Karen Halttunen explores the changing view of murder from early New England sermons read at the public execution of murderers, through the nineteenth century, when secular and sensational accounts replaced the sacred treatment of the crime, ...
Murder Most Foul: A Collection of Great Crime Stories
This volume features two books in one: Stanley J. Marks' Murder Most Foul! and Rob Couteau's biographical essay that surveys the life and work of this author of a forgotten classic.
With a desperate killer still free, Hercule Poirot will have to stay alive long enough to find out. . . . Well, it's no wonder. The plot-suspicion for an elderly woman's murder falls on her mysterious lodger-is from Agatha Christie.
In The Royal Art of Poison, Eleanor Herman combines her unique access to royal archives with cutting-edge forensic discoveries to tell the true story of Europe’s glittering palaces: one of medical bafflement, poisonous cosmetics, ever ...
In Murder Most Fowl, Meg Langslow’s in for a busy summer. Her husband is directing a production of Macbeth, and most of the cast and crew are occupying spare bedrooms in their house.
Mystery Writers of America is proud to present this volume in the Classics series, featuring fourteen stories by acclaimed writers, all exploring the terrible crime of murder.
Natalie Wood, born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko, on July 20th, 1938, San Francisco, California, US, was an actress.
“Steven’s storytelling and suspense-building are top-notch.” —School Library Journal “Readers…will find themselves stretching their powers of deduction.” —Booklist After a student turns up murdered on Bonfire Night, Hazel ...
The Picture of Dorian Gray meets Pride and Prejudice, with a dash of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.