Author: B. Robert Anderson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465314660
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Lieutenant RC Frane and Sergeant Greta Rogers are challenged to review a double murderfive years old. A former police officer claims the wrong man is serving a life sentence. While the trail is cold, it is further complicated by the strange relations between the two victims and the man convicted of the crime. As they peel away what happened, what might have happened, and what actually happened, they encounter a vast conspiracy. An unpublished book is still in the computer of one of the victims. A touch of blackmail adds to the murkiness because the names of some important people are revealed. Just plain police work, detecting leads to a solution.
Detecting Murder
Author: B. Robert Anderson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465314660
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Lieutenant RC Frane and Sergeant Greta Rogers are challenged to review a double murderfive years old. A former police officer claims the wrong man is serving a life sentence. While the trail is cold, it is further complicated by the strange relations between the two victims and the man convicted of the crime. As they peel away what happened, what might have happened, and what actually happened, they encounter a vast conspiracy. An unpublished book is still in the computer of one of the victims. A touch of blackmail adds to the murkiness because the names of some important people are revealed. Just plain police work, detecting leads to a solution.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465314660
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Lieutenant RC Frane and Sergeant Greta Rogers are challenged to review a double murderfive years old. A former police officer claims the wrong man is serving a life sentence. While the trail is cold, it is further complicated by the strange relations between the two victims and the man convicted of the crime. As they peel away what happened, what might have happened, and what actually happened, they encounter a vast conspiracy. An unpublished book is still in the computer of one of the victims. A touch of blackmail adds to the murkiness because the names of some important people are revealed. Just plain police work, detecting leads to a solution.
Five Complete Novels of Murder and Detection
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Wings
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Five complete, unabridged books in one volume.
Publisher: Wings
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Five complete, unabridged books in one volume.
Crime & Detection
Author: Brian Lane
Publisher: DK Children
ISBN: 9780756613860
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores the many different methods used to solves crimes, covering such topics as criminal, detectives, and forensics.
Publisher: DK Children
ISBN: 9780756613860
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores the many different methods used to solves crimes, covering such topics as criminal, detectives, and forensics.
The Invention of Murder
Author: Judith Flanders
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250024889
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
"Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, fictional detectives, and real-life cause célèbres will appeal to devotees of true crime and detective fiction alike." -Publishers Weekly, starred review In this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama-even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other-the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P.D. James and Patricia Cornwell. In this meticulously researched and engrossing book, Judith Flanders retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder in Great Britain, both famous and obscure: from Greenacre, who transported his dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus, to Burke and Hare's bodysnatching business in Edinburgh; from the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper, to the tragedy of the murdered Marr family in London's East End. Through these stories of murder-from the brutal to the pathetic-Flanders builds a rich and multi-faceted portrait of Victorian society in Great Britain. With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the utterly dangerous, The Invention of Murder is both a mesmerizing tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250024889
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
"Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, fictional detectives, and real-life cause célèbres will appeal to devotees of true crime and detective fiction alike." -Publishers Weekly, starred review In this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama-even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other-the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P.D. James and Patricia Cornwell. In this meticulously researched and engrossing book, Judith Flanders retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder in Great Britain, both famous and obscure: from Greenacre, who transported his dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus, to Burke and Hare's bodysnatching business in Edinburgh; from the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper, to the tragedy of the murdered Marr family in London's East End. Through these stories of murder-from the brutal to the pathetic-Flanders builds a rich and multi-faceted portrait of Victorian society in Great Britain. With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the utterly dangerous, The Invention of Murder is both a mesmerizing tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable.
Murder in Japan
Author: John L. Apostolou
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Anatomy of Murder
Author: The Detection Club
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0007569696
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A unique anthology for crime aficionados – seven of the world’s most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0007569696
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A unique anthology for crime aficionados – seven of the world’s most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation.
Considerations on the Injustice and Impolicy of Punishing Murder by Death
Author: Benjamin Rush
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators
Author: Martin Edwards
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008192456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 977
Book Description
Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awards; and shortlisted for both the Agatha and Gold Dagger Awards. ‘Martin Edwards is the closest thing there has been to a philosopher of crime writing.’ The Times
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008192456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 977
Book Description
Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awards; and shortlisted for both the Agatha and Gold Dagger Awards. ‘Martin Edwards is the closest thing there has been to a philosopher of crime writing.’ The Times
The Perfect Murder
Author: David Lehman
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472085859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Drawing on a selection of the best British and American detective fiction past and present, Lehman takes readers on a probing investigation of why men and women of all educational and social backgrounds are continually fascinated by the murder mystery.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472085859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Drawing on a selection of the best British and American detective fiction past and present, Lehman takes readers on a probing investigation of why men and women of all educational and social backgrounds are continually fascinated by the murder mystery.
Murder in Renaissance Italy
Author: Trevor Dean
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107136644
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This invaluable collection explores the many faces of murder, and its cultural presences, across the Italian peninsula between 1350 and 1650. These shape the content in different ways: the faces of homicide range from the ordinary to the sensational, from the professional to the accidental, from the domestic to the public; while the cultural presence of homicide is revealed through new studies of sculpture, paintings, and popular literature. Dealing with a range of murders, and informed by the latest criminological research on homicide, it brings together new research by an international team of specialists on a broad range of themes: different kinds of killers (by gender, occupation, and situation); different kinds of victim (by ethnicity, gender, and status); and different kinds of evidence (legal, judicial, literary, and pictorial). It will be an indispensable resource for students of Renaissance Italy, late medieval/early modern crime and violence, and homicide studies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107136644
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This invaluable collection explores the many faces of murder, and its cultural presences, across the Italian peninsula between 1350 and 1650. These shape the content in different ways: the faces of homicide range from the ordinary to the sensational, from the professional to the accidental, from the domestic to the public; while the cultural presence of homicide is revealed through new studies of sculpture, paintings, and popular literature. Dealing with a range of murders, and informed by the latest criminological research on homicide, it brings together new research by an international team of specialists on a broad range of themes: different kinds of killers (by gender, occupation, and situation); different kinds of victim (by ethnicity, gender, and status); and different kinds of evidence (legal, judicial, literary, and pictorial). It will be an indispensable resource for students of Renaissance Italy, late medieval/early modern crime and violence, and homicide studies.