Ergebnis für "Das Verbrechen" in Historische Romane

İki Alamut fedaisi Rıza ile Talon yaklaşan adamların önünde savunma pozisyonuna geçtiler. İki fedai için bu nefes almak kadar doğaldı. Onlar bıçakla öldürmek için eğitilmişlerdi. Vurmayı bekleyen, uzun pençeli iki ölümcül kedi gibiydiler. Rıza bir yılan gibi hamle yapıp çekildi ve adamlardan biri yerdeydi… Talon göğsüne nişan alarak savrulan bıçağı kolayca engelledi. Sonra bıçağını adamın göğüs kemiğinin altına sapladı. İç organlarını kanlı elleriyle tutarak acı içinde inliyordu. Tuniği ve pantolonu kan ve idrar içindeydi.

Based on a true story, Prisoner 88 is the story of ten-year-old Jake, sent to the Old Idaho Penitentiary in 1885 to serve a five-year sentence for manslaughter. Issues of racism, justice, literacy, and frontier life inform James s story, with a compelling first-person voice that instantly transports the reader to the 19th-century American West.

Ende 1944 ist Rom zu einem großen Diebesmarkt geworden. Mit melancholischer Feder begleitet Bartolini den Protagonisten des Romans, einen Nonkonformisten und Künstler, auf der Suche nach dessen gestohlenem Fahrrad durch die Gassen und über die Plätze der hungernden Hauptstadt mit ihren eigenen Gesetzen und Moralvorstellungen. In den Begegnungen mit Polizisten, Dieben und käuflichen Damen offenbaren sich die Mängel und die Verworfenheiten der italienischen Gesellschaft und bieten damit einen tiefen Blick in die römische Seele.

From acclaimed author Patricia Hruby Powell comes the story of a landmark civil rights case, told in spare and gorgeous verse. In 1955, in Caroline County, Virginia, amidst segregation and prejudice, injustice and cruelty, two teenagers fell in love. Their life together broke the law, but their determination would change it. Richard and Mildred Loving were at the heart of a Supreme Court case that legalized marriage between races, and a story of the devoted couple who faced discrimination, fought it, and won.

Greg Ellis had a fascinating legal career. He grew up in Chicago. He graduated from Law School in Chicago in 1980. He defended Chicago mobsters and later prosecuted the worst mob murderers as a State’s Attorney. His first case out of Law School was a life changer. While working for a prominent criminal defense lawyer, Greg represented the two Marlborough Diamond Thieves. It is a 45-carat diamond in a necklace, stolen from a London jewelry store in 1980. It has never been recovered. This book follows its trail for the past 42 years. Where it has been and where it is now.

Charlie White leads a simple life in 1920s Philadelphia as a chemist at the Dupont Corporation. One day, as he's walking home from work, he is approached by two men and is forced into the world of bootlegging, corruption and murder. When tragedy strikes, Charlie must decide whether to continue his double-life or tell the world his story before it's too late. The Chemist is based on a true story during Prohibition.

A young man desperate for work and independence finds himself employed in a rural nursing home. When young Jason gets too close to a resident (a self-proclaimed KGB spy who is under the watchful eye of an agent known only as Chandler) he finds his only way out is in.