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Raised in an orphanage, Joan Walker becomes a social outcast who discovers murder is a convenient solution and sweet revenge whenever anyone opposes her. When she learns Adam Sard, the man she loves is going to be married, Olga Johnson, a.k.a. Joan Walker, who has been sentenced to death by lethal injection for first degree murder, escapes from death row to prevent the marriage from taking place. Using aliases and disguises, she manages to elude the authorities. Jade Armstrong Otis is an investigative reporter for a Washington, D.C. newspaper. She is searching for the murderer of her grandmother whose death took place years ago in a Boston City hospital where Olga was employed. The trail leads her to the gambling Mecca of Las Vegas and Adam Sard.
A novel about an advertising executive framed for murder! When, Joe Fox, a former stockbroker, discovers his second wife the world famous model, Talisa, has been unfaithful to him, the thirty-five year old millionaire divorces her, sells his charter sailing business in Jamaica and buys a small lucrative advertising agency in South Florida. One of the employees at the agency is his former father-in-law, Nelson Baker, from Joe's first marriage, who despises his ex son-in-law for dumping his little girl. With the agency's accountant, Erin Palmer, who is also his mistress, the pair concocts an elaborate plot to frame their boss for the murder of his secretary, enabling them to gain control of the agency.
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Deeds, wills, divorce decrees, and other evidence of the public lives of nineteenth-century women belie the long-held beliefs of their public invisibility. Angela Boswell's Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873 follows the threads of Southern women's lives as they weave through the public records of one Texas county during the middle of the nineteenth century. Her unique approach to exploring women's roles in a South that spanned the frontier, antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras illuminates the truths of the feminine world of those periods, and her analysis of this set of complete public records for those years challenges the theory of men's and wom...
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