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Author : Michael Kelleher
Publisher : Dead End Street
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1929429975
In San Francisco's chaotic Mission District, women are being systematically murdered, their bodies mutilated and dumped on neighborhood doorsteps. SFPD Lieutenant Chris Spell is unable to stop the carnage.
Author : Virginia A. McConnell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803283105
Details the 1895 arrest and trial of a medical student for the grisly murder of two young women inside San Francisco's Emmanuel Baptist Church in what the press of the day characterized as a reenactment of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Author : Blaine Harden
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525561675
“Terrific.” –Timothy Egan, The New York Times “A riveting investigation of both American myth-making and the real history that lies beneath.” –Claudio Saunt, author of Unworthy Republic From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, a “terrifically readable” (Los Angeles Times) account of one of the most persistent “alternative facts” in American history: the story of a missionary, a tribe, a massacre, and a myth that shaped the American West In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would become the Oregon Trail. Dr. Marcus Whitman and Reverend Henry Spalding were headed to present-day Washington state and Idaho, where they aimed to convert members of the Cayuse and Nez Perce tribes. Both would fail spectacularly as missionaries. But Spalding would succeed as a propagandist, inventing a story that recast his friend as a hero, and helped to fuel the massive westward migration that would eventually lead to the devastation of those they had purportedly set out to save. As Spalding told it, after uncovering a British and Catholic plot to steal the Oregon Territory from the United States, Whitman undertook a heroic solo ride across the country to alert the President. In fact, he had traveled to Washington to save his own job. Soon after his return, Whitman, his wife, and eleven others were massacred by a group of Cayuse. Though they had ample reason - Whitman supported the explosion of white migration that was encroaching on their territory, and seemed to blame for a deadly measles outbreak - the Cayuse were portrayed as murderous savages. Five were executed. This fascinating, impeccably researched narrative traces the ripple effect of these events across the century that followed. While the Cayuse eventually lost the vast majority of their territory, thanks to the efforts of Spalding and others who turned the story to their own purposes, Whitman was celebrated well into the middle of the 20th century for having "saved Oregon." Accounts of his heroic exploits appeared in congressional documents, The New York Times, and Life magazine, and became a central founding myth of the Pacific Northwest. Exposing the hucksterism and self-interest at the root of American myth-making, Murder at the Mission reminds us of the cost of American expansion, and of the problems that can arise when history is told only by the victors.
Author : Michael D. Kelleher
Publisher : Dead End Street
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1929429878
In the late sixties, a serial killer calling himself the Zodiac terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area, committing brutal, random attacks, and bragging about them in letters to the San Francisco Chronicle. In Santa Rosa, fifty miles to the north, investigators Manny Bruin and Mick Millian were asked to tail potential suspect Byron Avion, an odd, portly man admittedly obsessed with the Zodiac. He had other eccentricities as well, not the least of which was his large collection of cardboard boxes, carefully stacked and tied shut with white nylon rope. But peculiar habits do not a criminal make - that is, not until the bodies of young female hitchhikers began appearing in ditches, tied up with white nylon rope. That and a dozen other connections convinced Bruin and Millian that Avion was the Highway 101 Murderer, a Zodiac-style killer who prowled the Santa Rosa area. Despite the connections, a decade-long investigation was unable to connect Avion to the crimes, or connect Zodiac to the northern murders. Bruin and Millian eventually became so frustrated that they dubbed Avion "Suspect Zero," and hoped for something to break the case open. When that break finally came, it re-wrote the book on homicide investigations and forever changed the direction of each man's life.
Author : Bob Calhoun
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781773056845
The 170-year history of the San Francisco Bay Area told through its crimes and how they intertwine with the city’s art, music, and politics In The Murders That Made Us, the story of the San Francisco Bay Area unfolds through its most violent and depraved acts. From its earliest days when vigilantes hung perps from downtown buildings to the Zodiac Killer and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, murder and mayhem have shaped the city into the political and economic force that she is today. The Great 1906 Earthquake shook a city that was already teetering on the brink of a massive prostitution scandal. The Summer of Love ended with a pair of ghastly drug dealer slayings that sent Charles Manson packing for Los Angeles. The 1970s come crashing down with the double tragedy of Jonestown and the assassination of Gay icon Harvey Milk by an ex-cop. And the 21st Century rise of California Governor Gavin Newsom, Trump insider Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Vice President Kamala Harris is told through a brutal dog-mauling case and the absurdity called Fajitagate. It’s a 170-year saga of madness, corruption, and death revealed here one crime at a time.
Author : Stephen Lewis
Publisher : Arbutus Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0966531698
Local mystery adds a novel twist to the quite, remote Cherry farming community of Old Mission. In 1895, Julia Curtis was found strangled, pregnant, and buried in a shallow grave near her home on Old Mission Peninsula near Traverse City. A search for the murderer led investigators to a likely suspect, Woodruff Parmelee. From these bare bones, Stephen Lewis recreates the personalities, relationships and motives for this century old murder that rocked northern Michigan way back when. Tension builds from the first chapter as Lewis weaves the Curtis family ghosts and the Parmelee family skeletons, cleverly creating characters, motives, and relationships that keep the pages turning. There are clues: an empty bottle of laudanum, the footprints, the note'all leading to the climax courtroom drama and a suspect's alibi.
Author : Charles F. Adams
Publisher : Quill Driver Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1884995462
Murder has a long and distinguished history in San Francisco. The city and its Bay Area can stand proudly with Paris, London, and New York in the splendour of its misdeeds -- murders that have suspense, horror, audacity, and flair. The homicides chronicled in Murder by the Bay have been selected because a convergence of personality, circumstance, character, and geography makes them peculiarly San Franciscan. Each of these crimes illustrates an historic importance, each has impacted its times -- either in the course or application of the law or in the manner in which the affair revealed a shortcoming in society. They range from the Montgomery Street killing of James King of William, editor of the Daily Evening Bulletin, in 1856 to the sensational trial of early movie comedian Fatty Arbuckle who was accused of killing a showgirl at a party in the St. Francis Hotel to the shocking "City Hall Murders" in which former city supervisor Dan White killed Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. Most were solved, some were not. They are murders that fascinated the city and frequently the country, sometimes for weeks, often for years and even decades.
Author : Grace Carroll
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101623831
These days, not even a new wardrobe can keep fashionista Rita Jewel from feeling blue. Perhaps the cure is a cooking class with a celebrity chef! But her appetite is ruined when murder becomes the main course… As a salesgirl at Dolce’s, a chic boutique outfitting San Francisco’s wealthiest women, Rita has the world’s greatest job. So why does she feel like last season’s Christian Louboutin stilettos—worn and out of style? Maybe it’s because her love life needs a makeover ASAP. From carrots to caviar, Guido Torcelli is the celebrity chef du jour. Perhaps signing up for his cooking class will serve as a much-needed distraction for Rita. But when Guido’s shot to death, Rita knows she’ll soon top the list of suspects. Guido was killed at his culinary school the same night she scrawled her phone number on a menu and handed it to him. Now she’s got to find the murderer before she’s forced to take all her meals in the prison cafeteria…
Author : Michael Santini,Ray Bolger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781538115640
Operation Devil Horns delivers a high-impact, true insider account of one of the largest federal takedowns of a criminal gang in U.S. history. The story follows a four-year investigation that begins in San Francisco and grows to include criminal networks spanning three countries’ borders. Politicians, cops, and criminals meet at center stage.
Author : Jonathan Goodman
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0873388259
Prize-winning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman visited a number of cities where notorious murders occurred as he embarked on a 6000-mile train trip across the United States. As a true crime book, Tracks to Murder is witty and informative and enriches the classic American murder cases by placing them within their original settings. As a travel book, it presents the seasoned reflections of a cultivated English writer on American manners and morals observed during his transcontinental journey.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458718051
Author : Annette Bailey
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595329380
Monday morning November 12, 2001. It was cold, wet and rainy. Winter was starting to settle in. Single and nearing forty, SFPD inspector Meg McCafferty longs for a loving, committed relationship, but lately only finds temporary comfort with her "euphemistic" boyfriends, Ernest and Julio Gallo. Unfortunately, up to now McCafferty has found little or no comfort in any relationships, personal or otherwise. When the cell phone rings at 2:15 am she instinctively senses this isn't a social call; more to the point, business however macabre as usual--another routine homicide that seems anything but. San Francisco State University freshman Sarah Sinclair is found brutally murdered in her dorm room and a cold-blooded predator eludes authorities. So far the evidence remains sketchy; a torn page from an old dictionary and the name of a respected educator scribbled on a tiny sheet of paper. Short of a conviction, McCafferty hopes for a miracle. After all, it's still Monday.
Author : Diana Orgain
Publisher : Diana Orgain
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Dancing can be murder—literally. All Kate was supposed to do at this swing-dance lesson was master the triple step, which seemed like a breeze . . . when she wasn’t pregnant with twins. But now a dead body has lindy-hopped its way off the studio’s roof, clutching a cryptic note with a dire warning: if the studio goes ahead with the upcoming 1950s-themed benefit dance, one of the attendees will die on the dance floor. Kate’s got a case to solve and the clock is ticking, but her favorite babysitter is MIA. Can she solve the case before the killer strikes again? To do: 1. Help Mom’s boyfriend shop for engagement rings. 2. Learn how to do the Charleston without falling on my face. 3. Buy even more diapers. 4. Solve a murder—fast. Jitterbug into the eighth book of the Maternal Instincts Mysteries, a laugh-out-loud, page-turning clean cozy mystery series by USA Today Bestselling Author Diana Orgain.
Author : Margaret Dumas
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781615950485
"This fun romp covers it all—car chases, shootings, eccentric-uncles-turned-amateur-playwrights and end-of-the-world computer viruses."—Publishers Weekly Charley Fairfax—heiress, theatrical producer, newlywed—is intent on living happily ever after with her tall, dark, and sarcastic husband Jack. The only mysteries before her are which play to choose for next season and how to decorate her dining room. But when Jack is hired to investigate mysterious events at a local San Francisco software company where high-tech executives are brought low—actually, dead—Charley finds herself poised to do the unexpected. Charley has to get a job. Okay, so maybe the job is a sham and Jack isn't exactly crazy about the plan that she and her band of irregulars from the repertory theater go undercover to find a killer, but Charley is determined to trade in her Prada for a laptop. She quickly finds herself wishing she'd had more than one crash course in corporate double-speak before her first day on the job. But faking it has always been Charley's strong suit. Charley and Jack are starting to get the hang of this marriage thing. If only people would stop talking about babies, introducing them to decorators, and trying to kill them, they might even get to take a honeymoon.
Author : Graham Masterton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786695567
'One of Britain's finest horror writers' DAILY MAIL In a city wreathed in fog, a satanic killer stalks the streets... Enter Lieutenant Foggia who, assisted by a spiritualist medium, must discover the reason for the slayings. But the truth he unearths is beyond anything he's encountered in the real world. For the killings are paving the way for a force so powerful that the lives of a few innocents will appear unimportant in comparison... Packed with twists, and laced with spiritualism, witchcraft and demonology, Black Angel moves at a break-neck pace from its stomach-churning opening to the explosive final confrontation between man and demon. 'One of the most original and frightening storytellers of our time' PETER JAMES 'A true master of horror' JAMES HERBERT 'God, he's good' STEPHEN KING