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The Worst Historical Londoners of All Time (London Sinister, Book 1)
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Since the first major settlement by the Romans in AD 43, London has teemed with many different kinds of people. Scholars, merchants, soldiers, and scribes have all jostled with each other on the English capital’s overcrowded streets.
With a tightly packed population all competing for space and resources in a confined area, and one as wealthy as London, there were always going to be people who would prove unscrupulous in their pursuit of health, wealth, and happiness. Put simply, London has had its share of bastards.
Some you may have heard of: Henry VIII, Jack the Ripper, and Doctor Crippen, to name just a few. But there are many through the ages who will be unknown to you, but whose bastardy will leave you amazed and appalled.
Here are a few of them, of whom you may not have heard....
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- Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts. But for every celebrity psychopath who's gotten ink for spilling blood, there's a bevy of all-but-forgotten homicidal fiends studding the bloody margins of US history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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True crime enthusiast's dream
- De Athelsten en 08-24-17
De: Harold Schechter
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Murder, Misadventure and Miserable Ends
- Tales from a Colonial Coroner's Court
- De: Dr. Catie Gilchrist
- Narrado por: Emma Grant Williams
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
Most of us today rarely see a dead body. In 19th-century Sydney, when health was precarious and workplaces and the busy city streets were often dangerous, witnessing a death was rather common. And any death that was sudden or suspicious would be investigated by the coroner. Henry Shiell was the Sydney city coroner from 1866 to 1889. In the course of his unusually long career, he delved into the lives, loves, crimes, homes, and workplaces of colonial Sydneysiders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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very interesting and enlightening
- De Barbara J Allison en 08-29-19
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The Complete Jack the Ripper
- De: Donald Rumbelow
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 14 h y 25 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 143
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 122
Laying out all the evidence in the most comprehensive summary ever written about the Ripper, this book, by a London police officer and crime authority, has subjected every theory - including those that have emerged in recent years-to the same deep scrutiny. The author also examines the mythology surrounding the case and provides some fascinating insights into the portrayal of the Ripper on stage and screen and on the printed page. More seriously, he also examines the horrifying parallel crimes of the Düsseldorf Ripper and the Yorkshire Ripper.
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3 out of 5 stars
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catch the facts if you can
- De Alexandra en 11-17-19
De: Donald Rumbelow
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The Invention of Murder
- How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
- De: Judith Flanders
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 19 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 95
Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama - even into puppet shows and performing-dog acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other - the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P. D. James and Patricia Cornwell.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent, awesome and educational!
- De Janalyn en 03-14-20
De: Judith Flanders
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Lady Killers
- Deadly Women Throughout History
- De: Tori Telfer
- Narrado por: Jaime Lamchick
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are ones like Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy. But what about Tillie Klimek, Moulay Hassan, Kate Bender? The narrative we’re comfortable with is the one where women are the victims of violent crime, not the perpetrators. In fact, serial killers are thought to be so universally, overwhelmingly male that in 1998, FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood infamously declared in a homicide conference, “There are no female serial killers.”
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2 out of 5 stars
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An ode to arsenic
- De 🔥 Phx17 🔥 en 03-04-24
De: Tori Telfer
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Butcher's Work
- True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 120
A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. crime. A nineteenth-century female serial killer whose victims included three husbands and six of her own children. A Gilded Age “Bluebeard” who did away with as many as fifty wives throughout the country. A decorated World War I hero who orchestrated a murder that stunned Jazz Age America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another necessary work by Schector
- De Brandon en 12-27-22
De: Harold Schechter
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Old Sparky
- The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty
- De: Anthony Galvin
- Narrado por: Jack Reynolds
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Old Sparky covers the history of capital punishment in America and the "current wars" between Edison and Westinghouse, which led to the development of the electric chair. It examines how the electric chair became the most popular method of execution in America before being superseded by lethal injection. Famous executions are explored alongside quirky last meals and poignant last words.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Information not a sermon.
- De Jakk en 10-24-16
De: Anthony Galvin
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The Big Book of Serial Killers
- An Encyclopedia of Serial Killers - 150 Serial Killer Files of the World's Worst Murderers
- De: Jack Rosewood, Rebecca Lo
- Narrado por: Kevin Kollins
- Duración: 17 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 548
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 477
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 474
There is little more terrifying than those who hunt, stalk, and snatch their prey under the cloak of darkness. These hunters search not for animals, but for the touch, taste, and empowerment of human flesh. They are cannibals, vampires, and monsters, and they walk among us. These serial killers are not mythical beasts with horns and shaggy hair. They are people living among society, going about their day-to-day activities until nightfall. They are the Dennis Rader's, the fathers, husbands, church-going members of the community.
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2 out of 5 stars
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GREAT FOR TRUE CRIME DEVOTÉES, BUT....
- De The Louligan en 10-31-17
De: Jack Rosewood, y otros
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The World's 20 Worst Crimes
- True Stories of 20 Killers and Their 1000 Victims
- De: Kate Kray
- Narrado por: Geoff Barham
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
In this, the first book of its kind, Kate Kray, who married gangster Ronnie Kray, peers into the minds of the top 20 worst killers in criminal history and, sparing no detail, reveals the awful truth of their abominable acts. The extreme nature of their violence and their shocking lack of remorse makes for uncomfortable yet fascinating listening.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ugh!
- De Tim en 03-09-16
De: Kate Kray
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The Faithful Executioner
- Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
- De: Joel F. Harrington
- Narrado por: James Gillies
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 769
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 700
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 694
Based on the rare and until now overlooked journal of a Renaissance-era executioner, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington's The Faithful Executioner takes us deep inside the alien world and thinking of Meister Frantz Schmidt of Nuremberg, who, during 45 years as a professional executioner, personally put to death 394 individuals and tortured, flogged, or disfigured many hundreds more. But the picture that emerges of Schmidt from his personal papers is not that of a monster. Could a man who routinely practiced such cruelty also be insightful?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De James en 03-30-18
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Manhunters
- Criminal Profilers and Their Search for the World’s Most Wanted Serial Killers
- De: Colin Wilson
- Narrado por: Brandon Massey
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 159
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 147
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 145
In this fascinating, in-depth account of the hunt for serial killers, Colin Wilson, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, examines the ways they can be tracked down and caught, from the tried-and-true methods of the early 20th century to the high-tech processes in use today. Wilson examines such areas as psychological profiling, genetic fingerprinting, and the launch of the Behavioral Science Unit. He delves into the importance of fantasy to serial killers, the urge to keep on killing, the desire to become notorious, and murder as an addictive drug.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Reprinted Material, Questionable Commentary
- De B en 10-18-15
De: Colin Wilson
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
- The Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
- De: Kate Summerscale
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 970
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 829
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 826
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection. At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tragic Murder at dawn of detective bureau
- De Kindle Customer en 08-20-14
De: Kate Summerscale
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The Art of the English Murder
- From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
- De: Lucy Worsley
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 194
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 193
In The Art of the English Murder, Lucy Worsley explores this phenomenon in forensic detail, revisiting notorious crimes like the Ratcliff Highway Murders, which caused a nationwide panic in the early 19th century, and the case of Frederick and Maria Manning, the suburban couple who were hanged after killing Maria's lover and burying him under their kitchen floor. Our fascination with crimes like these became a form of national entertainment, inspiring novels and plays, prose and paintings, poetry and true-crime journalism.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Should Come With a Spoiler Alert
- De Jessica en 04-15-16
De: Lucy Worsley
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The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones, and Other Victorian Scandals
- De: Michelle Morgan
- Narrado por: Anne Dover
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 228
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 205
A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and outrages of Victorian England, covering high-profile offences - such as the murder of actor William Terriss, whose stabbing at the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre in 1897 filled the front pages for many weeks - as well as lesser-known transgressions that scandalised the Victorian era. The tales include murders and violent crimes but also feature scandals that merely amused the Victorians.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Doesn’t question it’s sources enough
- De Emily Stoneking en 11-27-18
De: Michelle Morgan
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When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank
- History's Unknown Chapters
- De: Giles Milton
- Narrado por: Giles Milton
- Duración: 5 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 112
In When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank, the second installment in his outrageously entertaining series, History's Unknown Chapters, Giles Milton shows his customary historical flair as he delves into the little-known stories from history, like when Stalin was actually assassinated with poison by one of his inner circle; the Russian scientist, dubbed the "Red Frankenstein", who attempted to produce a human-ape hybrid through ethically dubious means; and much more.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great Trivia Source
- De Jean en 11-14-16
De: Giles Milton
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Ripper
- The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
- De: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrado por: Mary Stuart Masterson
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 872
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 757
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 754
Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert made a name for himself as a painter in Victorian London. But the ghoulish nature of his art - as well as extensive evidence - points to another name, one that's left its bloody mark on the pages of history: Jack the Ripper. Cornwell has collected never-before-seen archival material - including a rare mortuary photo, personal correspondence and a will with a mysterious autopsy clause - and applied cutting-edge forensic science to open an old crime to new scrutiny.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I thought this was a new book.
- De Stephanie en 03-01-17
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Last Woman Hanged
- The Terrible True Story of Louisa Collins
- De: Caroline Overington
- Narrado por: Jennifer Vuletic
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of 10 children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands had died suddenly and the Crown, convinced that Louisa poisoned them with arsenic, put her on trial an extraordinary four times in order to get a conviction, to the horror of many in the legal community. Louisa protested her innocence until the end.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening, entertaining and exceptionally done
- De Karol Heim en 02-09-24
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American Witches
- A Broomstick Tour through Four Centuries
- De: Susan Fair
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 625
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 564
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 562
On a tour through history that's both whimsical and startling, we'll encounter 17th-century children flying around inside their New England home "like geese". We'll meet a father-son team of pious Puritans who embarked on a mission that involved undressing ladies and overseeing hangings. And on the eve of the Civil War, we'll accompany a reporter as he dons a dress and goes searching for witches in New York City's most dangerous neighborhoods.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Christan witch book
- De Nicole en 09-01-20
De: Susan Fair