Susan McNicoll Livres

Gangsters of the past never looked far enough into the future to do much planning. They stole sufficient money to get by for a short while and then robbed again. Sometimes they wanted to settle down, but most knew their crimes were going to lead to jail or death - and their women knew it too. Life on the run was no picnic, but gangsters' molls chose it over a settled life in suburbia. This book is a history of gangsters' molls and mob queens, and it explains who these women were, where they came from and why they did the things they did.

"J. Edgar Hoover once described "gun molls", as the Press called them, as more dangerous to society than the gangsters with whom they ran. Gangster Women is a fascinating study of the women who fell for gangsters throughout the 1930s and beyond and why they gave up a normal life to aid and abet their criminal lovers. Was it for a world of ill-gotten gains, for the glamor, the excitement, or for love itself ?''--Page 4 de la couverture

In July 1924, Scottish nursemaid Janet Smith was murdered in Vancouver's wealthy Shaughnessy Heights. Her killer was never apprehended, but the investigation had shocking consequences. Twenty years later, Molly Justice was stabbed to death in a Saanich park. Her murderer has never been charged, even though police were virtually certain of his identity for over 50 years. Susan McNicoll's dramatic accounts of six of British Columbia's most intriguing murders span a century of crime, from a 1904 Victoria Chinatown murder to a modern cold case from Vernon solved through DNA analysis of an unusual kind.

Shows how Canadian professional theatre began just after World War II, when a host of theatre people decided that Canada needed its own professional theatre groups, leading up to the founding of the Stratford Festival in 1953.

Svět gangsterů a mafiánů Ameriky 30. let nepatřil jen mužům. Jeho nedílnou součást tvořily i ženy – krásné, odvážné a často bezmezně zamilované a schopné pro své muže obětovat vše. Byla by však chyba považovat je za pouhé okrasné přívěšky svých druhů. Často se nezákonné činnosti samy účastnily a nejednou se ocitly v přestřelce či na zběsilém útěku, jak dokládá i ikonicky známá romance Bonnie a Clydea. Poznejte osudy nejznámějších gangsterských a mafiánských žen, jež láska a touha po dobrodružství svedly do vod nebezpečného podsvětí a strhly do víru života na hraně.