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The Confessions of a Rum-RunnerThe names have been changed to protect the guilty, but this is an otherwise-authentic firsthand account of liquor smuggling during Prohibition. Crackling with excitement and adventure, it ranges from Rum Row -- where boats anchor beyond the three-mile limit until their illicit cargo can...
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The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in HistoryNATIONAL BESTSELLER - The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR(R) AWARD - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE...
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The Conspiracy Fun BookThis zine collects fun activities for the whole family related to classic conspiracies This is the history that school "forgot" to teach you, made easy to learn with such fun formats as the "Who Wanted John F. Kennedy Dead?" word search, the "Foreign Assassination...
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The Constance Fisher TragedyOn March 8, 1954, while battling post partum depression, a 24 year old Maine housewife drowned her three children in a bathtub before attempting suicide. After spending only 5 years at the Augusta State Hospital, Constance Fisher was released from the institution. Her release...
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The Cooper's Wife Is Missing: The Trials of Bridget ClearyIn 1895 twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her cottage in rural County Tipperary and remained missing for several days. At last her body was discovered, bent, broken, and badly burned in a shallow grave. Within a few days, her unimaginable story came to light:...
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The Cop and the Stalker: Based on a True Story and Actual EventsThe Cop and the Stalker is a true story of what happened when a highly decorated New York City cop and a career criminal are put on a collision course with the help of US Customs and an overzealous federal prosecutor. It is also...
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The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American HistoryIn the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his associates as the largest homegrown...
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The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld"A mob saga that has it all--brotherhood and betrayal, swaggering power and glittering success, and a Godfather whose reach seems utterly unrivaled. What a relentless, irresistible read." -- Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of The Force A fascinating, cinematic, multigenerational history of...
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The Corpse Had a Familiar FaceNow in trade paperback, Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Buchanan's classic nonfiction masterpiece detailing events from her eighteen years writing for The Miami Herald. Nobody covered love and lunacy, life and death on Miami's mean sAuthor: Edna BuchananPublisher: Gallery BooksPublished: 07/14/2009Pages: 416Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize:...
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The Corpsewood Manor Murders in North GeorgiaAuthor Amy Petulla uncovers the curious case that left two men dead and the incredible story still surrounded by controversy, speculation and myth.In 1982, Tony West and Avery Brock made a visit to notorious Corpsewood Manor under the pretense of a celebration. They brutally...
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The Corpsewood Manor Murders in North GeorgiaIn 1982, Tony West and Avery Brock made a visit to notorious Corpsewood Manor under the pretense of a celebration. They brutally murdered their hosts. Dr. Charles Scudder and companion Joey Odom built the castle in the woods in the Trion forest after Scudder...
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THE COUNTERFEIT LEGEND A Memoir: Respected Pony League Manager Lives Double Life Robbing Banks35When a tall, charismatic fireman waltzed into Barbara's office, her first instinct was to run--instead, he swept her off her feet, pulling her into a lifetime of crime, addiction, and abuse. Thus, the Counterfeit Legend was born. Told from the perspective of his stepdaughter...
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The Country Boy Killer: The True Story of Cody Legebokoff, Canada's Teenage Serial KillerHe was the friendly, baby-faced, Canadian boy next door. He came from a loving, caring, and well-respected family. Blessed with good looks and back-woods charm, he was popular with his peers and he excelled in sports. A self-proclaimed "die hard" Calgary Flames fan, he...
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The Court of Last Resort: The True Story of a Team of Crime Experts Who Fought to Save the Wrongfully ConvictedEdgar Award Winner: True stories of miscarriages of justice, legal battles, and landmark reversals, by the creator of Perry Mason. In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who...
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The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century ParisThe intrigue began with a triple homicide in a luxury apartment building just steps from the Champs-Elyseés, in March 1887. A high-class prostitute and two others, one of them a child, had been stabbed to death--the latest in a string of unsolved murders targeting...
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The Covert Colour Line: The Racialised Politics of Western State IntelligenceAuthor: Oliver KearnsPublisher: Pluto Press (UK)Published: 04/20/2023Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.40dISBN: 9780745347301About the AuthorOliver Kearns is a research fellow with SPIN, the Secrecy Power and Ignorance Network, at the University of Bristol, UK. He studies how state secrecy, from...
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The Covey Jencks Mysteries: Love And Murder Deep In The Heart Of TexasShelton Williams' book The Covey Jencks Mysteries: Love and Murder Deep in the Heart of Texas is more than a collection of mysterious tales of murder and investigation. By bringing to life these characters, the author has highlighted the global issues of racism, drug...
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The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland EmpireIt wasn't surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across the border from Tijuana, but before long they were arriving in droves. The bikes went from curiosity, to nuisance, to phenomenon. But until they caught the...
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The Crack Era: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Kevin ChilesThe Crack Era: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Kevin Chiles chronicles one of the most treacherous periods in New York City's history. As told by a man The New York Times once described as, "The biggest drug lord in Harlem since Nicky Barnes,"...
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The Craft We Chose: My Life in the CIAMany books, fiction and nonfiction alike, purport to probe the inner workings of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Many attempt to create spine-tingling suspense or allege that America's civilian spy operation has run amok and been infested with rogues and criminals. Not that The...
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