Mercury And Murder

Author : Rhett Bigler
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508691518
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mercury and Murder written by Rhett Bigler and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Marine Kurt West is a bounty hunter who, when not chasing bail jumpers, tracks down aliens who stray outside the lines of the normally quiet--and supposedly alien-free--Chapel Hill. As the college town's annual crowded street party approaches, the man accused of a chilling execution-style murder has skipped out on bail and fear grips the community. Kurt gets the call to bring him in, but soon discovers ties between his fugitive and the illicit alien drug trade. When a floater turns up in a lake, apparently killed with an alien weapon, Kurt suddenly has two high-priority cases. But do the cases connect? And do they lead where Kurt thinks or to some place even more deadly?

Author : Jim Hutton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526614506
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mercury and Me written by Jim Hutton and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicola Goc
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134778635
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Infanticide and the Press, 1822-1922 written by Nicola Goc and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her study of anonymous infanticide news stories that appeared from 1822 to 1922 in the heart of the British Empire, in regional Leicester, and in the penal colony of Australia, Nicola Goc uses Critical Discourse Analysis to reveal both the broader patterns and the particular rhetorical strategies journalists used to report on young women who killed their babies. Her study takes Foucault’s perspective that the production of knowledge, of 'facts' and truth claims, and the exercise of power, are inextricably connected to discourse. Newspaper discourses provide a way to investigate the discursive practices that brought the nineteenth-century infanticidal woman - known as ’the Infanticide’ - into being. The actions of the infanticidal mother were understood as a fundamental threat to society, not only because they subverted the ideal of Victorian womanhood but also because a woman’s actions destroyed a man’s lineage. For these reasons, Goc demonstrates, infanticide narratives were politicised in the press and woven into interconnected narratives about the regulation of women, women's rights, the family, the law, welfare, and medicine that dominated nineteenth-century discourse. For example, the Times used individual stories of infanticide to argue against the Bastardy Clause in the Poor Law that denied unmarried women and their children relief. Infanticide narratives often adopted the conventions of the courtroom drama, with the young transgressive female positioned against a body of male authoritarian figures, a juxtaposition that reinforced male authority over women. Alive to the marked differences between various types of newspapers, Goc's study offers a rich and nuanced discussion of the Victorian press's fascination with infanticide. At the same time, infanticide news stories shaped how women who killed their babies were known and understood in ways that pathologised their actions. This, in turn, influenced medical, judicial, and welfare policies regar

Author : John Emsley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192806009
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elements of Murder written by John Emsley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating account of the five most toxic elements describes the lethal chemical properties of arsenic, antimony, lead, mercury, and thallium, as well as their use in some of the most famous murder cases in history, with profiles of such deadly poisoners as Mary Ann Cotton, Michael Swango, and Saddam Hussein and a look at modern-day environmental catastrophes.

Author : Landis MacKellar
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815608240
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Double Indemnity Murder written by Landis MacKellar and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queens Village was a picture-perfect postcard New York suburb. But in March 1927 the façade of respectability was stripped away to reveal an underside of greed, lust, and crime. Few incidents in crime history have been so notorious as the murder of Albert Snyder by his wife and her lover. Resonant of the footloose Jazz Age, it made persistent headlines and led to a sensational trial. The crime spawned a 1920s Broadway play and inspired the classic noir film of the 1940s, Double Indemnity. This book assesses the entire case, from grisly slaying and shabby cover-up to sharp police work and aftermath. Moreover, it explores sociocultural questions that beg to be answered: what effect does news reportage exert upon high profile cases, and why did such a transparent crime earn such an enduring place in the popular psyche?

Author : Mike Parsons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993054273
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder in Mercury written by Mike Parsons and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder in Mercury is the first instalment of the Madison Leigh Murder Mysteries series, set against the beautiful backdrop of the English canal network. Madison Leigh is looking after a friend's narrowboat, but what should have been a perfect holiday suddenly becomes something much more sinister.

Author : Charles F. Adams
Publisher : Quill Driver Books
ISBN 13 : 9781884995460
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder by the Bay written by Charles F. Adams and published by Quill Driver Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder has a long and distinguished history in San Francisco. The city and its Bay Area can stand proudly with Paris, London, and New York in the splendour of its misdeeds -- murders that have suspense, horror, audacity, and flair. The homicides chronicled in Murder by the Bay have been selected because a convergence of personality, circumstance, character, and geography makes them peculiarly San Franciscan. Each of these crimes illustrates an historic importance, each has impacted its times -- either in the course or application of the law or in the manner in which the affair revealed a shortcoming in society. They range from the Montgomery Street killing of James King of William, editor of the Daily Evening Bulletin, in 1856 to the sensational trial of early movie comedian Fatty Arbuckle who was accused of killing a showgirl at a party in the St. Francis Hotel to the shocking "City Hall Murders" in which former city supervisor Dan White killed Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. Most were solved, some were not. They are murders that fascinated the city and frequently the country, sometimes for weeks, often for years and even decades.

Author : Peter Tremayne
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466814012
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absolution By Murder written by Peter Tremayne and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 1995-12-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A.D. 664, King Oswy of Northumbria has convened a synod at Whitby to hear debate between the Roman and Celtic Christian churches and decide which shall be granted primacy in his kingdom. At stake is much more than a few disputed points of ritual; Oswy's decision could affect the survival of either church in the Saxon kingdoms. When the Abbess Etain, a leading speaker for the Celtic church, is found murdered, suspicion falls upon the Roman faction. In order to diffuse the tensions that threaten to erupt into civil war, Oswy turns to Sister Fidelma of the Celtic Church (Irish and an advocate for the Brehon Court) and Brother Eadulf of the Roman church (from east Anglia and of a family of hereditary magistrates) to find the killer. But as further murders occur and a treasonous plot against Oswy matures, Fidelma and Eadulf soon find themselves running out of time.

Author : John Emsley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191004901
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elements of Murder written by John Emsley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about elements that kill. Mercury, arsenic, antimony, lead, and thallium can be lethal, as many a poisoner knew too well. Emsley explores the gruesome history of these elements and those who have succumbed to them in a fascinating narrative that weaves together stories of true crime, enduring historical mysteries, tragic accidents, and the science behind it all. The colourful cast includes ancient alchemists, kings, leaders, a pope, several great musicians, and a motley crew of murderers. Among the intriguing accounts is that of the 17th century poet Sir Thomas Overbury, who survived four attempts to poison him with mercury but died when given the poison in enema form - under whose direction remains uncertain. Here, too, is detailed the celebrated case of Florence Maybrick, convicted of poisoning her violent husband James with arsenic, but widely believed at the time to be innocent. The question of her guilt is still disputed. Threaded through the book alongside the history is the growing understanding of chemistry, and the effects of different chemical substances on the human body. Thousands suffered the ill effects of poisonous vapours from mercury, lead, and arsenic before the dangers were realized. Hatters went mad because of mercury poisoning, and hundreds of young girls working in factories manufacturing wallpaper in the 19th century were poisoned by the arsenic-based green pigments used for the leaves of the popular floral designs. Even in the middle of the 20th century, accidental mercury poisoning caused many deaths in Minamata Bay, while leaded petrol poisoned the whole planet, and arsenic still continues to poison millions is Asia. Through vividly told stories of innocent blunders, industrial accidents, poisoners of various hues - cold, cunning, desperate - and deaths that remain a mystery, Emsley here uncovers the dark side of the Periodic Table.

Author : Jonathan Oates
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1473841232
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John George Haigh, the Acid-Bath Murderer written by Jonathan Oates and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What motivated John George Haigh to murder at least six people, then dissolve their corpses in concentrated sulphuric acid? How did this intelligent, well-educated man from a loving, strongly religious family of Plymouth Brethren become a fraudster, a thief, then a serial killer? In the latest of his best-selling studies of criminal history, Jonathan Oates reinvestigates this sensational case of the late 1940s. He delves into Haigh's Yorkshire background, his reputation as a loner, a bully and a forger during his years at Wakefield Grammar School, and his growing appetite for the good life which his modest employment in insurance and advertising could not sustain. Then came his move to London and a rapid, apparently remorseless descent into the depths of crime, from deceit and theft to cold-blooded killing. As he follows the course of Haigh's crimes in graphic, forensic detail, Jonathan Oates gives a fascinating inside view of Haigh's attempt to carry through a series of perfect murders. For Haigh intended not only cut off his victims' lives but, by destroying their bodies with acid, literally to remove all traces that they had ever existed.