This “amusing and elegantly written” romp takes readers on a wild ride through the life of Robert Parkin Peters (The New York Times Book Review)—a liar, bigamist, and fraudulent priest who tricked some of the brightest minds of his generation. One day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor–Roper received a curious letter. It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a student at Magdalen College, with the unlikely claim that he was being persecuted by the Bishop of Oxford. Cu...
Australia, Australia (American Geographical Society Around the World Program)
by Tom McKnight
Manual de Seguridad para Grandes Superficies
by Rafael Darío Sosa González
Voyage to Disaster (Australian Classics)
by Henrietta Drake-Brockman
Die erstaunliche Geschichte des Journalisten Richard Gutjahr rund um die Anschlage von Nizza und Munchen
by Erich Seibolt
Treason, witchcraft, robbery and murder, just a few of the crimes that could incur the penalty of death in the early days of Britain's justice system. Domestic violence was rife and alcohol was often the fuel that culminated in the murders of a wife or sweetheart. DNA, blood grouping & fingerpinting are now used to place a person at the scene of a crime. Before the use of forensics, evidence was often circumstantial and there is no doubt that in some cases an innocent person would have been han...
My Dirty Little Crime Files (My Dirty Little Crime Files, #1)
by D Leo Lund
