This Woman Is Death

Author : Hank Janson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845838713
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Woman is Death written by Hank Janson and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-28 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only recently out of the Army and back in the USA after fighting the Japanese in the Far East, Hank Janson is in no mood to just sit back and take it when his old friend Lola gets caught in the crossfire of a bar-room shooting. He sets out to avenge her death, finding himself up against a vicious gangster - and three even more dangerous women ... With their erotic pin-up covers and hardboiled crime tales, the Hank Janson pulp paperbacks were a British publishing sensation in the 1940s and 1950s, selling millions of copies to readers craving escapism from post-war austerity. Prosecutions under Britain's then-harsh obscenity laws dealt them a severe blow, however, and today they are highly sought after by collectors. The tough, uncompromising This Woman is Death was the very first novel in the regular Hank Janson series, originally published in 1948. It is reissued by Telos Publishing complete with its original Reginald Heade cover.

Author : Ellis Peters
Publisher : Mysterious Press
ISBN 13 : 9780446400688
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death and the Joyful Woman written by Ellis Peters and published by Mysterious Press. This book was released on 1995-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A millionaire is murdered and Inspector Felse, after sifting through the few shreds of evidence, finally arrests Kitty Norris, his teenaged son Dominic's first love. A young man's infatuation soon becomes something far more dangerous, though, as Dominic takes on Kitty's cause--in direct opposition to his father's investigation.

Author : Joanne Clarke Dillman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137452285
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Death in Film, Television, and News written by Joanne Clarke Dillman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead women litter the visual landscape of the 2000s. In this book, Clarke Dillman explains the contextual environment from which these images have arisen, how the images relate to (and sometimes contradict) the narratives they help to constitute, and the cultural work that dead women perform in visual texts.

Author : Ottessa Moshfegh
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984879375
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in Her Hands written by Ottessa Moshfegh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by: The Washington Post, Vogue, Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, New York Magazine, Paste Magazine, LitHub, E! News Online, and many more From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds an ominous note on a walk in the woods. While on her daily walk with her dog in a secluded woods, a woman comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground by stones. "Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body." But there is no dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area, alone after the death of her husband, and she knows no one. Becoming obsessed with solving this mystery, our narrator imagines who Magda was and how she met her fate. With very little to go on, she invents a list of murder suspects and possible motives for the crime. Oddly, her suppositions begin to find correspondences in the real world, and with mounting excitement and dread, the fog of mystery starts to fade into menacing certainty. As her investigation widens, strange dissonances accrue, perhaps associated with the darkness in her own past; we must face the prospect that there is either an innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one. A triumphant blend of horror, suspense, and pitch-black comedy, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both reflect the truth and keep us blind to it. Once again, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned, and the stakes have never been higher.

Author : Kathleen O'Shea
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313024995
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998 written by Kathleen O'Shea and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-02-28 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a historical framework, this book offers not only the penal history of the death penalty in the states that have given women the death penalty, but it also retells the stories of the women who have been executed and those currently awaiting their fate on death row. This work takes a historical look at women and the death penalty in the United States from 1900 to 1998. It gives the reader a look at the penal codes in the various states regarding the death penalty and the personal stories of women who have been executed or who are currently on death row. As Americans continue to debate the enforcement of the death penalty, the issues of race and gender as they relate to the death penalty are also debated. This book offers a unique perspective to a recurring sociopolitical issue.

Author : Jane Hollister Wheelwright
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312187446
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of a Woman written by Jane Hollister Wheelwright and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Jungian analyst records the last few months of therapeutic meetings between herself and a thirty-sevenyear-old woman dying of cancer, providing a moving portrait of one woman's confrontation with death

Author : BethFowkes Tobin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135153680X
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the Material Culture of Death written by BethFowkes Tobin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the compelling and often poignant connection between women and the material culture of death, this collection focuses on the objects women make, the images they keep, the practices they use or are responsible for, and the places they inhabit and construct through ritual and custom. Women?s material practices, ranging from wearing mourning jewelry to dressing the dead, stitching memorial samplers to constructing skull boxes, collecting funeral programs to collecting and studying diseased hearts, making and collecting taxidermies, and making sculptures honoring the death, are explored in this collection as well as women?s affective responses and sentimental labor that mark their expected and unexpected participation in the social practices surrounding death and the dead. The largely invisible work involved in commemorating and constructing narratives and memorials about the dead-from family members and friends to national figures-calls attention to the role women as memory keepers for families, local communities, and the nation. Women have tended to work collaboratively, making, collecting, and sharing objects that conveyed sentiments about the deceased, whether human or animal, as well as the identity of mourners. Death is about loss, and many of the mourning practices that women have traditionally and are currently engaged in are about dealing with private grief and public loss as well as working to mitigate the more general anxiety that death engenders about the impermanence of life.

Author : Jonathan D. Spence
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014005121X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Woman Wang written by Jonathan D. Spence and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1979-03-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Spence shows himself at once historian, detective, and artist. . . . He makes history howl.” (The New Republic) Award-winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth century. Life in the northeastern county of T’an-ch’eng emerges here as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Against this turbulent background a tenacious tax collector, an irascible farmer, and an unhappy wife act out a poignant drama at whose climax the wife, having run away from her husband, returns to him, only to die at his hands. Magnificently evoking the China of long ago, The Death of Woman Wang also deepens our understanding of the China we know today.

Author : Dickson Ighavini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death is a Woman written by Dickson Ighavini and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. C. Beaton
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780446573535
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death of a Greedy Woman written by M. C. Beaton and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A GREEDY WOMAN: A Hamish Macbeth MysteryThere's not a cloud in Constable Hamish Macbeth's sky, just plenty of warm sunshine and not quite enough of beautiful Priscilla Halburton-Smythe. But as eight hopeful members of the Checkmate Singles Club converge on Tommel Castle Hotel for a week of serious matchmaking, the clouds roll in. The four couples, carefully matched by dating director Maria Worth, immediately dislike each other. The arrival of Maria's gross, greedy partner, Peta, kills the last vestige of romance. And as love goes out the window, murder comes in the door. Peta soon slurps up her last meal, and Hamish is left with a baffling puzzle: Who shared the fateful outing that left Peta dead with a big red apple in her mouth? Surely not of those singles...