Murder at Shandy Hall

Murder at Shandy Hall
Author: Michael Sheridan
Publisher: Poolbeg Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 9781842234396

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Against a tranquil rural backdrop - the sleepy County Cork village of Dripsey near Coachford - a sensational Victorian murder is played out with a potent mix of love, lust, betrayal, and ultimately naked hatred.

Game, Set, Murder

Game, Set, Murder
Author: Michael Sheridan
Publisher: Poolbeg Press Ltd
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2016-05-10
Genre: True Crime
ISBN:

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At the beginning of August 1907, an early-morning train from Monte Carlo pulled into the Gare Saint-Charles in Marseilles. A trunk with a forwarding address was taken to the baggage section to await transportation. Some hours later a station employee, Louis Pons, noticed blood dripping from the trunk. The police were called and, on opening it, discovered a naked female corpse. The head and legs were missing. Thus began the investigation into a sensational case which drew the attention of newspapers the world over. An army of reporters congregated in Marseilles and Monte Carlo to chronicle every twist and turn of the murder inquiry and subsequent trial. From the notorious casino, the trail led to Marseilles, London, Liverpool, Canada – and ultimately to County Cork and Waterford. The couple arrested for the crime were Vere St Leger Goold, an Irish aristocrat, and his French wife Marie Giroudin. He was a former Irish Open tennis champion and Wimbledon finalist whose great promise in life had disintegrated into a mire of drink, drugs and gambling. His wife was a con artist, always one step ahead of the financial posse. This fascinating tale involves the components of forensic science, psychological profiling, judicial investigation and global reporting of historical character with a very contemporary echo.

Murder at Ireland's Eye

Murder at Ireland's Eye
Author: Miachael Sherridan
Publisher: Poolbeg Press Ltd
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2016-05-17
Genre: True Crime
ISBN:

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On a fine calm morning in September 1852, a strikingly handsome man and his beautiful wife stepped onto a hired boat in Howth Harbour, Dublin, to set out on a day trip. The destination was Ireland’s Eye, a small uninhabited island less than a mile to the north of the harbour. He was an artist, she a keen and adventurous swimmer. By sunset, when the boat returned to fetch them, she would be dead. Despite certain gruesome features, the inquest ruled that it was a drowning, and Maria Kirwan was laid to rest. Then a startling secret emerged about the private life of her husband, the artist William Burke Kirwan. After an exhumation, he was arrested for her murder. The case caused a sensation, the public fascinated by its extraordinary elements. Added to this and almost eclipsing the murder was the scandal: a sexual triangle that aroused the full force of Victorian moral outrage. The trial was destined to become steeped in controversy and a veil of mystery has hung over the death of Maria Kirwan for the last 160 years. But now, at last, a forgotten medical paper has thrown light on what really happened on that fateful day.

Some Famous Medical Trials

Some Famous Medical Trials
Author: Leonard Arthur Parry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1928
Genre: Medical laws and legislation
ISBN:

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Mainly Murder

Mainly Murder
Author: William Roughead
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1937
Genre: Crime
ISBN:

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Ireland and the New Journalism

Ireland and the New Journalism
Author: K. Steele
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2014-07-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1137428716

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This volume explores the ways in which the complicated revolution in British newspapers, the New Journalism, influenced Irish politics, culture, and newspaper practices. The essays here further illuminate the central role of the press in the evolution of Irish nationalism and modernism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Cain's Jawbone

Cain's Jawbone
Author: Edward Powys Mathers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781460765395

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Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations... but only one is correct. Can you solve Torquemada's murder mystery? 'If James Joyce and Agatha Christie had a literary love child, this would be it.' The Daily Telegraph In 1934, the Observer's cryptic crossword compiler, Edward Powys Mathers (aka Torquemada), released a novel that was simultaneously a murder mystery and the most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle ever written. The pages have been printed in an entirely haphazard order, but it is possible - through logic and intelligent reading - to sort the pages into the only correct order, revealing six murder victims and their respective murderers. Only three puzzlers have ever solved the mystery of Cain's Jawbone: do you have what it takes to join their ranks? Please note: this puzzle is extremely difficult and not for the faint-hearted. 'A unique hybrid of word puzzle and whodunnit.' Literary Review

Look Upon the Prisoner

Look Upon the Prisoner
Author: Arthur Hallam Montefiore Brice
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1928
Genre: Crime
ISBN:

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The Murderer's Companion

The Murderer's Companion
Author: William Roughead
Publisher:
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1968
Genre: Crime
ISBN:

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Encyclopedia of Murder

Encyclopedia of Murder
Author: Colin Wilson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 600
Release: 1962
Genre: Crime
ISBN:

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