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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The only murder trial in American history decided by a ghost's testimony. In the winter of 1897, in the rugged hills of Greenbrier County, West Virginia, a young woman named Elva Zona Shue was found dead at the bottom of a narrow staircase. The local physician, rushed and distracted, signed the death certificate without a thorough examination. The grieving husband wept theatrically and insisted on dressing his wife's body himself-placing a stiff collar around her neck and concealing what he did not want anyone to see. The case should have ended there. A tragic accident. A grieving widow. A community that moved on. But Mary Jane Heaster refused to move on. She had watched her daughter's marriage deteriorate into isolation and abuse. She had seen the bruises her daughter tried to hide. And when Zona's spirit appeared to her night after night-first as a silent apparition, then as a ghost who spoke with devastating clarity-Mary Jane knew the truth. Zona had been murdered. And the man who killed her was still walking free. Armed with nothing but her conviction and a supernatural visitation, Mary Jane embarked on a relentless campaign for justice. She faced skeptical prosecutors, dismissive neighbors, and a defense attorney determined to paint her as a hysterical woman whose grief had destroyed her reason. But she refused to be silenced. The exhumation that followed stunned the community. The autopsy revealed exactly what Mary Jane had described: a broken neck, a crushed windpipe, evidence of strangulation. The ghost's testimony had been validated by science. The trial that followed became a media sensation-a courtroom battle that pitted the rational against the inexplicable, forensic evidence against supernatural testimony. The defense attempted to ridicule the prosecution by leaning into the 'ghost story, ' but the prosecution deftly used hard medical science backed by a mother's compelling narrative to win the day. The verdict was unprecedented: guilty of murder in the first degree. A man convicted because a ghost came back from the grave to testify against him. The Greenbrier Ghost is the definitive account of this extraordinary case-the only known instance in American legal history where testimony from beyond the grave contributed to a conviction. Meticulously researched and grippingly told, it explores the tension between belief and evidence, the power of a mother's love, and the enduring mystery of a world that refuses to be fully explained. For fans of true crime, historical mysteries, folklore, and unique legal history, this is a story you will not soon forget. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In 1911, the Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre-and the Paris police nearly turned Pablo Picasso into the villain of the century.The real thief was Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian workman who knew the museum's routines well enough to carry Leonardo's masterpiece away with astonishing ease. But while the stolen panel sat hidden for more than two years, France chased conspiracies, questioned bohemian artists, jailed poet Guillaume Apollinaire, and dragged a terrified twenty-nine-year-old Picasso before a magistrate.The Mona Lisa Heist reconstructs the true story behind the scandal: the Louvre's humiliating security failures, the stolen Iberian sculptures that made Picasso look guilty, the press frenzy that turned rumor into spectacle, and the bizarre chain of events that helped transform Leonardo's famous sitter into a global celebrity.Witty, fast-moving, and grounded in the historical record, this is for readers who love true crime, art history, famous figures behaving badly, and historical incidents stranger than fiction.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Behind the mirrors of Versailles, someone was selling murder.In the late 1670s, Paris police uncovered a hidden trade in poison, love potions, illicit rituals, and discreet solutions for people who wanted lovers restored, inheritances accelerated, or rivals removed. Then the names began climbing the social ladder.At the center stood La Voisin, the notorious broker of secrets. Above her loomed Madame de Montespan, Louis XIV's powerful mistress, accused of seeking forbidden help to keep the king's affection. And overseeing it all was Nicolas de La Reynie, the police chief forced to decide which confessions were true, which were born under torture, and which truths the monarchy could survive.Poison at Versailles reconstructs the Affair of the Poisons with the pace of true crime and the discipline of serious history, separating documented fact from centuries of sensational legend.For readers who love royal intrigue, famous historical figures, hidden crimes, and the darker machinery behind absolute power, this is Versailles after the candles go out.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A volcano exploded in Indonesia. A year later, two monsters were born beside a rain-lashed Swiss lake.In 1816, Europe shivered through the Year Without a Summer, unaware that Mount Tambora had altered the climate half a world away. At Villa Diodati, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Godwin, Claire Clairmont, and Dr. John Polidori found themselves drawn into a summer of scandal, rivalry, grief, sexual entanglement, scientific speculation, and one infamous ghost-story challenge.From that pressure came Frankenstein and The Vampyre, the tale that helped transform the folkloric corpse into the seductive aristocratic predator later perfected by Dracula.The Summer That Made Monsters strips away the polished legend to reveal the stranger true story underneath: Byron's disgrace, Mary's losses, Polidori's humiliation, Claire's pregnancy, Percy's radical ideals, and the brutal aftermath that followed Geneva.For readers who like their history vivid, scandalous, and meticulously grounded in fact, this is the extraordinary summer when catastrophe, celebrity, and chance changed horror forever. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The only murder trial in American history decided by a ghost's testimony. In the winter of 1897, in the rugged hills of Greenbrier County, West Virginia, a young woman named Elva Zona Shue was found dead at the bottom of a narrow staircase. The local physician, rushed and distracted, signed the death certificate without a thorough examination. The grieving husband wept theatrically and insisted on dressing his wife's body himself-placing a stiff collar around her neck and concealing what he did not want anyone to see. The case should have ended there. A tragic accident. A grieving widow. A community that moved on. But Mary Jane Heaster refused to move on. She had watched her daughter's marriage deteriorate into isolation and abuse. She had seen the bruises her daughter tried to hide. And when Zona's spirit appeared to her night after night-first as a silent apparition, then as a ghost who spoke with devastating clarity-Mary Jane knew the truth. Zona had been murdered. And the man who killed her was still walking free. Armed with nothing but her conviction and a supernatural visitation, Mary Jane embarked on a relentless campaign for justice. She faced skeptical prosecutors, dismissive neighbors, and a defense attorney determined to paint her as a hysterical woman whose grief had destroyed her reason. But she refused to be silenced. The exhumation that followed stunned the community. The autopsy revealed exactly what Mary Jane had described: a broken neck, a crushed windpipe, evidence of strangulation. The ghost's testimony had been validated by science. The trial that followed became a media sensation-a courtroom battle that pitted the rational against the inexplicable, forensic evidence against supernatural testimony. The defense attempted to ridicule the prosecution by leaning into the 'ghost story, ' but the prosecution deftly used hard medical science backed by a mother's compelling narrative to win the day. The verdict was unprecedented: guilty of murder in the first degree. A man convicted because a ghost came back from the grave to testify against him. The Greenbrier Ghost is the definitive account of this extraordinary case-the only known instance in American legal history where testimony from beyond the grave contributed to a conviction. Meticulously researched and grippingly told, it explores the tension between belief and evidence, the power of a mother's love, and the enduring mystery of a world that refuses to be fully explained. For fans of true crime, historical mysteries, folklore, and unique legal history, this is a story you will not soon forget. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In 1911, the Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre-and the Paris police nearly turned Pablo Picasso into the villain of the century.The real thief was Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian workman who knew the museum's routines well enough to carry Leonardo's masterpiece away with astonishing ease. But while the stolen panel sat hidden for more than two years, France chased conspiracies, questioned bohemian artists, jailed poet Guillaume Apollinaire, and dragged a terrified twenty-nine-year-old Picasso before a magistrate.The Mona Lisa Heist reconstructs the true story behind the scandal: the Louvre's humiliating security failures, the stolen Iberian sculptures that made Picasso look guilty, the press frenzy that turned rumor into spectacle, and the bizarre chain of events that helped transform Leonardo's famous sitter into a global celebrity.Witty, fast-moving, and grounded in the historical record, this is for readers who love true crime, art history, famous figures behaving badly, and historical incidents stranger than fiction. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. He buried his poems with his dead wife. Seven years later, he opened her grave to get them back.In 1862, Pre-Raphaelite muse, poet, and artist Elizabeth "Lizzie" Siddal died from an overdose at just thirty-two. Her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, answered his grief with a magnificent sacrifice: he placed his unpublished poems in her coffin at Highgate Cemetery.Then ambition returned.In 1869, Rossetti authorized the reopening of Siddal's grave so the buried pages could be retrieved for publication. What followed became one of Victorian art history's most macabre legends: midnight digging, firelight, a strangely preserved corpse, impossible red hair, and a book rescued from decay.But how much of it actually happened?The Poet in the Grave separates documented fact from Gothic embellishment while restoring Siddal from tragic "muse" to creator in her own right. Witty, vivid, and meticulously researched, this is a true story of love, genius, guilt, reputation, and the extraordinary vanity required to change one's mind after burial. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A dead pope. A furious successor. A trial so grotesque that Rome spent years trying to undo it.In 897, Pope Stephen VI ordered the corpse of Pope Formosus exhumed, dressed in papal robes, seated before a church court, and prosecuted for crimes allegedly committed in office. A deacon was assigned to answer for the body. The verdict was never in doubt.But the Cadaver Synod was far more than medieval madness.In The Trial of the Dead Pope, Evelyn St. James reconstructs the rival kings, Roman factions, disputed coronations, clerical grudges, and legal maneuvering that made this infamous spectacle possible. Behind the mutilated corpse lay a serious struggle over who had the right to rule, who could confer legitimacy, and whether a new regime could erase the acts of the one before it.Witty, vivid, and grounded in the surviving evidence, this is true history at its strangest-and a gripping reminder that attempts to bury the past often make it impossible to forget. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Three men were thrown from a Prague Castle window. All three survived. Europe was not so lucky.On May 23, 1618, furious Protestant nobles stormed the Bohemian Chancellery, accused two royal governors of betraying their liberties, and delivered a sentence with spectacular efficiency: out the window. Their victims plunged toward the castle ditch and lived, inspiring rival explanations involving divine intervention, angels, and one remarkably persistent pile of manure.But behind the absurdity stood a crisis with deadly consequences.In Thrown from Prague, Evelyn St. James reconstructs the true story of Count Thurn, Ferdinand II, the condemned governors Martinice and Slavata, the forgotten secretary Philip Fabricius, and the struggle over faith, privilege, and royal power that exploded into the Bohemian Revolt and helped ignite the Thirty Years' War.Witty, vivid, and grounded in historical evidence, this is history at its most irresistible: palace intrigue, propaganda, ambition, attempted murder, disputed crowns, and the extraordinary moment when one open window revealed just how close Europe was to catastrophe. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Behind the mirrors of Versailles, someone was selling murder.In the late 1670s, Paris police uncovered a hidden trade in poison, love potions, illicit rituals, and discreet solutions for people who wanted lovers restored, inheritances accelerated, or rivals removed. Then the names began climbing the social ladder.At the center stood La Voisin, the notorious broker of secrets. Above her loomed Madame de Montespan, Louis XIV's powerful mistress, accused of seeking forbidden help to keep the king's affection. And overseeing it all was Nicolas de La Reynie, the police chief forced to decide which confessions were true, which were born under torture, and which truths the monarchy could survive.Poison at Versailles reconstructs the Affair of the Poisons with the pace of true crime and the discipline of serious history, separating documented fact from centuries of sensational legend.For readers who love royal intrigue, famous historical figures, hidden crimes, and the darker machinery behind absolute power, this is Versailles after the candles go out. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - He buried his poems with his dead wife. Seven years later, he opened her grave to get them back.In 1862, Pre-Raphaelite muse, poet, and artist Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Siddal died from an overdose at just thirty-two. Her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, answered his grief with a magnificent sacrifice: he placed his unpublished poems in her coffin at Highgate Cemetery.Then ambition returned.In 1869, Rossetti authorized the reopening of Siddal's grave so the buried pages could be retrieved for publication. What followed became one of Victorian art history's most macabre legends: midnight digging, firelight, a strangely preserved corpse, impossible red hair, and a book rescued from decay.But how much of it actually happened The Poet in the Grave separates documented fact from Gothic embellishment while restoring Siddal from tragic 'muse' to creator in her own right. Witty, vivid, and meticulously researched, this is a true story of love, genius, guilt, reputation, and the extraordinary vanity required to change one's mind after burial.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A volcano exploded in Indonesia. A year later, two monsters were born beside a rain-lashed Swiss lake.In 1816, Europe shivered through the Year Without a Summer, unaware that Mount Tambora had altered the climate half a world away. At Villa Diodati, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Godwin, Claire Clairmont, and Dr. John Polidori found themselves drawn into a summer of scandal, rivalry, grief, sexual entanglement, scientific speculation, and one infamous ghost-story challenge.From that pressure came Frankenstein and The Vampyre, the tale that helped transform the folkloric corpse into the seductive aristocratic predator later perfected by Dracula.The Summer That Made Monsters strips away the polished legend to reveal the stranger true story underneath: Byron's disgrace, Mary's losses, Polidori's humiliation, Claire's pregnancy, Percy's radical ideals, and the brutal aftermath that followed Geneva.For readers who like their history vivid, scandalous, and meticulously grounded in fact, this is the extraordinary summer when catastrophe, celebrity, and chance changed horror forever. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Three men were thrown from a Prague Castle window. All three survived. Europe was not so lucky.On May 23, 1618, furious Protestant nobles stormed the Bohemian Chancellery, accused two royal governors of betraying their liberties, and delivered a sentence with spectacular efficiency: out the window. Their victims plunged toward the castle ditch and lived, inspiring rival explanations involving divine intervention, angels, and one remarkably persistent pile of manure.But behind the absurdity stood a crisis with deadly consequences.In Thrown from Prague, Evelyn St. James reconstructs the true story of Count Thurn, Ferdinand II, the condemned governors Martinice and Slavata, the forgotten secretary Philip Fabricius, and the struggle over faith, privilege, and royal power that exploded into the Bohemian Revolt and helped ignite the Thirty Years' War.Witty, vivid, and grounded in historical evidence, this is history at its most irresistible: palace intrigue, propaganda, ambition, attempted murder, disputed crowns, and the extraordinary moment when one open window revealed just how close Europe was to catastrophe.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A dead pope. A furious successor. A trial so grotesque that Rome spent years trying to undo it.In 897, Pope Stephen VI ordered the corpse of Pope Formosus exhumed, dressed in papal robes, seated before a church court, and prosecuted for crimes allegedly committed in office. A deacon was assigned to answer for the body. The verdict was never in doubt.But the Cadaver Synod was far more than medieval madness.In The Trial of the Dead Pope, Evelyn St. James reconstructs the rival kings, Roman factions, disputed coronations, clerical grudges, and legal maneuvering that made this infamous spectacle possible. Behind the mutilated corpse lay a serious struggle over who had the right to rule, who could confer legitimacy, and whether a new regime could erase the acts of the one before it.Witty, vivid, and grounded in the surviving evidence, this is true history at its strangest-and a gripping reminder that attempts to bury the past often make it impossible to forget.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - She was accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls. She was never given the public trial history remembers.Elizabeth Báthory entered legend as the 'Blood Countess,' a Hungarian noblewoman said to have murdered 650 victims and bathed in virgin blood to preserve her youth. The surviving record tells a darker, far more complicated story.Behind the Gothic mythology lies a real investigation: injured young women, terrified witnesses, accused accomplices, royal debts, threatened inheritances, powerful relatives, and a king demanding justice while Hungary's highest officials quietly contained the scandal.In The Case Against Elizabeth Báthory, Evelyn St. James follows the original case from castle corridors to interrogation rooms, separating documented fact from hearsay and centuries of sensational retelling.Was Báthory a serial murderer, a politically convenient target, or something far harder to classify For readers who love dark history, royal scandal, and historical true crime, this is the case behind the legend-and the verdict history never delivered.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Behind the doors of an abandoned abbey, some of Britain's most powerful men gathered to drink, mock sacred rites, pursue forbidden pleasures, and keep their secrets far from public view.At the center stood Sir Francis Dashwood: aristocrat, politician, provocateur, and founder of the notorious circle later remembered as the Hellfire Club. Around him moved John Wilkes, Lord Sandwich, writers, courtiers, and men whose friendships could open doors in Westminster-or destroy one another when those friendships failed.But how much of the legend was true In Sins of the Elite, Evelyn St. James follows the surviving letters, scandals, obscene manuscripts, caricatures, betrayals, and whispered accusations to uncover what really happened at Medmenham Abbey. Black masses, secret rituals, sexual excess, political intrigue: fact and invention have shared the same story for nearly three centuries.Witty, vivid, and meticulously researched, this is the Hellfire Club stripped of gothic fantasy-and revealed as something even more compelling: a true story of privilege, secrecy, power, and the dangerous price of belonging. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. She was accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls. She was never given the public trial history remembers.Elizabeth Bathory entered legend as the "Blood Countess," a Hungarian noblewoman said to have murdered 650 victims and bathed in virgin blood to preserve her youth. The surviving record tells a darker, far more complicated story.Behind the Gothic mythology lies a real investigation: injured young women, terrified witnesses, accused accomplices, royal debts, threatened inheritances, powerful relatives, and a king demanding justice while Hungary's highest officials quietly contained the scandal.In The Case Against Elizabeth Bathory, Evelyn St. James follows the original case from castle corridors to interrogation rooms, separating documented fact from hearsay and centuries of sensational retelling.Was Bathory a serial murderer, a politically convenient target, or something far harder to classify?For readers who love dark history, royal scandal, and historical true crime, this is the case behind the legend-and the verdict history never delivered. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Behind the doors of an abandoned abbey, some of Britain's most powerful men gathered to drink, mock sacred rites, pursue forbidden pleasures, and keep their secrets far from public view.At the center stood Sir Francis Dashwood: aristocrat, politician, provocateur, and founder of the notorious circle later remembered as the Hellfire Club. Around him moved John Wilkes, Lord Sandwich, writers, courtiers, and men whose friendships could open doors in Westminster-or destroy one another when those friendships failed.But how much of the legend was true?In Sins of the Elite, Evelyn St. James follows the surviving letters, scandals, obscene manuscripts, caricatures, betrayals, and whispered accusations to uncover what really happened at Medmenham Abbey. Black masses, secret rituals, sexual excess, political intrigue: fact and invention have shared the same story for nearly three centuries.Witty, vivid, and meticulously researched, this is the Hellfire Club stripped of gothic fantasy-and revealed as something even more compelling: a true story of privilege, secrecy, power, and the dangerous price of belonging. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Two girls made a house knock. America decided the dead were answering.In 1848, Maggie and Kate Fox turned a simple childhood trick into a sensation. What began in a modest New York home soon drew neighbors, newspapers, skeptical investigators, grieving families, famous supporters, and paying crowds. Then the story escaped its creators.Séances spread across America. Professional mediums built careers. Scientists tested impossible claims. Civil War mourners searched for sons and husbands they had buried far from home. By the time Maggie publicly confessed the fraud forty years later, Spiritualism had become too large to destroy.In The Whispering Sisters, Evelyn St. James follows the remarkable rise and ruin of Maggie, Kate, and Leah Fox, separating documented history from the mythology that grew around them.Witty, unsettling, and meticulously researched, this is the true story of a tiny deception that became an industry, a faith, and a lesson in why people keep believing long after the trick has been exposed.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Two geniuses. One tiny yellow house. Nine weeks before everything ended in blood.In October 1888, Vincent van Gogh finally convinced Paul Gauguin to join him in Arles, France, where Vincent dreamed of founding a revolutionary community of artists. Instead, the Yellow House became the setting for one of art history's most infamous roommate disasters.Behind the sunflowers and celebrated masterpieces were unpaid bills, bruised egos, absinthe-soaked evenings, vicious arguments over art, and a friendship buckling under expectations neither man could meet. As Gauguin planned his escape, Vincent's carefully constructed dream began to collapse.Then came December 23 and the razor.Drawing on Van Gogh's correspondence, contemporary records, later testimony, and modern scholarship, The Yellow House Disaster separates documented fact from irresistible legend to reconstruct those extraordinary nine weeks with wit, suspense, and historical care.Perfect for readers who love famous lives, dark history, artistic rivalries, and true stories stranger than fiction.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Russia sent a battle fleet halfway around the world to restore an empire's honor. It nearly started a second war before leaving European waters.In 1904, with Russia reeling from Japanese victories, Tsar Nicholas II ordered the Baltic Fleet on an 18,000-mile voyage to the Far East. What followed was one of the strangest military expeditions in modern history: phantom Japanese attackers in the North Sea, British fishermen caught under Russian guns, desperate coaling stops, tropical disease, diplomatic crises, rebellious crews, exotic animals aboard ship, and an admiral watching his impossible mission grow worse with every mile.By the time Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky's exhausted fleet entered the Tsushima Strait, Japan's Admiral Togo was waiting.The Tsar's Doomed Armada is a meticulously researched, darkly witty account of imperial pride, human endurance, catastrophic misjudgment, and the spectacular naval disaster that exposed the weaknesses of Nicholas II's Russia.For readers who love true history so astonishing it feels invented.…