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Dr Geoffrey Garrett was for over 30 years a Home Office pathologist. This is his personal memoir, in conjunction with crime journalist Andrew Nott, of many infamous, unusual and heartbreaking cases and a fascinating history of his professional life, giving a unique...
Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2013-02-07
Format(s) : ePub
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'Qué es esto? Qué es esto? Es cocaína!' I couldn't speak a word of Spanish but I understood the word 'cocaína' and knew that I was in a lot of trouble. I should have been paralysed with fear but it didn't seem real. I was only twenty-three. In 1997, English...
Editeur : Summersdale
Parution : 2013-01-07
Format(s) : ePub
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Brought together by their crimes, the prisoners, young offenders and young people at Bridgend's Parc Prison share their stories of life on the other side of the security walls. Whether they are hardened criminals, prolific offenders or teenagers in trouble for the first...
Editeur : Headline Accent
Parution : 2012-12-13
Collection :
Quick Reads
Format(s) : ePub
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This fascinating book will be enjoyed both by those interested in the science of poisons and also by general readers who can dip in and find hair-raising horrors and calamities on every page.In this fascinating guide to poisons, Celia Kellett provides information and...
Editeur : Headline Accent
Parution : 2012-11-22
Format(s) : ePub
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Emma Kennedy tells you everything you ever wanted to know about THE KILLING - and more.Hej! If you've been experiencing an inexplicable longing for rain, long dark nights and an overwhelming urge to pull on a slightly itchy looking jumper, then congratulations - You...
Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2012-11-15
Format(s) : ePub
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My Mother Warned Me About Blokes Like Me is Boris Mihailovic's frank, fearless and fast account of a life of motorcycles, brotherhood, demons, dirt and danger.Whether you're into dirt bikes, road bikes, ride a Yamaha, scooter or Laverda: if you've ever experienced the...
Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2012-07-31
Format(s) : ePub
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In Flesh and Blood, Sunday World Investigations Editor, Nicola Tallant looks at the rising phenomenon of murder-suicide in Ireland, at events which, while shocking in the extreme, happen in tight-knit communities, behind the closed doors of apparently loving homes. She...
Editeur : Hachette Books Ireland
Parution : 2012-07-16
Format(s) : ePub
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What's it like to have the legal sanction to shoot and kill? This compelling and often startling book answers this, and many other questions about the oft-times violent world inhabited by our nation's police officers. Written by a cop-turned university professor who...
Editeur : Jossey-Bass
Parution : 2012-06-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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In 1945, as part of the Occupation forces sent to postwar Japan Nick Zappetti, a native of Italian East Harlem, entered a world as strange as any he had ever know,In postwar Tokyo, however, he realised there were certain opportunities. He had a failed stint as a...
Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2012-06-21
Collection :
Tom Thorne Novels
Format(s) : ePub
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On 23 May 1992 the Mafia assassinated its 'Number One Enemy', the legendary prosecutor Judge Falcone, with a motorway bomb that also killed his wife Francesca and three bodyguards. Fifty-seven days later, the Mafia killed Falcone's friend and colleague, Judge Paolo...
Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-05-24
Format(s) : ePub
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A fresh, new look at gangs in every part of the world which deliberately avoids the stories that have been done to death - about Capone, Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde - and focuses on less well-known gangs such as 'Ma' Barker's Boys; the Smaldones of Denver; Scotland...
Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2012-04-19
Collection :
Mammoth Books
Format(s) : ePub
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The Barefoot Bandit tells the riveting true story of Colton Harris-Moore, America's twenty-first-century outlaw. Born into a poor family marred by alcohol abuse, Colt had the local sheriff after him before the age of ten. Colt survived by breaking into homes to forage...
Editeur : Hachette Books
Parution : 2012-03-20
Format(s) : ePub
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The incredible bestselling true story of the rise and reign of the most wanted criminal in history, told by the one man who was with him every step of the way - his brother Roberto.Murderer, philanthropist, drug dealer, politician, devil, saint: many words have been...
Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-03-15
Format(s) : ePub
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Behind the fashionable bars and clubs of Soho lies a fascinating history of criminal activity, featuring some of London's most notorious gangsters. From the razor gangs of the 1920s to the post-war gangleaders Billy Hill and Jack Spot; from the pre-war French pimps and...
Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2012-03-01
Format(s) : ePub
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In August 1955 two men fought on the corner of Frith Street and Old Compton Street, Soho. From the dreadful injuries they inflicted on each other it easily could have been a hanging matter, but ironically it became known as 'The Fight that Never Was'. It was, however,...
Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2012-03-01
Format(s) : ePub
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The murders in London between 1888-91 attributed to Jack the Ripper constitute one of the most mysterious unsolved criminal cases. This story is the result of many years meticulous research.The author reassesses all the evidence and challenges everything we thought...
Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2012-03-01
Format(s) : ePub
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It remains one of the most enduring mysteries in gangland lore: in 1941, while Abe Reles and three other key informants were under round-the-clock NYPD protection, the ruthless and powerful thug took a deadly plunge from the window of a Coney Island hotel. The first...
Editeur : Union Square & Co.
Parution : 2012-02-07
Format(s) : ePub
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THE MOST AMAZING TRUE STORY SINCE AGENT ZIGZAGOCCUPIED PARIS, 1944.A swastika crowns the Eiffel Tower.Nazis march through the streets.And in the dark heart of the city, a madman is at work . . .At a chic Right Bank address, a horrific pile of dismembered bodies is...
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2012-01-19
Format(s) : ePub
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This is the story of an international group of drug smugglers, their criminal success and the hunt to bring them to justice. There were sixteen of them, from America, Britain, Australia and Thailand, and together they were called 'The Ring'. They first began exporting...
Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2011-12-21
Format(s) : ePub
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The incredible real life story of the world's first super spy'Full of stimulating detail... vivid glimpses of the world of Elizabethan espionage' GUARDIAN'Walsingham emerges from these pages as a hero of epic stature' DAILY TELEGRAPHFrancis Walsingham was the first...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2011-12-15
Format(s) : ePub
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