Murder At The Tower Of London

Author : Carola Dunn
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429951746

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The Bloody Tower Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

In early 1925, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, recent mother of twins, resumes her journalistic career by agreeing to write a piece about the Tower of London - the Bloody Tower - for an American magazine. Invited to observe the centuries old ritual Ceremony of the Keys, she's spending the night (her first time away from her babies) since the complex is locked and guarded, and the high walls are surrounded by a disused moat. Having been given a tour of the Crown Jewels, interviewed and observed the Yeoman Warders, and met the Ravenmaster, Daisy has more than enough material for her article and decides to leave as early as possible the next morning to return to her family. But when walking down the stairs, she almost trips over the dead body of one of the Yeoman Warders. That there's something seriously amiss cannot be denied, due to the pike sticking out of his back. With her husband, Scotland Yard DCI Alec Fletcher assigned to resolve the case, Daisy once again finds herself in the middle of a case of murder most foul.

Author : Alison Weir
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446449196

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The Princes In The Tower Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The story of the death, in sinister circumstances, of the boy-king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, is one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. It is a tale with profound moral and social consequences, rich in drama, intrigue, treason, scandal and violence. In this gripping book Alison Weir re-examines all the evidence - including that against the Princes' uncle, Richard III, whose body was recently discovered beneath a Leicester car park. She brilliantly reconstructs the whole chain of events leading to their murder and reveals how, why and by whose order they died.

Author : Jean Plaidy
Publisher : Crown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307717641

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The Murder in the Tower Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The dashing Robert Carr is a well-known favorite of King James I. After attracting his attention by falling from a horse in the tiltyard, Robert rises quickly through the ranks. But when the cunning and beautiful Frances Howard comes to court, a very dangerous liaison changes everything. Married against her will while still a child, Frances emerges from that experience a headstrong force of nature—determined to have her own way, no matter what the consequences. Her attempts to rid herself of an unwanted husband, and later to ensnare a lukewarm lover, have led her deep into the world of spell-makers and poisoners. This is a woman to underestimate at great peril. But not until Robert finds himself ensnared in one of Frances’s plots—imprisoned in the Tower of London and accused of murder—does he learn at last what she is truly capable of.

Author : Jessica Fletcher,Donald Bain
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440673511

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Murder, She Wrote: Highland Fling Murders Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Jessica Fletcher and a group of friends from Cabot Cove take off for the British Isles and end up at a castle in Scotland in this Murder, She Wrote mystery... Scotland's most celebrated witch, executed long ago with a pitchfork through her heart, is said to haunt Inspector George Sutherland's family castle in the village of Wick. It's an intriguing tale and after a British book tour, Jessica accepts Sutherland's invitation to bring her Cabot Cove friends to the heather-covered Highlands. Indeed, after "roamin' in the gloamin'" with the handsome inspector, she spots a spectral woman in white in the gloomy castle. But Jessica's blood runs cold when she later finds a local lass executed in the same way as the legendary witch. Something is very vile in Wick. It's a case of evil, greed, and murder that pits Jessica Fletcher against a killer from this world—or maybe the next.

Author : Josephine Wilkinson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445619842

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The Princes in the Tower Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Did Richard III Murder His Nephews, Edward V & Richard of York? Huge interest in Richard III at the moment with the discovery of his skeleton and also with his historical rehabilitation

Author : Peter A. Hancock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:1280720390

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Richard III and the Murder in the Tower Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : Kristen Deiter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135894054

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The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama historicizes the Tower of London's evolving meanings in English culture alongside its representations in twenty-four English history plays, 1579-c.1634, by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. While Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I fashioned the Tower as a showplace of royal authority, magnificence, and entertainment, many playwrights of the time revealed the Tower's instability as a royal symbol and represented it, instead, as an emblem of opposition to the crown and as a bodily and spiritual icon of non-royal English identity.

Author : K. J. Kesselring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192572585

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Making Murder Public Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Homicide has a history. In early modern England, that history saw two especially notable developments: one, the emergence in the sixteenth century of a formal distinction between murder and manslaughter, made meaningful through a lighter punishment than death for the latter, and two, a significant reduction in the rates of homicides individuals perpetrated on each other. Making Murder Public explores connections between these two changes. It demonstrates the value in distinguishing between murder and manslaughter, or at least in seeing how that distinction came to matter in a period which also witnessed dramatic drops in the occurrence of homicidal violence. Focused on the 'politics of murder', Making Murder Public examines how homicide became more effectively criminalized between 1480 and 1680, with chapters devoted to coroners' inquests, appeals and private compensation, duels and private vengeance, and print and public punishment. The English had begun moving away from treating homicide as an offence subject to private settlements or vengeance long before other Europeans, at least from the twelfth century. What happened in the early modern period was, in some ways, a continuation of processes long underway, but intensified and refocused by developments from 1480 to 1680. Making Murder Public argues that homicide became fully 'public' in these years, with killings seen to violate a 'king's peace' that people increasingly conflated with or subordinated to the 'public peace' or 'public justice.'

Author : David Hilliam
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752469072

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Monarchs, Murders & Mistresses Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Which 'ill-prepared' monarch was on the English throne at the turn of the last millenium? How many English monarchs have been crowned on St George's Day? When, how and why did England 'lose' eleven days? "Monarchs, Murders & Mistresses" answers these questions and many more, presenting a royal event for each day of the calendar year in vivid detail with close-ups of the personalities involved. The book reveals the recurring occupational difficulties faced by the royal family over the centuries: as Shakespeare's Henry VI so memorably concludes. 'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown'. Today the royal family is plagued by the press, but even 300 years ago Charles II felt the need to apologise to a crowd of onlookers for taking so long to die. this book contains topics ranging from the death of William III, who was killed by a mole to the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots. These, and over 400 other tales of royal days, bring alive the drama of what it was, and is, to be a king or a queen.

Author : Indiana. Supreme Court. Law Library,Charles E. Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Law
ISBN : UIUC:30112021713398

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Catalogue of the Indiana State Law Library Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : Janet Brons
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771512237

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Measured for Murder Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The third instalment in the Arthur Ellis award-nominated Forsyth and Hay mystery series. Detective Chief Inspector Stephen Hay of Scotland Yard believes he is dealing with a serial killer. Two young female victims bearing a superficial resemblance to each other are found asphyxiated and posed, with indecipherable writing on their right hips. A hostel caretaker, a journalist and his photographer, a bariatric specialist, the Canadian High Commission in London, and a psychic all have roles to play in the ongoing investigations—and are unsettled at the thought that the killer is already seeking his next victim. Meanwhile, Inspector Liz Forsyth of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and DCI Hay had plans to meet again, unofficially this time, but their anticipated trip to Paris was scotched by the killings on Hay’s patch. To the surprise of both of them, Forsyth learns that she is to be sent for a three-week training course at the Bramshill Police Academy outside London. In this jarring third novel in the Forsyth and Hay series, Janet Brons explores the murder and mayhem inflicted on the women who just might be Measured for Murder.

Author : Winston Ramsey
Publisher : After the Battle
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781399077071

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Scenes Of Murder Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

In this book, After the Battle have explored entirely new ground to investigate 150 years of murder and present it through our ‘then and now’ theme of comparison photographs. Scene of crime plans and photographs from police files focus on a wide variety of murders committed between 1812, when a Prime Minister was shot in the House of Commons, to killings on the streets of London in the 1960s. Far too often it is the perpetrator who is remembered while their victims, many lying in unmarked graves, remain lost to history. So this book sets out to redress the balance by tracking down the last resting places, even going as far as to mark two wartime graves of taxi drivers killed by American servicemen. Homicide is not a subject for the faint-hearted and many of the photographs are distressing which is why the book is made available with that warning.

Author : Dulcie M Ashdown
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780752469195

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Royal Murders Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This book examines the motives, means and consequences of the murders among members of Europe's ruling families over the last 1,000 years. Plucking true stories due to their historical significance and sheer intrigue, this book relates violent deaths amid royal splendour and the overthrow of tyrants by oppressed populations. Methods vary from sword and arrow, to bomb and bullet, to alleged witchcraft. Settings range from Russia to Portugal; British examples include the involvement Mary Queen of Scots may have had in her second husband's murder and a search for the facts behind Shakespeare's portrayal of the murderous usurpers Macbeth and Richard III. But in European history there has been no royal murder to rival Russia's Tsar Ivan the Terrible, a homicidal maniac resopnsible for thousands of deaths, whose dramatic killing sprees are examined here. Dulcie M Ashdown takes on a journey through the dark and tragic side of royal history: from Richard III through to the recent controversy surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Author : Marc Alexander
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781909473034

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Royal Murder Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : Teresa Collard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0727841882

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Murder at the Tower Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Treachery in the Tower of London is suspected, but when a Detective Superintendent in the guise of a Yeoman Warder is called in to investigate, he finds that murder has been committed.