The Music Hall Murder

Author : Kate Griffin
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571302703

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Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders by Kate Griffin Pdf

Limehouse, 1880: Dancing girls are going missing from 'Paradise' - the criminal manor with ruthless efficiency by the ferocious Lady Ginger. Seventeen-year-old music hall seamstress Kitty Peck finds herself reluctantly drawn into a web of blackmail, depravity and murder when The Lady devises a singular scheme to discover the truth. But as Kitty's scandalous and terrifying act becomes the talk of London, she finds herself facing someone even more deadly and horrifying than The Lady. Bold, impetuous and blessed with more brains than she cares to admit, it soon becomes apparent that it's up to the unlikely team of Kitty and her stagehand friend, Lucca, to unravel the truth and ensure that more girls do not meet with a similar fate. But are Kitty's courage and common sense and Lucca's book learning a match for the monster in the shadows? Their investigations take them from the gin-fuelled halls and doss houses of the East End to the champagne-fuelled galleries of the West End. Take nothing at face value: Kitty is about to step out on a path of discovery that changes everything . . .

Author : Amy Myers
Publisher : Headline
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472213891

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Murder At The Music Hall (Auguste Didier Mystery 8) by Amy Myers Pdf

The eighth Auguste Didier mystery. It's 1902 and Auguste Didier finds himself reluctantly recruited for a week's work at the Old King Cole music hall in the East End. Ostensibly there as chef of its greasy run-down eating house, Auguste has another role: to prevent a possible foul murder by being constant bodyguard to famous comedian Will Lamb. At first Will's fears of being the victim of someone's murderous intentions seem unfounded. After all, he's only had a portentous dream and he's really rather popular. But when other more sinister omens occur, Auguste begins to sense real danger - and Will Lamb dies on stage in front of his eyes. The search is on for a killer - and it has to be someone who's had access to the props. Auguste's job is made more complicated by the fact that a national treasure has also been reported missing from Windsor Castle. And there are enough tenuous threads to indicate that the crimes must somehow be linked...

Author : Barry Anthony
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857726827

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Murder, Mayhem and Music Hall by Barry Anthony Pdf

The Strand is one of London's most iconic streets - today the bustling and thriving home of West End theatres and the luxurious Savoy hotel; in the Victorian era, the Strand was a much more seedy and destitute part of the city. Barry Anthony here explores the criminal and socially subversive behaviour which abounded in and around the Victorian Strand. He introduces us to a vast range of personalities - from prostitutes, confidence tricksters, vagrants and cadgers to the actors, comedians and music hall stars who trod the boards of the Strand's early theatres.

Author : Tracy Jennifer Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734421339

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The Music Hall Murder by Tracy Jennifer Johnson Pdf

Book 1 in the Demimondaine Detective Agency series introduces Ruby Redlick, a girl from Upper Norwood who dreams of the West End's bright lights but finds herself drawn into secret machinations of pre-war 1900s. Ruby is determined to become a real actress on the London Stage. But during the Edwardian era pretty girls are more often drawn to the music hall and become courtesans to lords and kings. She barely has a foot through the stage door, when a theft of jewels and a murder occurs. An avid reader of Sherlock Holmes mysteries, she believes she has the talent for amateur sleuthing and is drawn to investigate. With help from Soho anarchists and militant suffragettes, she delves deeper into solving the crime. Ruby's growing fame allows her access to London's pre-war glittering nightlife, but as she follows her intuition to find the murderer, someone has a deadly secret they're determined to keep at any cost. And someone else wants Ruby to engage in intrigue that will put her in a world of danger. The Music Hall Murder is historical fiction set in Edwardian England and the French Riviera gambling resort of Monte Carlo where all of Europe's notorious characters congregate. It features a wealth of real life characters and a murder mystery that will propel Ruby into a glamorous cloak-and-dagger world of intertwining conspiracy.

Author : Kate Griffin
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571334636

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The Kitty Peck Mysteries by Kate Griffin Pdf

Kitty Peck is taking on the underworld of London's East End.The Music Hall Murders:It's 1880 and dancing girls are going missing from 'Paradise' - the criminal manor run with ruthless efficiency by the ferocious Lady Ginger. The Lady devises a singular scheme to discover the secret to the mystery, and suddenly seventeen-year-old music hall seamstress Kitty Peck is drawn into a web of blackmail, depravity and murder. Bold, impetuous and blessed with more brains than she cares to admit, Kitty, with the help of her stagehand friend, Lucca, is left to unravel the truth and ensure that more girls do not meet with a similar fate.The Child of Ill-Fortune:A year later, and Kitty Peck is the reluctant heiress to 'Paradise'. Far from the colour and camaraderie of the music hall where Kitty had been working, this new position brings with it isolation and uncertainty. Desperate to reconnect with Joey, her estranged brother, Kitty travels to Paris, but the joy of the reunion is overshadowed by his request for her to take a child back to London. Within days of her return it's clear that someone has followed them - and that this someone is determined to kill the child, along with anyone who stands in their way...

Author : J. Denver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Musicals
ISBN : 0958790027

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Murder at the Music Hall by J. Denver Pdf

Author : J. Dennis Robinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781632200570

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Mystery on the Isles of Shoals by J. Dennis Robinson Pdf

For the first time, the full story of a crime that has haunted New England since 1873. The cold-blooded ax murder of two innocent Norwegian women at their island home off the coast of New Hampshire has gripped the region since 1873, beguiling tourists, inspiring artists, and fueling conspiracy theorists. The killer, a handsome Prussian fisherman down on his luck, was quickly captured, convicted in a widely publicized trial, and hanged in an unforgettable gallows spectacle. But he never confessed and, while in prison, gained a circle of admirers whose blind faith in his innocence still casts a shadow of doubt. A fictionalized bestselling novel and a Hollywood film have further clouded the truth. Finally a definitive "whydunnit" account of the Smuttynose Island ax murders has arrived. Popular historian J. Dennis Robinson fleshes out the facts surrounding this tragic robbery gone wrong in a captivating true crime page-turner. Robinson delves into the backstory at the rocky Isles of Shoals as an isolated centuries-old fishing village was being destroyed by a modern luxury hotel. He explores the neighboring island of Appledore where Victorian poet Celia Thaxter entertained the elite artists and writers of Boston. It was Thaxter's powerful essay about the murders in the Atlantic Monthly that shocked the American public. Robinson goes beyond the headlines of the burgeoning yellow press to explore the deeper lessons about American crime, justice, economics, and hero worship. Ten years before the Lizzie Borden ax murder trial and the fictional Sherlock Holmes, Americans met a sociopath named Louis Wagner—and many came to love him.

Author : Amy Myers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Didier, Auguste (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0747213364

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Murder at the Music Hall by Amy Myers Pdf

Eighth comic Victorian whodunnit featuring sleuthing chef Auguste Didier. By the author of M̀urder in the smokehouse'.

Author : Winston Ramsey
Publisher : After the Battle
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781399077071

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Scenes Of Murder by Winston Ramsey Pdf

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 : Charlotte Gray
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443409254

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The Massey Murder by Charlotte Gray Pdf

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year An Amazon Top 100 Book of the Year Shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize Longlisted for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction A scandalous crime, a sensational trial, a surprise verdict—the true story of Carrie Davies, the maid who shot a Massey In February 1915, a member of one of Canada’s wealthiest families was shot and killed on the front porch of his home in Toronto as he was returning from work. Carrie Davies, an 18-year-old domestic servant, quickly confessed. But who was the victim here? Charles “Bert” Massey, a scion of a famous family, or the frightened, perhaps mentally unstable Carrie, a penniless British immigrant? When the brilliant lawyer Hartley Dewart, QC, took on her case, his grudge against the powerful Masseys would fuel a dramatic trial that pitted the old order against the new, wealth and privilege against virtue and honest hard work. Set against a backdrop of the Great War in Europe and the changing face of a nation, this sensational crime is brought to vivid life for the first time. As in her previous bestselling book, Gold Diggers—which was made into a Discovery Channel miniseries entitled “Klondike”—multi-award-winning historian and biographer Charlotte Gray has created a captivating narrative rich in detail and brimming with larger-than-life personalities, as she shines a light on a central moment in our past.

Author : Lee Michael-Berger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000874747

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Modern Murders by Lee Michael-Berger Pdf

Modern Murders is the first comprehensive study of murder representations during the turn of the century, drawing on previously neglected archival material to explore the intellectual, cultural, and artistic contexts of the period. Most studies view the abundance of murder representations throughout the nineteenth century as an indicator of a supposedly typical Victorian appetite for sensation and melodrama. Modern Murders, however, demonstrates the turn of the century's backlash against melodramatic and sensational representations of murder and reads them as an important component in the struggles for better aesthetic standards in art and entertainment, and as a dominant feature in the debates on mass culture. Through a plethora of visual and written texts, representations of fictional and actual "real life" murders, and "high" and "popular" forms of writing, the volume considers the importance of murder in the elite claim to cultural authority versus its perception of plebian taste, in the context of the democratization of culture. This book will be of value to scholars and graduate students in a variety of research areas, as well as general readers interested in the role of murder as a central trope in modern art and culture.

Author : Patrice McDonough
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496746382

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Murder by Lamplight by Patrice McDonough Pdf

For fans of Andrea Penrose and Deanna Raybourn, and anyone who relishes riveting, well-researched historical fiction, this inventive and enthralling debut mystery set in Victorian London pairs the unconventional, trailblazing Dr. Julia Lewis with a traditional and skeptical police inspector, as they try to stop a wily serial killer whose vengeance has turned personal. November 1866: The grisly murder site in London’s East End is thronged with onlookers. None of them expect the calmly efficient young woman among them to be a medical doctor, arrived to examine the corpse. Inspector Richard Tennant, overseeing the investigation, at first makes no effort to disguise his skepticism. But Dr. Julia Lewis is accustomed to such condescension . . . To study medicine, Julia had to leave Britain, where universities still bar their doors to women, and travel to America. She returned home to work in her grandfather’s practice—and to find London in the grip of a devastating cholera epidemic. In four years, however, she has seen nothing quite like this—a local clergyman’s body sexually mutilated and displayed in a manner that she—and Tennant—both suspect is personal. Days later, another body is found with links to the first, and Tennant calls in Dr. Lewis again. The murderer begins sending the police taunting letters and tantalizing clues—though the trail leads in multiple directions, from London’s music halls to its grim workhouses and dank sewers. Lewis and Tennant struggle to understand the killer’s dark obsessions and motivations. But there is new urgency, for the doctor’s role appears to have shifted from expert to target. And this killer is no impulsive monster, but a fiendishly calculating opponent, determined to see his plan through to its terrifying conclusion . . .

Author : Lesley Cookman
Publisher : Accent Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908917768

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Murder in the Monastery by Lesley Cookman Pdf

'With fascinating characters and an intriguing plot, this is a real page turner' KATIE FFORDE praise for the series An addictive and unputdownable crime mystery novel perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Faith Martin, J.R. Ellis, LJ Ross, Miss Marple and Midsummer Murders! Lesley Cookman's bestselling series featuring amateur sleuth Libby Sarjeant is back for its eleventh instalment! A jewelled Anglo-Saxon reliquary has mysteriously appeared on a website, apparently containing a relic of St Eldreda herself. The nuns at St Eldreda's Abbey are understandably curious, and invite Libby Sarjeant to look into the matter in more depth. Fascinated by the story, Libby's friend Peter obtains permission to mount 'Murder In The Monastery', a play based on St Eldreda's story, excitingly set in the ruins of the original monastery. Unfortunately for Peter's plans, a real body is discovered, and Libby and her friend Fran find out that this is sadly not the first. Together, Libby and Fran dive into their investigations, to hopefully find the link between the relic, St Eldreda, and the pile of bodies. __________________________________________________ Praise for the bestselling series: 'Great characters , enthralling stories, would make a BRILLIANT T.V. series' ***** Amazon review 'Curl up with a cuppa for another fascinating mystery, Lesley has done it again! The stories all just pull you into them...hook line & sinker' ***** Amazon review 'I found the book un-put-downable (good job I was on holiday!) so it is definitely worth 5 stars. Waiting for more, Lesley!' ***** GoodReads review 'Excellent story as usual, love these books and looking forward to reading the next in the series' ***** Goodreads review

Author : John Perrault
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015060063941

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The Ballad of Louis Wagner by John Perrault Pdf

In his ballads John Perrault reveals an acuity about human nature and the reconciling wisdom that opens it up to others with jolts of crusty lascivious humor that only a true-bred Eastener can bring off. And with the enclosed CD you learn Perrault sings as bad as Dylan. --Larry Woiwode.

Author : Clifford McCarty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195114736

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Film Composers in America by Clifford McCarty Pdf

Film Composers in America is a landmark in the history of film. Here, renowned film scholar Clifford McCarty has attempted to identify every known composer who wrote background musical scores for films in the United States between 1911 and 1970. With information on roughly 20,000 films, the book is an essential tool for serious students of film and a treasure trove for film fans. It spans all types of American films, from features, shorts, cartoons, and documentaries to nontheatrical works, avant-garde films, and even trailers. Meticulously researched over 45 years, the book documents the work of more than 1,500 composers, from Robert Abramson to Josiah Zuro, including the first to score an American film, Walter C. Simon. It includes not only Hollywood professionals but also many composers of concert music--as well as popular music and other genres--whose cinematic work has never before been fully catalogued. The book also features an index that lets readers quickly find the composer for any American film through 1970. To recover this history, much of which was lost or never recorded, McCarty corresponded with or interviewed hundreds of composers, arrangers, orchestrators, musical directors, and music librarians. He also conducted extensive research in the archives of the seven largest film studios--Columbia, MGM, Paramount, RKO, 20th Century-Fox, Universal, and Warner Bros.--and wherever possible, he based his findings on the most reliable evidence, that of the manuscript scores and cue sheets (as opposed to less accurate screen credits). The result is the definitive guide to the composers and musical scores for the first 60 years of American film.