The Hanging Tree

A history of mentalities, emotions, and attitudes rather than of policies and ideas, it analyses responses to the scaffold at all social levels: among the crowds which gathered to watch executions; among 'polite' commentators from Boswell and Byron on to Fry, Thackeray, and Dickens; and among the judges, home secretary,

Der sechste Fall für Peter Grant In seinem sechsten Fall muss der fabelhafte Peter Grant - ein verschollenes altes Buch wiederfinden - einen verdächtigen Todesfall auf einer Party der Reichen und Schönen Londons aufklären - versuchen, es sich dabei nicht völlig mit Lady Ty zu verderben - vermeiden, vom Gesichtslosen

Few families were wilder than the Linsdales. Caught up in a web of violence and treachery, they shared in the rise of the mighty house of Douglas and struggled to escape its fall.

The haunting specter of hanging trees holds a powerful sway on the American imagination, conjuring images of rough-and-tumble frontier towns struggling to impose law and order in a land where violence was endemic. In this thoughtful study, former New Mexico State Historian Robert Tórrez examines several fascinating criminal cases that

Paleontologist Kathryn Widd investigates a set of hominid skull fragments in the Kenyan wilderness and is drawn into the story of a 1908 safari and the British nobleman who died under mysterious circumstances near the site of her dig

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AT THE END OF HIS ROPE... No one likes a cattle rustler. But that's no excuse for ordinary folk to take the law into their own hands. When Clint Adams comes upon a dead cow thief swinging from a tree, he decides to take justice to the vigilantes. The Gunsmith's

Sandra Stewart and her daughter are brutally murdered in 2006. Her husband is wanted in connection with their deaths. Why has he returned eight years later? Detective Inspector Peter Graveney is catapulted headlong into an almost unfathomable case, Thwarted at every turn. are there people close to the investigation determined

In 1640, Alys Bailey was accused of witchcraft and sentenced to hang. Today, Alys is said to haunt Lockwood Hall, the Tudor manor house where she died. When Nicole Rayburn travels to Lockwood Hall and begins to research Alys's story for a new book, she discovers startling irregularities in Alys's

Ehrgeiz treibt ihn an. Rivalität beflügelt ihn. Aber Macht hat ihren Preis. Es ist der Morgen der Ernte der zehnten Hungerspiele. Im Kapitol macht sich der 18-jährige Coriolanus Snow bereit, als Mentor bei den Hungerspielen zu Ruhm und Ehre zu gelangen. Die einst mächtige Familie Snow durchlebt schwere Zeiten und