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Jill Leovy is an American journalist and nonfiction writer. [1] She is best known for the non-fiction book Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, her 2015 New York Times best-seller about homicide in Los Angeles. [2]
An illustration of the murder scene from a pamphlet. With hatchet in hand, Richard P. Robinson is on the left. Helen Jewett (born Dorcas Doyen; [1] October 18, 1813 – April 10, 1836) was an American prostitute in New York City who was brutally murdered. One of her regular clients, Richard P. Robinson, was tried and sensationally acquitted of ...
Moonflower Murders earned a "Rave" rating from the book review aggregator Book Marks based on six independent reviews. [6] The six reviews include the four highlighted above, plus a review in The Wall Street Journal by Tom Nolan and a review by Beth Kanell in the New York Journal of Books. Extracts from the six reviews are posted, with links to ...
Three Act Tragedy is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1934 under the title Murder in Three Acts [1] [2] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in January 1935 under Christie's original title. [3]
Amerika, (German working title Der Verschollene, "The Missing") also known as Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared), [1] Amerika: The Missing Person [2] and Lost in America, [3] is the incomplete first novel by author Franz Kafka (1883–1924), written between 1911 and 1914 [4] and published posthumously in 1927.
A Murder on the Appian Way is a historical novel by American author Steven Saylor, first published by St. Martin's Press in 1996. It is the fifth book in his Roma Sub Rosa series of mystery novels set in the final decades of the Roman Republic. The main character is the Roman sleuth Gordianus the Finder.
A Rock River Arms AR-15 rifle, with ammunition: The weapon is similar in style to the Bushmaster XM-15 rifle that was used during the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn. When ...
The book features the author's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, but the Murder at the Gallop film adaptation instead featured her amateur sleuth, Miss Marple. A wealthy man dies at home. His relatives gather after his funeral for the reading of his will, during which his sister states that he was murdered. The next day, she herself is found ...