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,

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

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

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'A WONDERFULLY ENTERTAINING READ'. A Little Laughter. A Little Mayhem. a Little MURDER... 'The old crossroads used to run by here,' Sam told Rafferty. 'Legend has it that this was the original Hanging Tree.' When Inspector Rafferty hears that a bound and hooded body has been seen hanging from a

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

Collection of ten Western stories built around the title selection which is based on a true episode in Montana's gold-mining past in which three unlikely characters form an amazing bond.

Suspicious deaths are not usually the concern of PC Peter Grant or the Folly, even when they happen at an exclusive party in one of the most expensive apartment blocks in London. But Lady Ty's daughter was there, and Peter owes Lady Ty a favour. Plunged into the alien world

Superintendent Colin Thane investigates when an innocent victim of an armed robbery turns out to have been carrying pirated videotapes of a popular new United States movie

Secrets are easy to keep in a small town - especially one that has an awful lot to hide . . . Wild girl Gracie McBride fled her hometown Starvation Lake eighteen years ago. When she is found dead from an apparent suicide, shortly after her triumphant return, Gus Carpenter,