Marjorie Bowen

"She said once she heard some people told to get an airing in a closed carriage and that her life had been like that, trying to get fresh air, but always closed up, in a box."As warm sunshine bathes the streets of Paris in the late 1800s, the lively young debutante May meets the cotton-broker John Tyler. Far from a picturesque romance, life with the boorish broker turns sour as they move to Manchester and May finds herself trapped in a world of hostile servants and neglect. When Tyler meets his end from an overdose of arsenic the drug which he was so fond of prescribing himself as a kind of panacea May is dragged into a trial coloured by the public's hunger to paint her as a beguiling murderess. Based on the real-life murder trial of Florence Maybrick in 1899, this novel spins the gripping tale of a case clouded by sensation, its unsolved mysteries, and the untold story of the human being at its heart. First published in 1943, it was filmed as The Mark of Cain in 1947.

Audiokniha Dobrodružná historie kriminalistiky, kterou napsali Alan Piskač, Eugene-François Vidocq, Alphonse Bertillon, John F. Condon, Marjorie Bowen a Marie Belloc Lowndes. Jedenáct slavných případů z dějin světové kriminalistiky. Napínavé epizody z historie světového zločinu o objevech nových pátracích metod – daktyloskopie, balistiky, mechanoskopie, grafologie, toxikologie, trasologie a dalších postupů. Vyprávění o skutečných zločinech a legendárních detektivech devatenáctého a dvacátého století nás zavede do Francie, Německa, Velké Británie, Spojených států, ale i Československa.

"I hear from Mrs Barlow, who is a good gossip, that your mother and your sister are both ill. You must, then, have very little company." "Very little human company," she replied. On a moonlit night, a man dressed as the Devil arrives at the door of the ill-omened Holcot Grange the hereditary owner of the manor which has been uninhabited for two generations, he has come to escape his past and proceeds to reclaim his seat. But the tenants are not passive to his new tenure. As he is enthralled by the aura of one of the current denizens, the otherworldly Julia Roseingrave, a sultry romance begins to bubble, overlooked always by the shadow of conflict and the spectre of death. A deliciously atmospheric novella blending witchcraft and superstition with the Gothic trappings of a cursed love, this edition will also be complete with a number of companion short stories by Marjorie Bowen.