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Author: Noel Botham
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780786007004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Argues that the death of Princess Diana was not accidental, examining events and circumstances surrounding the car accident and the subsequent investigation.
Author: Sekihiko Inui
Publisher:
Published: 2007-03-23
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781597410601
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When a mad scientist and his twin android girls kill the king of Forland in an attempted coup, Princess Alita accidentally swaps spirits with a female bounty hunter, and the two girls must struggle to keep the kingdom together.
Author: Caroline P. Murphy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-04-18
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 0198042906
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Murder of a Medici Princess, Caroline Murphy illuminates the brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici, one of the brightest stars in the dazzling world of Renaissance Italy, the daughter of Duke Cosimo I, ruler of Florence and Tuscany. Murphy is a superb storyteller, and her fast-paced narrative captures the intrigue, the scandal, the romantic affairs, and the violence that were commonplace in the Florentine court. She brings to life an extraordinary woman, fluent in five languages, a free-spirited patron of the arts, a daredevil, a practical joker, and a passionate lover. Isabella, in fact, conducted numerous affairs, including a ten-year relationship with the cousin of her violent and possessive husband. Her permissive lifestyle, however, came to an end upon the death of her father, who was succeeded by her disapproving older brother Francesco. Considering Isabella's ways to be licentious and a disgrace upon the family, he permitted her increasingly enraged husband to murder her in a remote Medici villa. To tell this dramatic story, Murphy draws on a vast trove of newly discovered and unpublished documents, ranging from Isabella's own letters, to the loose-tongued dispatches of ambassadors to Florence, to contemporary descriptions of the opulent parties and balls, salons and hunts in which Isabella and her associates participated. Murphy resurrects the exciting atmosphere of Renaissance Florence, weaving Isabella's beloved city into her story, evoking the intellectual and artistic community that thrived during her time. Palaces and gardens in the city become places of creativity and intrigue, sites of seduction, and grounds for betrayal. Here then is a narrative of compelling and epic proportions, magnificent and alluring, decadent and ultimately tragic.
Author: Andrew Rose
Publisher: Coronet
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781444776478
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The royal family's darkest secret and the establishment cover-up. Never told before, this is the story of Edward, the Prince of Wales, the true love of his life, and the murder of an Arab playboy. It takes place in maisons de rendevous, luxurious chateaux in the French countryside providing hospitality for the British upper classes, the richest food, the finest wines and the most beautiful women - in Paris in the Ritz and the demi-monde - where many of the women came from - and an exclusive location in London where the murder was committed. This major royal scandal, superbly covered up by the Royal Household and the judiciary has remained secret ever since. The Prince, the Princess and the Perfect Murder is the product of several years' research, accessing unpublished documents held in the Royal Archives and private collections in England and France."--Publisher's description.
Author: Carlton Smith
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1997-09-15
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780312964337
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Fairy Tale Beginning Six-year-old beauty JonBenet Ramsey was a dream child--smart, talented and blessed. Her mother, a former Miss America contestant, had entered her in every child beauty pageant possible. Wearing lipstick, heavy makeup, and provocative costumes that cost thousands of dollars, with her hair bleached and teased, JonBenet flirtatiously paraded down runways, exuding a sophistication beyond her years. A Nightmare Ending But that dazzling future of crows and titles was brutally cut short the day after Christmas when her mother discovered a random note on the stairs of their luxurious Boulder, Colorado home. Hours later JonBenet's distraught father, millionaire businessman John Ramsey, found his beloved daughter's lifeless body, gagged and strangled in a windowless room in the basement of their million-dollar mansion. An Unspeakable Crime As detectives worked to uncover what happened Christmas night in the darkened mansion, the nation grieved for the innocent little girl whose life was cruelly snuffed out.
Author: Shirley Frondorf
Publisher: Villard
Published: 2013-07-10
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0307831167
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1982, a sensational murder trial in Phoenix, Arizona, reverberated throughout the legal community. Restaurateur Steven Steinberg, who killed his wife by stabbing her 26 times, was acquitted; his legal defense portrayed the victim as an overpowering "Jewish American Princess" whose excesses may have provoked her violent end. Examining the structure of the defense's case, Frondorf, an attorney who was previously a psychiatric social worker, follows the theme that made Elana Steinberg the villain, instead of the victim, of the piece. The defense's forensic presentation, bolstered by testimony from psychiatrists, maintained that Steinberg committed the crime while sleepwalking, an abnormality allegedly brought on by the intemperate spending of his wife. Frondorf recreates the trial whose outcome scarred the tightly knit Jewish community of Phoenix.
Author: Thomas Sancton
Publisher: Saint Martin's Paperbacks
Published: 1998-07-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780312969332
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Uses interviews to describe events leading up to the car crash that killed Princess Diana, her emergency medical treatment, and progress by the French police
Author: Steve Bouser
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2010-12-10
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1614230234
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“A socialite bride, a $1 million inheritance, an older husband of questionable social rank, Yankees misbehaving on Southern soil . . . [A] web of intrigue” (Our State). A news media frenzy hurled the quiet resort community of Pinehurst, North Carolina, into the national spotlight in 1935 when hotel magnate Ellsworth Statler’s adopted daughter was discovered dead early one February morning weeks after her wedding day. A politically charged coroner’s inquest failed to determine a definitive cause of death, and the following civil action continued to expose sordid details of the couple’s lives. More than half a century later, the story was all but forgotten when local resident Diane McLellan spied an old photograph at a yard sale and became obsessed with solving the mystery. Her enthusiastic sleuthing captured the attention of Southern Pines resident and journalist Steve Bouser, who takes readers back to those blustery winter days so long ago in the search to reveal what really happened to Elva Statler Davidson. Includes photos “As compelling as any crime mystery an American writer has ever written: suspenseful, titillating, true and set in Moore County.” —The Pilot “Bouser is both compassionate and balanced in his reports of the Davidson affair.” —Authors ’Round the South “Bouser uses a story ‘ripped from the headlines’ as they say to reveal what’s known and unknown about a young Pinehurst socialite’s bizarre death . . . [He] takes the reader through the wild inquest, a later trial over Elva’s will, and buckets of speculation.” —Salisbury Post
Author: Sekihiko Inui
Publisher:
Published: 2007-11
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781597410618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When a mad scientist and his twin android girls kill the king of Forland in an attempted coup, Princess Alita accidentally swaps spirits with a female bounty hunter, and the two girls must struggle to keep the kingdom together.
