A Fine Thing Murder
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Publisher : Valda DeDieu
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
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Author : David Morrell
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 11,73 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316216771
A brilliant historical mystery series begins: in gaslit Victorian London, writer Thomas De Quincey must become a detective to clear his own name. Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier. The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts. Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives. In Murder as a Fine Art, David Morrell plucks De Quincey, Victorian London, and the Ratcliffe Highway murders from history. Fogbound streets become a battleground between a literary star and a brilliant murderer, whose lives are linked by secrets long buried but never forgotten.
Author : Emma Southon
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 24,10 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 164700232X
An entertaining and informative look at the unique culture of crime, punishment, and killing in Ancient Rome In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common—murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic. Caligula was butchered in the theater, Claudius was poisoned at dinner, and Galba was beheaded in the Forum. In one 50-year period, 26 emperors were murdered. But what did killing mean in a city where gladiators fought to the death to sate a crowd? In A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Emma Southon examines a trove of real-life homicides from Roman history to explore Roman culture, including how perpetrator, victim, and the act itself were regarded by ordinary people. Inside Ancient Rome's darkly fascinating history, we see how the Romans viewed life, death, and what it means to be human.
Author : George Jacob Holyoake
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Secularism
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Author : Elliott O'Donnell
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Page : 240 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Ghosts
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Author : Joseph Smith Fletcher
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Page : 326 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 1923
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Author : John Diprose
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Page : 234 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 1877
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Page : 484 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Medicine
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Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0141397896
'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...' In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically every philosopher over the past two hundred years has been murdered - 'insomuch, that if a man calls himself a philosopher, and never had his life attempted, rest assured there is nothing in him'. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859). Thomas de Quincey's Confessions and an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings is available in Penguin Classics.
Author : Herbert David Croly
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Page : 490 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Political science
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