True Crime

Los Angeles, the heartbeat, where sounds of lust and shopping swallow up catcalls, shameless bragging, screams of terror and delight, and from passing LAPD prowl cars darting down the San Diego Freeway comes the sad and lonesome wail of sirens--police sirens--the song of the...

HOW WOULD YOU FEEL when you discovered that your wife, the woman you were in love with and had hoped to spend the rest of your life with, had totally deceived you from the day you met. When my wife, after 3 months of...

The smoke had barely cleared from the booze-fueled gun battles of Prohibition and the Roaring 20s when a new breed of gangster stepped onto the American stage. Unlike the slick mobsters of New York and Chicago, the new outlaws were often born from the...

"Dying in My Skin" is an unfortunate case of a man born H.I.V Positive city of Washington DC. Beyond the white house and capitol exist and underworld that visitors never see. Far away from the fine restaurants and row houses of Georgetown and Foggy...

On May 14, 2003, a familiar risk-filled journey, taken by hopeful Mexican immigrants attempting to illegally cross into the United States, took a tragic turn. Inside a sweltering truck abandoned in Texas, authorities found at least 74 people packed into a "human heap of...

On September 10, 1957, Hattie Cotton Elementary School in Nashville, Tennessee, blew up. On March 16, 1958, the Jewish Community Center was bombed. On April 19, 1960, the home of Civil Rights attorney and Nashville city councilman, Z. Alexander Looby was dynamited. He and...

Communism was never a popular ideology in America, but the vehemence of American anticommunism varied from passive disdain in the 1920s to fervent hostility in the early years of the Cold War. Nothing so stimulated the white hot anticommunism of the late 1940s and...

When Connecticut Yankees began to settle the Wyoming Valley in the 1760s, both the local Pennsylvanians and the powerful native Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) strenuously objected. The Connecticut Colony and William Penn had been granted the same land by King Charles II of England, resulting in...

Author: James BuccellatoPublisher: History Press Library EditionsPublished: 11/30/2015Pages: 162Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70dISBN: 9781540202079This title is not returnable

Social scientist and crime writer James A. Buccellato explores Detroit's struggle with gang violence, public corruption and the politics of vice during the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century.Though detectives denied it, the Italian mafia was operating in Detroit as early as 1900,...

When the gun smoke cleared, four men were found dead at the hardware store in a rural East Texas town. But this December 1934 shootout was no anomaly. San Augustine County had seen at least three others in the previous three years, and these...

From a famous actor and an experienced journalist, a wildly entertaining debunking of cryptocurrency, one of the greatest frauds in history and on course for a spectacular crash At the height of the pandemic, TV star Ben McKenzie (The O.C., Gotham) was the perfect...

From "one of the crypto industry's unlikely but most prominent critics" (Washington Post), an entertaining and well-researched account of the rise and fall of cryptocurrency. At the height of the pandemic, TV star Ben McKenzie was the perfect mark for cryptocurrency: a dad stuck...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A smart, savvy road map through the mayhem of the cryptocurrency madness."--Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Alexander Hamilton From "one of the crypto industry's unlikely but most prominent critics" (Washington Post), an entertaining and well-researched account of the...

"...should be required reading for law enforcement personnel, educators, and parents alike. There's simply nothing like it in print-no other coverage approaches the depth of history, psychology, and criminal justice insights of this story."-D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review Considered an expert in...

Cannibalism is unquestionably one of the oldest and deepest-seated taboos. Even in an age when almost nothing is sacred, religious, moral and social prohibitions surround the topic. But even as our minds recoil at the mention of actual acts of cannibalism there is some...

The ultimate "conspiracy" is also the most horrible: a Satanic Elite controls all access to power. If you wish to join them, you must be like them-willing to do the worst things imaginable to the most innocent lives possible.They have been operating since the...

Chris Thrall left the Royal Marine Commandos to find fortune in Hong Kong, but following a bizarre series of jobs ended up homeless and in psychosis from crystal meth addiction.He began working for the 14K, a viscous Hong Kong crime syndicate, as a nightclub...

In December 1958, Ken Martin, his wife Barbara, and their three young daughters left their home in Northeast Portland to search for Christmas greens in the Columbia River Gorge--and never returned. The Martins' disappearance spurred the largest missing persons search in Oregon history and...

Echoes in Eternity: Street Cop Stories is an exciting collection of true tales from the life of an author who spent over thirty years policing the streets of Metropolitan Detroit. Each chapter is a different adventure which explores and explains examples of police procedure...