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11 Hours on the Ledge: Madness, Mob Mentality, and the Media"Look at all those people down there, I can't disappoint them. It's showtime!" he said before leaping dramatically to his death, much to the delight of a cheering crowd estimated at up to 100,000. 11 Hours on the Ledge is the stunning story of...
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18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Invented Modern ForensicsA forgotten woman. A revolutionary idea. The true story behind the birth of modern forensic science.In a time when women were shut out of science and police work was more art than evidence, Frances Glessner Lee created the "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death"--detailed dioramas...
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50 States of Murder: An Atlas of American CrimeFrom the true crime author of Murderabilia, a geographic telling of some of the most notorious but lesser-known murders for each US State. Filled with hundreds of entries organized by location, 50 States of Murder is a lively and chilling work of storytelling and...
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A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age RogueA captivating Jazz Age true-crime caper about "the greatest jewel thief who ever lived" (Life Magazine), Arthur Barry, who charmed everyone from Rockefellers to members of the royal family while simultaneously planning and executing the most audacious and lucrative heists of the 1920s. "A...
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A Killing in Amish Country: Lies, Betrayal, and a Cold-Blooded MurderNew York Times bestselling authors Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris investigate the 2009 death of an Amish wife and mother found murdered in her own bed. At just 30 years old, with dark-blonde hair and freckles, Barbara Weaver was as pretty as the women...
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A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking CrimeUSA TODAY BESTSELLER"A wild ride beneath the glitz and glamour of 1950s Hollywood, proving once again that Casey Sherman is a master of the genre." --Ben Mezrich, New York Times bestselling author of Dumb Money, Bringing Down the House, and The Accidental BillionairesThe dark...
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A Second Shot: The Pursuit of Justice in Maryland's Oldest Cold Case MurderMichael Weisberg was born in Huntington, West Virginia on March 10th, 1959 to Fred Weisberg. whose valor enabled the Allies to win World War II, and Joan Weisberg, who placed second to Elizabeth Taylor in the 1950 Miss Brooklyn Beauty Pageant. As a child,...
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A Short History of the World in 50 TyrantsExplore the tyrants who have shaped the course of history. All power corrupts, but absolute power can turn people into absolute monsters. The true stories behind the men and women who led tyrannies around the world. This is history... but not as you know...
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A Town Without Pity: Aids, Race, and Resistance in Florida's Deep SouthTwo heartbreaking tales of small-town injustice revealing America's struggles with AIDS and racial bias in the 1980sIn the 1980s, the tiny town of Arcadia, Florida, was "fifty miles and fifty years from Sarasota." With its cowboy roots, low-wage agricultural industries, and violent frontier history,...
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Ambush: The Real Story of Bonnie and ClydeThe story of Bonnie and Clyde--their love, their desperate killings, and their destruction in an explosion of gun fire--has fueled an American legend more than seventy years. But it is only with this book by the last surviving officer of the six who shot...
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American Scare: Florida's Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer LivesA vital exposé for both our history and our present day, American Scare tells the riveting story of how the Florida government destroyed the lives of Black and queer citizens in the twentieth century. In January 1959, Art Copleston was escorted out of his...
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Art Fraud: 50 Fakes That Fooled the Art WorldStep inside the astonishing world of art forgery, where masterpieces are faked, fortunes are made, and almost no one is who they seem. Art Fraud reveals the true stories behind some of the greatest scams in art history, where con artists forged their way...
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Atlas of True Crime: A Worldwide Guide to Murderers and Thieves, Kidnappers and Con Men"Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone." --Georges Bataille, French philosopher Interest in criminal behavior continues to flourish. The worse the crime and the greater the notoriety of the perpetrator, the more the public yearns to digest...
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Beach Blanket Bedlam: Volume Two in the Service with a Sneer ChroniclesBack in 1982, Frankie and Annette wouldn't have survived ten minutes on this beach. Not before either being robbed, brutally assaulted, or forced to flee in terror from a violent lunatic amped to the gills on angel dust.Incredibly, the seaside sands were still much...
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Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury HollywoodIlluminating and captivating, New York Times bestselling author of Tinseltown and Bogart offers the first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder--the most famous unsolved true crime case in American history--which humanizes the victim and situates the notorious case within an anxious, postwar country...
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Black Tunnel White Magic: A Murder, a Detective's Obsession, and '90s Los Angeles at the BrinkDetective Rick Jackson, a decorated LAPD detective and a key inspiration in the development of Harry Bosch, delivers a shocking and immersive look into the one case he could never let go. In June 1990, Ronald Baker, a straight-A UCLA student, was found repeatedly...
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Blizzard of Lies: Karen Read, John O'Keefe, and the Shocking Unsolved Murder in Cop Town, USA"A propulsive recap of a fascinating case." --Publishers Weekly "This is, hands down, one of the best works of crime nonfiction to hit shelves in years." --Booklist In January 2022, a Boston police officer turned up dead in the snow, seemingly a victim of...
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Borgata: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia: Volume 2 of the Borgata TrilogyThis epic three-volume history of the mafia continues with Borgata: Clash of Titans, covering 1960 to 1985, as the mob comes into conflict with the American political elite--and confronts internal wars that will shake the organization to its foundations. The first serious external threat...
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Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American MafiaA riveting history of the Mafia from 1860s Sicily to 1960s America--as narrated by a former heist expert and Gambino family mobster. The culmination Louis Ferrante's exhaustive research delving deep into Sicily's socio-economic-political roots, Borgata: Rise of Empire will finally reveal exactly how and...
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Born in the Life - Gene BorrelloGene Borrello's story isn't something that everyone has already heard, read about, or seen on various documentaries and dramatic cable shows about the history of the Mafia. His story is current, not something from the days of Bugsy Siegel, Albert Anastasia, and Mayer Lansky...
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