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Poisoned Lives
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Author : Katherine D. Watson
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2006-08-23
Poisoned Lives written by Katherine D. Watson and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-23 with History categories.
Here is a valuable, and fascinating, piece of social history. Watson sheds new light on a macabre yet frequently misunderstood subject.
Proof Of Poisoned Lives
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Author : Ian McLeod
language : en
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Release Date : 2014-09-23
Proof Of Poisoned Lives written by Ian McLeod and has been published by Archway Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-23 with Fiction categories.
In 1968, John Gooding feels he has wasted two years of his life fighting in Vietnam. He misses his wife Ann and is desperate to go home. He gets his wish due to unfortunate circumstances that leave him a wounded hero. He returns home to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to complete his law degree. John hopes to go into environmental law, suing companies for damages due to pollution. His relationship with Ann sours as she presses him to work for a prestigious firm in the process of defending a chemical company. John has no clue Ann is cheating on him with one of the firm’s senior partners. Following a divorce, John continues to defend people hurt by big business pollution. A fish tainted with mercury poisons one of his clients, Billy. The nearby coal mine is to blame—the same mine owned by Ann’s new husband. Soon, murder is the name of the game, and John must fight to protect his friends and his new love, Jane, from powerful corporations hell bent on keeping him quiet. Jessi and Sarah become embroiled in the drama, which is only amplified by Mother Nature, who steps in to create havoc, leading the friends through a dangerous maze of suspense, deception, and a touch of romance.
Proof Of Poisoned Lives
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Author : Ian McLeod
language : en
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Release Date : 2014-09-23
Proof Of Poisoned Lives written by Ian McLeod and has been published by Archway Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-23 with Fiction categories.
In 1968, John Gooding feels he has wasted two years of his life fighting in Vietnam. He misses his wife Ann and is desperate to go home. He gets his wish due to unfortunate circumstances that leave him a wounded hero. He returns home to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to complete his law degree. John hopes to go into environmental law, suing companies for damages due to pollution. His relationship with Ann sours as she presses him to work for a prestigious firm in the process of defending a chemical company. John has no clue Ann is cheating on him with one of the firm's senior partners. Following a divorce, John continues to defend people hurt by big business pollution. A fish tainted with mercury poisons one of his clients, Billy. The nearby coal mine is to blame-the same mine owned by Ann's new husband. Soon, murder is the name of the game, and John must fight to protect his friends and his new love, Jane, from powerful corporations hell bent on keeping him quiet. Jessi and Sarah become embroiled in the drama, which is only amplified by Mother Nature, who steps in to create havoc, leading the friends through a dangerous maze of suspense, deception, and a touch of romance.
A Poisoned Life
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Author : Richard Jay Hutto
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2018-05-22
A Poisoned Life written by Richard Jay Hutto and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-22 with True Crime categories.
Florence Maybrick was the first American woman to be sentenced to death in England--for murdering her husband, a crime she almost certainly did not commit. Her 1889 trial was presided over by an openly misogynist judge who was later declared incompetent and died in an asylum. Hours before Maybrick was to be hanged, Queen Victoria reluctantly commuted her sentence to life in prison--in her opinion a woman who would commit adultery, as Maybrick had admitted, would also kill her husband. Her children were taken from her; she never saw them again. Her mother worked for years to clear her name, enlisting the president of the United States and successive ambassadors, including Robert Todd Lincoln. Decades later, a gruesome diary was discovered that made Maybrick's husband a prime Jack the Ripper suspect.
Vincent Van Gogh A Poisoned Life
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Author : Robert Arthur Cosgrove
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2017-05-19
Vincent Van Gogh A Poisoned Life written by Robert Arthur Cosgrove and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-19 with Fiction categories.
It is July 1890 as thirty-seven-year old Vincent van Gogh prepares for his last destination. Soon he plans to leave his tormented earthly life and move forward to a more peaceful place. After Vincent dons his usual paint-splattered clothes and leaves several still-wet canvases behind in his cluttered room, he lovingly places his paint box and easel next to a garden wall, where he hopes someone will find them one day. As he revisits sites he has pained, Vincent touches the metal barrel of the borrowed pistol he has tucked secretly into his jacket while reflecting on his episodes of madness, his embarrassing seizures, and his less than ideal relationship with his brother, Theo. Finally while the malnourished and selfcondemned artist climbs a steep road above the rural lands of France to carry out his scheduled plan before nightfall, his destiny waits. Will Vincent have the courage to carry out his final act, and if so, what will be its consequences? In this poignant tale, the imagined last thirty-six hours of the renowned artist play out in fascinating detail as he finally takes control of his tortured existence on Earth.
The Poisoned Life Of Mrs Maybrick
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Author : Bernard Ryan
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2000-03-01
The Poisoned Life Of Mrs Maybrick written by Bernard Ryan and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-01 with categories.
If you were intrigued by the purported diary of Jack the Ripper or other books that have convinced experts that the notorious murderer was a Liverpool cotton broker named James Maybrick, read this true-crime biography of Maybrick’s wife. In 1889, in one of the great trials of history that produced major changes in English jurisprudence, she was tried, convicted, and sentenced to be hanged for Maybrick’s murder. This book takes you from the shipboard meeting of the 18-year-old American girl and the 42-year-old Englishman in 1881 to her death in 1941 as a lonely derelict whose past was unknown. You get details of the reprehensible treatment of Mrs. Maybrick by her husband’s family. You learn what happened when she weekended in London with Maybrick’s handsome associate. You watch as Maybrick succumbs to an arsenic diet. You discover why the press found her guilty before the trial, yet England’s leading barrister proved her not guilty in the public mind despite a hanging judge and jury. You learn the details of the uproar that followed, the last-minute-before-hanging commutation to imprisonment, the 15-year trans-Atlantic effort to get her released, her return to America and acclamation, and her years as "the cat woman" in a tiny cabin in rural Connecticut.
Poisoned Lives
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Author : Julie Watt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Poisoned Lives written by Julie Watt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Poisoned Lives is a double biography of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.) - the best-selling Regency poet known to her contemporaries as 'the female Byron' - and her husband George Maclean - British administrator on Africa's Gold Coast, known as the Father of Modern Ghana. Landon's reading public adored her writing and poetry and made her the best-selling female author of her time. As an early media celebrity, her life was the subject of society gossip, so her sudden death in Africa shocked the nation (a 'melancholy catastrophe' ran one headline) and led to rumors of suicide or murder. Her husband's name was henceforth blackened by London society, which unwittingly superimposed the plots of Landon's fictions upon the circumstances of her death. The scandal unjustly ruined Maclean's career, despite the fact that he cleared 200 miles of Western African coast of British slave trading, made peace with the warlike Asante, instituted a judicial system still in use in many African democracies, and encouraged fair and successful trading. According to an inquest, Landon's death was caused by her improper use of a prescribed medicine, but the rumor mongers discounted the difficult circumstances of life on the Gold Coast in the mid-1800s, and hinted that "Mrs. Maclean, only recently married, owed her death to the revengeful passions of the natives, who poisoned the wife in order to have vengeance on the husband." Among those who enjoyed her work or recognized her influence were Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It might be said that, to reflect fully the aesthetics of early 19th-century poetry, one has to consider, together, the works of William Wordsworth, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
Poisoned Water
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Author : Candy J Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2020-05-19
Poisoned Water written by Candy J Cooper and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-19 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Based on original reporting by a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an industry veteran, the first book for young adults about the Flint water crisis In 2014, Flint, Michigan, was a cash-strapped city that had been built up, then abandoned by General Motors. As part of a plan to save money, government officials decided that Flint would temporarily switch its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Within months, many residents broke out in rashes. Then it got worse: children stopped growing. Some people were hospitalized with mysterious illnesses; others died. Citizens of Flint protested that the water was dangerous. Despite what seemed so apparent from the murky, foul-smelling liquid pouring from the city's faucets, officials refused to listen. They treated the people of Flint as the problem, not the water, which was actually poisoning thousands. Through interviews with residents and intensive research into legal records and news accounts, journalist Candy J. Cooper, assisted by writer-editor Marc Aronson, reveals the true story of Flint. Poisoned Water shows not just how the crisis unfolded in 2014, but also the history of racism and segregation that led up to it, the beliefs and attitudes that fueled it, and how the people of Flint fought-and are still fighting-for clean water and healthy lives.
Lives Of The Great Poisoners
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Author : Caryl Churchill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Lives Of The Great Poisoners written by Caryl Churchill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Poisoners categories.
'Lives of the Great Poisoners' is a multidisciplinary theatre piece with elements of text, dance and song on the theme of history's most infamous poisoners. The play has three parts, each featuring an infamous poisoner: Dr Crippen, who was hanged in 1910 for the murder of his wife Cora; Medea, the mythical figure who killed her ex-husband Jason's new wife with poisoned robes; and Madame de Brinvilliers, the notorious 17th-century poisoner who learnt the tricks of the trade from her lover. The three stories are linked together by the figure of Midgley, an American inventor and industrial chemist.
The Poison Principle
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Author : Gail Bell
language : en
Publisher: Xou Pty Limited
Release Date : 2017-03
The Poison Principle written by Gail Bell and has been published by Xou Pty Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Award When Dr William Macbeth poisoned two of his sons in 1927, his wife and sister hid the murders in the intensely private realm of family secrets. Macbeth behaved as if he were immune to consequences and avoided detection and punishment. Or did he? Secrets can be as corrosive as poison, and as time passed, the story haunted and divided his descendants. His granddaughter, Gail Bell, spent ten years reading the literature of poisoning in order to understand Macbeth's life. Herself a chemist, she listened for echoes in the great cases of the nineteenth century, in myths, fiction, and poison lore. Intricate, elegant, and beautifully realised, The Poison Principle is a masterful book about family secrets and literary poisonings. It is a meditation on death, deceit and language, and answers questions like: how do arsenic, cyanide and strychnine work? Why is it so hard to poison someone these days? Was it ever easy? And it finally answers the question of what really happened to those small boys in the winter of 1927.