Presents a fictional account of the events and the key players involved in the Wall Street panic of 1907. This book depicts the glittering society of New York's fabulously wealthy, for whom money is not the object of existence, just the means of wielding power.
Presents a fictional account of the events and the key players involved in the Wall Street panic of 1907. This book depicts the glittering society of ...
In a quiet rural village in late 19th-century France, an eleven-year-old boy is found dead in his room, sexually molested and strangled by an unknown assailant. The shocked townsfolk erupt in outrage: Who could have committed this horrible crime? Rumors immediately begin to fly and suspicions shift from one person to another as ignorant conjecture begins to feed on itself. At first a vagrant is suspected; he could have come in through the open window while passing through the town at night. But in a matter of days another story begins to circulate: the culprit must be Simon, the Jewish...
In a quiet rural village in late 19th-century France, an eleven-year-old boy is found dead in his room, sexually molested and strangled by an unknown ...