Gun Alley; Murder, Lies and Failure of Justice

Biographies & Memoirs

Kevin Morgan

True Crime

Simon&Schuster

Gun Alley : Murder, Lies and Failure of Justice

Simon & Schuster, Australia

Reclaiming the Economy

Danny MacKinnon

Philip M. Taylor

Andy Pike

Molly Scott Cat

Prem Sikka

Peter Bain

Robert McMaster

Christine Cooper

Roberta Sonnino

Scottish Left Review Press

60 plus year old African-American Faye Becker is a widow with poor eyesight, bad knees and a surprisingly quick temper in the small southern town of Rawleysville, SC. If she had her preferences, she would spend the rest of her years spoiling the grandchildren her now grown daughter and son have yet to give her. In the meantime, she's done her best to stay on the sidelines of the current challenges being covered in the news media. As the widow of a local civil rights hero, she's had her share of fighting for the rights of her fellow African-Americans. As a mother, she has empathized with the seemingly countless numbers of Black mothers who have had to mourn the tragic deaths of their unarmed sons. Increasingly, Faye has had to face the reality that she could no longer stay on the sidelines in the perpetual quest for justice. Because of her now deceased husband's activist ways, she knows firsthand that circumstances often draw unwilling combatants in to battles they prefer to sit out. Through no fault of her own, she was threatened and later attacked by the town's resident White thug. In a tragic twist of irony, the brute who verbally and physically assaulted her was not just a random criminal. To her dismay, her attacker was the son of the man who was suspected but never charged in her husband's death. A single gunshot outside her bedroom window placed this wannabe grandmother squarely in the middle of a stand your ground controversy. The same White trouble-maker who attacked her was now the shooter of an unarmed Black male in her back yard. Complicating things for Faye was the realization that the facts of this case were not as they seemed. While most people assumed the White shooter was finally going to face justice because of this incident, Faye knew things were not so black and white. Should she tell the truth of what she witnessed outside her bedroom window, knowing that could exonerate her would-be killer and break the hearts of people in her community? Or should she lie to help get revenge against the family who has bought her so much grief? By shading the truth, will she be able to live with herself as she attempts to keep the respect and admiration of her Black family and friends?

Know Weapon

Sowjourn Publishers

Governance for Sustainable Development: A Foundation for the Future

Routledge

This book explores how the communist cult of the individual was not just a Soviet phenomenon but an international one. When Stalin died in 1953, the communists of all countries united in mourning the figure that was the incarnation of their cause. Though its international character was one of the distinguishing features of the communist cult of personality, this is the first extended study to approach the phenomenon over the longer period of its development in a truly transnational and comparative perspective. Crucially it is concerned with the internationalisation of the Soviet cults of Lenin and Stalin. But it also ranges across different periods and national cases to consider a wider cast of bureaucrats, tribunes, heroes and martyrs who symbolised both resistance to oppression and the tyranny of the party-state. Through studying the disparate ways in which the cults were manifested, Kevin Morgan not only takes in many of the leading personalities of the communist movement, but also some of the cultural luminaries like Picasso and Barbusse who sought to represent them. The cult of the individual was one of the most fascinating, troubling and revealing features of Stalinist communism, and as reconstructed here it offers new insight into one of the defining political movements of the twentieth century.

International Communism and the Cult of the Individual: Leaders, Tribunes and Martyrs under Lenin and Stalin

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

In the early morning of New Year's Eve 1921, 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke's naked body was found in Gun Alley, a dead-end Melbourne lane. She had been raped and strangled. In an atmosphere of public frenzy, the police were pushed to find a culprit and charged saloonkeeper Colin Ross with her murder. Rapidly convicted, and with his appeals to higher courts rejected, Ross was hanged - protesting his innocence to the end. Researching the case in 1995, author Kevin Morgan stumbled upon an envelope containing critical evidence: hair samples. During the trial the prosecution claimed hairs found on Ross's blanket matched a sample of Alma's hair. This was the first time such forensic evidence brought a conviction in Australia. Re-examination by modern-day experts has proven the hairs do not match ...Gun Alley is the riveting story of how botched policework, trial by media and lynch-law hysteria spawned a staggering conspiracy to convict and hang an innocent man, and reveals for the first time the vital clues-missed in the original investigation-that point, more than 90 years on, to the true killer. Now updated, this edition documents the extraordinary events leading to the historic pardon and charts the aftermath for the Ross and Tirtschke families as a hanged man's body is recovered from an unmarked prison grave ...'Gun Alley is a masterwork of forensic detection.' - Ian Jones 'This is a winner ...a book written from the heart ...' - Kerry Greenwood

Gun Alley

Hardie Grant Books

Computer Networking Beginners Guide: The Complete Basic Guide to Master Network Security, Computer Architecture, Wireless Technology, and Communications Systems Including Cisco, CCNA and the OSI Model

Computers & Technology

Programming

Computer Publishing

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