Corpse On The Court

Author : Simon Brett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Court tennis
ISBN : 1335506500

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The Corpse on the Court by Simon Brett Pdf

The genteel game of Real Tennis takes a murderous twist in Simon Brett's witty and entertaining new Fethering mystery - Jude's life has been turned upside-down thanks to her new man, Piers Targett, who's keen to get her involved in his hobby - or obsession - of Real Tennis. But when one of Piers' friends dies on the court in suspicious circumstances, Jude finds herself caught up in the police investigation. Meanwhile, Jude's neighbour Carole is trying to identify the human remains known locally as the 'Lady in the Lake.' As the two investigations become intertwined, Carole and Jude's efforts to find the truth look set to lead to more murders.

Author : Simon Brett
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780103419

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Corpse on the Court by Simon Brett Pdf

'Brett performs his magic on the traditional cozy,making the frame rock with laughter at human foibles and quake with well-placed surprises' - Booklist Starred Review The genteel game of Real Tennis takes a murderous twist in Simon Brett's witty and entertaining new Fethering mystery Jude's life has been turned upside-down thanks her new man, Piers Targett, who's keen to get her involved in his hobby - or obsession - of Real Tennis. But when one of Piers' friends dies on the court in suspicious circumstances, Jude finds herself caught up in the police investigation. Meanwhile, Jude's neighbour Carole is trying to identify the human remains known locally as the 'Lady in the Lake.' As the two investigations become intertwined, Carole and Jude's efforts to find the truth look set to lead to more murders.

Author : Deborah Tisdale
Publisher : Thomas & Mercer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803494785

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Corpse on the Court by Deborah Tisdale Pdf

Summer Walsh an ex-detective leaves the police force and vacations on the beach. it was on her uncles golf course at the country club. Her uncle gets framed for the murder of Bonita Landry throws the whole town into a tailspin, creating suspicion in everyone. But Summer doesn't give up until she finds out who the murderer is.

Author : Sylvia McNicoll
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459400641

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Crush. Candy. Corpse. by Sylvia McNicoll Pdf

Paradise Manor is depressing -- the smells are bad and the residents are old. Sunny would much rather be doing her volunteer hours at Salon Teo, but her teacher won't let her. Who says volunteering at a hair salon doesn't benefit the community? But working with the Alzheimer's patients has a surprising effect on Sunny. Along with Cole, the grandson of one of the residents, she begins to see that the residents don't have much more choice about their lives than she does: what they eat, how they are treated by staff, even what they watch on television. So Sunny does what she can to make the residents happy -- even if she has to sometimes break the rules to do it. When tragedy strikes at Paradise, Sunny's left to make the decision about whether or not to honour a promise that Cole made to his grandmother about her life...and her death.

Author : Elizabeth Spragins
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781531501587

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A Grammar of the Corpse by Elizabeth Spragins Pdf

No matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating event for the formation of the Iberian Union, one always stumbles across dead bodies—rotting in the sun on abandoned battlefields, publicly displayed in marketplaces, exhumed and transported for political uses. A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean proposes an approach to understanding how dead bodies anchored the construction of knowledge within early modern Mediterranean historiography. A Grammar of the Corpse argues that the presence of the corpse in historical narrative is not incidental. It fills a central gap in testimonial narrative: providing tangible evidence of the narrator’s reliability while provoking an affective response in the audience. The use of corpses as a source of narrative authority mobilizes what cultural historians, philosophers, and social anthropologists have pointed to as the latent power of the dead for generating social and political meaning and knowledge. A Grammar of the Corpse analyzes the literary, semiotic, and epistemological function these bodies serve within text and through language. It finds that corpses are indexically present and yet disturbingly absent, a tension that informs their fraught relationship to their narrators’ own bodies and makes them useful but subversive tools of communication and knowledge. A Grammar of the Corpse complements recent work in medieval and early modern Iberian and Mediterranean studies to account for the confessional, ethnic, linguistic, and political diversity of the region. By reading Arabic texts alongside Portuguese and Spanish accounts of this key event, the book responds to the fundamental provocation of Mediterranean studies to work beyond the linguistic limitations of modern national boundaries.

Author : Karla Rothstein,Christina Staudt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440869068

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The Future of the Corpse by Karla Rothstein,Christina Staudt Pdf

This book reviews the spectrum of death, from when the living person turns to corpse until the person lives in the memory of mourners, and its impact on the ecology of the socio-cultural community and physical environment. This book demonstrates that American society today is in a pivotal period for re-imaging end-of-life care, funerary services, human disposition methods, memorializing, and mourning. The editors and contributors outline the past, present, and future of death care rituals, pointing to promising new practices and innovative projects that show how we can better integrate the dying and dead with the living and create positive change that supports sustainable stewardship of our environment. Individual chapters describe prevailing practices and issues in different settings where people die and in postmortem rituals; disposition and current ecologically and, in urban areas, spatially unsustainable methods; law of human remains; customs and trends among key stakeholders, such as cemeteries and funeral directors; and relevant technological advances. The book culminates in a presentation of emerging sustainable disposition technologies and innovative designs for proposed public memorial projects that respond to shifting values, beliefs, and priorities among an increasingly diverse population.

Author : Peter King
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137513618

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Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840 by Peter King Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make two post-execution punishments, dissection and gibbeting, an integral part of sentences for murder. It traces the origins of the Act, and then explores the ways in which Act was actually put into practice. After identifying the dominance of penal dissection throughout the period, it looks at the abandonment of burning at the stake in the 1790s, the rapid decline of hanging in chains just after 1800, and the final abandonment of both dissection and gibbeting in 1832 and 1834. It concludes that the Act, by creating differentiation in levels of penalty, played an important role within the broader capital punishment system well into the nineteenth century. While eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century historians have extensively studied the ‘Bloody Code’ and the resulting interactions around the ‘Hanging Tree’, they have largely ignored an important dimension of the capital punishment system – the courts extensive use of aggravated and post-execution punishments. With this book, Peter King aims to rectify this neglected historical phenomenon.

Author : Joan Sanger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590774823

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The Case of the Missing Corpse by Joan Sanger Pdf

Some years ago New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Crater walked out of his office, turned south along Broadway, and disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again.. There were headlines, public clamor and widespread excitement, but the true-life case was never solved. Something of that same breathless mystery is aroused in this story when Stephen P. Wyndham, internationally known sportsman and last in a line of a rich and respected New York family, vanishes into the gloom of a drizzly Havana night. What is behind the grim crime in that fashionable hotel room? Why would a popular young sporting idol drop blankly from existence? Follow in the steps of the ambitious young newspaperman, as he pieces together a set of mocking clues that lead through murder and violence, all the way from a sedate Murray Hill mansion to a lonely tropical waterfront. As he works to solve The Case of the Missing Corpse he encounters a varied cast of characters: an erratic spinster, a beautiful dancer, a prominent judge, a movie director, fisherfolk, and gangsters. To get to the bottom of it all, our newspaper must sift the treacherous characters from the sincere, hoping beyond hope that he will be able to solve the riddle of Stephen Wyndham’s disappearance and write the story of a lifetime.

Author : Mike Due
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Erlanger (Ky.)
ISBN : 1545522464

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A Corpse on the Court at St. Henry's Gym by Mike Due Pdf

As a followup to Grave Consequences in Erlanger, KY., Mike Due once more takes true local histories along with exagerated fiction, and places them in a blender with the controls set to puree. The result is a satisfying mystery smoothie set against semi-true histories from the early 1980's in suburban Northern Kentucky. Once more, Detective Martin Weir is tasked with solving a bizarre murder where a man drops dead on a volleyball court during an all-important qualifier for the state tournament. The reader will strive to learn not only the identify of the corpse on the court, but also that of the murderer. Anyone who likes whimsical murder mysteries will enjoy this novel, as will anyone longing for a dose of nostalgia from 1981.

Author : Christine Quigley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476613772

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The Corpse by Christine Quigley Pdf

Throughout the centuries, different cultures have established a variety of procedures for handling and disposing of corpses. Often the methods are directly associated with the deceased’s position in life, such as a pharaoh’s mummification in Egypt or the cremation of a Buddhist. Treatment by the living of the dead over time and across cultures is the focus of study. Burial arrangements and preparations are detailed, including embalming, the funeral service, storage and transport of the body, and forms of burial. Autopsies and the investigative process of causes of deliberate death are fully covered. Preservation techniques such as cryonic suspension and mummification are discussed, as well as a look at the “recycling” of the corpse through organ donation, donation to medicine, animal scavengers, cannibalism, and, of course, natural decay and decomposition. Mistreatments of a corpse are also covered.

Author : Wu Yan
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649553485

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Corpse Sewing by Wu Yan Pdf

There were only two types of businesses in this world: those who ate living people's food, and those who ate dead people's food. A living person's food is easy to explain, this place that eats a dead person's food is also called the underworld ...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:C3211245

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The Central Law Journal by Anonim Pdf

Vols. 64-96 include "Central law journal's international law list".

Author : Great Britain. Courts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:35112203949211

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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain. Courts Pdf

Author : John Cole Lowber,Thomas Sergeant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UCAL:B5064065

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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by John Cole Lowber,Thomas Sergeant Pdf

Author : Piu Eatwell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631491245

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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue by Piu Eatwell Pdf

“It’s Downton Abbey meets The Addams Family in [this] delightfully offbeat history.”—Library Journal At the close of the Victorian era, as now, privacy was power. The extraordinarily wealthy 5th Duke of Portland had a mania for it, hiding in his carriage and building tunnels between buildings to avoid being seen. In 1897, an elderly widow asked the court to exhume the grave of her late father-in-law, T. C. Druce, under the suspicion that he’d led a double life as the 5th Duke. The eccentric duke, Anna Maria contended, had faked his death as Druce, and her son should inherit the Portland millions. Revealing a dark underbelly of Victorian society, Piu Marie Eatwell evokes an era when the rise of sensationalist media blurred every fact into fiction and when family secrets and fluid identities pushed class anxieties to new heights.