Marrying The Hangman

Author : Sheila Weller
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0804152675
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marrying the Hangman written by Sheila Weller and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The account of the murder of Diane Whitmore Pikul describes how her wealthy and violent Wall Street husband murdered her and then won custody of her children while under indictment for her murder. “A young mother, so full of promise, is killed by the ‘perfect’ husband. Sheila Weller takes a domestic tragedy and reveals every nuance so that we see the compelling anatomy of a murder in slow motion, from the dynamics of a marriage to the crime itself, to its chilling aftermath. Powerful reporting of an unforgettable story.”—Vincent Bugliosi

Author : Sheila Weller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marrying the Hangman written by Sheila Weller and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kate Cayley
Publisher : Annick Press
ISBN 13 : 1554514649
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hangman in the Mirror written by Kate Cayley and published by Annick Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Françoise Laurent has never had an easy life. The only surviving child of a destitute washerwoman and wayward soldier, she must rely only on herself to get by. When her parents die suddenly from the smallpox ravishing New France (modern-day Montreal), Françoise sees it as a chance to escape the life she thought she was trapped in. Seizing her newfound opportunity, Françoise takes a job as an aide to the wife of a wealthy fur trader. The poverty-ridden world she knew transforms into a strange new world full of privilege and fine things — and of never having to beg for food. But Françoise’s relationships with the other servants in Madame Pommereau’s house are tenuous, and Madame Pommereau isn’t an easy woman to work for. When Françoise is caught stealing a pair of her mistress’s beautiful gloves, she faces a future even worse than she could have imagined: thrown in jail, she is sentenced to death by hanging. Once again, Françoise is left to her own devices to survive ... Is she cunning enough to convince the prisoner in the cell beside her to become the hangman and marry her, which, by law, is the only thing that could save her life? Based on an actual story and filled with illuminating historical detail, THE HANGMAN IN THE MIRROR transports readers to the harsh landscape of a new land that is filled with even harsher class divisions and injustices.

Author : Sharon Rose Wilson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034244
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margaret Atwood's fairy-tale sexual politics written by Sharon Rose Wilson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395454060
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems II written by Margaret Atwood and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1987 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Atwood has also written eleven volumes of poetry. Houghton Mifflin is proud to have published SELECTED POEMS, 1965-1975, a volume of selections from Atwood's poetry of that decade.

Author : Nancy Dougherty
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0593534131
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hangman and His Wife written by Nancy Dougherty and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing journey into the heart of Nazi evil: a portrait of one of the darkest figures of Hitler’s Nazi elite—Reinhard Heydrich, the designer and executor of the Holocaust, chief of the Reich Main Security, including the Gestapo—interwoven with commentary by his wife, Lina, from the author's in-depth interviews. He was called the Hangman of the Gestapo, the "butcher of Prague," with a reputation as a ruthlessly efficient killer. He was the head of the SS, and the Gestapo, second in command to Heinrich Himmler. His orders set in motion the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938 and, as the lead planner of Hitler's Final Solution, he chaired the Wannsee Conference, at which details of the murder of millions of Jews across Nazi-occupied Europe were toasted with cognac. In The Hangman and His Wife, Nancy Dougherty, and, following her death, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, masterfully explore who Heydrich was and how he came to be, and how he came to do what he did. We see Heydrich from his rarefied musical family origins and his ugly-duckling childhood and adolescence, to his sudden flameout as a promising Naval officer (he was forced to resign his Naval commission after dishonoring the office corps by having sex with the unmarried daughter of a shipyard director and refusing to marry her). Dougherty writes of his seemingly hopeless job prospects as an untrained civilian during Germany’s hyperinflation and unemployment, and his joining the Nazi party through the attraction to Nazism of his fiancée, Lina von Osten, and her father, along with the rumor shadowing him of a strain of Jewishness inherited from his father’s side. And we follow Heydrich’s meteoric rise through the Nazi high command—from SS major, to colonel to brigadier general, before he was thirty, deputy to Heinrich Himmler, expanding the SS, the Gestapo, and developing the Reich's plans for "the Jewish solution." And throughout, we hear the voice of Lina Heydrich, who was by his side until his death at the age of thirty-eight, living inside the Nazi inner circles as she waltzed with Rudolf Hess, feuded with Hermann Göring, and drank vintage wine with Albert Speer.

Author : Oliver Pötzsch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 054774501X
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hangman's Daughter written by Oliver Pötzsch and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is being practiced in the small town of Schongau in 1659 after a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder.

Author : Faye Kellerman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061702560
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hangman written by Faye Kellerman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “No one working in the crime genre is better.” —Baltimore Sun L.A.P.D. Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus are back on a case in Hangman—an electrifying new novel of suspense from Faye Kellerman, New York Times bestselling author of Blindman’s Bluff, The Mercedes Coffin, The Burnt House, and many other masterful thrillers. A stunning tale of crime and detection featuring the brutal death of a “party girl” health care worker, a mysterious disappearance, and the chilling return of an all-too-familiar sociopath, Hangman is Kellerman’s 21st bestseller to feature Decker and Lazarus, “Hands down, the most refreshing mystery couple around.” (People)

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547237707
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Door written by Margaret Atwood and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atwoods first book of poetry since "Morning in the Burned House" in 1995, "The Door" contains 50 lucid yet urgent poems which range in tone from lyric to ironic and meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the political.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two-Headed Poems written by Margaret Atwood and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: