
Release Date : 2004-10-01
Murder By Magic written by Rosemary Edghill and has been published by Aspect this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-01 with Fiction categories.
This anthology features 20 original stories of murder by acclaimed and award-winning science fiction and fantasy writers.
Criminal Magic
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Author : Robin Ubsdell
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2024-01-03
Criminal Magic written by Robin Ubsdell and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-03 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Having lived his entire life in the confines of his hidden village, where he is the strongest, Hem, now fourteen, is about to venture out into the world beyond, where the ruling classes have made it illegal for anyone to possess more mana than the monarchy. With instructions from his grandmother to always hide his mana, his strength and his origins, Hem is about to experience the world for the first time.
Magic As A Political Crime In Medieval And Early Modern England
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Author : Francis Young
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-10-30
Magic As A Political Crime In Medieval And Early Modern England written by Francis Young and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-30 with Religion categories.
Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly led to major political scandals, such as the trial of Eleanor Cobham Duchess of Gloucester in 1441. While accusations of magical treason against high-ranking figures were indeed a staple of late medieval English power politics, they acquired new significance at the Reformation when the 'superstition' embodied by magic came to be associated with proscribed Catholic belief. Francis Young here offers the first concerted historical analysis of allegations of the use of magic either to harm or kill the monarch, or else manipulate the course of political events in England, between the fourteenth century and the dawn of the Enlightenment. His book addresses a subject usually either passed over or elided with witchcraft: a quite different historical phenomenon. He argues that while charges of treasonable magic certainly were used to destroy reputations or to ensure the convictions of undesirables, magic was also perceived as a genuine threat by English governments into the Civil War era and beyond.
Magic In The Blood
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Author : Devon Monk
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-01-05
Magic In The Blood written by Devon Monk and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-05 with Fiction categories.
Allie Beckstrom knows better than most that there's a price to pay for using magic; she's suffered her fair share of migraines and gaps in her memory during her time working as a Hound, tracing spells back to their casters. But now Allie's been visibly marked by it with a mysterious iridescent tattoo. She's not only lost all memory of how she got it, but also of the man that she's supposedly fallen in love with. Oh, and as usual, she's completely broke. So when the criminal magic enforcement division of the police asks her to consult on a missing persons case, things start to look up. At first, it seems to be a fairly straightforward way of earning some money but like most things in Allie's life it soon turns into a dangerous mix of underworld criminals, ghosts and blood magic. This time Allie is going to discover it takes more than magic to survive . . .
City Of Savages
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Author : Lee Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Gallery / Saga Press
Release Date : 2016-02-02
City Of Savages written by Lee Kelly and has been published by Gallery / Saga Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-02 with Fiction categories.
“Red Dawn meets Escape from New York and The Hunger Games” (Booklist) in an action-packed dystopian fantasy filled with “prose [that] is gorgeous and brilliant” and “tells a satisfyingly dark tale through alternating the two sisters’ points of view” (VOYA, starred review). It’s been nearly two decades since the Red Allies first attacked New York, and Manhattan is now a prisoner-of-war camp, ruled by Rolladin and her brutal, impulsive warlords. For Skyler Miller, Manhattan is a cage that keeps her from the world beyond the city’s borders. But for Sky’s younger sister, Phee, the POW camp is a dangerous playground of possibility, and the only home she’d ever want. When Sky and Phee discover their mom’s hidden journal from the war’s outbreak, they both realize there’s more to Manhattan—and their mother—than either of them had ever imagined. And after a group of strangers arrives at the annual POW census, the girls begin to uncover the island’s long-kept secrets. The strangers hail from England, a country supposedly destroyed by the Red Allies, and Rolladin’s lies about Manhattan’s captivity begin to unravel. Hungry for the truth, the sisters set a series of events in motion that end in the death of one of Rolladin’s guards. Now they’re outlaws, forced to join the strange Englishmen on an escape mission through Manhattan. Their flight takes them into subways haunted by cannibals, into the arms of a sadistic cult in the city’s Meatpacking District and, through the pages of their mom’s old journal, into the island’s dark and shocking past.
Strange Revelations
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Author : Lynn Wood Mollenauer
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Strange Revelations written by Lynn Wood Mollenauer and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
The Affair of the Poisons was the greatest court scandal of the seventeenth century. From 1679 to 1682 the French crown investigated more than 400 people&—including Louis XIV&’s official mistress and members of the highest-ranking circles at court&—for sensational crimes. In Strange Revelations, Lynn Mollenauer brings this bizarre story to life, exposing a criminal magical underworld thriving in the heart of the Sun King&’s capital. The macabre details of the Affair of the Poisons read like a gothic novel. In the fall of 1678, Nicolas de la Reynie, head of the Paris police, uncovered a plot to poison Louis XIV. La Reynie&’s subsequent investigation unveiled a loosely knit community of sorceresses, magicians, and renegade priests who offered for sale an array of services and products ranging from abortions to love magic to poisons known as &“inheritance powders.&” It was the inheritance powders (usually made from powdered toads steeped in arsenic) that lent the Affair of the Poisons its name. The purchasers of the powders gave the affair its notoriety, for the scandal extended into the most exalted ranks of the French court. Mollenauer adroitly uses the Affair of the Poisons to uncover the hidden forms of power that men and women of all social classes invoked to achieve their goals. While the exercise of state power during the ancien r&égime was quintessentially visible&—ritually displayed through public ceremonies&—the affair exposes the simultaneous presence of other imagined and real sources of power available to the Sun King&’s subjects: magic, poison, and the manipulation of sexual passions. Highly entertaining yet deeply researched, Strange Revelations will appeal to anyone interested in the history of court society, gender, magic, or crime in early modern Europe.