The Invention Of Murder
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The Invention Of Murder How The Victorians Revelled In Death And Detection And Created Modern Crime
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Author : Judith Flanders
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2011-01-06
The Invention Of Murder How The Victorians Revelled In Death And Detection And Created Modern Crime written by Judith Flanders and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-06 with History categories.
“We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.” Punch.
Careless People
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Author : Sarah Churchwell
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-01-23
Careless People written by Sarah Churchwell and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-23 with True Crime categories.
Kirkus (STARRED review) "Churchwell... has written an excellent book... she’s earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald's] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page.” The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame, days from turning twenty-six years old, and returning to New York for the publication of his fourth book, Tales of the Jazz Age. A spokesman for America’s carefree younger generation, Fitzgerald found a home in the glamorous and reckless streets of New York. Here, in the final incredible months of 1922, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald drank and quarreled and partied amid financial scandals, literary milestones, car crashes, and celebrity disgraces. Yet the Fitzgeralds’ triumphant return to New York coincided with another event: the discovery of a brutal double murder in nearby New Jersey, a crime made all the more horrible by the farce of a police investigation—which failed to accomplish anything beyond generating enormous publicity for the newfound celebrity participants. Proclaimed the “crime of the decade” even as its proceedings dragged on for years, the Mills-Hall murder has been wholly forgotten today. But the enormous impact of this bizarre crime can still be felt in The Great Gatsby, a novel Fitzgerald began planning that autumn of 1922 and whose plot he ultimately set within that fateful year. Careless People is a unique literary investigation: a gripping double narrative that combines a forensic search for clues to an unsolved crime and a quest for the roots of America’s best loved novel. Overturning much of the received wisdom of the period, Careless People blends biography and history with lost newspaper accounts, letters, and newly discovered archival materials. With great wit and insight, acclaimed scholar of American literature Sarah Churchwell reconstructs the events of that pivotal autumn, revealing in the process new ways of thinking about Fitzgerald’s masterpiece. Interweaving the biographical story of the Fitzgeralds with the unfolding investigation into the murder of Hall and Mills, Careless People is a thrilling combination of literary history and murder mystery, a mesmerizing journey into the dark heart of Jazz Age America.
A Murder Of Magpies
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Author : Judith Flanders
language : en
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Release Date : 2014-03-20
A Murder Of Magpies written by Judith Flanders and has been published by Allison & Busby this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-20 with Fiction categories.
You know when you can have one those days at the office? You spill coffee on your keyboard, the finance director goes on an expenses rampage and then, before you know it, your favourite author is murdered. Don't you just hate when that happens? When Samantha Clair decides to publish journalist Kit Lovell's tell-all book on the death of fashion-designer Rodrigo Alemán, she can scarcely imagine the dangers ahead. Cue a rollercoaster ride into the dark realms of fashion, money-laundering and murder, armed with nothing but her e-reader and her trusty stock of sarcasm.
The Beautiful Cigar Girl
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Author : Daniel Stashower
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2007-12-04
The Beautiful Cigar Girl written by Daniel Stashower and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-04 with True Crime categories.
On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case-and sent his fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin, to solve the baffling murder of Mary Rogers in "The Mystery of Marie Rog t."
The Invention Of Fire
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Author : Bruce Holsinger
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2015-02-26
The Invention Of Fire written by Bruce Holsinger and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-26 with Fiction categories.
The richly atmospheric new historical thriller featuring John Gower, poet and trader of secrets. Set in the turbulent 14th Century, this is perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom.
In Cold Blood
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Author : Truman Capote
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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In Cold Blood written by Truman Capote and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The Golden Age Of Murder
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Author : Martin Edwards
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2015-05-07
The Golden Age Of Murder written by Martin Edwards and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction.
American Sherlock
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Author : Kate Winkler Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books
Release Date : 2020-08-06
American Sherlock written by Kate Winkler Dawson and has been published by Icon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-06 with True Crime categories.
' Kate Winkler Dawson is an unbelievable crime historian and such a talented storyteller. ' Karen Kilgariff, cohost of the My Favorite Murder podcast 'Heinrich changed criminal investigations forever, and anyone fascinated by the myriad detective series and TV shows about forensics will want to read [this].' The Washington Post 'An entertaining, absorbing combination of biography and true crime.' Kirkus ' Kate Winkler Dawson has researched both her subject and his cases so meticulously that her reconstructions and descriptions made me feel part of the action rather than just a reader and bystander. She has brought to life Edward Oscar Heinrich's character, determination, and skill so vividly that one is left bemused that this man is so little known to most of us. ' Patricia Wiltshire, author of Traces and The Nature of Life and Death Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities – beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners and hundreds of books – sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least 2,000 cases in his 40-year career. Known as the 'American Sherlock Holmes', Edward Oscar Heinrich was one of the greatest – and first – forensic scientists, with an uncanny knack for finding clues, establishing evidence and deducing answers with a skill that seemed almost supernatural. Based on years of research and thousands of never-before-published primary source materials, American Sherlock is a true-crime account capturing the life of the man who spearheaded the invention of a myriad of new forensic tools, including blood-spatter analysis, ballistics, lie-detector tests and the use of fingerprints as courtroom evidence.
The Inventor And The Tycoon
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Author : Edward Ball
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2013-11-05
The Inventor And The Tycoon written by Edward Ball and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book of the Year Nearly 140 years ago, in frontier California, photographer Eadweard Muybridge captured time with his camera and played it back on a flickering screen, inventing the breakthrough technology of moving pictures. Yet the visionary inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial became a national sensation. Despite Muybridge’s crime, the artist’s patron, railroad tycoon Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University, hired the photographer to answer the question of whether the four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground all at once—and together these two unlikely men launched the age of visual media. Written with style and passion by National Book Award-winner Edward Ball, this riveting true-crime tale of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads puts on display the virtues and vices of the great American West.
The Invention Of Solitude
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Author : Paul Auster
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2010-11-25
The Invention Of Solitude written by Paul Auster and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death.' So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father. In 'The Book of Memory' the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator, 'A', contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather and the solitary nature of writing and story-telling.