Old Poison

Author : Josh Lanyon
Publisher : JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780984766963

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Old Poison by Josh Lanyon Pdf

Friends, partners, and now lovers. If it was complicated before, it's even trickier now that Will has been assigned a case which guarantees he'll be working side-by-side with ex-boyfriend David Bradley. As for Taylor, newly recovered from his recent shooting and finally off desk duty, being reassigned a new partner—who seems as thrilled to be working with him as he is her—is just the start of his problems. Whoever has been leaving weird notes on his car windshield has graduated to sending him a dead cobra in a bottle of wine. Sure, DSS Agents Brandt and MacAllister have made a few enemies over the years, but until now it's never felt quite so personal. Taylor's insecurity about David Bradley and Will's uneasy suspicion Taylor isn't telling him everything he knows about his mysterious stalker puts them on shaky ground at the very moment a vengeful enemy is moving in for the kill.

Author : Donald M. Crooks,Dayton L. Klingman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Poison ivy
ISBN : MINN:31951D01069035J

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Poison Ivy, Poison Oak and Poison Sumac by Donald M. Crooks,Dayton L. Klingman Pdf

Author : Chelsea Berry
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512826500

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Poisoned Relations by Chelsea Berry Pdf

By the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Africans had developed significantly different cultural idioms for and understandings of poison. Europeans considered poison a gendered “weapon of the weak” while Africans viewed it as an abuse by the powerful. Though distinct, both idioms centered on fraught power relationships. When translated to the slave societies of the Americas, these understandings sometimes clashed in conflicting interpretations of alleged poisoning events. In Poisoned Relations, Chelsea Berry illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic World. Poison was connected to central concerns of life: to the well-being in this world for oneself and one’s relatives; to the morality and use of power; and to the fraught relationships that bound people together. The social and relational nature of ideas about poison meant that the power struggles that emerged in poison cases, while unfolding in the extreme context of slavery, were not solely between enslavers and the enslaved—they also involved social conflict within enslaved communities. Poisoned Relations examines more than five hundred investigations and trials in four colonial contexts—British Virginia, French Martinique, Portuguese Bahia, and the Dutch Guianas—bringing a groundbreaking application of historical linguistics to bear on the study of the African diaspora in the Americas. Illuminating competing understandings of poison and power in this way, Berry opens new avenues of evidence through which to navigate the violence of colonial archival silences.

Author : N.M. Penzer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317847519

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Poison Damsels by N.M. Penzer Pdf

First published in 2004. These four classic masterpieces in esoteric research by the noted orientalist - M. Penzer explore customs and traditions from other cultures and periods of history which, for all their apparent strangeness, mask fundamental subjects of continuing interest. The first concerns the motif of the poison damsel -- the beauty who dealt death in many forms to her admirers - which originated in India, was prevalent in medieval Europe, and persists today in the belief of the femme fatale. The volume includes a study in the ancient Tate of the Two Thieves, an essay on sacred prostitution in India, the ancient East and West Africa, and an exhaustive treatment of the custom of chewing the betel or areca nut which is widespread in the far East from India through Indonesia to New Guinea. A natural stimulant and narcotic whose effects are similar to that of tobacco, betel is of growing interest to the medical world, and has, as the author shows here, a rich legacy of customs and belief.

Author : Zhang Wei
Publisher : Devneybooks
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781304424785

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Poison kiss mask Silver Demon by Zhang Wei Pdf

Seven days later, in the early morning, the warm sunshine leaked in from the window, and the bathroom door was gently pushed open tomorrow. Inside, it was still so quiet that there was no sound.

Author : Miranda Wilson
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611485394

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Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England by Miranda Wilson Pdf

Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England considers the ways sixteenth- and seventeenth-century fears of poisoning prompt new models for understanding the world even as the fictive qualities of poisoning frustrate attempts at certainty. Whether English writers invoke literal poisons, as they do in so many revenge dramas, homicide cases, and medical documents, or whether poisoning appears more metaphorically, as it does in a host of theological, legal, philosophical, popular, and literary works, this particular, “invisible” weapon easily comes to embody the darkest elements of a more general English appetite for imagining the hidden correlations between the seen and the unseen. This book is an inherently interdisciplinary project. This book works from the premise that accounts of poisons and their operations in Renaissance texts are neither incidental nor purely sensational; rather, they do moral, political, and religious work which can best be assessed when we consider poisoning as part of the texture of Renaissance culture. Placing little known or less-studied texts (medical reports, legal accounts, or anonymous pamphlets) alongside those most familiar to scholars and the larger public (such as poetry by Edmund Spenser and plays by William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton) allows us to appreciate the almost gravitational pull exerted by the notion of poison in the Renaissance. Considering a variety of texts, written for disparate audiences, and with diverse purposes, makes apparent the ways this crime functions as both a local problem to be solved and as an apt metaphor for the complications of epistemology.

Author : Carole Patricia Biggam
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9042001488

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Blue in Old English by Carole Patricia Biggam Pdf

Blue in Old English represents the first thorough investigation of an area of the colour semantics of Old English, and the methodology developed for this study is believed to be appropriate for researching the colour semantics of any language which survives only in recorded texts. By means of a collection of in-depth word-studies, which suggest new interpretations of many well-known passages, an understanding of how blueness was described in Old English is developed. The approach is interdisciplinary, using evidence from subjects such as botany, manuscript illustration, etymology, early technologies, and others. The conclusion contradicts certain previously held views on Old English colour, and presents a hitherto obscured sociolinguistic picture of differing language use among various groups of Old English speakers.

Author : Richard Swiderski
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781599428345

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Poison Eaters by Richard Swiderski Pdf

Testing the boundaries between food, poison and medicine is a public show made into a continuing drama of risk and survival. This book is the first to explore the tradition of deliberate poison eating, its practitioners, and the substances that might nourish or kill them. Readers interested in the human history of drugs and medicine, in feats of endurance usually survived and in the play of controlling and regulatory authorities that always accompanies drug and poison use will find Poison Eaters especially appealing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Accidental poisoining in children
ISBN : UCR:31210017990829

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National Poison Prevention Week ... Editor's Fact Sheet by Anonim Pdf

Author : Baoan Liu
Publisher : Baoan Liu
Page : 1045 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Baoan martial arts novels:Warrior's Tale by Baoan Liu Pdf

Author : Dylan Frost
Publisher : epubli
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9783758435553

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Affairs of Poison True Crime's Deadliest Poisoners by Dylan Frost Pdf

Poison is a fairly popular method of murder in true crime history because it doesn't require brute force or a weapon of any kind. You can simply slip it in a cake or a drink. Anything you want. A lot of poisoners think they stand a much better chance of getting away with murder but this is a misguided view. It might be more complex to capture a poisoner than a mad axeman but the police tend to catch up with poisoners in the end. In this book we'll take a look at some of the deadliest poisoners in true crime history. What follows is a grisly gallery of heartless rogues who you definitely wouldn't want making the tea.

Author : Sylvia A. Pamboukian
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031160004

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Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison by Sylvia A. Pamboukian Pdf

Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison examines Christie’s female poisoners in the context of Christie’s own experience in pharmacy and of detective fiction. In doing so, it uncovers an overlooked dynamic in which female poisoners deliver well-deserved comeuppance for gendered and classed wrongdoing ordinarily accepted in everyday life. While critics have long recognized male outlaws, like Robin Hood, who use crime to oppose a corrupt system, this book contends that female outlaws – witches and poisoners – offer a similar heritage of empowered femininity. Far from cozy and formulaic, Agatha Christie’s outlaw poisoners offer readers the surprising pleasures of comeuppance, and they set the stage for contemporary detective fiction writers, more recent films depicting poisoning as empowering, and even poison gardens, which are tourist destinations that offer visitors the guilty pleasure of poison.

Author : Willard Baker
Publisher : Litres
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040463947

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The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley: or, Diamond X and the Poison Mystery by Willard Baker Pdf

Author : Colleen Cambridge
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496732491

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A Trace of Poison by Colleen Cambridge Pdf

“Balances Downton Abbey–style period charm with a tight plot that twists and turns right until the end… a plot that would satisfy Poirot.” —Library Journal “Dame Agatha would be proud.” —Publishers Weekly In this captivating English murder mystery from an acclaimed author, Agatha Christie’s housekeeper must uncover the killer amongst a throng of crime writers. In England’s stately manor houses, murder is not generally a topic for polite conversation. Mallowan Hall, home to Agatha Christie and her husband, Max, is the exception. And housekeeper Phyllida Bright delights in discussing gory plot details with her friend and employer . . . The neighboring village of Listleigh has also become a hub of grisly goings-on, thanks to a Murder Fête organized to benefit a local orphanage. Members of The Detection Club—a group of celebrated authors such as G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Agatha herself—will congregate for charitable events, including a writing contest for aspiring authors. The winner gets an international publishing contract, and entrants have gathered for a cocktail party—managed by the inimitable Phyllida—when murder strikes too close even for her comfort. It seems the victim imbibed a poisoned cocktail intended for Alastair Whittlesby, president of the local writers’ club. The insufferable Whittlesby is thought to be a shoo-in for the prize, and ambition is certainly a worthy motive. But narrowing down these suspects could leave even Phyllida’s favorite fictional detective, M. Poirot, twirling his mustache in frustration. It’s a mystery too intriguing for Phyllida to resist, but one fraught with duplicity and danger, for every guest is an expert in murder—and how to get away with it . . .

Author : Jo-Ann Lamon Reccoppa
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Another Man's Poison by Jo-Ann Lamon Reccoppa Pdf

Has our Jersey Girl finally bitten off more than she can chew? Crime reporter Colleen Caruso has an appetite for romance … and trouble. When someone tries to poison Ken Rhodes (her handsome boss and boyfriend), Colleen vows to hunt down the culprit and serve them up to the police. She’s whisked away into the scrumptious world of restaurants and gourmet food as she tangles with four culinary divas from Ken’s past. Trouble is, Colleen doesn’t know when to turn down the heat. Is this Jersey Girl’s investigation a recipe for disaster? Or will the poisoner get their just desserts?