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Nightingale A Memoir of Murder, Madness, and the Messenger of Spring


Free Download Suzanne Congdon LeRoy, "Nightingale: A Memoir of Murder, Madness, and the Messenger of Spring"
English | ISBN: 098974891X | 2014 | 292 pages | EPUB | 479 KB
Nightingale is an eloquent and inspiring tribute to the legacy of Elisabeth Mannering Congdon, the extraordinary woman who was so much more than the last day of her life. Entrusted with the burdens and joys of memory, Elisabeth’s eldest granddaughter, Suzanne Congdon LeRoy, combines lived experience with meticulous historical research as she courageously reveals a family legacy of love, inconceivable loss, and perseverance. Elisabeth Congdon emerges not as heiress or victim but as the messenger of spring and the key to her granddaughter’s survival. Elisabeth’s early efforts to nurture a foundation of hope, optimism, and the power of possibility lead Suzanne to advanced education, a remarkable nursing career and the discovery of the ineffable relationship between healing oneself, service to others, and the connection to the spirit and beauty of the earth that makes her whole again.

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Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin’s Kremlin The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina


Free Download Paul R. Gregory, "Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin’s Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0817910352 | EPUB | pages: 196 | 0.3 mb
Drawing from Hoover Institution archival documents, Paul Gregory sheds light on how the world’s first socialist state went terribly wrong and why it was likely to veer off course through the tragic story of Stalin’s most prominent victims:Pravdaeditor Nikolai Bukharin and his wife, Anna Larina.

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Murder & Mayhem in Seattle


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English | 2016 | ISBN: 1467136603, 1540201090 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 4.9 mb
Seattle harbors a dark and violent history that stretches back to a bloody battle between natives and settlers in 1856. In the early 1900s, Dr. Linda Hazzard stole money from countless patients after starving them to death in her infamous sanitarium. Three robbers opened fire in the notorious Wah Mee gambling club in 1983, killing thirteen people in the state’s deadliest mass homicide. Some of America’s most notorious serial killers wrought terror in Seattle, including the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway. Ted Bundy’s murder spree started in King County before reaching national attention in the 1970s. Local author Teresa Nordheim exposes these and many more gruesome events that scarred the city.

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The Hagley Wood Murder Nazi Spies and Witchcraft in Wartime Britain


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English | April 6, 2023 | ISBN: 1399066455 | 224 pages | EPUB | 9.50 Mb
Astonishingly, The Hagley Wood Murder is the first book solely on the subject (other than a selection of privately printed/self published offerings) ever written on this murder, which too place eighty years ago.

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When We Sold God’s Eye Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon


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English | December 3, 2024 | ISBN: 1538701502 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 1.2 MB
The "gripping and astonishing story" (Douglas Preston) of the Cinta Larga, a tribe that had no contact with the West until the 1960s and came to run an illegal diamond mine in the Amazon.

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Trial by Ambush Murder, Injustice, and the Truth about the Case of Barbara Graham


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English | December 1, 2024 | ISBN: 1662515960, 1662515952 | True EPUB | 284 pages | 4.4 MB
In this dramatic true account about the power of sensationalized crime, one woman’s case is exposed for its sexism, flagrant disregard for the truth, and, ultimately, the dangers posed by an unbridled prosecution.

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The Trials of Laura Fair Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West


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English | August 1, 2013 | ISBN: 1469607581, 1469626462 | True EPUB | 328 pages | 8.4 MB
On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot a bullet into the heart of her married lover, A. P. Crittenden. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair’s lawyers, supported by expert testimony from physicians, claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity caused by a severely painful menstrual cycle. The first jury disregarded such testimony, choosing instead to focus on Fair’s disreputable character. In the second trial, however, an effective defense built on contemporary medical beliefs and gendered stereotypes led to a verdict that shocked Americans across the country. In this rousing history, Carole Haber probes changing ideas about morality and immorality, masculinity and femininity, love and marriage, health and disease, and mental illness to show that all these concepts were reinvented in the Victorian West.

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Mrs. Malory and the Festival Murder


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English | 2010 | pages: 186 | ISBN: 1603810463 | EPUB | 0,2 mb
Everyone in the small seaside village of Taviscombe is looking forward to the festival. So is Mrs. Sheila Malory-that is, until the unpleasant Adrian Palgrove joins the planning committee. Mrs. Malory, an avid reader of nineteenth century literature, is dismayed to find the man constantly in her path. First Adrian gleefully informs her that he has been appointed executor of the estate of a renowned author, whose private life he intends to expose. Soon his bad behavior has alienated his fellow committee members. One of his many enemies despises him enough to murder him just as the festival is underway. Mrs. Malory has impressive credentials when it comes to solving murders, but with so many suspects, she hardly knows where to begin. Mrs. Malory and the Festival Murder is the fourth of Hazel Holt’s Mrs. Malory mysteries.

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