The reason he gave Curry was that it would make him look guilty . The Crown alleged he was a lady - killer who used his charm on women , so how could he tell the jury he slept with an employee , then fired her when she fell for him ?
It's 1777-the rebellious American colonies have been soundly defeated by the powerful British redcoats, and the imprisoned General Washington is to hang from the end of a gibbet. That's the...
This Chief Inspector Gamache novella is set in Three Pines. This novella is a short and easy read for people on the go.
Rich with authentic period details and blending suspenseful mystery with a budding romance between Inspector Pitt and Charlotte Ellison, The Cater Street Hangman launched the long-running series by Edgar Award–winning author Anne Perry, ...
Pairing modern language with period detail, Allison Epstein brings the lavish Tudor court, the colorful world of Elizabethan theater, and the squalid streets of sixteenth-century London to vivid, teeming life.
“How about Hangman,” I say, before a consensus forms among this star chamber that I must, absolutely, for all eternity, be known as Booty Call. I explain about how punts have hang time, and hangmen work in gallows.
HANGMAN'S BRIDGE PREFACE Appropriate name. Goes with the book... Memories. Everyone has such a place. Might be some local greasy fast-food drive-in with roller skates. For me, for four White boys dangling feet from the top trestle ...
Peter Diamond tracks a serial executioner targeting couples.
Zacharia walked over to him and asked him if he wanted to go to the disco. Tonight, they were playing classics from the eighties. The women would be epic. Especially Edith Mago. Watching her walk was enough to freeze one's ...
The hangman prepared the rope himself. It had to take the knot easily, the slip knot that tightened about the condemned man's neck. In my father's day the hangman used butter to grease the rope, and to soften it so it would knot easily ...
Award-winning author Colonel French MacClean separates fact from fiction of the enigmatic executioner, whose botched executions and mysterious death by electrocution have left him shrouded in mystery and infamy.