True Crime

From the author of the star-reviewed Garden State Gangland comes the story of the notorious East Harlem Purple Gang, a group of freelance hitmen who flourished on the Mafia's payroll and the media's front page. Author: Scott M. DeitchePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublished: 05/07/2024Pages:...

An entertaining collection of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, music, and identities. World history is littered with tall tales and those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a...

Did a collector with a knack for making sensational discoveries find the first document ever printed in America? Did Adolf Hitler pen a revealing multivolume set of diaries? Has Jesus of Nazareth's burial cloth survived the ages? Can the shocking true account of Abraham...

This sequel to HOGGS: Prison Journals delivers more true accounts of the staff's daily lives and interactions with inmates in the State of California Department of Corrections.These journals offer a snapshot of the challenges of the job mixed with insight, humor, and the good...

Author: James Gilligan, David A. J. RichardsPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 12/02/2021Pages: 250Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39dISBN: 9781108970396Review Citation(s): Choice 12/01/2022About the AuthorGilligan, James: - James Gilligan, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, NYU, wrote Violence (1996), Preventing Violence (2001), Why Some Politicians...

Throughout my tenure as US attorney, Trump's Justice Department kept demanding that I use my office to aid them politically, and I kept declining - in ways just tactful enough to keep me from being fired. I walked this tightrope for two and a...

Soon to be an Apple TV+ Docuseries!"This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen King, and reported with a vigorous empathy that leaves Truman Capote in the dust. Scott Johnson's courage, his relentless quest for...

Hollywood Confidential is the first truly in-depth look at the sexy, humorous, violent, and tragic history of the mob in Hollywood from the 1920s, when Joe Kennedy decided to buy a motion picture company, to the 1980s when the last vestiges of mob influence...

The Cold War and the Golden Age of Hollywood meet in this story of the remarkable career of Boris Morros, film producer and Russian double agent Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and '40s. The head of music at Paramount Pictures,...

A vivid biography of Harvey Weinstein--how he rose to become a dominant figure in the film world, how he used that position to feed his monstrous sexual appetites, and how it all came crashing down, from the author who has covered the Hollywood and...

Hollywood Godfather is Gianni Russo's over-the-top memoir of a real-life mobster-turned-actor who helped make The Godfather a reality, and his story of life on the edge between danger and glamour. Gianni Russo was a handsome 25-year-old mobster with no acting experience when he walked...

Hollywood Godfather is Gianni Russo's over-the-top memoir of a real-life mobster-turned-actor who helped make The Godfather a reality, and his story of life on the edge between danger and glamour. Gianni Russo was a handsome 25-year-old mobster with no acting experience when he walked...

The name "Hollywood" conjures up fantastical images of bright lights, glamorous dreams, and impossible riches. From its humble beginnings as a ranch sprawling northwest of Los Angeles in the late 1800s, Hollywood has spanned lifetimes as a factory of dreams, a dazzling place where...

Hollywood Scandals and Murders: Tinsel Town After Dark is a collection of some of the most famous and infamous scandals and murders going right back to the beginnings of Hollywood itself. From Fatty Arbuckle to Charles Manson and Frances Farmer to O.J. Simpson, the...

Mickey Cohen, who died in 1976, was a colorful, feared West Coast gangster-gambler who knew the biggest names in Hollywood including the Rat Pack, was a confidant of Bugsy Siegel, a friend of Las Vegas' late Liz Renay and on first names with the...

A fascinating look into the mind of one of America's first serial killers Who was H. H. Holmes, the killer made famous in the "Devil in the White City?" Did he build a 'Murder Castle' to lure victims into secret rooms, vaults, and gas...

A fascinating look into the mind of H. H. Holmes, one of America's first serial killers known as the 'Devil in the White City' who built a Murder Castle and lured victims into secret rooms, vaults, and gas chambers during the Chicago's World's Fair....

H.H. Holmes did what few serial killers ever do. He published a series of autobiographical documents that revealed his sociopathic tendencies--and lied about his crimes. The infamous killer of the Chicago World's Fair published a memoir and a confession, both of which conceal more...

A menudo sientes que podrías saber más sobre historia universal? Los temas sociales siempre han despertado tus ganas de aprender pero no sabes por dónde empezar? Sabías que el holocausto se nego poor al menos 17 países? Entonces sigue leyendo..."Llegará el día en que...

In 2008, the psychologist Nicolai Sennels was dismissed from his job at the juvenile facility S nderbro in Copenhagen. During the years he worked there, he had made unique and startling discoveries while treating the inmates, mostly young Muslim men convicted of various crimes.However,...