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History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Rothstein was much more -- and less -- than a fixer of baseball games....
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2011-09-13
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
11,99€ (-17%)
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The 35 most famous trials of the 20th century, as recorded by the people who were there including Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Brian Masters, Damon Runyon and other star turns in true crime writing.
Among the cases featured: the longest ever US trial, of deadly duo...
Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2011-09-01
Format(s) : ePub
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Dangerous madmen or divinely inspired prophets? From murdering religious sects like the Assassins and the Thugs, to the orgies of the little known Khlysty and the self-mutilations of the Skloptzi; including modern day killers like the vicious Manson Family and the...
Editeur : Magpie
Parution : 2011-08-18
Format(s) : ePub
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Karla Homolka attracted worldwide outrage in the early nineties. The Canadian Barbie-lookalike had, with her boyfriend Paul Bernardo, participated in the 1991 and 1992 rape and murder of two teenage girls, Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French, and the rape and killing of...
Editeur : Magpie
Parution : 2011-08-18
Collection :
Murder Files
Format(s) : ePub
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The story of the killer Ed Gein is one of the weirdest, most disturbing ever, one that has inspired horror stories as diverse as Psycho andThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre. His crimes, which were committed in and around Plainfield, Wisconsin, included exhuming corpses from...
Editeur : Magpie
Parution : 2011-08-18
Collection :
Murder Files
Format(s) : ePub
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Curiously for a serial killer and self-proclaimed cannibal, Arthur Shawcross's confessional accounts of his crimes were only partially believed. His stories changed frequently as he spoke with different people and almost everyone who interviewed him thought that he was...
Editeur : Magpie
Parution : 2011-08-18
Collection :
Murder Files
Format(s) : ePub
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Close-up accounts of three of the weirdest and most disturbing cases of cannibalism in the twentieth century. The Murder Files is a series of individual titles, giving condensed accounts of some of the most appalling and notorious killers of all time.
Editeur : Magpie
Parution : 2011-08-18
Collection :
Murder Files
Format(s) : ePub
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Jeffrey Dahmer was the Milwaukee serial killer who murdered, mutilated and cannibalized at least seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991.The Murder Files is a series of individual titles, giving condensed accounts of some of the most appalling and notorious killers...
Editeur : Magpie
Parution : 2011-08-18
Collection :
Murder Files
Format(s) : ePub
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The lives and premature deaths of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker have been turned into films, songs and novels over the years. But the true story behind these fictions remains a touching and fascinating one.The Murder Files is a series of individual titles, giving...
Editeur : Magpie
Parution : 2011-08-18
Collection :
Murder Files
Format(s) : ePub
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It is still unclear how many children were raped or murdered by Albert Fish, also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, and The Boogeyman. He claimed to be responsible for at least 100 such crimes, but many of the details remain...
Editeur : Magpie
Parution : 2011-08-18
Collection :
Murder Files
Format(s) : ePub
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This is the story of a bricklayer. A master of his craft, he keeps its sacred teachings secret. For him a house is the dwelling place of a soul, and a house must be built in the right spirit or the soul inside it will suffer. The building of an arch is a ritual to...
Editeur : Coronet
Parution : 2011-08-04
Format(s) : ePub
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An outlaw motorcycle club is a band of brothers like no other. Hidden away from mainstream society behind multiple layers of secrecy, mythology and a sophisticated campaign of misinformation that portrays them as nothing more than loveable rogues, the brutal truth about...
Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-08-04
Format(s) : ePub
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"I'm writing this book under a pseudonym.If I used my real name, I may become a hostage myself. And I don't want that. I've seen what it can do to people."Ben Lopez is a Kidnap-for-Ransom consultant. He spends his days travelling from one crisis zone to the next,...
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2011-07-21
Format(s) : ePub
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Davey Sommers should've ended up in a nice job, with a nice wife, living in a nice house... Instead, he ends up an eight-man unlock in prison, serving 17 years for assaulting a police officer, possession of firearms, obtaining money by intimidation and drug dealing....
Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2011-05-12
Format(s) : ePub
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In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American. El Sicario is the hidden face of America's war on drugs. He is a contract killer who functioned as a commandante in the...
Editeur : Bold Type Books
Parution : 2011-05-10
Format(s) : ePub
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Between 1940 and 1957, 33 bombs--strategically placed in Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall, Macys and other populous areas of New York--paralyzed the city, sending shockwaves of fear through an unsuspecting public. George Metesky, the...
Editeur : Union Square & Co.
Parution : 2011-04-05
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
10,99€ (-14%)
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Drug addiction. Criminal behaviour. Murder... and all before his sixteenth birthday. From foster home to children's home to living rough on the streets, Cain never had a normal childhood. By the age of 8 he was carrying a knife. Seven years later he was serving time for...
Editeur : Review
Parution : 2011-03-31
Format(s) : ePub
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The sprawling saga of legendary Australian cop, Bumper Farrell, the most feared and revered policeman in Australia's history.Frank 'Bumper' Farrell was the roughest, toughest street cop and vice-squad leader Australia has ever seen. Strong as a bull, with cauliflowered...
Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2011-03-01
Format(s) : ePub
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Journalist Karen Kissane follows the accused into the courtroom, telling the inside story of one of Australia’s most controversial trials and the marriage at its centre. A compelling combination of great writing, true crime and courtroom drama.Julie and Jamie Ramage...
Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2011-02-01
Format(s) : ePub
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The true stories behind some of the most shocking assassinations in recent history.We live in a new age of political assassination; within our lifetimes all the senior members of the UN Security Council have used it as an extension of political policy in all corners of...
Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2011-01-27
Collection :
Brief Histories
Format(s) : ePub
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