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by Simon Read (Author)A riveting true-crime history of London's first modern police force as told through its most notorious murder cases. The idea of "Scotland Yard" is steeped in atmospheric stories of foggy London streets, murder by lamplight, and fiendish killers pursued by gentleman detectives. From its establishment in 1829 through the eve of World War II, Scotland Yard--the world's first modern, professional, and centrally organized police force--set new standards for policing and inve...
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by Martin Short (Author)Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons When the House of Commons Affairs Committee recently recommended that police officers, magistrates, judges and crown officers should publicly register their masonic membership, it was vary largely thanks to the ammunition provided by Martin Short's investigative tour de force. His inside the Brotherhood carried on the pioneering work begun by Stephen Knight's explosive of the Brotherhood.
Number of Pages: 720
Dimensions: 1.78 x 8 x 5...
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by Bob Brodnik (Author)On May 1, 1969, 19-year-old Bob Brodnik's life changed forever. His father, Joe Brodnik-a devoted San Francisco police officer and his personal hero-was killed in the line of duty. Decades later, Bob makes the same pilgrimage every year to his father's grave, revisiting not just memories, but the pain, rage, and devastation that shaped his life.All You Can Handle is more than a memoir; it's a raw, unflinching exploration of grief, resilience, and what it truly means to ...
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by Brian Santana (Author), Cameron Santana (Author)The fascinating story of how two brothers-one an English professor, the other a cop, and as different as night and day-tag team as authors to solve North Carolina's most notorious cold case ...A MURDER ON CAMPUS: The Professor, The Cop, And North Carolina's Most Notorious Cold Case by Brian and Cameron Santana is a true crime investigation that unveils the shocking story behind the brutal 1973 murder on campus of 19-year-old Virginia Marie Ol...
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by Marc Riedel (Author), Wayne Welsh (Author)Criminal Violence: Patterns, Explanations, and Prevention, Fourth Edition, provides a current, comprehensive, and highly accessible overview of major topics, theories, and controversies within the field of criminal violence. Using engaging, straightforward language, Marc Riedel and Wayne Welsh consider diverse theoretical perspectives and present state-of-the-art prevention and intervention methods. In their discussions of various types of violence...
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by Margalit Fox (Author)"A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it's about so much more than crime."--Tana French, author of In the Woods A sensational Edwardian murder. A scandalous wrongful conviction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the rescue--a true story. After a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home in 1908, the police found a convenient suspect in Oscar Slater, an immigrant Jewish cardsharp. Thou...
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by Mike Dash (Author)They called it Satan's Circus--a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the twentieth century, it was a place where everyone from the chorus girls to the beat cops was on the take and where bad boys became wicked men; a place where an upstanding young policeman such as Charley Becker could become the crookedest cop who ever stood behind a shield. Murder was so common in the vice district tha...
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by Barry Faulkner (Author)Biographies of the killers and serial killers of Alaska and Arkansas. Their backgrounds, lives, crimes and punishments.ALASKA; Capital punishment has never been practiced in Alaska throughout its history as a state, as it was abolished in 1957. Between December 28th, 1869, and April 14th, 1950, between the Department, District, and Territory of Alaska, twelve felons, all male, were executed by hanging for murder, robbery, and other crimes. Some were European, some we...
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by Frank W. Abagnale (Author), Stan Redding (Author)The uproarious, bestselling true story of the world's most sought-after con man, immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in DreamWorks' feature film of the same name, from the author of Scam Me If You Can. Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history. In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot's u...
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by Gregory M. Cooper (Author), Thomas McHoes (Author), John E. Douglas (Foreword by)Follow the most riveting cases of an elite investigative team of volunteers brought together by a famed FBI Profiler dedicated to solving crimes no one else couldWhen Gregory M. Cooper, former head of the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit, founded the Cold Case Foundation in 2013, he had high expectations, but couldn't anticipate the level of response. What started with just a half-dozen or so retired FBI agents ...
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by Michael Longi (Author)Captivating near-death experience memoir. Just days away from becoming one of the Land Gods of Las Vegas, Michael Longi is murdered in a shopping center parking lot. But unfortunately for some...death was not the end for Michael. Transformed by his resurrection, Michael grapples with the horror of those likely involved in his murder. A politician. A former FBI agent. Multiple federal felons. A pig farmer. And worst of all: a powerful, connected family he once consider...
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by Publications International Ltd (Author), Brain Games (Author)Learn about the FBI's most famous cases while solving these word search puzzles!
More than 80 word search puzzles to solve.
Every puzzle is themed around a notable FBI case and includes a summary of the case.
Complete answer key found in the back of the book.
Spiral bound, 192 pages.
Number of Pages: 192
Dimensions: 0.79 x 9.13 x 7.8 IN
Publication Date: April 15, 2021
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by Gregg Olsen (Author)The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Amish and reveals the conspiracy to keep it a secret in a heartbreaking and horrifying true-crime story.In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner's report: natural causes. Ida's husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, mu...
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by Danny Tipping (Author), Ned Parker (Author)What goes through the mind of a killer when they commit murder?What motivates someone to take a life? How do murderers remember their lives and crimes? With unprecedented access to high-security prisons all around the country, the creators of Netflix's I Am a Killer set out to get answers to these questions--by talking to the killers themselves.Most of the killers will die in prison, but each one speaks openly about their pasts and their crimes. A...
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by Scott E. Bowser (Author)Step inside the mysterious and eerie world of the Rock Island Roadhouse, where echoes of the past linger within its walls. Whispers in the Walls delves into the dark history and paranormal activity of this infamous building. Once a bustling stopover during the Prohibition era, frequented by notorious gangsters like Al Capone and John Looney, the Roadhouse has since gained a reputation for being haunted by restless spirits. From shadowy figures that vanish into thin ...
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by R. Douglas Tracy (Author)Times, Crimes and the Tenderloin in Pre-Prohibition Toledo is a collection of stories that paint a vivid picture of the Tenderloin era in Toledo during the two decades before the passage of the 18th and 19th Amendments. As the country moved out of the rigid Victorian period and entered an era of airplanes, automobiles, and rapidly changing technology, new-found social freedoms began to spin out of control.Times, Crimes and the Tenderloin in Pre-Prohibition Toledo f...
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by William Kolibash (Author), Jon Land (With), Shariane Kolibash Taylor (Author)Groundbreaking U.S. Attorney William Kolibash's battle against organized crime, drug kingpins, cults, and more across his twenty-year career in the Northern District of West Virginia. As soon as I slid the contents from the envelope, I knew it was a bomb. So opens Justice Never Rests, the story of U.S. Attorney William Kolibash's relentless fight against organized crime in the foothills of West Virginia and beyond...
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by Gayle Brandeis (Author)"Although MANY RESTLESS CONCERNS illuminates the horror of absolute control over others, it also shines a beacon on the strength of women sharing their truths one by one, of spirits joining together to topple the seemingly untouchable. This work speaks to our own times, to our #metoo reckoning, to our power as survivors to take back our stories and reclaim the darkness. Oppression of any kind never holds, even if it takes the dead to bring it down. This book is a hau...
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by Cliff Stoll (Author)In this white-knuckled true story that is "as exciting as any action novel" (The New York Times Book Review), an astronomer-turned-cyber-detective begins a personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatens national security and leads all the way to the KGB. When Cliff Stoll followed the trail of a 75-cent accounting error at his workplace, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, it led him to the presence of an unauthorized user on the system. Suddenl...
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by Becky Cooper (Author)Author BiographyBecky Cooper is a former New Yorker editorial staff member and Senior Fellow at Brandeis's Schuster Institute for Investigative Reporting. Her undergraduate thesis, a literary biography of David Foster Wallace, won Harvard's Hoopes Prize, the highest undergraduate award for research and writing. Research for this book was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the International Women's Media Foundation's Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women ...
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by Michael Wolraich (Author)"The 1931 murder of 'Broadway Butterfly' Vivian Gordon exposed an explosive story of graft, corruption and entrapment that went all the way to the top of the state. Wolraich brings a journalist's eye and a novelist's elegance to this story of Jazz Age New York."--New York Times Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her sty...
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by Ben MacIntyre (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The "master storyteller" (San Francisco Chronicle) behind the New York Times bestseller The Spy and the Traitor uncovers the true story behind one of the Cold War's most intrepid spies. "[An] immensely exciting, fast-moving account."--The Washington Post ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Foreign Affairs, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottag...
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by Michelle Horton (Author)In this "incendiary" memoir, a woman fights the criminal justice system to release her incarcerated sister after she kills her longtime abuser (Publishers Weekly). In September 2017, a knock on the door upends Michelle Horton's life: she learns that her sister has just shot her partner and is now in jail. Stunned, Michelle rearranges her life to raise Nikki's two young children alongside her own son. During the investigation that follows, Michelle is shocked to le...
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by Helen Garner (Author), Sarah Weinman (Introduction by)The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - The engrossing true-crime classic from one of Australia's most acclaimed writers, that follows a man and his broken life, a community wracked by tragedy, and the long and torturous road to closure -"This House of Grief, in its restraint and control, bears comparison with In Cold Blood."--Kate Atkinson, author of Big Sky and Shrines of Gaiety On the evening of Father's Day, 2005, separated...
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by Jack Rosewood (Author), Rebecca Lo (Author)There is little more terrifying than those who hunt, stalk and snatch their prey under the cloak of darkness. These hunters search not for animals, but for the touch, taste, and empowerment of human flesh. They are cannibals, vampires and monsters, and they walk among us. These serial killers are not mythical beasts with horns and shaggy hair. They are people living in society, going about their day-to-day activities until nightfall. They are the ...
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by Harold Schechter (Author)"A deeply researched and morbidly fascinating chronicle of one of America's most notorious female killers." --The New York Times Book ReviewAn Amazon Charts bestseller.In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy of it. Between 1902 and 1908, she lured a succession of unsuspecting victims to her Indiana "murder far...
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by Zachary G. Ford (Author)Bloody discoveries, potential serial killers & dramatic court cases.Washington, D.C., saw its share of grim murders in the mid-twentieth century. From a love triangle gone wrong to an unknown killer on the loose, there was no shortage of sensationalized headlines keeping residents up to date. Reports of a respected businessman found in a hotel room with the body of his longtime mistress shocked locals, while the murder of eleven-year-old Carol Bardwell in Rock C...
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by Douglas Preston (Author), David Grann (Foreword by)From the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God, a jaw-dropping discovery of an Egyptian tomb opens up a slew of archaeological mysteries and deadly tales. Now in paperback with an EXCITING BONUS ADVENTURE! What's it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that's been sealed for thousands of years? What horrifying secret was found among the prehistoric ruins of the American Southwest? Who really was the ...
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by Stacy Horn (Author)In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism and true crime, Stacy Horn sheds light on how the subprime mortgage scandal of the 1970s and a long history of white-collar crime slowly devastated East New York, a Brooklyn neighborhood that would come to be known as the Killing Fields. On a warm summer evening in 1991, seventeen-year-old Julia Parker was murdered in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York. An area known for an exorbitant level of violence and c...