True Crime

Photos of the mob victims and their storiesAuthor: Brendan Francis RileyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 09/02/2011Pages: 268Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.56dISBN: 9781466299672This title is not returnable

From the Bestselling Author of 'Zodiac', 'Auto Focus' and 'Black Fire'. DAVID FINCHER WAS AFTER THE TRUTH. WITHOUT IT, HE WOULD NOT SHOOT ZODIAC.For nearly two decades, Hollywood had been trying to make a film of Zodiac, and for nearly two decades, it had...

As a new consumer culture took root in eighteenth-century England and shops proliferated, the crime of shoplifting leaped to public prominence. Shoplifting in Eighteenth-Century England examines the nature and impact on society of this commercial crime at a time of rapid retail expansion during...

Shot All to Hell by Mark Lee Gardner recounts the thrilling life of Jesse James, Frank James, the Younger brothers, and the most famous bank robbery of all time. Follow the Wild West's most celebrated gang of outlaws as they step inside Northfield's First...

Oscar Bonavena remains a god in Argentina. Fighting as a heavyweight during the 1970s, the division's greatest era, "Ringo" Bonavena battled titans like Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. To resurrect his career, he moved to Reno, Nevada, and hooked up with a local pimp...

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - A murder tale "from inside the house where murder is born." Haunting, harrowing, and profoundly affecting, Shot in the Heart exposes and explores a dark vein of American life that most of us would rather ignore. It...

In the spring of 1903, Nancy Jeanette Flood stood accused of a horrific crime--bewitching two elderly bachelors and luring one of them to his premature doom. Far from a romantic love story of a love triangle gone wrong, Jennie's is an earthy tale of...

Combining a unique visual approach with carefully constructed narrative text, this entry in the Big Idea series provides a survey of the history of drug use, a review of the impact of the War on Drugs, an appraisal of the effects of legal versus...

Dr. Jayant Patel, better known as "Doctor Death," shocked a nation when the truth came to light that he may have killed as many as 87 people under his care. This true-life account told by the journalist who broke the story details the horrifying...

In the autumn of 1888, London women lived under the shadow of the Ripper murders-killings perhaps unmatched in their sadistic brutality.Sickert & The Ripper Crimes derives from the unsuspected testimony of the woman who had particular reason to fear for her life.Florence Pash, friend...

Now updated with new information December 20, 2019, marked the 51st anniversary of the first canonical Zodiac crime, and for decades, police and amateur detectives have been searching for clues to the identity of the man whose reign of terror began the year after...

"Signal 50/48" -- Person shot! Person dead! This is no ordinary police radio distress call. "Signal 50/48" Killing Atlanta's Finest! is no ordinary book. In the eulogistic follow-up to his autobiographical debut, "Signal 63" Officer Needs Help!, Captain Harold B. Goldhagen (ret.) delivers yet...

A first-hand, non-fiction account of the drastic change in the socio-political climate of one of the most influential, fastest-growing, yet historically overlooked cities in the U.S.: Atlanta, Georgia -- during the Civil Rights Movement. Starting in the volatile 1960's and spanning four decades, Atlanta's...

In a real-life scenario straight out of The Silence of the Lambs, Robert Keppel went one-on-one with the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, who advised Keppel on the detective's highly publicized search for the elusive Green River Killer. Bundy's chilling revelations were chronicled in...

From the UK's leading criminologist comes the true story of Margaret McLaughlin, and the man he believes was fitted up for her murder 'Enthralling ... will leave true crime readers with more to ponder than they bargained for' - The Herald Before David Wilson...

"There is no other group anywhere in the country as mobile and as well organized as the Dixie Mafia" - Agent James Duff, Georgia State Organized Crime Intelligence Unit (1974)Deep in the heart of Dixie lies a hidden evil. It's tentacles stretch from state...

The fatwa against Salman Rushdie awakened many westerners to the danger of being accused of blasphemy in the Muslim world. As this eye-opening volume reveals, accusations of "blasphemy," "apostasy," or "insulting Islam" are increasingly used by authoritarian governments and extremist forces in the Muslim...

Inside the mind of one of the nation s most feared thrill killers Silent Rage is the shocking true history of serial killer Carroll Edward Eddie Cole. Raised by an abusive mother and weak father, Cole accomplished his first murder before he was ten...

Crime novelist and former police officer Nigel McCrery provides an account of all the major areas of forensic science from around the world over the past two centuries. The book weaves dramatic narrative and scientific principles together in a way that allows readers to...

This is the incredible true story as told in Wired, Vogue, Forbes, and USA Today.In development to be a major Motion Picture In 2011, the Silk Road website was set up on the Dark Web in the hopes of becoming the Amazon.com of the...