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Notes from the Gallows is his account of his imprisonment in Prague, before he was moved to German prisons and executed by hanging in 1943 in Berlin. Fluctuating between testimony and self-reflection, the work deals dramatically and emotively with anti-Nazi resistance, interrogations, and the personalities of fellow inmates and prison guards.
Gallows Thief (2001) is a historical mystery novel by Bernard Cornwell set in London, England in the year 1817, which uses capital punishment as its backdrop. The story concerns an amateur investigator hired to rubber-stamp the death sentence of a condemned murderer. Instead, he discovers a conspiracy to conceal the real killer.
Simon Abrams of The Village Voice gave the film a negative review, saying: "The Gallows is only good enough to make you wish its creators did something novel with its formulaic style, plot, and characterizations." [16] Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times said: "The Gallows starts with a decent if improbable premise, and it ends with a pretty ...
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Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan is a collection of writings, translated into English and edited by Mikiso Hane. It was published by the University of California Press / Pantheon Books in 1988.
I bought a needle and the BOOK, and with the BOOK an old and hairy faintly starving dromedary. N.A.M., to help this thesis, gave, on loan, a standard Croesus. When the Croesus, missal-guided went to Heaven's gate and tried it, Peter spoke - "The Gospel proves a camel through a needle moves Sooner than we may admit a Rich man." (Christ, J., opus ...
When Alexander Peden (1626–1686), the persecuted Covenanter, died, he was buried in the Boswell aisle of Auchinleck church; but his corpse was borne thence with every indignity by a company of dragoons to the foot of the gallows at Cumnock, where they intended to hang it in chains. This proving to be impracticable they buried it at the foot ...
“Martin Edwards has earned distinction in every area of the crime-fiction field", said Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in July 2016. [6] Four years later, the Crime Writers’ Association named him as the recipient of the Diamond Dagger in recognition of the sustained excellence of his work coupled with his significant contribution to crime writing published in the English language, and Ian ...