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The Frankston Murders The Frankston Murders

Автор: Vikki Petraitis

Год издания: 0000

Twenty-five years ago, serial killer Paul Denyer terrorised the bayside suburb of Frankston.<br />Twenty-five years later, the trauma of his seven-week killing spree still haunts the community.<br /> <br />The spate of murders in 1993 touched many more lives than just the three victims.<br /> <br />All of Melbourne was gripped with fear, as Frankston and surrounding suburbs were flooded with police hunting the serial killer of three young women.<br /> <br />It began on June 11 when Elizabeth Stevens was murdered on her way home from the library. On July 8, Debbie Fream who'd left her 12-day-old baby with a friend while she dashed out for milk, was abducted and killed. Three weeks later, Year 12 student, Natalie Russell, was brutally murdered on her way home from school.<br /> <br />When Paul Denyer, an odd young man, was arrested the day after Natalie's body was found, the police and public were shocked by his lack of emotion. Denyer, who was only 21-years-old, spoke of the three young women with contempt as he described their final moments. Their deaths had simply fuelled his bloodlust.<br /> <br />Eleven years later, just as the public's memory of the Frankston murders began to fade, convicted serial killer, Paul Denyer, made front-page news with his quest to become a woman.<br /> <br /><b><i>The Frankston Murders: 25 years on</i></b> details the shocking crimes and explores the lingering effects of what Denyer did. Now 25-years-old,<i> </i>Debbie Fream's son Jake speaks for the first time about the loss of his mother. And Carmel and Brian Russell share their dream for Denyer's ongoing incarceration, as the killer of their child will be eligible to apply for parole for the first time in 2023.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Автор: Эдгар Аллан По

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"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination".

The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Автор: Эдгар Аллан По

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. The room was on the fourth floor, and the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened – on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery. Except Anguste Dupin, who could see further and think more clearly than other people. The answers to the mystery were all there, but only a clever man could see them.

The Mitford murders. Загадочные убийства The Mitford murders. Загадочные убийства

Автор: Джессика Феллоуз

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Джессика Феллоуз – автор бестселлеров «The New York Times» о культовом сериале «Аббатство Даунтон» и племянница его создателя, лорда Феллоуза. Она также получила заслуженную известность как уникальный знаток жизни Великобритании XX века. 1920 год. Луиза Кэннон отчаянно стремится вырваться из лап нищеты. Ее спасение – стать нянькой в известном аристократическом семействе. Здесь она сближается со старшей дочерью лорда, Нэнси, умной не по годам девушкой. Вместе они оказываются втянуты в расследование загадочного убийства сестры милосердия, героини Первой мировой войны, – убийства, совершенного в поезде прямо посреди бела дня. Так начинается история сестер Митфорд, шести реально существовавших женщин, скандально известных во всем мире…

Вбивство на вулиці Морг = The murders in the rue Morgue Вбивство на вулиці Морг = The murders in the rue Morgue

Автор: Едгар Аллан По

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Ім’я Едгара Аллана По (1809–1849) – американського письменника-романтика, поета, драматурга і критика, майстра короткого оповідання і засновника детективу – відомо в усьому світі. Оповідання «Вбивство на вулиці Морг» вважають першим детективним твором в історії літератури. Огюст Дюпен, молодий чоловік, який має надзвичайні аналітичні здібності, розслідує жорстоке й загадкове вбивство двох жінок – матері та доньки, скоєні у Парижі, в будинку на вулиці Морг. Також до видання увійшли оповідання «Метценгерштайн», «Береніка», «Не закладайся з чортом на власну голову» та інші, в яких яскраво розкрився непересічний талант Е. А. По.

The Monogram Murders The Monogram Murders

Автор: Sophie Hannah

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The new Hercule Poirot novel – another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his ‘little grey cells’.Since the publication of her first book in 1920, Agatha Christie wrote 33 novels, two plays and more than 50 short stories featuring Hercule Poirot. Now, for the first time ever, the guardians of her legacy have approved a brand new novel featuring Dame Agatha's most beloved creation.Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffee house is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified, but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done.Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at the fashionable Bloxham Hotel have been murdered, a cufflink placed in each one’s mouth. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman? While Poirot struggles to put together the bizarre pieces of the puzzle, the murderer prepares another hotel bedroom for a fourth victim…In the hands of internationally bestselling author Sophie Hannah, Poirot plunges into a mystery set in 1920s London – a diabolically clever puzzle that can only be solved by the talented Belgian detective and his ‘little grey cells’.