Word: murderess
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...image of New York is that of a city of struggle and death. Christian finds murder going on all around him, and a constant challenge to become involved in the sea of fighting. Barroom brawls lead to murders as he watches. He and his mistress, Fanny, spy on a murderess who goes through a husband and a lover before the police catch up with her. And, once he becomes attached to her, Fanny also dies. Finally convinced that he will certainly die if he stays any longer, Christian leaves the city, heading back across the ocean...
...does fine in this department. The evening's mystery guest pulls off a couple of the smoothest on-stage poisonings I've ever not witnessed. While Christie may rub our noses in the paradoxes and devious clues she invents, she's a masterbuilder of tension and an incorrigibly clever murderess--which even her hum-drum sentimentality can't hide...
...them to California in trunks. Now-after 40 years, a sensational trial and seven escapes from mental hospitals-"Tiger Woman" Winnie Ruth Judd, 66, has been granted a commutation of her life sentence by Arizona Governor Jack Williams. If she gets the parole board's permission, the matronly murderess plans to return to the San Francisco suburb of Damville, where she was recaptured in 1969 after spending several years incognito as housekeeper to a local doctor...
Northern Ireland's politics will never be the same again. The word out of Armagh jail was that Bernadette Devlin, serving a six-month term for inciting riots, had taken up the peaceful craft of crocheting under the tutelage of a convicted murderess. Furthermore, when a fellow Member of Parliament, Ulster's Ivan Cooper, visited Bernadette, he found her surprisingly subdued. "In her political comments, she's a good deal more tolerant than when she went to prison," Cooper observed, "and her temper is much better than it is normally...
...Philadelphia). Those to whom this name means nothing will more easily recognize her as the Wicked Witch of the West in the famous movie The Wizard of Oz. My own most admiring recollection of her comes from seeing her play, many years ago, the leading role of the altruistic murderess Ellen Creed in Percy and Denham's Ladies in Retirement that classic of psychological suspense thrillers. It is good to see her in the flesh once again after so long an interval...