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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Crime
ISBN : NYPL:33433067408645
Author : George N. Thomson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1334207445
Excerpt from Confessions, Trials, and Biographical Sketches of the Most Cold Blooded Murderers, Who Have Been Executed in This Country From Its First Settlement Down to the Present Time: Compiled Entirely From the Most Authentic Sources; Containing Also, Accounts of Various Other Daring Outrages Committed in This and Other Countries Our publicatiorp is to the moral what the surgeon's is to the physical man. Details of horrid and unnatural crime cannot be contemplated with composure but the avidity manifested by the public mind, for the perusal, argues - however paradoxical it may seem - eu universal interest in such recitals. This feeling was implanted by providence in the mind of man for a great and good end - and as far as our imperfect perceptions may attempt to penetrate the veil which con ceals Hts designs, we are justified in supposing that that end is the enforcement and wider utility of example. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Murder
ISBN : OCLC:808312320
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Murder
ISBN : OCLC:166589060
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Murder
ISBN : IND:30000113744969
Author : George N. Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Murder
ISBN : OCLC:191288132
Author : Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1111206781
Author : David Head,Timothy C. Hemmis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781639364084
The Founding Fathers are often revered as American saints; here are the stories of those Founders who were schemers and scoundrels, vying for their own interests ahead of the nation’s. We now have a clear-eyed understanding of Founding Fathers such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton; even so, they are often considered American saints, revered for their wisdom and self-sacrificing service to the nation. However, within the Founding Generation lurked many unscrupulous figures—men who violated the era’s expectation of public virtue and advanced their own interests at the expense of others. They were turncoats and traitors, opportunists and con artists, spies, and foreign intriguers. Some of their names are well known: Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr. Others are less notorious now but were no less threatening. There was Charles Lee, the Continental Army general who offered to tell the British how to defeat the Americans, and James Wilkinson, who served fifteen years as a commanding general in the US Army, despite rumors that he spied for Spain and conspired with traitors. The early years of the republic were full of self-interested individuals, sometimes succeeding in their plots, sometimes failing, but always shaping the young nation. A Republic of Scoundrels seeks to re-examine the Founding Generation and replace the hagiography of the Founding Fathers with something more realistic: a picture that embraces the many facets of our nation’s origins.
Author : Robert Wilhelm
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614234319
“The importance of the area to early America . . . make the book a must-read for anyone interested in the dark side of New England history” (Early American Crime). The idea of a criminal record originated in the early seventeenth century when the magistrates of the Massachusetts Bay Colony began recording dates, places, victims and criminals. Despite, or perhaps because of, the strict code of the Puritans, some early settlers earned quite the rap sheet that landed them either in the stocks or at the end of a noose. With biting wit and an eye for the macabre, local author Robert Wilhelm traces the first documented cases of murder and mayhem in Essex County, Massachusetts. Discover the story of Hannah Duston’s revenge on her Abenaki Indian captors, why the witchcraft hysteria hung over Salem and Andover and how Rachel Wall made her living as a pirate. Decide for yourself whether the accused are guilty or if history lends itself to something else entirely. Includes photos!
Author : Joseph Sabin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752521207
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Author : Harold Schechter
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780345524478
AMERICA’S MOST COLD-BLOODED! In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts. But for every celebrity psychopath who’s gotten ink for spilling blood, there’s a bevy of all-but-forgotten homicidal fiends studding the bloody margins of U.S. history. The law gave them their just desserts, but now the hugely acclaimed author of The Serial Killer Files and The Whole Death Catalog gives them their dark due in this absolutely riveting true-crime treasury. Among America’s most cold-blooded you’ll meet • Robert Irwin, “The Mad Sculptor”: He longed to use his carving skills on the woman he loved—but had to settle for making short work of her mother and sister instead. • Peter Robinson, “The Tell-Tale Heart Killer”: It took two days and four tries for him to finish off his victim, but no time at all for keen-eyed cops to spot the fatal flaw in his floor plan. • Anton Probst, “The Monster in the Shape of a Man”: The ax-murdering immigrant’s systematic slaughter of all eight members of a Pennsylvania farm family matched the savagery of the Manson murders a century later. • Edward H. Ruloff, “The Man of Two Lives”: A genuine Jekyll and Hyde, his brilliant scholarship disguised his bloodthirsty brutality, and his oversized brain gave new meaning to “mastermind.” Spurred by profit, passion, paranoia, or perverse pleasure, these killers—the Witch of Staten Island, the Smutty Nose Butcher, the Bluebeard of Quiet Dell, and many others—span three centuries and a host of harrowing murder methods. Dramatized in the pages of penny dreadfuls, sensationalized in tabloid headlines, and immortalized in “murder ballads” and classic fiction by Edgar Allan Poe and Theodore Dreiser, the demonic denizens of Psycho USA may be long gone to the gallows—but this insidiously irresistible slice of gothic Americana will ensure that they’ll no longer be forgotten.
Author : Charles J. Rzepka,Lee Horsley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119675778
A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography
Author : Joseph Sabin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368124120
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Author : Library of Congress,American Library Association. Committee on Resources of American Libraries. National Union Catalog Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN : UOM:39015082906366
Author : Harold Schechter
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780345522740
With such acclaimed works as The Devil’s Gentleman, Harold Schechter has earned renown as the dean of true-crime historians. Now, in this gripping account of driving ambition, doomed love, and brutal murder in an iconic American family, Schechter again casts his gaze into the sinister shadows of gaslit nineteenth-century New York City. In September 1841, a grisly discovery is made aboard a merchant ship docked in lower Manhattan: Deep in the cargo hold, bound with rope and covered with savage head wounds, lies a man’s naked corpse. While a murderer has taken pains to conceal his victim’s identity, it takes little time to determine that the dead man is Samuel Adams, proprietor of a local printing firm. And in less time still, witnesses and a bloody trail of clues lead investigators to the doorstep of the enigmatic John Colt. The scion of a prosperous Connecticut family, Colt has defied his parents’ efforts to mold him into a gentleman—preferring to flout authority and pursue excitement. Ironically, it is the ordered science of accountancy that for a time lends him respectability. But now John Colt’s ghastly crime and the subsequent sensational murder trial bring infamy to his surname—even after it becomes synonymous with his visionary younger brother’s groundbreaking invention. The embodiment of American success, Sam Colt has risen from poor huckster to industrious inventor. His greatest achievement, the revolver, will bring him untold millions even as it transforms the American West. In John’s hour of need, Sam rushes to his brother’s side—perhaps because of the secret they share. In Gilded Age New York, a city awash with treacherous schemers, lurid dime-museum curiosities, and the tawdry excesses of penny-press journalism, the Colt-Adams affair inspires tabloid headlines of startling and gruesome hyperbole, which in turn drive legions of thrill-seekers to John Colt’s trial. The dramatic legal proceedings will fire the imagination of pioneering crime writer Edgar Allan Poe and fuel the righteous outrage of journalist Walt Whitman. Killer Colt interweaves the intriguing stories of brooding, brilliant John and imaginative, enterprising Sam—sharp-witted and fascinating brothers on vastly divergent journeys, bound by an abiding mutual devotion and a mystery they will conceal to the end. Harold Schechter has mined the darkly macabre vein of a bygone era and brought forth a mother lode of storytelling gold. From the Hardcover edition.
