Murder

Brown, Rita Mae: Sour Puss. Bantam , New York, 2007. ISBN: 9780553586817

276 pp, Condition;Very Good ,Paperback ,In this latest whodunit, Rita Mae Brown and her feline partner-in-crime-detection, Sneaky Pie Brown, return to the scene of their bestselling crimes-picturesque Crozet, Virginia. Love is in the air as spring comes to the small town, but no sooner has Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen remarried than she is rudely interrupted-by murder. And no sooner does the trouble start than curious cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, along with corgi Tee Tucker, sink their claws into the case....\n\nAfter an unexpected rekindling of their romance, Harry and her veterinarian ex-husband, Fair Haristeen,\nhave happily remarried. But the excitement of their nuptials is quickly overshadowed by the murder of Professor Vincent Forland, a world-famous grape and fungal expert who was in town visiting the local vineyards.\n\nWithin days of giving a lecture on how distilled fungus and cattle diseases are the current basis of chemical warfare, Forland's decapitated body is discovered. After their initial fright, the residents of Crozet believe that this was a political murder and settle back into their routines-until a local is also found dead, killed in the same gruesome manner as Professor Forland. Now residents can't help wondering, is this really the work of an outsider-or one of their own? \n\nNo longer working in the post office, Harry had just planted a quarter acre of grapes, which fuels her natural curiosity over just what the two murder victims knew and had in common. Once the warmth of spring arrives, the grapevines blossom and Harry's furry entourage discovers the first critical clue. But how can they show the humans what they've learned? And how can they-or anyone-stop the killing? antiquarisch gut erhaltenes Exemplar,, ,,In this latest whodunit, Rita Mae Brown and her feline partner-in-crime-detection, Sneaky Pie Brown, return to the scene of their bestselling crimes-picturesque Crozet, Virginia. Love is in the air as spring comes to the small town, but no sooner has Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen remarried than she is rudely interrupted-by murder. And no sooner does the trouble start than curious cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, along with corgi Tee Tucker, sink their claws into the case....\n\nAfter an unexpected rekindling of their romance, Harry and her veterinarian ex-husband, Fair Haristeen,\nhave happily remarried. But the excitement of their nuptials is quickly overshadowed by the murder of Professor Vincent Forland, a world-famous grape and fungal expert who was in town visiting the local vineyards.\n\nWithin days of giving a lecture on how distilled fungus and cattle diseases are the current basis of chemical warfare, Forland's decapitated body is discovered. After their initial fright, the residents of Crozet believe that this was a political murder and settle back into their routines-until a local is also found dead, killed in the same gruesome manner as Professor Forland. Now residents can't help wondering, is this really the work of an outsider-or one of their own? \n\nNo longer working in the post office, Harry had just planted a quarter acre of grapes, which fuels her natural curiosity over just what the two murder victims knew and had in common. Once the warmth of spring arrives, the grapevines blossom and Harry's furry entourage discovers the first critical clue. But how can they show the humans what they've learned? And how can they-or anyone-stop the killing? K4115 ISBN 9780553586817 - , ISBN: 0553586815

[SW: Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series]

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Murder; Walters, Ann Smith; Dudley & Runkle: Life and Confession of Ann Walters, The Female Murderess!... 1850

[Murder]. [Walters, Ann Smith (1812-1844)]. [Dudley, Enos G. (d.1849)]. [Runkle, Mary]. Life and Confession of Ann Walters, The Female Murderess!! Also the Execution of Enos G. Dudley, At Haverhill, N.H., May 23d, 1849. To Which is Added the Confession of Mary Runkle, Who Was Executed for Murder. [Boston]: Printed for the Proprietor, 1850. 32 pp. Two full-page woodcuts. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers, large woodcut image of Walters to front, untrimmed edges. Light soiling, some edgewear. Toning to text, occasional minor stains and light foxing. * Although OCLC records an "Ann Walters (1812-1844)," McDade believes her story is a work of fiction that incorporates details of a dozen different murders. He also doubts the veracity of the Runkle case. Walters ran a tavern on the Delaware-Maryland border, where she liked to murder traveling slave traders and steal their slaves, money and other valuables. (Her murder of a slave-trader is depicted in one of the woodcuts.) Her depravity is blamed in part on the morally corrosive effects of slavery: "Although born in a free country where slavery is abhorred [Canada], she soon imbibed a taste for the traffic in slaves, as our readers may easily perceive that her location was in a slave state where morality is not very exalted, as such a course could not have been carried on in a free state so long, without meeting the eye of detection." Walters began her career by killing her child and husband, she then became the leader of a criminal gang. OCLC locates 4 copies in law libraries. (Harvard, Social Law, University of Missouri, Yale). McDade, The Annals of Murder 1036.

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Leyton, Elliott: Men of Blood. Murder in everyday Life, Toronto, Ontario, Canada McClelland & Stewart, Inc. 1996 ISBN: 0-7710-5310-X
"Many Canadians are convinced that crime, and especially violent crime, is increasing daily. In fact, according to Elliott Leyton, the perception is wrong and the media's reporting is misleading. Murder statistics in most western countries are stable. The kinds of killings the media focuses on are rare. And, without doubt, public hysteria about violent crime is uncalled-for. It is true however that the murder rate is much higher in some countries than others. In England, it is especially low: the annual rate of murder per 100,000 people is about 1.1, This compares to a rate of about 2.5 in Canada and more than 10 per in the United States. These disparities in the incidence of murder appear to be unconnected to the social factors with which rates of crime are most often associated. Consequently, Leyton argues that violent behavior - and the social inhibitions against it - spring from other sources. In Men of Blood, Leyton examines real murders of the sort that police most often have to deal with; murders resulting from fights between husbands and wives, parents and their children, within extended families and among acquaintances. Most murders, Leyton finds, are committed by 'dull, limited men, lacking in the most elementary skills, and often the victims of mental illness or incapacity.' Men of Blood is compellingly readable and an original contribution to our understanding of the phenomenon of murder." Contents: Preface to the Canadian Edition, Preface, Beast Boys, A Civilization Gone Mad?, Fears and Alarums, Culture Heroes, The Evolution of a Sensibility, Lovers, Spouses and Kin, Parents and Children, Theft or Gain, Strangers, 'The Civilizing Process', Appendix

23,6x16 cm; Hardcover; Original-Schutzumschlag mit minimalen Randläsuren; Nachsatz mit 4zeiliger handschriftlicher Eintragung, sonst innen neuwertig; 237 S.; very good

[SW: Anthology, Psychology, Sociology, Education, Law, Trials, True Crime; Kriminalität; englischsprachig; englisch; Mord; Mörder]

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Lowell, James M. [Murder Trial]: Report of the Trial of James M. Lowell, Indicted for the Murder of... 1874

[Trial].[Lowell, James M]. Plaisted, H.M. Report of the Trial of James M. Lowell, Indicted for the Murder of His Wife, Mary Elizabeth Lowell, Before the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, for Androscoggin County; Containing the Evidence, Arguments of the Counsel and the Charge of the Court, in Full, with the Verdict of the Jury and Sentence of the Prisoner, and an Appendix. Portland, Me.: Published by Dresser, McLellan & Co., 1875. [3], ii, 260pp. Contemporary three quarter calf, worn, marble boards, red leather label. Edges chipped, lacking part of head and tail of spine. Owner's stamp on first endpaper. Frontis. map. Front hinge starting. Interior very good. * First edition. Although the headless skeleton, encased in a silk dress, was not discovered for more than three years after her murder, Lowell was tried and convicted of murdering his wife. The tale is also interesting because the victim's mother foresaw the murder in a dream, which is described in the Appendix. "A case of circumstantial evidence... hardly surpassed in the annals of criminal justice" (Preface). Indexed. H.M. Plaisted was the Attorney General. McDade, The Annals of Murder 633.

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