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The wayward son of a revered Civil War general, Roland Molineux enjoyed good looks, status, and fortune - hardly the qualities of a prime suspect in a series of shocking, merciless cyanide killings. Molineux's subsequent indictment for murder led to two explosive trials and a sex-infused scandal that shocked the nation. Bringing to life Manhattan's Gilded Age, Schechter captures all the colors of the tumultuous legal proceedings.
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A Book Without an Accompanying Wiki Page Is Always A Treat
- De Carolina en 02-27-17
De: Harold Schechter
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
- The Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
- De: Kate Summerscale
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection. At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher.
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Tragic Murder at dawn of detective bureau
- De Kindle Customer en 08-20-14
De: Kate Summerscale
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The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones, and Other Victorian Scandals
- De: Michelle Morgan
- Narrado por: Anne Dover
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and outrages of Victorian England, covering high-profile offences - such as the murder of actor William Terriss, whose stabbing at the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre in 1897 filled the front pages for many weeks - as well as lesser-known transgressions that scandalised the Victorian era. The tales include murders and violent crimes but also feature scandals that merely amused the Victorians.
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Doesn’t question it’s sources enough
- De Emily Stoneking en 11-27-18
De: Michelle Morgan
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Mengele
- The Complete Story
- De: Gerald Posner, John Ware, Michael Berenbaum - introduction
- Narrado por: Bruce Mann
- Duración: 15 h y 15 m
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Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele (1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". From May 1943 through January 1945, Mengele selected who would be gassed immediately, who would be worked to death, and who would serve as involuntary guinea pigs for his spurious and ghastly human experiments (twins were Mengele's particular obsession).
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ONE OF THE WORST BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ
- De PAUL en 08-02-20
De: Gerald Posner, y otros
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The Woman They Could Not Silence
- One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
- De: Kate Moore
- Narrado por: Kate Moore
- Duración: 14 h y 36 m
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1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Her husband of 21 years is plotting against her because he feels increasingly threatened - by Elizabeth’s intellect, independence, and unwillingness to stifle her own thoughts. So Theophilus makes a plan to put his wife back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum.
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Everyone should read this!
- De Lana S en 12-22-21
De: Kate Moore
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The Sinner and the Saint
- Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
- De: Kevin Birmingham
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 15 h y 45 m
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The Sinner and the Saint is the deeply researched and immersive tale of how Dostoevsky came to write this great murder story - and why it changed the world. As a young man, Dostoevsky was a celebrated writer, but his involvement with the radical politics of his day condemned him to a long Siberian exile. There, he spent years studying the criminals that were his companions. Upon his return to St. Petersburg in the 1860s, he fought his way through gambling addiction, debilitating debt, epilepsy, the deaths of those closest to him, and literary banishment.
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Best book about F.D.'s amazing journey
- De Amazon Customer en 01-23-22
De: Kevin Birmingham
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The Groote Park Murder
- Detective Club Crime Classics
- De: Freeman Wills Crofts
- Narrado por: Crawford Logan
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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When a signalman discovers a mutilated body inside a railway tunnel near Groote Park, it seems to be a straightforward case of a man struck by a passing train. But Inspector Vandam of the Middeldorp police isn’t satisfied that Albert Smith’s death was accidental, and he sets out to prove foul play in a baffling mystery which crosses continents from deepest South Africa to the wilds of northern Scotland, where an almost identical crime appears to have been perpetrated.
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The Soundest Builder of Them All
- De John en 07-22-19
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The Golden Age of Murder
- De: Martin Edwards
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 16 h y 31 m
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A real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction, writing books casting new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors' darkest secrets. This is the first book about the Detection Club, the world's most famous and most mysterious social network of crime writers. Drawing on years of in-depth research, it reveals the astonishing story of how members such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers reinvented detective fiction.
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Doesn't work as an audiobook
- De Pat en 08-02-15
De: Martin Edwards
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The Underground Railroad Records
- Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom
- De: William Still, Ta-Nehisi Coates - introduction, Quincy T. Mills - editor
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free, JD Jackson, Sullivan Jones, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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As a conductor for the Underground Railroad - the covert resistance network created to aid and protect slaves seeking freedom - William Still helped as many as 800 people escape enslavement. He also meticulously collected the letters, biographical sketches, arrival memos, and ransom notes of the escapees. The Underground Railroad Records is an archive of primary documents that trace the narrative arc of the greatest, most successful campaign of civil disobedience in American history.
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This Book is Abridged by Two Thirds!
- De Chris en 06-24-20
De: William Still, y otros
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Rumpole of the Bailey
- The Rumpole of the Bailey Series, Book 1
- De: John Mortimer
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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Horace Rumpole, the irreverent, iconoclastic, claret-swilling, poetry-spouting barrister at law, is among the most beloved characters of English crime literature. He is not a particularly gifted attorney, nor is he particularly fond of the law by courts if it comes to that, but he’d rather be swinging at a case than bowing to his wife Hilda, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed.
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Rambling and irreverent, Rumpole captures you
- De VW en 08-30-18
De: John Mortimer
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Duel with the Devil
- The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery
- De: Paul Collins
- Narrado por: Mark Peckham
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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In the closing days of 1799, the United States was still a young republic, its uncertain future contested by the two major political parties of the day: the well-moneyed Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the populist Republicans, led by Aaron Burr. The two finest lawyers in New York, Burr and Hamilton were bitter rivals both in and out of the courtroom, and as the next election approached - with Manhattan likely to be the swing district on which the presidency would hinge - their animosity reached a fever pitch.
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The Trial of the Century
- De Jean en 09-06-15
De: Paul Collins
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The Dreyfus Affair
- The Scandal That Tore France in Two
- De: Piers Paul Read
- Narrado por: David Pevsner
- Duración: 16 h y 40 m
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On October 13, 1894, Captain Dreyfus was summoned by the General de Boisdeffre to the Ministry of War. Despite minimal evidence against him he was placed under arrest for the crime of high treason. Not long afterward Dreyfus was incarcerated on Devil's Island. But how did an innocent man come to be convicted? And why was he kept locked up for so long? The Dreyfus Affair uniquely combines a fast-moving mystery story with a snapshot of France at a moment of great social flux and cultural richness.
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Gripping look at an important moment in history
- De W. Brian Hall en 10-27-13
De: Piers Paul Read