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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Facing the wind Facing the wind Julie Salamon The story of Robert Rowe, his disabled son, his adopted child, his murder of his wife and three children, and his second wife. The author "addresses the questions of how human beings cope with the bu… OL16047083W
Sudden Fear Sudden Fear Lenore Coffee,Robert Smith In this rediscovered masterpiece of film noir, Joan Crawford plays a successful playwright who marries a less than stellar actor (Jack Palance) with a troubling secret. She soon discovers that he not… OL17823899W
Love her to death Love her to death M. William Phelps Describes how Jan Roseboro was savagely beaten and strangled before her body was tossed in her backyard pool and how her husband Michael was eventually convicted of the crime after his pregnant mistr… OL17826312W
Color Purple / Meridian / Third Life of Grange Copeland Color Purple / Meridian / Third Life of Grange Copeland Alice Walker Contains - [The Color Purple](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1815836W/Color_Purple) - Meridian - Third Life of Grange Copeland OL18025207W
The third life of Grange Copeland The third life of Grange Copeland Alice Walker "Despondent over the futility of life in the South, black tenant farmer Grange Copeland leaves his wife and son in Georgia to head North. After meeting an equally humiliating existence there, he retu… OL1815832W
Silence radio Silence radio Robert Rotenberg Les mains couvertes de sang, Kevin Brace, célèbre animateur de radio du Canada, accueille le livreur de journaux sur le pas de sa porte en bredouillant : "Je l'ai tuée". Mais après la découverte du c… OL24298598W
The musical milkman murder The musical milkman murder Quentin Falk "Long before the picturesque village of Little Marlow became a well-known location for filming episodes of popular television crime shows such as Inspector Morse, Miss Marple and Midsomer Murders, th… OL24689669W
Frau Dr. Wolfs Methode Frau Dr. Wolfs Methode Muriel Spark In Aiding and Abetting, the doyenne of literary satire has written a wickedly amusing and subversive novel around the true-crime case of one of England's most notorious uppercrust scoundrels and the … OL26394W
Blood Brother Blood Brother Anne Bird What happens if, after being given up for adoption in childhood, you reestablish contact with your biological family -- only to discover that your newfound brother is a killer?Anne Bird, the sister o… OL276525W
Peepeyes Peepeyes Dwaine S. Tucker Chronicles the author's investigation into the death of his grandmother Nell "Peepeyes" Tucker. OL32080858W
A Suspension of Mercy (Random Acts of Kindness) A Suspension of Mercy (Random Acts of Kindness) Patricia Highsmith,Joan Schenkar Television scriptwriter Sidney Bartleby, who specialises in murder mysteries, daydreams about killing his wife, Alicia, as a way of drawing inspiration for his stories. However, when she unexpectedly… OL59454W
Langhorn and Mary Langhorn and Mary Priscilla Stone Sharp When you tell people that the story line of your book revolves around an African-American boy and a German-American girl who fall in love and elope, that they were married for thirty years, and that … OL5961143W
The Dowry Bride The Dowry Bride Shobhan Bantwal One sultry night, a young bride overhears an extraordinary conversation. The voices speak of a plot to murder a wife who has failed to produce a child and whose family has failed to produce the promi… OL9495842W