Author: Mark Grossman
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476630135
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
A trunk dripping blood, discovered at a railway station in Stockton in 1906, launched one of the most famous murder investigations in California history--still debated by crime historians. In 1913, the dismembered body of a young pregnant woman, found in the East River, was traced back to her killer and husband, who remains the only priest ever executed for homicide in the U.S. In 1916, a successful dentist, recently married into a prestigious family, poisoned his in-laws--first with deadly bacteria, then with arsenic--claiming the real murderer was an Egyptian incubus who took control of his body. Drawing on court transcripts, newspaper coverage and other contemporary sources, this collection of historical American true crime stories chronicles five murder cases that became media sensations of their day, making headlines across the country in the decades before radio or television.
The Trunk Dripped Blood
Author: Mark Grossman
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476630135
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
A trunk dripping blood, discovered at a railway station in Stockton in 1906, launched one of the most famous murder investigations in California history--still debated by crime historians. In 1913, the dismembered body of a young pregnant woman, found in the East River, was traced back to her killer and husband, who remains the only priest ever executed for homicide in the U.S. In 1916, a successful dentist, recently married into a prestigious family, poisoned his in-laws--first with deadly bacteria, then with arsenic--claiming the real murderer was an Egyptian incubus who took control of his body. Drawing on court transcripts, newspaper coverage and other contemporary sources, this collection of historical American true crime stories chronicles five murder cases that became media sensations of their day, making headlines across the country in the decades before radio or television.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476630135
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
A trunk dripping blood, discovered at a railway station in Stockton in 1906, launched one of the most famous murder investigations in California history--still debated by crime historians. In 1913, the dismembered body of a young pregnant woman, found in the East River, was traced back to her killer and husband, who remains the only priest ever executed for homicide in the U.S. In 1916, a successful dentist, recently married into a prestigious family, poisoned his in-laws--first with deadly bacteria, then with arsenic--claiming the real murderer was an Egyptian incubus who took control of his body. Drawing on court transcripts, newspaper coverage and other contemporary sources, this collection of historical American true crime stories chronicles five murder cases that became media sensations of their day, making headlines across the country in the decades before radio or television.
Frontiers of Fire : A Military Historical Novel (The Paraguayan War Series Book 1)
Author: Borba de Souza
Publisher: Jonatas Levi Borba de Souza
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
In the tradition of the hectic heroes from Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe and The Last Kingdom, comes Frontiers of Fire. A historical novel bursting with valor and vengeance in the heart of the South-American marshes. Inspired by true events. Luis Caetano thought it was his last week as a lieutenant at the remote Fort of Coimbra. He believed that after the New Year of 1865, he would return home to reunite with his father and little sister on the idyllic 3-Estados farm. But the Paraguayan fleet appeared on the horizon, and the lieutenant saw he was wrong. Terribly wrong. Now, instead of waltzes and violins, he must dance at the sound of cannons, the taste of agony, and the sight of splitting bones. Luis and his daring native soldiers will form a desperate resistance to delay the massive enemy. To buy time to evacuate civilians, they will put their lives at stake. One last stand encircled in the middle of nowhere, with no hopes of aid or extra ammo. Nearby, a man watches the deadly struggle of the 155 besieged Brazilians against a crushing force of 3500 invaders. He is the smuggler Gaspar from Corrientes. A citizen from a neutral state, his only worry is how the conflict may trouble his business. This war is not his war—or at least he thought so. But fate and the call of duty will bring them together, in an unlikely alliance, to survive against a cold-blooded, vast, and merciless enemy. The odds are heavily stacked against them, and the obstacles are beyond their imagination.
Publisher: Jonatas Levi Borba de Souza
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
In the tradition of the hectic heroes from Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe and The Last Kingdom, comes Frontiers of Fire. A historical novel bursting with valor and vengeance in the heart of the South-American marshes. Inspired by true events. Luis Caetano thought it was his last week as a lieutenant at the remote Fort of Coimbra. He believed that after the New Year of 1865, he would return home to reunite with his father and little sister on the idyllic 3-Estados farm. But the Paraguayan fleet appeared on the horizon, and the lieutenant saw he was wrong. Terribly wrong. Now, instead of waltzes and violins, he must dance at the sound of cannons, the taste of agony, and the sight of splitting bones. Luis and his daring native soldiers will form a desperate resistance to delay the massive enemy. To buy time to evacuate civilians, they will put their lives at stake. One last stand encircled in the middle of nowhere, with no hopes of aid or extra ammo. Nearby, a man watches the deadly struggle of the 155 besieged Brazilians against a crushing force of 3500 invaders. He is the smuggler Gaspar from Corrientes. A citizen from a neutral state, his only worry is how the conflict may trouble his business. This war is not his war—or at least he thought so. But fate and the call of duty will bring them together, in an unlikely alliance, to survive against a cold-blooded, vast, and merciless enemy. The odds are heavily stacked against them, and the obstacles are beyond their imagination.
The Dreams of Mabel Dodge
Author: Patricia Everett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000369412
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
In 1916, salon host Mabel Dodge entered psychoanalysis with Smith Ely Jelliffe in New York, recording 142 dreams during her six-month treatment. Her dreams, as well as Jelliffe’s handwritten notes from her analytic sessions, provide an unusual and virtually unprecedented access to one woman’s dream life and to the private process of psychoanalysis and its exploration of the unconscious. Through Dodge’s dreams—considered together with Jelliffe’s notes, annotations drawn from her memoirs and unpublished writings, and correspondence between Dodge and Jelliffe during the course of her treatment—the reader becomes immersed in the workings of Dodge’s heart and mind, as well as the larger cultural embrace of psychoanalysis and its world-shattering views. Jelliffe’s notes provide a rare glimpse into the process of dream analysis in an early psychoanalytic treatment, illuminating how he and Dodge often embarked upon an examination of each element of the dream as they explored associations to such details as color and personalities from her childhood. The dreams, with their extensive annotations, provide compelling and original material that deepens knowledge about the early practice of psychoanalysis in the United States, this period in cultural history, and Dodge’s own intricately examined life. This book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in clinical practice, as well as scholars of the history of psychoanalysis and students of dreams.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000369412
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
In 1916, salon host Mabel Dodge entered psychoanalysis with Smith Ely Jelliffe in New York, recording 142 dreams during her six-month treatment. Her dreams, as well as Jelliffe’s handwritten notes from her analytic sessions, provide an unusual and virtually unprecedented access to one woman’s dream life and to the private process of psychoanalysis and its exploration of the unconscious. Through Dodge’s dreams—considered together with Jelliffe’s notes, annotations drawn from her memoirs and unpublished writings, and correspondence between Dodge and Jelliffe during the course of her treatment—the reader becomes immersed in the workings of Dodge’s heart and mind, as well as the larger cultural embrace of psychoanalysis and its world-shattering views. Jelliffe’s notes provide a rare glimpse into the process of dream analysis in an early psychoanalytic treatment, illuminating how he and Dodge often embarked upon an examination of each element of the dream as they explored associations to such details as color and personalities from her childhood. The dreams, with their extensive annotations, provide compelling and original material that deepens knowledge about the early practice of psychoanalysis in the United States, this period in cultural history, and Dodge’s own intricately examined life. This book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in clinical practice, as well as scholars of the history of psychoanalysis and students of dreams.
The Stench of Death
Author:
Publisher: Ramble House
ISBN: 1605435325
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher: Ramble House
ISBN: 1605435325
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Vanished Queen
Author: Lisbeth Campbell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982141301
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Originally published in hardcover in 2020 by Saga Press.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982141301
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Originally published in hardcover in 2020 by Saga Press.
Network of Killers
Author: Dewey B. Reynolds
Publisher: Dewey Boyd Reynolds
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Personal ambitions of the Bernazzoli Brothers and Thomas Galluccio have grown over time. Make money, exercise power, and minimize bloodshed are their clearest objectives. The Bernazzoli Brothers and Galluccio are constantly faced with threats to their criminal empires. Their success comes at the expense of bullets flying and blood flowing. An FBI special agent becomes their biggest threat. The federal government assigns him to investigate corruption which involves their stranglehold over the Teamsters Union. Several witnesses are eager to identify those contracted to kill the agent. A diligent detective works closely with a particular witness and is determined to bring the killers to justice. The detective and witness are killed, and the Bernazzoli Brothers and Galluccio put their latest plan into action with the reigning New Orleans crime lord. The crime families of Chicago, Kansas City, and New Orleans consolidate power to control Teamsters insurance contracts. Murder is the tool used by the bosses to maintain their dominance over the unions. Can the government stop the crime lords before another killing takes place? Will the violent murders of yesteryears come back to haunt them? Find out in this supremely fascinating tale where uncontrolled greed and lust for power are absolute.
Publisher: Dewey Boyd Reynolds
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Personal ambitions of the Bernazzoli Brothers and Thomas Galluccio have grown over time. Make money, exercise power, and minimize bloodshed are their clearest objectives. The Bernazzoli Brothers and Galluccio are constantly faced with threats to their criminal empires. Their success comes at the expense of bullets flying and blood flowing. An FBI special agent becomes their biggest threat. The federal government assigns him to investigate corruption which involves their stranglehold over the Teamsters Union. Several witnesses are eager to identify those contracted to kill the agent. A diligent detective works closely with a particular witness and is determined to bring the killers to justice. The detective and witness are killed, and the Bernazzoli Brothers and Galluccio put their latest plan into action with the reigning New Orleans crime lord. The crime families of Chicago, Kansas City, and New Orleans consolidate power to control Teamsters insurance contracts. Murder is the tool used by the bosses to maintain their dominance over the unions. Can the government stop the crime lords before another killing takes place? Will the violent murders of yesteryears come back to haunt them? Find out in this supremely fascinating tale where uncontrolled greed and lust for power are absolute.
Pretty Evil New York
Author: Elizabeth Kerri Mahon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493055011
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Female criminals are often portrayed as caricatures: Black Widows, Queenpins, Mob Molls, or Femme Fatales. But the real stories are much more fascinating and complex.In Pretty Evil New York author Elizabeth Kerri Mahon takes you on a journey through a rogue’s gallery of some of New York’s most notable female criminals. Drawing on newspaper coverage and other primary sources, this collection of historical true crime stories chronicles eleven women who were media sensations in their day, making headlines across the country decades before radio, television, or social media. Roxalana Druse, the last woman to be hanged in New York; Ruth Snyder, immortalized in James M. Cain’s novella Double Indemnity; serial killer Lizzie Halliday, nicknamed the Worst Woman in the World, who became a Hudson Valley legend; Celia Cooney, the Bobbed Hair Bandit; and Stephanie St. Clair, who rose to the top of the numbers game and then made Harlem cheer when she stood up to mobster Dutch Schultz. Alongside them are some forgotten felons, whose stories, though less well-known, are just as fascinating. Spurred by passion, profit, paranoia, or just plain perverse pleasure, these ladies span one hundred years of murder, mayhem, and madness in the Empire State.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493055011
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Female criminals are often portrayed as caricatures: Black Widows, Queenpins, Mob Molls, or Femme Fatales. But the real stories are much more fascinating and complex.In Pretty Evil New York author Elizabeth Kerri Mahon takes you on a journey through a rogue’s gallery of some of New York’s most notable female criminals. Drawing on newspaper coverage and other primary sources, this collection of historical true crime stories chronicles eleven women who were media sensations in their day, making headlines across the country decades before radio, television, or social media. Roxalana Druse, the last woman to be hanged in New York; Ruth Snyder, immortalized in James M. Cain’s novella Double Indemnity; serial killer Lizzie Halliday, nicknamed the Worst Woman in the World, who became a Hudson Valley legend; Celia Cooney, the Bobbed Hair Bandit; and Stephanie St. Clair, who rose to the top of the numbers game and then made Harlem cheer when she stood up to mobster Dutch Schultz. Alongside them are some forgotten felons, whose stories, though less well-known, are just as fascinating. Spurred by passion, profit, paranoia, or just plain perverse pleasure, these ladies span one hundred years of murder, mayhem, and madness in the Empire State.
The Sean Coleman Thriller Series
Author: John A. Daly
Publisher: BQB Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Book 1: From a Dead Sleep - There are times when the truth invites evil, and there are times when the truth can get you killed. Book 2: Blood Trade - Sometimes blood is thicker than life. Book 3: Broken Slate - Be careful the legacy you wish for. “John Daly has a magical writing style, and his books keep you up late at night turning pages... You won’t want to put it down.” — Dana Perino, former White House Press Secretary / co-host of The Five “…I’ve become persuaded that nobody today tells a story quite like John A. Daly. From the very moment you pick one [of his books] up, it takes all the willpower you can muster just to put it down.” — Bob Burg, bestselling co-author of the ‘Go-Giver’ series "For a self-described ‘rent-a-cop security guard,’ Sean Coleman is a particularly human and relatable hero – plenty of flaws and rough around the edges, but heroic for the way he carries on, despite all the baggage of his mistakes and hard lessons learned. I think what impresses me the most about John Daly as a writer is his range." — Jim Geraghty, National Review; author of the Dangerous Clique thriller series
Publisher: BQB Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Book 1: From a Dead Sleep - There are times when the truth invites evil, and there are times when the truth can get you killed. Book 2: Blood Trade - Sometimes blood is thicker than life. Book 3: Broken Slate - Be careful the legacy you wish for. “John Daly has a magical writing style, and his books keep you up late at night turning pages... You won’t want to put it down.” — Dana Perino, former White House Press Secretary / co-host of The Five “…I’ve become persuaded that nobody today tells a story quite like John A. Daly. From the very moment you pick one [of his books] up, it takes all the willpower you can muster just to put it down.” — Bob Burg, bestselling co-author of the ‘Go-Giver’ series "For a self-described ‘rent-a-cop security guard,’ Sean Coleman is a particularly human and relatable hero – plenty of flaws and rough around the edges, but heroic for the way he carries on, despite all the baggage of his mistakes and hard lessons learned. I think what impresses me the most about John Daly as a writer is his range." — Jim Geraghty, National Review; author of the Dangerous Clique thriller series
Blood Trade
Author: John A. Daly
Publisher: BQB Publishing
ISBN: 1939371708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Sometimes blood is thicker than life. "Some writers are thoughtful. Some have style. John Daly has both. When I read his work, it's time well spent." - Bernard Goldberg, New York Times #1 bestselling author of 'Bias' "This book has so many twists, turns, mis-directions and layers of plot that I even forgot to eat where I was so involved. The characters are larger than life and when you think you know them there is another surprise just around the corner." - Best Selling Crime Thrillers Sean Coleman is back in the latest thriller from John A. Daly, set in the mountains of Winston, Colorado. Six months after the murder of his uncle, Sean is trying to get his life together. He's stopped drinking, he's taking better care of himself, and he's working hard to keep a fledgling security business afloat. At a blood plasma bank Sean frequents to earn extra income, he meets the distraught relative of Andrew Carson, a man who went missing weeks earlier on the other side of the state, with a pool of blood in the snowy driveway of his home as the only clue to the man's fate. Sean decides to help in the search for Carson and quickly finds himself immersed in a world of deception, desperation, and danger---a world in which nothing is what it seems, and few can get out of with their lives.
Publisher: BQB Publishing
ISBN: 1939371708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Sometimes blood is thicker than life. "Some writers are thoughtful. Some have style. John Daly has both. When I read his work, it's time well spent." - Bernard Goldberg, New York Times #1 bestselling author of 'Bias' "This book has so many twists, turns, mis-directions and layers of plot that I even forgot to eat where I was so involved. The characters are larger than life and when you think you know them there is another surprise just around the corner." - Best Selling Crime Thrillers Sean Coleman is back in the latest thriller from John A. Daly, set in the mountains of Winston, Colorado. Six months after the murder of his uncle, Sean is trying to get his life together. He's stopped drinking, he's taking better care of himself, and he's working hard to keep a fledgling security business afloat. At a blood plasma bank Sean frequents to earn extra income, he meets the distraught relative of Andrew Carson, a man who went missing weeks earlier on the other side of the state, with a pool of blood in the snowy driveway of his home as the only clue to the man's fate. Sean decides to help in the search for Carson and quickly finds himself immersed in a world of deception, desperation, and danger---a world in which nothing is what it seems, and few can get out of with their lives.
Myths and Legends of Flowers, Trees, Fruits, and Plants in All Ages and in All Climes
Author: Charles Montgomery Skinner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description