Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World
Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World

Author: Clifton R. Wooldridge

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-05-19

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13:

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"Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World" is a fictional book that focuses on the concern of the author, Clifton R. Wooldridge regarding the act of swindling now popular within the modern population. The author is popularly referred to as the real-life Sherlock Holmes for his exceptional role as an officer of the law. With the experience of Detective Wooldridge, he gives a clear description of various forms of crimes committed by swindlers in the city of Chicago.

Conjugal Misconduct
Conjugal Misconduct

Author: William Kuby

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-03-01

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1108594328

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Conjugal Misconduct reveals the hidden history of controversial and legally contested marital arrangements in twentieth-century America. William Kuby examines the experiences of couples in unconventional unions and the legal and cultural backlash generated by a wide array of 'alternative' marriages. These include marriages established through personal advertisements and matchmaking bureaus, marriages that defied state eugenic regulations, hasty marriages between divorced persons, provisional and temporary unions referred to as 'trial marriages', racial intermarriages, and a host of other unions that challenged sexual and marital norms. In illuminating the tensions between those who set marriage policies and those who defied them, Kuby offers a fresh account of marriage's contested history, arguing that although marital nonconformists composed only a small minority of the population, their atypical arrangements nonetheless shifted popular understandings of marriage and consistently refashioned the legal parameters of the institution.

Reform and Resistance
Reform and Resistance

Author: Anne Meis Knupfer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1136691731

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Examining the encounters between the girls and the new arm of the state in Cook County, Illinois, Anne Meis Knupfer illuminates the origin of American notions of gender and delinquency. Combining rigorous research with passionate writing, Reform and Resistance is a good story about bad girls.

The Science of Deception
The Science of Deception

Author: Michael Pettit

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2013-01-18

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0226923746

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Michael Pettit reveals how deception came to be something that psychologists not only studied but also employed to establish their authority. They developed a host of tools for making deception more transparent in the courts and elsewhere.

America's Femme Fatale
America's Femme Fatale

Author: Jane Simon Ammeson

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1684351618

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How does a Norwegian farm girl become an infamous American serial killer, responsible for upward of 40 murders? Born in rural Norway in 1859, "Belle" Storset Sorenson Gunness was constantly dealt bad hands in life—so she decided to take life into her own hands. In America's Femme Fatale: The Story of Serial Killer Belle Gunness, Jane Simon Ammeson traces Gunness's path from a poor teenager rejected by a wealthy lover; to a new wife in Chicago, desperate to escape the poverty of her childhood and impatient for a child to love; to an ambitious, widowed landowner in La Porte, Indiana. Ammeson's careful research reveals how the young immigrant slowly turned into one of America's most dangerous serial killers, allegedly murdering husbands, lovers, and children, and, for a price, disposing of inconvenient corpses for others. Ammeson brings this shocking story to life, detailing the suspicious neighbors who were cowed into silence by Belle's intimidating personality, the culture of orphanages trafficking children and matrimonial agencies, the carnival atmosphere that exploded around the pile of bones found on Gunness's farm, and the sensational reporting that filled newspapers for months. Perfect for true crime fans fascinated by the creation of a sociopathic serial killer, America's Femme Fatale will leave you entertained and looking over your shoulder.