Häftad, Engelska, 2015
277 kr
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5 produkter
- E-bokEngelska, 2011
89 kr
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Jean wouldn’t be able stand it if something unfortunate were to befall her friends—that’s why decides to kill them herself, before anything else can harm them. Bad Marie meets Arsenic and Old Lace in this darkly humorous story of a woman whose overpowering love for her friends moves her to murder each and every one of them. Practical Jean, the U.S. debut of acclaimed Canadian author Trevor Cole, is a “biting and black comedy of middle-class mores gone murderously wrong” that “combines diamond-cut social satire with thoughtful contemplations of friendship” (Globe and Mail). A deliciously dark satire with roots that spread from Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal to Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands, Cole’s Practical Jean is a razor’s edge dissection of relationships, faithfulness, and homicide. After all, what are friends for? - Häftad, Engelska, 2019
233 kr
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- E-bokEngelska, 2017
111 kr
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“True-crime writing at its finest.” —Dean Jobb, author of Empire of Deception
A rich and fascinating history of Canada’s first celebrity mobster, Rocco Perri—King of the Bootleggers—and the man who pursued him, Canada’s first undercover Mountie, for readers of Erik Larson, Dean Jobb and Charlotte Gray
At the dawn of the 20th century, two Italian men arrived in Canada amid waves of immigration. One, Rocco Perri, from southern Italy, rose from the life of a petty criminal on the streets of Toronto to running the most prominent bootlegging operation of the Prohibition era, taking over Hamilton and leading one of the country’s most influential crime syndicates. Perri was feared by his enemies and loved by the press, who featured him regularly in splashy front-page headlines. So great was his celebrity that, following the murder of his wife and business partner, Bessie Starkman, a crowd of 30,000 thronged the streets of Hamilton for her funeral.
Perri’s businesses—which included alcohol, drugs, gambling and prostitution—kept him under constant police surveillance. He caught the interest of one man in particular, the other arrival from Italy, Frank Zaneth. Zaneth, originally from the Italian north, joined the RCMP and became its first undercover investigator—Operative No. 1. Zaneth’s work took him across the country, but he was dogged in his pursuit of Rocco Perri and worked for his arrest until the day Perri was last seen, in 1944, when he disappeared without a trace.
With original research and masterful storytelling, Cole details the fascinating rise to power of a notorious Prohibition-era Canadian crime figure twinned with the life of the man who pursued him.
- E-bokTyska, 2012
176 kr
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Jean Vale Horemarsh ist mit ihrem Leben in Kotemee, einer netten kleinen Stadt in der Nähe von New York, soweit ganz zufrieden; mit ihrem Job als halberfolgreiche Keramik-Künstlerin mit eigenem Laden, ihren engen und treuen Freundinnen (wenn da nur nicht vor Jahren dieses schreckliche Zerwürfnis mit Cheryl gewesen wäre!) und mit ihrer Ehe mit dem eher langweiligen Milt. Aber der qualvolle Tod ihrer Mutter zeigt ihr, was ihre eigentliche Berufung ist: das Leiden derjenigen zu verhindern, die sie liebt. Jeder, der das Gleiche wie sie erlebt hätte, würde sicher ähnlich handeln, jeder pragmatische, praktisch veranlagte Mensch. Oder nicht? Und so bringt Jean eine ihrer besten Freundinnen nach der anderen um die Ecke. Aus Nächstenliebe. Als Gesellschaftssatire und Krimi in einem dreht sich "Die pragmatische Jean" doch um ein ernstes Thema: das Altern und was wir dagegen tun können. Ein feinhumoriges Buch, das extrem unterhält. Ein Diamant, sowohl für Krimiliebhaber als auch für Freunde der literarischen Hochkomik.
