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Author : Matthew Worth Pinkerton
Release : 1898
Genre : Homicide
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Murder in All Ages by : Matthew Worth Pinkerton
Download or read book Murder in All Ages written by Matthew Worth Pinkerton. This book was released on 1898. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deanna Raybourn
Release : 2022-09-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 691/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Killers of a Certain Age by : Deanna Raybourn
Download or read book Killers of a Certain Age written by Deanna Raybourn. This book was released on 2022-09-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! “This Golden Girls meets James Bond thriller is a journey you want to be part of.” -Buzzfeed Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that’s their secret weapon. They’ve spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women friends can’t just retire – it’s kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller by New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. Now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates what they have to offer in an age that relies more on technology than people skills. When the foursome is sent on an all-expenses paid vacation to mark their retirement, they are targeted by one of their own. Only the Board, the top-level members of the Museum, can order the termination of field agents, and the women realize they’ve been marked for death. Now to get out alive they have to turn against their own organization, relying on experience and each other to get the job done, knowing that working together is the secret to their survival. They’re about to teach the Board what it really means to be a woman—and a killer—of a certain age.
Author : Pieter Spierenburg
Release : 2013-04-18
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 636/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Murder by : Pieter Spierenburg
Download or read book A History of Murder written by Pieter Spierenburg. This book was released on 2013-04-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fascinating and insightful overview of seven centuries of murder in Europe. It tells the story of the changing face of violence and documents the long-term decline in the incidence of homicide. From medieval vendettas to stylised duels, from the crime passionel of the modern period right up to recent public anxieties about serial killings and underworld assassinations, the book offers a richly illustrated account of murder’s metamorphoses. In this original and compelling contribution, Spierenburg sheds new light on several important themes. He looks, for example, at the transformation of homicide from a private matter, followed by revenge or reconciliation, into a public crime, always subject to state intervention. Combining statistical data with a cultural approach, he demonstrates the crucial role gender played in the spiritualisation of male honour and the subsequent reduction of male-on-male aggression, as well as offering a comparative view of how different social classes practised and reacted to violence. This authoritative study will be of great value to students and scholars of the history of crime and violence, criminology and the sociology of violence. At a time when murder rates are rising and public fears about violent crime are escalating, this book will also interest the general reader intrigued by how our relationship with murder reached this point.
Author : Martin Edwards
Release : 2015-05-07
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 979/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Golden Age of Murder by : Martin Edwards
Download or read book The Golden Age of Murder written by Martin Edwards. This book was released on 2015-05-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction.
Author : Maxim Jakubowski
Release : 2011-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 223/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Murder Through the Ages by : Maxim Jakubowski
Download or read book Murder Through the Ages written by Maxim Jakubowski. This book was released on 2011-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical mystery genre is increasing in popularity to such an extent that demand for more has reached a new height. In response, today's bestselling American and British crime writers have put pen to paper to create startling new tales for this anthology. With an impressive range of sleuths, settings, and crimes that span the centuries, murder through the ages is guaranteed to thrill and intrigue and is an anthology that no lover of historical crime should be without! Book jacket.
