[PDF] An Absorbing Drama Of Real Life eBook

Author : Hamilton Pearce
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Kidnapping
ISBN :

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"'Dead boy are not desirable.' Those chilling words in a handwritten ransom note sent terror through a prominent family and triggered a nationwide manhunt to find their precious 8-year-old Billy and those who whisked him away from his schoolhouse in Sharon, Pennsylvania, on a spring morning in 1909. 'The Kidnaping of Billy Whitla' --written mere weeks after the story filled newspaper front pages across the country-- chronicles the frantic search, attempts to deliver the $10,000 ransom, Billy's safe return, and the prosecution of the kidnapers. It includes bonus chapters on two other turn-of-the-century kidnapings, including a first-hand account by Pat Crowe, the reformed outlaw and kidnaper. This new edition of the book features a 20-page epilogue full of facts and photographs chronicling the aftermath and what the fates held for the lives of Billy and his family-- and for the perpetrators." -- Publisher's description.

Author : Deborah Harkness
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0399564527

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches and The Black Bird Oracle comes a novel about what it takes to become a vampire—the fourth in the All Souls series. Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder! On the battlefields of the American Revolution, Matthew de Clermont meets Marcus MacNeil, a young surgeon from Massachusetts, during a moment of political awakening when it seems that the world is on the brink of a brighter future. When Matthew offers him a chance at immortality and a new life free from the restraints of his puritanical upbringing, Marcus seizes the opportunity to become a vampire. But his transformation is not an easy one and the ancient traditions and responsibilities of the de Clermont family clash with Marcus's deeply held beliefs in liberty, equality, and brotherhood. Fast-forward to contemporary Paris, where Phoebe Taylor--the young employee at Sotheby's whom Marcus has fallen for--is about to embark on her own journey to immortality. Though the modernized version of the process at first seems uncomplicated, the couple discovers that the challenges facing a human who wishes to be a vampire are no less formidable than they were in the eighteenth century. The shadows that Marcus believed he'd escaped centuries ago may return to haunt them both--forever. A passionate love story and a fascinating exploration of the power of tradition and the possibilities not just for change but for revolution, Time's Convert, the fourth books in the All Souls Series channels the supernatural world-building and slow-burning romance that made the previous books instant bestsellers to illuminate a new and vital moment in history, and a love affair that will bridge centuries.

Author : David E. Stannard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1440649219

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In the fall of 1931, Thalia Massie, the bored, aristocratic wife of a young naval officer stationed in Honolulu, accused six nonwhite islanders of gang rape. The ensuing trial let loose a storm of racial and sexual hysteria, but the case against the suspects was scant and the trial ended in a hung jury. Outraged, Thalia’s socialite mother arranged the kidnapping and murder of one of the suspects. In the spectacularly publicized trial that followed, Clarence Darrow came to Hawai’i to defend Thalia’s mother, a sorry epitaph to a noble career. It is one of the most sensational criminal cases in American history, Stannard has rendered more than a lurid tale. One hundred and fifty years of oppression came to a head in those sweltering courtrooms. In the face of overwhelming intimidation from a cabal of corrupt military leaders and businessmen, various people involved with the case—the judge, the defense team, the jurors, a newspaper editor, and the accused themselves—refused to be cowed. Their moral courage united the disparate elements of the non-white community and galvanized Hawai’i’s rapid transformation from an oppressive white-run oligarchy to the harmonic, multicultural American state it became. Honor Killing is a great true crime story worthy of Dominick Dunne—both a sensational read and an important work of social history