Unnatural Murder

Author : Anne Somerset
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0753801981

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Unnatural Murder by Anne Somerset Pdf

In the autumn of 1615 the Earl and Countess of Somerset were detained on suspicion of having murdered Sir Thomas Overbury. The arrest of these leading court figures created a sensation. The Countess was both young and beautiful: the Earl was one of the richest and most powerful men in the kingdom, having risen to prominence as the male 'favourite' of the monarch James I. In a vivid narrative, Anne Somerset unravels these extraordinary events, which were widely regarded as an extreme manifestation of the corruption and vice which disfigured the court during this period. It is at once a story rich in passion and intrigue and a murder mystery, for, despite the guilty verdicts, there is much about Overbury's death that remains enigmatic. The Overbury murder case profoundly damaged the monarchy, and constituted the greatest court scandal in English history.

Author : Dorothy Leigh Sayers
Publisher : Castrovilli Giuseppe
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Wimsey, Peter, Lord (Fictitious character)
ISBN : OCLC:20139300

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Unnatural Death by Dorothy Leigh Sayers Pdf

Author : Dr. Michael M. Baden
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1990-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804105996

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Unnatural Death by Dr. Michael M. Baden Pdf

* JFK's autopsy failed to disclose crucial evidence. * The deaths of John Belushi and Elvis Presley were far more complex than anyone has let on. * Decisive medical findings in the von Bulow affair were consistently overlooked. These are but three of the shocking revelations in Dr. Michael Baden's first-person, no-holds-barred account of his distinguished career in forensic pathology. In determining the causes of tens of thousands of deaths, from those of presidents and rock stars to victims of serial killings, exotic sex rituals, mass disasters, child abuse and drug abuse, Baden has come to the unavoidable conclusion that the search for scientific truth is often sullied by the pressures of expediency. He produces dramatic evidence to demonstrate that political intrigue, influence peddling, and professional incompetence have created a national crisis in forensic medicine. "A fascinating look into the mechanics of forensics and a disconcerting lesson in the politics of death." -- The New York Times Book Review

Author : Rebecca Frost
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793646224

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The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King by Rebecca Frost Pdf

The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King: Murder, Sickness, and Plots examines over thirty of King’s works and looks at the character deaths within them, placing them first within the chronology of the plot and then assigning them a function. Death is horrific and perhaps the only universal horror because it comes to us all. Stephen King, known as the Master of Horror, rarely writes without including death in his works. However, he keeps death from being repetitious or fully expected because of the ways in which he plays with the subject, maintaining what he himself has called a childlike approach to death. Although character deaths are a constant, the narrative function of those deaths changes depending on their placement within the plot. By separating out the purposes of early deaths from those that come during the rising action or during the climax, this book examines the myriad ways character deaths in King can affect surviving characters and therefore the plot. Even though character deaths are frequent and hardly ever occur only once in a book, King’s varying approaches to, and uses of, these deaths show how he continues to play with both the subject and its facets of horror throughout his work.

Author : Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher : Memorable Classics Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers Pdf

Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers - Unnatural Death is a 1927 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her third featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. It was published under the title The Dawson Pedigree in the United States in 1928. Plot: Lord Peter Wimsey and his friend Chief Inspector Parker are told about the death, in late 1925, of an elderly woman named Agatha Dawson who had been suffering from terminal cancer. She was being cared for by Mary Whittaker, her great-niece and a trained nurse. Miss Dawson had an extreme aversion to making a will, believing that Miss Whittaker, her only known relative, would naturally inherit everything. Wimsey is intrigued in spite of the fact that there is no evidence of any crime (a post-mortem found no sign of foul play), nor any apparent motive (on Miss Dawson's death her estate did indeed pass, as she had expected and wished, to her great-niece). Wimsey sends his private investigator, Miss Katharine Climpson, to the village of Leahampton to investigate. She discovers that shortly before her death Miss Dawson had dismissed her maids, the sisters Bertha and Evelyn Gotobed. Wimsey places advertisements in the press asking them to get in touch. A few days later, Bertha is found dead in Epping Forest. On the body is a £5 banknote, originally issued to a Mrs Muriel Forrest who lives in an elegant flat in South Audley Street, Mayfair. Wimsey and Parker visit her. She claims not to remember the banknote, but thinks she may have put it on a horse. Wimsey tricks her into providing her fingerprints on a wineglass. In a drawer he finds a hypodermic syringe with a doctor's prescription "to be injected when the pain is very severe". Evelyn Gotobed tells Wimsey of an episode shortly before the sisters were dismissed in which Miss Whittaker had tried to get them to witness Miss Dawson's will, without the latter's knowledge. A mysterious West Indian clergyman named Hallelujah Dawson had also turned up, claiming to be an impecunious distant relative.

Author : Douglas Watt
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912387533

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The Unnatural Death of a Jacobite by Douglas Watt Pdf

It's 1689 and the body of a young lawyer has been discovered near Craigleith Quarry, Edinburgh. Meanwhile, in the Highlands, Bonnie Dundee is at the head of an army in the Highlands looking to crush the government forces and help restore James Stewart. Was the discovered body anything to do with the rise of the Jacobites? Or was it simple the result of an office rivalry? Did the young man perhaps have connections to criminals in the city? Investigative lawyer John MacKenzie and his assistant Scougall search for the truth in this gripping new instalment of Douglas Watt's John MacKenzie series.

Author : Dorothy L Sayers
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781848943834

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Unnatural Death by Dorothy L Sayers Pdf

The third book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by crime writer Minette Walters - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries. 'D. L. Sayers is one of the best detective story writers' Daily Telegraph 'No sign of foul play,' says Dr Carr after the post-mortem on Agatha Dawson. The case is closed. But Lord Peter Wimsey is not satisfied . . . With no clues to work on, he begins his own investigation. No clues, that is, until the sudden, senseless murder of Agatha's maid. What is going on in the mysterious Mrs Forrest's Mayfair flat? And can Wimsey catch a desperate murderer before he himself becomes one of the victims? 'She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit.' P. D. James

Author : Anne Somerset
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474618748

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Unnatural Murder: Poison In The Court Of James I by Anne Somerset Pdf

Royal scandal, set against the background of the Jacobean court, involving love, bribery, poison, treachery and black magic - 'a hugely enjoyable book' Daily Telegraph 'A gripping detective story ... Wonderfully dramatic ... Probably the juiciest court scandal of the past 500 years' Daily Mail In the autumn of 1615 the Earl and Countess of Somerset were detained on suspicion of having murdered Sir Thomas Overbury. The arrest of these leading court figures created a sensation. The young and beautiful Countess of Somerset had already achieved notoriety when she divorced her first husband in controversial circumstances. The Earl of Somerset was one of the richest and most powerful men in the kingdom, having risen to prominence as the male 'favourite' of James I. In a vivid, enthralling narrative, Anne Somerset unravels these extraordinary events. It is, at once, a story rich in passion, intrigue and corruption and a murder mystery - for, despite the guilty verdicts, there is much about Overbury's death that remains enigmatic. The Overbury murder case profoundly damaged the monarchy, and constituted the greatest court scandal in English history. 'This is a book about murder, witchcraft, adultery, lechery, intrigue and chicanery among the country's most powerful nobility' Time Out

Author : Patricia Cornwell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429541763

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Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell Pdf

Kay Scarpetta finds herself pitted against a possible bioterrorist in this suspense-filled read from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. When a woman turns up dismembered in a landfill, Scarpetta initially suspects the work of a serial killer she’s been tracking. But her investigation turns far more dangerous when she realizes the victim’s skin is covered in an unusual rash—and Scarpetta herself may have just been exposed to a deadly virus.

Author : Blake Banner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1636960006

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An Ace and a Pair by Blake Banner Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Trials (Murder)
ISBN : NYPL:33433086305533

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Report of the Trial of James M. Lowell, Indicted for the Murder of His Wife, Mary Elizabeth Lowell by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lawrence Friedman
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781610271325

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An Unnatural Death by Lawrence Friedman Pdf

Frank May practices law, but he gets by just doing the safe, bland kindwriting wills, forming partnerships, processing papers. Everything far from the seedy adventures of criminal law or detective work. But every lawyer knows: clients have a habit of taking you to places you don't want to be. One of those clients is the estate of the late Harriet Wingate. Harriet had money, and that always makes for interested relatives. But a bizarre husband Harriet's junior, by a half-century? Two squabbling nieces? The suddenly revealed grandson? Worst of all, a litter of soon-to-be rich cats? Frank did not think she even had a cat. Frank wrote Harriet's will, or so he thought. But more wills than he ever imagined keep popping up, including the notorious "cat will" and a torn, handwritten mystery will. Actually, they're all a mystery, just like Harriet's death. The wills and the relatives, if not the cats, drag Frank into the world he had so carefully avoided in his practice. Now to probate the estate and resolve the conflicting wills, he may have to unravel a mystery or two. And even a second unnatural death. To do all that, he will have to use his headand step far outside his comfort zone. A QP Mystery, fourth in the series of the Frank May Chronicles.

Author : Matthew Worth Pinkerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Homicide
ISBN : UOM:69015000005906

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Murder in All Ages by Matthew Worth Pinkerton Pdf

Author : Dorothy L. Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798539192440

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Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Dorothy L. Sayers Pdf

Written in 1927, this is the third book in the Lord Peter Wimsey series and has recently been reissued by New English Library. It stands alone and could easily be read without having tried the previous titles, WHOSE BODY? and CLOUDS OF WITNESS. UNNATURAL DEATH begins with a chance encounter and conversation between Lord Peter and a doctor who tells him that he has been practically ruined because he was openly suspicious about the death of one of his patients. Unable to prove any foul play had taken place, he had been abandoned by his patients who were appalled by the attendant local publicity and the seemingly needless post-mortem that he had insisted upon. The doctor is unwilling to provide any details, but Lord Peter is intrigued by the possibility of a perfect murder and determines to identify the case and see if he can solve it.

Author : Michael Jecks
Publisher : Headline
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472219831

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The Malice of Unnatural Death (Last Templar Mysteries 22) by Michael Jecks Pdf

A deadly hunt for a dangerous secret and a ruthless killer... The twenty-second novel in Michael Jecks' Knights Templar mysteries is a riveting tale of murder and intrigue in the King's Court. Perfect for fans of George R. R. Martin andEllis Peters. 'Another rip-roaring medieval intrigue. Terrific' - Nottingham Evening Post 1324 and the English kingdom is in uproar: Roger Mortimer, once the King's most able commander and now his most implacable, hated enemy, is plotting the King's assassination. And Mortimer is not the only person with murder in mind... When the bodies of a local craftsman and the King's messenger are found in the streets of Exeter, Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and his friend, Simon Puttock, are implored to find the person responsible. The deceased messenger was carrying a dangerous secret that could prove fatal in the wrong hands. Baldwin and Simon must find the murderer before he can strike again... What readers are saying about The Malice of Unnatural Death: 'One of the best in the series - five stars' 'What great stories [Michael Jecks] writes, can't get enough of them' 'Thoroughly engrossing'