Deadlier Than The Male

Author : Graeme Davis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643131139

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More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror by Graeme Davis Pdf

A darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors, presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader. Readers are well aware that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein: few know how many other tales of terror she created. In addition to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote some surprisingly effective horror stories. The year after Little Women appeared, Louisa May Alcott published one of the first mummy tales. These ladies weren’t alone. From the earliest days of Gothic and horror fiction, women were exploring the frontiers of fear, dreaming dark dreams that will still keep you up at night. More Deadly than the Male includes unexpected horror tales by Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and forgotten writers like Mary Cholmondely and Charlotte Riddell, whose work deserves a modern audience. Readers will be drawn in by the familiar names and intrigued by their rare stories. In The Beckside Boggle, Alice Rea brings a common piece of English folklore to hair-raising life, while Helene Blavatsky, best known as the founder of the spiritualist Theosophical Society, paints a picture of A Witch’s Den as vivid as any vision conjured up by the great pulp writers. Edith Wharton’s great novel The Age of Innocence won her the Pulitzer prize, yet her horror stories are known only to a comparative few. Readers will discover lost and forgotten women who wrote horror every bit as effectively as their male contemporaries. They will learn about their lives and careers, the challenges they faced as women working in a male-dominated field, the way they overcame those challenges, and the way they approached the genre—which was often subtler, more psychological, and more disturbing.

Author : Fred Maddox
Publisher : Pneuma Springs Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781905809547

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Deadlier Than the Male by Fred Maddox Pdf

Peter Milton had always promised himself he would never again live in poverty, as he had done as a child. That promise became an obsession, so great, it took over his life. He robs and cheats to climb the social ladder, riding roughshod over anyone who gets in his way. He warms his way into the affections of the Managing Director’s only daughter, Katherine, whom he marries, purely to get his hands on the business. His mission is achieved, when Katherine’s father dies. He cheats on her at every opportunity. Katharine sets a trap, springing it with perfect timing, causing him to be incarcerated, humiliated and lose all his ill gotten gains. After he is released, he sets about climbing the social ladder again by the only way he knows - using deviousness and underhand dealings. He is about to realise his goal, but an ex-girlfriend appears and threatens to throw a spanner in the works. He plots to have her done away with, but he is in for the shock of his life. Once again he has failed to appreciate the cunning of the fairer sex. Book reviews online: PublishedBestsellers website.

Author : Jessica Mann
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783016273

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Deadlier Than The Male by Jessica Mann Pdf

Why are English women so good at murder? Among the books which have survived for more than half a century, always in print and always in demand, are the murder mysteries by Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie and other women writers. Yet their male competitors are mostly forgotten. What is it about these womens' work that has kept it alive? And what was it about the authors that gave them such violent or cunning imaginations, always hidden behind the most respectable of facades? In this book, first published in 1981, Jessica Mann brings the perception of a fellow crime writer to her investigation of her predecessors' lives and work. She discusses the changes in the mystery form over the years, and its enduring worldwide popularity, in a book that was described by one critic as "e;obligatory reading for any reader of crime fiction"e;, and of which another wrote "e;I cannot recall a better work of criticism devoted to the crime story."e;

Author : Douglas Skelton
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781845029319

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Deadlier Than The Male by Douglas Skelton Pdf

Most killers are men. But never turn your back on a woman. Murder, madness and maliciousness abound in this hangman's dozen of she-devils. Culled from over five hundred years of bloody history by crime writer and journalist Douglas Skelton, these pages uncover the mad, the bad and the dangerous to know. • Vengeful Queen Joan, who made her husband's assassins pay a fearful price for their treason. • Beautiful Jean Livingston, who bravely faced The Maiden after murdering her abusive husband. • Child killers Helen Torrence and Jean Waldie, who sold their victim to anatomists. • Baby farmer Jessie King, who dealt in flsh... and death. • These cases, together with a host of others, prove that women are far from the gentler sex. Most killers are men. But women are more deadly.

Author : Sharon Sala,Colleen Thompson
Publisher : Silhouette
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1426875045

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Deadlier Than the Male by Sharon Sala,Colleen Thompson Pdf

In these captivating new stories, danger is a breath away, but love conquers all…. The Fiercest Heart by New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Sharon Sala Torn apart years ago by a family feud and a deadly accident, high school sweethearts Haley and Mack reunite when Haley returns to town. But someone doesn't want them together and will do anything to keep them apart. Anything… Lethal Lessons by Colleen Thompson One of Mara's students is troubled by her mother's mysterious death. Despite warnings that the girl's father, Adam, is a danger, Mara sees only a handsome, caring protector. Will she uncover the truth before it's too late?

Author : Trina Beckett
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526703675

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Deadlier than the Male by Trina Beckett Pdf

How much influence did notable wives have on the leading commanders in British military history? These women tend to be disregarded but, as Trina Beckett demonstrates in this revealing and thought-provoking study, their influence has often been profound. Taking examples from the eighteenth century to the Second World War, she uncovers a hidden dimension in the rise to prominence of some of Britains most famous soldiers and documents a series of fascinating relationships between powerful men and equally powerful women.Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, and Dorothy, Countess Haig are perhaps the most famous examples of wives who played important roles in their husbands brilliant careers. However, sometimes the lives of leading commanders would be hindered as well as helped by their wives. Paulina Wood proved such a disastrous hostess that she almost destroyed the career of Sir Evelyn Wood, and Lord Roberts reputation for jobbery owed much to his wife Noras constant interference in appointments.Trina Becketts perceptive and absorbing case studies reveal much about the women whose lives she portrays and the contribution they made to their distinguished husbands military careers.

Author : John Marlowe
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781788284660

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Evil Women by John Marlowe Pdf

Many people find it impossible to believe women are capable of committing brutal murders, but this book shows otherwise. Katherine Knight donned a black negligee before stabbing her lover John Price 37 times, then serving up his corpse for dinner with baked potatoes, pumpkin and all the trimmings. Sue Basso became supermarket packer Buddy Musso's 'lady love', but his dreams of happiness were shredded when she and her friends tortured him to death for a paltry $15,000 life insurance policy. Shelly Michael injected her husband with a drug that led to death by slow suffocation, then she set their house on fire. Each of the cases documented here makes for a chilling read, proving that evil transcends the sexes.

Author : James Hadley Chase
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781842321140

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More Deadly Than the Male by James Hadley Chase Pdf

George Fraser is a lonely man, and a bored man. But he has exciting dreams. In his dreams, he lives in a thrilling world of gangsters, guns, fast cars and beautiful women. And of course, in his dreams, he is the toughest gangster of them all. George Fraser prefers his dream world to his real, ordinary life so he begins to boast about it, pretending that he is, in fact, a hardened and ruthless gangster. But George Fraser boasts to the wrong people and suddenly his dream world becomes all too real.

Author : P. Nandakumar Warrier
Publisher : One Point Six Technologies Pvt Ltd
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788194804451

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Deadlier Than the Male by P. Nandakumar Warrier Pdf

Posted as the new director of IIM Kozhikode, Sujata Das knew she was entering a hornet’s nest. She has to fend with criminal elements with links to the drug mafia and other equally unsavoury organizations. But she imposes strict rules of conduct right from the start, not appreciated by faculty members and students who are used to taking unwarranted liberties as self-proclaimed geniuses. She has favourites, a girl student with a tragic past, and a dashing young professor who turns out to be gay. But questions go begging though she has her sources of information: is there widespread covert drug abuse on campus? Is there a paedophile lair nearby with links to some members of the institute? A failed suicide attempt forces her hand, and she opts for a decisive surgical strike of sorts against the forces posing a danger to the IIMK campus and the tranquil countryside itself.

Author : Adrian Tame
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1741987504

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Deadlier Than the Male by Adrian Tame Pdf

At least one of them is mad, they're all bad, and most of them are dangerous to know. They're a first 11 with a difference - 11 Australian women criminals whose names and reputations are synonymous with lawless, dangerous and often violent behaviour. Sadistic killers and a corpse mutilator; an armed robber and a matriarch; drug dealers and escape artists - all dressed in skirts and high heels. Their exploits have become the stuff of legend over recent decades, often overshadowing the crimes of their less colourful male counterparts. A couple of them are irredeemably evil, others more misguided than malevolent. A number of them turned to crime because they loved the wrong men; others because they couldn't abide the boredom of a conventional, nine-to-five existence. They include a tragic figure who murdered all four of her children, a meat worker who turned her home into an abattoir, and a quiet librarian who pulled off Australia's only aircraft-assisted prison break-out. Brought together for the first time between the covers of one book are unforgettable figures like The Lesbian Vampire Killer, The Boot Bitch, The Matriarch, and The Angel of Death...

Author : Miranda Birch
Publisher : Miranda Birch
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781370102037

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Serving His Time by Miranda Birch Pdf

As a naked captive in a cold, dark cellar (see Abducted and Imprisoned), Roger has spent the longest week of his life suffering as he has never suffered before. And now things are about to get even worse. The beatings, the hard labour, the worse-than-prison food… all that has been hard to bear. But now he is put to work upstairs — tarted up as a sissy maid!

Author : D. Michelle Gent
Publisher : Gingernut Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1907939016

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Deadlier... Than the Male by D. Michelle Gent Pdf

Werewolf - an unrestrained beast of anarchy or a cold and relentless, calculating killer? If you cannot answer this with absolute certainty, it's possibly because the werewolf you met is more evolved than man ever dreamed. Werewolves do exist and they exist alongside our society, they have their own rules and hierarchy, they hide in plain sight and have done for millennia. Sometimes, the female of the species is Deadlier... than the male.

Author : Terry Manners
Publisher : Pan
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0330337114

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Deadlier Than the Male by Terry Manners Pdf

The phenomenon of the female serial killer has been increasingly capturing the public's attention. This book tells the stories of these women, from childhood to their obsession to kill. From the court case to the psychiatrist's reports, it explores the caverns of the female serial killer's mind.

Author : Sharon Sala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:764455709

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Deadlier Than the Male by Sharon Sala Pdf

Author : David M. Kiely
Publisher : Gill
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000100602634

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Deadlier Than the Male by David M. Kiely Pdf

A startling and compelling look at the circumstances that drove a score of Irish women, both north and south of the border, to commit the ultimate act of murder.