GREAT TRUE STORIES OF CRIME MYSTERY & DETECTION FROM THE READERS DIGEST
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Page : 586 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 1965
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Page : 586 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : Reader's Digest Association Pleasantville, New York
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Page : 576 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : Reader's Digest
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 23,31 MB
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 162145455X
More than two dozen gripping tales of murder, kidnapping, robbery, and much more from the Reader’s Digest archives. For more than 90 years, Reader’s Digest has been telling the amazing true stories of real-life thrillers, unsolved mysteries, and tales of cold-blooded murder—and of the regular folks caught up in these harrowing situations. Now we’ve pulled together a collection of more than two dozen of these gripping narratives, including: A woman’s account of being taken hostage by a convenience store robber True crime writer Ann Rule’s encounter with Ted Bundy before she knew he was a killer The case of the man who rigged the lottery The inside story of how Al Capone was finally arrested for tax evasion The unlikely tale of a widower father who enlisted his teenage son and daughter to help rob banks These modern classics are for crime aficionados and novices alike, tantalizing enough to hold your attention yet brisk enough to be your best beach or book club read. Enjoy the ride with an airplane bomber, an identity thief, and a Bonnie-and-Clyde team living on borrowed time. (Enjoy even more their comeuppance.)
Author : De Witt Wallace
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Page : 1790 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Periodicals
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Author : Jerry D. Flack
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Education
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1474 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Copyright
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Author : Casie E. Hermansson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 2010-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1628467622
Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales of all time. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. Astonishingly, this fairy tale was a nursery room staple, one of the tales translated into English from Charles Perrault's French Mother Goose Tales. Bluebeard: A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition is the first major study of the tale and its many variants (some, like “Mr. Fox,” native to England and America) in English: from the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, through the twentieth century in music, literature, art, film, and theater. Chronicling the story's permutations, the book presents examples of English true-crime figures, male and female, called Bluebeards, from King Henry VIII to present-day examples. Bluebeard explores rare chapbooks and their illustrations and the English transformation of Bluebeard into a scimitar-wielding Turkish tyrant in a massively influential melodramatic spectacle in 1798. Following the killer's trail over the years, Casie E. Hermansson looks at the impact of nineteenth-century translations into English of the German fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and the particularly English story of how Bluebeard came to be known as a pirate. This book will provide readers and scholars an invaluable and thorough grasp on the many strands of this tale over centuries of telling.
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Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,27 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Literature
ISBN : 9780883005804
16 audio lessons in 8 cassettes with 4 accompanying readers that include additional works of short fiction and nonfiction.
Author : Casie Hermansson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1604733535
Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. This is a major study of the tale and its many variants in English: from the 18th and 19th century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, to the 20th century in music, literature, art, film, and theatre.
Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 684 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 1970
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