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Gallows Court

Martin Edwards
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Author : Martin Edwards
Publisher : Rachel Savernake
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 1800241127

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LONDON, 1930. Sooty, sulphurous, and malign: no woman should be out on a night like this. A spate of violent deaths the details too foul to print has horrified the capital and the smog-bound streets are deserted. But Rachel Savernake the enigmatic daughter of a notorious hanging judge is no ordinary woman. To Scotland Yard's embarrassment, she solved the Chorus Girl Murder, and now she's on the trail of another killer. Jacob Flint, a young newspaperman temporarily manning The Clarion's crime desk, is looking for the scoop that will make his name. He's certain there is more to the Miss Savernake's amateur sleuthing than meets the eye. He's not the only one. His predecessor on the crime desk was of a similar mind not that Mr Betts is ever expected to regain consciousness after that unfortunate accident... Flint's pursuit of Rachel Savernake will draw him ever-deeper into a labyrinth of deception and corruption. Murder-by-murder, he'll be swept ever-closer to its dark heart to that ancient place of execution, where it all began and where it will finally end: Gallows Court.

The Court of Better Fiction

Debra Komar
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Author : Debra Komar
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-16
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781459744097

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In The Court of Better Fiction, forensic science reveals that to establish sovereignty over the Arctic people, Canada hanged the only Inuit ever executed. The men were innocent, but the nation’s guilt lives on.

Reflections on the Way to the Gallows

Mikiso Hane
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Author : Mikiso Hane
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0520914376

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In this book, for the first time, we can hear the startling, moving voices of adventurous and rebellious Japanese women as they eloquently challenged the social repression of prewar Japan. The extraordinary women whose memoirs, recollections, and essays are presented here constitute a strong current in the history of modern Japanese life from the 1880s to the outbreak of the Pacific War.

The Lazier Murder

Robert J. Sharpe
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Author : Robert J. Sharpe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442693449

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In December 1883, Peter Lazier was shot in the heart during a bungled robbery at a Prince Edward County farmhouse. Three local men, pleading innocence from start to finish, were arrested and charged with his murder. Two of them — Joseph Thomset and David Lowder — were sentenced to death by a jury of local citizens the following May. Nevertheless, appalled community members believed at least one of them to be innocent — even pleading with prime minister John A. Macdonald to spare them from the gallows. The Lazier Murder explores a community's response to a crime, as well as the realization that it may have contributed to a miscarriage of justice. Robert J. Sharpe reconstructs and contextualizes the case using archival and contemporary newspaper accounts. The Lazier Murder provides an insightful look at the changing pattern of criminal justice in nineteenth-century Canada, and the enduring problem of wrongful convictions.

Crow Court

Andy Charman
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Author : Andy Charman
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783529117

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LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021 'Clever, elegantly constructed, utterly convincing' Daily Mail 'As gripping as Hilary Mantel and as convincing as Sarah Perry ... debut novels shouldn't be this perfectly formed' Ben Myers 'Clever, page-turning, original ... beautifully written' Jane Harris 'Exactly observed, densely textured and richly flavoured ... Crow Court is throbbing with life' Rick Gekoski Spring, 1840. In the Dorset market town of Wimborne Minster, a young choirboy drowns himself. Soon after, the choirmaster—a belligerent man with a vicious reputation—is found murdered, in a discovery tainted as much by relief as it is by suspicion. The gaze of the magistrates falls on four local men, whose decisions will reverberate through the community for years to come. So begins the chronicle of Crow Court, unravelling over fourteen delicately interwoven episodes, the town of Wimborne their backdrop: a young gentleman and his groom run off to join the army; a sleepwalking cordwainer wakes on his wife’s grave; desperate farmhands emigrate. We meet the composer with writer’s block; the smuggler; a troupe of actors down from London; and old Art Pugh, whose impoverished life has made him hard to amuse. Meanwhile, justice waits...

Race on Trial

Barrington Walker
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Author : Barrington Walker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780802096104

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While slavery in Canada was abolished in 1834, discrimination remained. Race on Trial contrasts formal legal equality with pervasive patterns of social, legal, and attitudinal inequality in Ontario by documenting the history of black Ontarians who appeared before the criminal courts from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Using capital case files and the assize records for Kent and Essex counties, areas that had significant black populations because they were termini for the Underground Railroad, Barrington Walker investigates the limits of freedom for Ontario's African Canadians. Through court transcripts, depositions, jail records, Judge's Bench Books, newspapers, and government correspondence, Walker identifies trends in charges and convictions in the Black population. This exploration of the complex and often contradictory web of racial attitudes and the values of white legal elites not only exposes how blackness was articulated in Canadian law but also offers a rare glimpse of black life as experienced in Canada's past.

The Hanged Man

K.D. Edwards
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Author : K.D. Edwards
Publisher : Pyr
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781633884939

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The last member of a murdered House tries to protect his ward from forced marriage to a monster while uncovering clues to his own tortured past. The Tarot Sequence imagines a modern-day Atlantis off the coast of Massachusetts, governed by powerful Courts based on the traditional Tarot deck. Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Throne, is backed into a fight of high court magic and political appetites in a desperate bid to protect his ward, Max, from a forced marital alliance with the Hanged Man. Rune's resistance will take him to the island's dankest corners, including a red light district made of moored ghost ships; a surreal skyscraper farm; and the floor of the ruling Convocation, where a gathering of Arcana will change Rune's life forever.

The Gallows Murders

Michael Clynes
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Author : Michael Clynes
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312146051

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When the feared royal executioners begin to die grisly deaths themselves, Sir Roger Shallot must investigate

The Coffin Trail

Martin Edwards
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Author : Martin Edwards
Publisher : Allison & Busby
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780749010218

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Oxford historian Daniel Kind and his partner Miranda both want to escape to a new life. On impulse they buy a cottage in Brackdale, an idyllic valley in the Lake District. But though they hope to live the dream, the past soon catches up with them. Tarn Cottage was once home to Barrie Gilpin, suspected of a savage murder. A young woman's body was found on the Sacrifice Stone, an ancient pagan site up on the fell, but Barrie died before he could be arrested. Daniel has personal reasons for becoming fascinated by the case and for believing in Barrie's innocence. When the police launch a cold case review, Brackdale's skeletons begin to rattle and the lives of Daniel and DCI Hannah Scarlett become strangely entwined. Daniel and Hannah each find themselves risking their lives as they search for a ruthless murderer who is prepared to kill again to hide a shocking secret.

Mortmain Hall

Martin Edwards
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Author : Martin Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1464214085

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"Journalist Jacob Flint finds himself framed for murder after a surprise witness helps a man accused of a "blazing car" killing escape the gallows. To save himself, Jacob needs to discover what links these strange events to a remote estate on a northern coast, Mortmain Hall. But the house party culminates in tragedy when a body is found beneath the crumbling cliffs. Rachel Savernake, who's been invited to the party, proposes an intricate-and dangerous-solution to the assembled guests. Will her relentless quest for the truth bring down the British establishment?"--

Walk Towards the Gallows

Tom Mitchell,Reinhold Kramer
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Author : Tom Mitchell,Reinhold Kramer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442692145

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Walk Towards the Gallows by Tom Mitchell,Reinhold Kramer Pdf

On 5 July 1899 Hilda Blake, a 21-year-old maidservant in Brandon, Manitoba, who had come to Canada from England ten years earlier as an orphan immigrant, shot and killed her mistress. Two days after Christmas she was hanged, one of the few women in Canadian history to die for her crime. Blake unintentionally left a remarkable documentary record, ranging from Poorhouse records, courts dockets of custody and criminal cases in which she was the central figure, popular, journalistic, and professional assessments of her character, and a poem, 'My Downfall', that she penned in Brandon Gaol while awaiting execution. To explain why Hilda bought a gun and why she fired it, Kramer and Mitchell employee both historical and literary techniques. The result is a richly textured story of late Victorian social, cultural, and political life. This remarkable book - part mystery, part historical detective story - uncovers Hilda Blake's life, from her origins in Norfolk, England, to her tragic death. It also examines the lives of other principals in the story: successful Brandon businessman Robert Lane and his wife Mary, the murdered woman; Lane's business partner, Alexander McIlvride; Police Chief James Kircaldy; A.P. Stewart and his wife, Letitia Singer Stewart, the family for whom the 12-year-old orphaned Hilda first worked as a domestic servant; Rev. C.C. McLaurin, the Baptist minister who knew Hilda and counselled the condemned woman in her final days; social purity activist Dr Amelia Yeomans, who petitioned for clemency; Governor-General Minto, who urged the Laurier government to stay the execution, even Clifford Sifton, the MP from Brandon, federal minister of Immigration, and the most powerful western Liberal in the Laurier cabinet, for whom the case was a potential minefield. As the authors write, 'We tell a story because only a story can expose the real workings of a culture, and only a story can express our protest against time.'

The Gallows Curse

Karen Maitland
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Author : Karen Maitland
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141956886

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1210 and a black force is sweeping England. For a vengeful King John has seized control of the Church, leaving corpses to lie in unconsecrated ground, babies unbaptized in their cradles and the people terrified of dying in sin. And in the village of Gastmere, the consequences grow darker still when Elena, a servant girl, is dragged into a conspiracy to absolve the sins of the lord of the manor. As the terrors that soon begin to plague Elena's sleep grow darker, in desperation she visits the cunning woman, who has been waiting for just such an opportunity to fulfil an ancient curse conjured at the gallows. Elena, haunted by this curse and threatened with death for a crime she didn't commit, flees the village ... only to find her nightmare has barely begun. For treachery lurks in every shadow as King John's brutal reign makes enemies of brothers, murderers of virgins and sinners of us all.

Self

Yann Martel
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Author : Yann Martel
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571307814

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From the author of Life of Pi, comes an edgy, funny and devastating novel. Self is the fictional autobiography of a young writer at the heart of which is a startling twist. This extraordinary life meanders through a rich, complicated, bittersweet world. The discoveries of childhood give way to the thousand pangs of adolescence, culminating in the sudden shocking news of an accident abroad. And as adulthood begins, indecisively, boundaries are crossed between countries, languages and people . . .

The Sign of the Gallows

Susanna Calkins
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Author : Susanna Calkins
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448304691

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A dead man at a crossroads. A secret message. A ring with a warning about death . . . Printer’s apprentice Lucy Campion is caught up in a strange and puzzling murder case in this twisty historical mystery set in seventeenth-century London. London, 1667. On her way to a new market to peddle her True Accounts and Strange News, printer’s apprentice Lucy Campion quickly regrets her decision to take the northwestern road. Dark and desolate, the path leads her to the crossroads – and to the old hanging tree. She doesn’t believe in ghosts, but she’s not sure ghosts don’t believe in her. But before she even reaches the crossroads, she’s knocked off her feet by two men in a hurry. What were they running from? To her dismay, she soon discovers for herself: there, dangling from the tree, is the body of a man. Did he commit self-murder, or is there something darker afoot? The more Lucy learns, the more determined she is to uncover the truth. But this time, even the help and protection of magistrate’s son Adam, and steadfast Constable Duncan, may not be enough to keep her safe from harm . . .

Gallows Hill

Lois Duncan
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Author : Lois Duncan
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780440227250

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Named an ALA Quick Pick, an exciting thriller by the author of the best-seller I Know What You Did Last Summer features a seventeen-year-old girl who becomes a clairvoyant and is branded a witch, in a repeat of the Salem witch trials. Reprint. AB.