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The Maze Under The Old Theater - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Von Witanovski (Author)It is on a summer day in Austria in the early 1900s when Elizabeth von Witanovski begins her new historical crime mystery, The Maze Under the Old Theatre.In the lavish world of a wealthy Viennese family, a young aristocrat, Marcel, promises himself to his lover's daughter, Gerda. Her fatal love for Marcel sets off a chain of secrets, deception, broken friendships, blackmail, love affairs, and murders. Marcel's meeting with the actress Helga Hayden turns int...

Flip: The Assassination of Carole 'Flip' Phillips the True Story of Carole J. Phillips - Paperback

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by Anthony Phillips Cosme (Author)As this book has taken many years to complete and the pain has never withered from this cold-blooded hit for hire murder of Carole and the lack of justice from the Courts for her family. This book is dedicated to Carole "FLIP" Phillips and all of her roller derby families who had the opportunity of sharing such a short but beautifully awesome life with her. Number of Pages: 152 Dimensions: 0.41 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 08, 2021

Haunted Hotels in America: Your Guide to the Nation's Spookiest Stays - Paperback

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by Robin Mead (Author)Do you believe in ghosts? In his years of travel writing and research, Dr. Robin Mead has found that people are almost equally divided between believers in ghosts and those who think ghost stories are just that--entertaining stories.In Haunted Hotels in America, you'll find a state-by-state guide to the lodgings that cheerfully admit to having an intangible guest or two. Like the spirits themselves, the stories are extraordinarily varied. Some are sad. Some are puzzling....

Born into the Wrong Hands: A story of child abuse, murder, and miracles - Paperback

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by Beverly Dalton (Author)Overcompensating for his numerous personal inadequacies, Tom Mayes, a small-town bad boy from Springfield, Ohio, bullied and intimidated anyone who crossed his path, regardless of age or gender. His heartless and inhumane actions eventually cost him his family and his freedom.Twenty years later-before the creation of the Internet, social media, and DNA websites-the remnants of this broken family were reunited, and four siblings shared the missing pieces of their unkn...

American Mafia: The Rise and Fall of Organized Crime In Las Vegas - Paperback

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by Mark W. Curran (Author)Research journalist Mark W. Curran tells the story of how organized crime built the town of Las Vegas into the glittering mecca it is today. Learn how the mob built the most dazzling and decadent city in the West before being dismantled by federal prosecutors hell-bent on taking them down. Through archival photos and first hand accounts from those who participated, American Mafia: Las Vegas takes you inside the story from the people who know it best. Based on the doc...

Love You More: The Harrowing Tale of Lies, Sex Addiction, & Double Cross - Hardcover

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by Kerry Kerr McAvoy (Author)This suspenseful, fast-paced true story will keep you on the edge of your seat!Dr. Kerry McAvoy was juggling the life of an overly-committed mom, wife, and psychologist when the loss of her husband brought her world to a crashing halt. Then she meets Cesar, a charming, handsome, and ambitious man who sweeps her off her feet with the promise of new love. All that changes when Kerry wakes to a stranger's early morning message, and her world is once again nightmarish...

DB COOPER and the FBI: A Case Study of America's Only Unsolved Skyjacking - Paperback

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by Bruce a. Smith (Author)What's New in the 3rd EditionSpecial 50th Anniversary Issue The 3rd Edition of DB Cooper and the FBI - A Case Study of America's Only Unsolved Skyjacking is an updating of events since August 2016 when the FBI officially closed their investigation.When the Bureau threw in the towel, two important dynamics were unleashed: First, the FBI no longer had absolute control over their paperwork and it became available to the public. Second, citizens and private sleuths took ...

Mafia and Antimafia: A Brief History - Paperback

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by Umberto Santino (Author), John Dickie (Introduction by)The mafia is the impenetrable and seemingly infallible embodiment of notoriety and criminality. Umberto Santino, one of Italy's leading mafia experts, here provides a new perspective on the mafia: as a polymorphic organization which encompasses crime, the accumulation of corruptly acquired wealth and power, the cultural code of omerta and consensus. Exploring the movements which strive to fight against the powers of the mafia, such as ...

It Did Not Start With JFK Volume 1: The Decades of Events that Led to the Assassination of John F Kennedy - Paperback

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by Walter Herbst (Author)Why have historians treated the assassination of JFK as if it occurred in a vacuum?Within twenty-six months of John F. Kennedy's murder, there were fifteen attempted assassinations and government overthrows of leftist leaders and regimes throughout the world. All were perpetrated by right-wing anti-Communists.A right-wing, anti-Communist movement emerged with the election of Franklin Roosevelt and grew with each passing decade. It consisted of the military, intelligen...

It Did Not Start With JFK Volume 2: The Decades of Events that Led to the Assassination of John F Kennedy - Paperback

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by Walter Herbst (Author)Why did Lee Harvey Oswald ask for the only attorney in America who had represented someone who tried to take over the U.S. government?And why did President Eisenhower warn the nation about a Military-Industrial Complex in his last televised address as President?During the Cold War, the United States looked to curtail the spread of communism by the Soviet Union. "Massive Retaliation" defined U.S. foreign policy. A perpetual war machine was created, made up of major def...

Money, Murder, Sex, and Beer: The Texas Trial of Emma Burgemeister - Paperback

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by Robert L. Gulley (Author)There was never any doubt that Emma Burgemeister shot and killed beer and real estate magnate Otto Koehler on November 12, 1914. The question remained: Why? The deceased was one of the wealthiest and most respected persons in the Southwest and a pillar of the community. As a result, his murder and trial drew national attention. Soon, the entire affair was one of the most famous murder cases ever tried in Bexar County-a part of Texas known to have some notorious cha...

Willis Newton The True Story of the Notorious Newton Gang - Paperback

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by G. R. Williamson (Author)Willis Newton and his outlaw gang robbed trains and over seventy banks-more than Jessie James, the Daltons, and Bonnie & Clyde combined. Their biggest haul occurred in 1924 when they robbed a train outside of Rondout, Illinois-getting away with $3,000,000. They still hold the record for the biggest train robbery in U.S. history. The author interviewed Willis Newton a few months before the outlaw died in 1979 at age 90. Using transcripts from interviews, first-h...

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by M. William Phelps (Introduction by), Jack Olsen (Author) Number of Pages: 308 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 24, 2019

Cold Kill: The True Story of a Murderous Love - Paperback

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by Jack Olsen (Author) Number of Pages: 442 Dimensions: 0.98 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 27, 2019

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by Adam Jones (Author)"Genocide" may be the most powerful word in the English language. What is the significance and relevance of this formative concept today? In an extraordinarily wide-ranging collection of essays and interviews, Adam Jones, one of the world's leading genocide scholars, explores the uses and controversies surrounding the term that Raphael Lemkin coined during the Second World War to describe and prohibit mass atrocities against defined human groups.In a style that is learne...

The Misbegotten Son: A Serial Killer and His Victims - The True Story of Arthur J. Shawcross - Paperback

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by Katherine Ramsland (Foreword by), Jack Olsen (Author) Number of Pages: 606 Dimensions: 1.22 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 01, 2017

The Expressman and the Detective - Paperback

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by Allan Pinkerton (Author)The book "" The Expressman and the Detective, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. Number of Pages: 184 Dimensions: 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN Publica...

Betrayed by the Justice System: What Was Done in the Dark Will Be Brought Into the Light - Paperback

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by Robin Swaziek (Author), David Swaziek (Author)There is no greater crime than to take a precious life. We are just a Mom and Dad being the voice for our daughter and fighting for justice. We believe any and every parent would want justice in this extraordinary criminal case. We go through life knowing that tragedies occur in the blink of an eye. However, nothing prepares you for "The Call". "The Call" is when you are informed one of your most precious gifts, your child's life has been taken...

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by Norah Bradford (Author)At 17 years of age, Norah first glimpsed Robert in a less than flattering impression. It took almost a year and all his charm and wit before she agreed to date him. And it was years later before she walked down the aisle with him.Robert became a Methodist Minister and Norah an SRN in the renowned Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast. A few years after they married, they adopted their daughter.But nothing was normal at this time in Northern Ireland. For years, terrorists h...

Operation George: A Gripping True Crime Story of an Audacious Undercover Sting - Hardcover

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by Mark Dickens (Author), Stephen Bentley (Author)Meet the real Line of Duty (TM) undercover team in this previously untold and gripping story of how a Northern Irish terrorist and murderer and one of his followers, were caught in an audacious and brilliantly executed undercover sting on the English mainland, codenamed, Operation George. In 2006 at Belfast Crown Court, William James Fulton, a principal in the outlawed Loyalist Volunteer Force, was jailed for life and sentenced to a minimum of...

Justice Gone Haywire: Book Two of True Tales of the Vicious and Victimized: Book Two - Paperback

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by Denise Noe (Author)A COLLECTION OF TALES NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!These gruesome stories have peppered the pages of newspapers and history books over the centuries. Some are well-known. Some aren't. They rest in that murky place between true crime and horror. The tales in this, Book Two of the series, focus on where the courts and media got it wrong. The falsely accused. Cases in which justice went ... haywire.Inside JUSTICE GONE HAYWIRE: -Queen Katherine Howard: In Her Defense-Roscoe "F...

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by Edward Jay Epstein (Author)Edward Jay Epstein, One of America's most acclaimed investigative journalists re-investigates some of the most notorious and mysterious crimes of the last 200 years. The beloved head of the UN dies in a tragic plane crash . . . witnesses unearthed years later suggest it wasn't an accident. Theories behind the mysterious death of Marilyn Monroe change yearly, and some believe Jack the Ripper was a member of the royal family. History books say Hitler burned down th...

Looted Gold: Debunking the Myth of the Missing Kruger Millions - Paperback

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by Mike Dwight (Author), Blake Wilkins (Author)Looted Gold explodes the myth of the missing Kruger Millions with startling evidence that exposes for the first time the committed plundering of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) by the political elite over a period of years.The disappearance of the paltry amount of gold that left Pretoria in mid-1900 as President Paul Kruger retreated down the railway line towards Portuguese East Africa is placed in a context not considered in over 100 years...

Pablo Escobar's Story 2: Narcos at War - Paperback

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by Shaun Attwood (Author)Pablo Escobar was a mama's boy who cherished his family and sang in the shower, yet he bombed a passenger plane and formed a death squad that used genital electrocution. Most Escobar biographies only provide a few pieces of the puzzle, but this action-packed 1000-page book reveals everything about the king of cocaine. Mostly translated from Spanish, Part 2 contains stories untold in the English-speaking world, including: How Pablo's craving for a teen volleyball play...

Scotland's Wildest Bank Robber - Paperback

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by Ian MacDonald (Author), Shaun Attwood (Editor)As a young man in Glasgow's underworld, Ian 'Blink' MacDonald earned a reputation for fighting and stabbing his enemies. After refusing to work for Arthur "The Godfather" Thompson, he tried to steal 6 million in a high-risk armed bank robbery. While serving 16 years, Blink met the torture-gang boss Eddie Richardson, the serial killer Archie Hall, notorious lifer Charles Bronson and members of the Krays.After his release, his drug-fuelled viole...

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by Adrian Langenscheid (Author), Stefanie Gräf (Author), Franziska Singer (Author)In this fifth volume of his True Crime series, Germany's bestselling True Crime author, Adrian Langenscheid, unleashes a heart-pounding, addictive reading yet again. A breathtaking and deeply harrowing portrait of the human abyss, it arouses powerful emotions with its chilling, matter-of-fact descriptions.Free from sensationalism, eighteen True Crime short stories retell some of the most spectacular French crimi...

Cruel Deception: A True Story of Murder and a Mother's Deadly Game - Paperback

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by Gregg Olsen (Author)From Gregg Olsen, bestselling author of If You Tell, comes the heartbreaking true story of a mother's darkest secrets coming to light in Cruel Deception. In and out of hospitals since birth, angelic nine-month-old Morgan Reid finally succumbed to what appeared to be Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Morgan's Texas-born mother Tanya, a nurse and devoted wife, pulled up stakes with her grieving husband Jim, and moved on. It was the best way to put the past behind them. Until ...

Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America - Paperback

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by Bill O'Reilly (Author), Martin Dugard (Author)The instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller, now in paperback! In the tenth book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take on their most controversial subject yet: The Mob. Killing the Mob is the tenth book in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales of nearly 18 million copies worldwide, and over 320 weeks on t...

Campfire Confessions: More Tales of a Texas Game Warden - Paperback

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by Benny G. Richards (Author)Game warden work is not glamorous. There will be days when you are shivering and cold and your legs are covered with mud up to your knees. There will be other days when you are hot and sweating and your arms are covered with fish scales up to your elbows. There are hurricanes, tornados. mass shootings, explosions, and every other kind of calamity. You will get a front row seat to all of it.CAMPFIRE CONFESSIONS is a companion to Benny's first book TALES OF A TEXAS ...

The Baroness: Unmasking Himmler's Most Secret Agent - Paperback

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by John Lucas (Author) "Masterful and impeccably researched" - Aspects of History Anja Bergroth Manfredi de Blasiis had everything she needed to survive the Third Reich: an elite Teutonic background, an aristocratic husband, an abundance of charm, and a web of high society contacts that would make royalty blush. There was just one problem - a previous marriage to a successful German-Jewish businessman produced a son who was in mortal danger from Hitler's genocidal schemes. As her former in-la...

Cyberpocalypse: Inside the Digital Assault on Healthcare - Paperback

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by Matthew J. Surburg (Author), Wendy Dunning (Designed by)Pay up or shut down. You choose. Cybercrime is on the rise and hackers have moved on from targeting individuals to targeting corporations both large and small. In recent memory, many high-profile companies have been the victim of some form of cyberattack. Healthcare has emerged as a lucrative target for these crimes. Attacks jeopardize the safety of patients and security of caregivers. This is the story of how one hospital system was ...

United States of True Crime: Alabama: The Most Chilling Cases in All 50 States - Paperback

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by Ashley Hudson (Author)United States of True Crime is an anthology series with books devoted to the most disturbing cases in each of the 50 states. This book focuses on ten of the most chilling crimes in Alabama history.True crime junkies may recognize some of the highly publicized cases, but I've made sure to include lesser-known, equally unsettling crimes.The cases included in this book: Audrey Marie Hilley: Black widow who murdered her husband then attempted to poison her own daughter. S...