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They Hanged My Saintly Billy
The author of I, Claudius tells the tale of a notorious nineteenth-century poisoner: "A must for true-crime addicts" (Kirkus Reviews). A self-confessed forger, cheat, thief, and petty criminal, William Palmer was also a surgeon and a racehorse owner during the Victorian era who doped horse...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newburyport :
RosettaBooks,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Foreword; Contents; I The Old Bailey: May 14th, 1856; II The Wiles of Jane Widnall; III Mr Duffy's Sample Box; IV Colonel Brookes's Resolution; V Stafford Infirmary; VI At Bart's; VII The Courtship of Annie Brookes; VIII The Nursery; IX An Unfortunate Series of Deaths; X English Cholera; XI 'A Good Life'; XII A Gentleman of Property; XIII 'Two Narrow Shaves'; XIV Financial Straits; XV Death at The Talbot Arms; XVI Step-father to the Deceased; XVII The Inquest on John Parsons Cook; XVIII Stafford Gaol; XIX Unreliable Witnesses; XX Absent Witnesses
- XXI If Doctors DisagreeXXII The Verdict; XXIII A Change in Public Opinion; XXIV The Execution; Endnotes