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LOSE YOURSELF IN A CLASSIC BRITISH MURDER MYSTERY WITH A COMPLEX PLOT, DARK MOOD AND TOUGH FEMALE DETECTIVE. Two gruesome murders. Two families bound together by a dark secret. Everyone has something to hide but only one is the killer. When a badly decomposed body is pulled from The Thames hooked on the anchor of a couple's yacht, Dalton and Nash are called to the scene. Wrapped in tarpaulin and weighted down with bricks and concrete, forensics soon confirm that the death was a result of foul play. Worse still, whoever it is, was alive when they were plunged into the icy cold, dark water. With only a partial ticket in the victim's clothing and any DNA now degraded, the task of finding their ...
For a week in April 1916, 2,000 Irish Volunteers rose up in armed rebellion against the British Empire in a bid to establish an independent Irish state. Tracing the establishment of the various organizations involved, this account of the Easter Rising provides a day to day narrative by those who took part, along with personal accounts of the trial, the execution of the rebel leaders and the imprisonment of the surviving Volunteers. Atrocities and murders that took place on both sides are described in detail based on coroners' reports.
Riot and revelry have been mainstays of English and European history writing for more than a generation, but they have had a more checkered influence on American scholarship. Despite considerable attention from "new left" historians during the 1970s and early 1980s, and more recently from cultural and "public sphere" historians in the mid-1990s, the idea of America as a colony and nation deeply infused with a culture of public performance has not been widely demonstrated the way it has been in Britain, France, and Italy. In this important volume, leading American historians demonstrate that early America was in fact an integral part of a broader transatlantic tradition of popular disturbance...
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