Author: Shirley Tallman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312328573
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Defying convention, spirited 19th-century lawyer Sarah Woolson sets out to prove herself in her first criminal trial.

Author: Shirley Tallman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250010438
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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"Tallman offers an entertaining mystery . . . will appeal to fans of Anne Perry and Rhys Bowen"--"Library Journal." San Francisco, 1882. When her brother is hit by a bullet, a crusading young lawyer discovers more murder and mayhem on Telegraph Hill.

Author: Shirley Tallman
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429933038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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The year is 1880, the place San Francisco. Intelligent, outspoken Sarah Woolson is a young woman with a goal and the fortitude to achieve it. She has always dreamed of becoming a lawyer. The trouble is, everyone believes women belong in the home---that it is not only unnatural, but against God's will for them to seek a career. When Sarah finagles an interview with one of the city's most prestigious law firms, no one thinks she has a prayer of being hired. Except Sarah. Using her brains and a little subterfuge, she not only manages to become the firm's newest (and only female) associate attorney, she also acquires her first client---a lovely young society matron suspected of brutally stabbing to death her wealthy but abusive husband. Sarah is sure of her client's innocence, but the revelation of the woman's secret lover may make that innocence impossible to prove. When four more victims fall prey to the killer's knife, Sarah fears she has bitten off more than she can chew. Bucking her boorish employer and the judicial system, Sarah finds herself embroiled in shady legal maneuvers, a daring Chinatown raid, and a secret and very scandalous sex club in this irresistible blend of history, romance, and murder.

Author: Ty Hutchinson
Publisher: Ty Hutchinson
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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In the first book of the thrilling Chasing Chinatown trilogy, a killer is loose in San Francisco, and he’s collecting body parts. SFPD has no witnesses and no suspects, but FBI Agent Abby Kane believes a dead hiker found ten miles north of the city is the key to solving those crimes. The detective involved with the case thinks Abby might be chasing a ghost down a rabbit hole, but the more Abby digs, the more she begins to think the killer is playing a game and there’s an audience cheering him on.

Author: Louise McReynolds
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080146546X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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How a society defines crimes and prosecutes criminals illuminates its cultural values, social norms, and political expectations. In Murder Most Russian, Louise McReynolds draws on a fascinating series of murders and subsequent trials that took place in the wake of the 1864 legal reforms enacted by Tsar Alexander II. For the first time in Russian history, the accused were placed in the hands of juries of common citizens in courtrooms that were open to the press. Drawing on a wide array of sources, McReynolds reconstructs murders that gripped Russian society, from the case of Andrei Gilevich, who advertised for a personal secretary and beheaded the respondent as a way of perpetrating insurance fraud, to the beating death of Marianna Time at the hands of two young aristocrats who hoped to steal her diamond earrings. As McReynolds shows, newspapers covered such trials extensively, transforming the courtroom into the most public site in Russia for deliberation about legality and justice. To understand the cultural and social consequences of murder in late imperial Russia, she analyzes the discussions that arose among the emergent professional criminologists, defense attorneys, and expert forensic witnesses about what made a defendant’s behavior "criminal." She also deftly connects real criminal trials to the burgeoning literary genre of crime fiction and fruitfully compares the Russian case to examples of crimes both from Western Europe and the United States in this period. Murder Most Russian will appeal not only to readers interested in Russian culture and true crime but also to historians who study criminology, urbanization, the role of the social sciences in forging the modern state, evolving notions of the self and the psyche, the instability of gender norms, and sensationalism in the modern media.

Author: Janet Malcolm
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300168837
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Malcolm's riveting new book tells the story of a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention.

Author: Kennedy Chase
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781502912299
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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"A really fun cozy mystery with lots of laughs, twists, and memorable characters. Harley Hill is my new favourite woman sleuth." Look out London, there's a new investigator in town! Harley Hill is a twenty-five year old woman in need of a new identity. Until now she's been know as many things: Thief, Bandit, The girl dressed like a ninja... When she's offered an investigative position at the Silvers Finders Agency, she decides it's time to go straight. But when a jewelry store break-in she's investigating turns into a murder case, Harley will need all her skills to find the killer and avoid the attentions of a Russian crime boss. With the help of her new friends, and some from her underworld past, Harley faces a race against the clock. She'll need to uncover the secret behind the artifact left at the jewelry store if she's to catch the murderer. If she fails, it won't just be the job she loses-but her life. "Set in London's Notting Hill, the Harley Hill Mysteries are a blend of mystery, humor, and romance that promise a fast-paced, entertaining read."

Author: Henry Kuttner
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479449628
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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ONE WAS A KILLER: A TOUGH KID—with a record of violence. The headlines screamed for a fast conviction. THE LEADER of a vicious gang. What had he wanted from Ann Avery the night of her death? A DOPE ADDICT—She looked too frail to kill anyone. A HIGH LIVER—on a teacher’s salary. Where did he get the big money? A JEALOUS HUSBAND—Did he really love his wife? A LUSH—Blackmail was her only chance for more whiskey. A RELUCTANT WITNESS—Why did he hide a piece of explosive evidence which might clear another suspect? These were the people psychoanalyst Gray set out to question about the murder of Ann Avery, knowing as he searched that one or more among them would also be killed!

Author: J.T. Kunkel
Publisher: Next Chapter
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Miranda Marquette is on the top of her game. Her recently formed First Extreme All-Girl Sports Team (FEAST) is in training for the Street Luge Nationals in San Francisco and she is negotiating a contract for a reality TV show. After two of her teammates are murdered, Miranda's wit and previous experience as a police officer are put to the test. She has her own idea about who the murderer is, but will the police agree? In the process, Miranda has to look deep within herself to find answers to long-standing questions. Is it all coming together at the right moment, or falling apart at the wrong time? Running out of time, Miranda has to race against the clock to bring the culprit to justice.

Author: K. Mullen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403980624
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Have newcomers to American cities been responsible for a disproportionate amount of violent crime? Dangerous Strangers takes up this question by examining the incidence of criminal violence among several waves of immigrant/ethnic groups in San Francisco over 150 years. By looking at a variety of groups - Irish, German, Italian, and Chinese immigrants, primarily - and their different experiences at varying times in the city's history, this study addresses the issue of how much violence can be attributed to new groups' treatment by the host society and how much can be traced to traits found in their community of origin. Dangerous Strangers fills an acknowledged gap in the literature of homicide studies and broadens our understanding of newcomer violence.