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A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them"A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains." --Kathy Reichs A brilliant blend of science and crime, A Taste for Poison reveals how eleven notorious poisons affect the body--through the murders in which they were used. As any reader...
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A Taste for Treason: The Letter That Smashed a Nazi Spy RingA gripping true story of wartime espionage.Dundee, 1937. When housewife Mary Curran became suspicious of hairdresser Jessie Jordan's frequent trips to Nazi Germany, she had no idea that she was about to be drawn into an international web of espionage. Thanks to a tip...
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A Terrible Thunder: The Story of the New Orleans SniperOn New Year's Eve in New Orleans, 1972, Mark James Essex began violent and deadly sniper attacks on policemen. Before it ended one week later, hundreds of heavily armed police and a Marine Corps assault helicopter went to a burning down-town hotel to battle...
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A Thorn in Their SideIn 1984, at the age of 78, world-renowned rose grower Hilda Murrell was found brutally murdered in the Shropshire countryside. She had just gained approval to testify on the unsolved problems of radioactive waste at the first British planning inquiry into a new nuclear...
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A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and MurderFrom the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in modern Irish history, at once a propulsive work of true crime and an act of literary subversion. "A masterpiece"--The Observer - "Disturbing [and] compelling"--Colm Toíbín - "Superb and...
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A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and MurderA NEW YORK TIMES AND ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - From the award-winning author comes the gripping tale of one of the most scandalous murderers in modern Irish history, at once a propulsive work of true crime and an act of literary...
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A Time to Betray: A Gripping True Spy Story of Betrayal, Fear, and CourageAn exhilarating true story that reads like a spy thriller about a former CIA operative recruited out of Iran, while he served as a member of the secretive and highly feared Revolutionary Guards of Iran.A TIME TO BETRAY This exhilarating, award-winning memoir of a...
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A Traveller's History of AustraliaEssential reading for travelers who wish to enjoy the amazing diversity of Australia, this book outlines the history of that great southern democracy from the arrival of the earliest Aborigines some fifty or sixty thousand years ago to the present. The ancient Aboriginal way...
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A Traveller's History of New Zealand and the South Pacific IslandsA Traveller's History of New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands gives the curious tourist not only a modern-day portrait of New Zealand and the far-flung islands, their political systems, and economic diversity, but also looks at the early settling of this massive area...
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A Treacherous Hustle: Hitting a Lick for the love of a PimpFalicia Blakely is born into a family bursting at the seams with dysfunction. Just as she isgetting used to living with her grandmother in Jacksonville, Florida, the feisty fifteen-year-old issuddenly uprooted and sent to live with her mother in Atlanta, Georgia (ATL). Immediately, mother...
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A Treasury of Victorian MurderLong out of print, this very first volume of Rick Geary's increasingly successful series is now reissued in the same format as all other titles. Three delectable murders, culled from the pages of Victorian papers of the era, are presented in Geary's inimitable style,...
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A Twisted Faith: A Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a ChurchNew York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen investigates the sensational story of a minister who seduced four of his female congregants, and hatched a cold-blooded plot to murder his wife. On December 26, 1997, near the affluent community of Bainbridge Island off the coast...
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A Very Expensive PoisonA shocking assassination in the heart of London. In a bizarre mix of high-stakes global politics and radioactive villainy, a man pays with his life. At this time of global crises and a looming new Cold War, A Very Expensive Poison sends us careering...
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A Viable Suspect: The Story of multiple murders and how a police force's reach proved too short for Canada's most notorious cold case.For more than 30 years, retired Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant Barry Ruhl has believed that a criminal with whom he had a violent encounter early in his career might be responsible for a string of unsolved murders of young women in Ontario, including the...
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A Warrant to Kill: A True Story of Obsession, Lies and a Killer CopShe tried to tell her friends. She even went to the police. No one would believe her--and now she was dead.Problems had always followed Susan White, but when she remarried and moved to Houston's posh suburbs, she thought the past was behind her--until she...
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A Witness of Fact: The Peculiar Case of Chief Forensic Pathologist Colin ManockThe compelling story of South Australia's disgraced former chief forensic pathologist and the legal scandals in which he became implicated. For nearly three decades, Dr Colin Manock was in charge of South Australia's forensic pathology services, and played a vital role within the state's...
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A Woman Condemned: The Tragic Case of Anna AntonioA sensational murder, trial, and a young woman's execution in Depression-era New York At first glance, the 1932 Easter morning murder of Salvatore "Sam" Antonio had all the trademarks of a gang-related murder. Shot five times, stabbed a dozen more, Antonio was left for...
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A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media StarA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 An exemplary work of investigative journalism. --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times The murder of a Pakistani social media star exposes a culture divided between accelerating modernity and imposed traditional values--and the tragedy of those caught...
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A Woman Scorned: The Murder of George Saxton -- A True Crime MelodramaAll murders are not created equal. There are epoch-making homicides like the O. J. Simpson bloodbath or the Lizzie Borden horror-and then there are all the rest. The 1898 murder of George D. Saxton wasn't one of the rest-it had everything: Saxton, a Social...
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A Wonderful Career in Crime: Charles Cowlam's Masquerades in the Civil War Era and Gilded AgeCharles Cowlam's career as a convict, spy, detective, congressional candidate, adventurer, and con artist spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age. His life touched many of the most prominent figures of the era, including Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Ulysses S. Grant. One...
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