True Crime

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by Harvey Rachlin (Author)Forget NYPD Blue--and enter the real and dangerous world of Dave Carbone, homicide detective in New York's deadliest neighborhood. Rachlin's intimate and unvarnished account of Carbone's education as a homicide detective on New York's meanest streets will transport you to places where few civilians have ever gone. It provides nonfiction reading at its most compelling.Back JacketOne out of every ten homicides in the United States takes place in New York City. The job ...

City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris - Paperback

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by Holly Tucker (Author)In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to Paris after the brutal deaths of two magistrates. Reynie, pragmatic and fearless, discovers a network of witches, poisoners, and priests whose reach extends all the way to the king's court at Versailles. Based on court transcripts and Reynie's compulsive note-taking, Holly Tucker's engrossing true-crime narrative makes the characters breathe on the page as she follows the police chief into the ...

Missing Beauty: A True Story of Murder and Obsession - Paperback

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by Teresa Carpenter (Author)Originally published in 1989, this true crime thriller brilliantly reconstructs one of the most extensive murder investigations in recent years the disappearance of Robin Benedict, a beautiful commercial artist and moonlighting prostitute, and her relationship with the suspect, the eminent Dr. William Douglas. Number of Pages: 484 Dimensions: 1.08 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 03, 2007

Faster, Higher, Farther: How One of the World's Largest Automakers Committed a Massive and Stunning Fraud - Paperback

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by Jack Ewing (Author)Faster, Higher, Farther chronicles a corporate scandal that rivals those at Enron and Lehman Brothers--one that will cost Volkswagen more than $22 billion in fines and settlements. Through meticulous reporting, New York Times correspondent Jack Ewing documents why VW felt compelled to install "defeat devices" in diesel vehicles that unlawfully lowered CO2 levels during emissions testing, and how the fraud was committed, covered up, and finally detected. Faster, Higher, F...

Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice - Paperback

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by Kevin Cullen (Author), Shelley Murphy (Author)A New York Times Bestseller A #1 Boston Globe BestsellerAn instant classic, this unforgettable narrative, rich with family ties and intrigue, follows the astonishing career of a gangster whose life was more sensational than fiction. Cullen and Murphy have broken more Bulger stories than anyone, and Whitey Bulger became front-page news, revealing the mobster's secret letters written from Plymouth Jail after the sixteen-year manhunt that led to h...

Big Bucks: The True, Outrageous Story of the Plymouth Mail Robbery . . . and How They Got Away With It - Paperback

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by Ernest Tidyman (Author)"[A] tight, well-researched, sometimes funny book about one of the crimes of the century, the motley group that pulled it off, and the assorted characters who tried to catch them. Pseudonyms are used here, but anyone with access to Boston newspaper files can figure out most of the dramatis personae in the ingenious 1962 robbery of a post office van (the feds were saving money on an armored car) heading up from Cape Cod to Boston, packed with $1.5 million in bank depo...

One of Ours: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing - Paperback

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by Richard A. Serrano (Author)On April 19, 1995, terrorism struck the heartland of America: A cataclysmic explosion destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building, took the lives of 168 people, and injured more than 500 others. It was not the work of a secret foreign cabal or a maniacal suicide bomber. Instead, death drove a rented truck, and behind the wheel was a young white American male with the barest of knowledge at his fingertips--a driver's license to rent a van and a recipe for mixing ...

Octopus: The Long Reach of the Sicilian Mafia - Paperback

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by Claire Sterling (Author)A shocking expose of how the Sicilian Mafia uses financial influence and ruthless violence to control the international narcotics trade. The most definitive work yet published on the transformation of the old bootlegging and gambling Mafia into a multinational conglomerate.--The Washington Times. Number of Pages: 388 Dimensions: 0.8 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: May 02, 2008

Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service - Paperback

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by Andrew Meier (Author)For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin s orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the Soviet and American intelligence services a footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. It surfaced briefly in 1992, when Boris Yeltsin handed over a dossier to the White House, but the full story of what happened remained a mystery. After eight years of international sleuthing, Andrew Meier at last rev...

Victorian Studies in Scarlet: Murders and Manners in the Age of Victoria - Paperback

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by Richard D. Altick (Author)In the first chapters, Mr. Altick examines the Victorian delight in murder as a social phenomenon. The remainder of the book is constructed around classic murder cases that afford a vivid perspective on the way people lived--and died--in the Age of Victoria.From the beginning of the age, homicide was a national entertainment. Penny broadsheets hawked in the streets highlighted the most gruesome features of crimes; newspapers recounted the most minute details, from...

The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas - Paperback

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by Anand Giridharadas (Author)Days after 9/11, an avowed "American terrorist" named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walks into a Dallas minimart and shoots Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladeshi immigrant, maiming and nearly killing him. Ten years after the shooting, Bhuiyan wages a campaign against the State of Texas to have his attacker spared from the death penalty. The True American is a rich, colorful, profoundly moving exploration of the American dream in its many dimensions.Winner of the NYPL...

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by Calvin Trillin (Author)True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism "Reporters love murders," Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. "In a pinch, what the lawyers call 'wrongful death' will do, particularly if it's sudden." Killings, first published in 1984 and expanded for this edition, shows Trillin to be such a reporter, drawn time after time to tales of sudden death. But Trillin is attracted less by violence or police proce...

Alternative Business: Outlaws, Crime and Culture - Paperback

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by Martin Parker (Author)From Robin Hood to Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean, outlaws have been a central part of 800 years of culture. These are characters who criticise the power of those in the castle or the skyscraper, and earn their keep by breaking the law. Outlaws break categories too. They are fact and fiction, opposition and product, culture and economy, natural justice and organized crime. Beginning with Robin Hood stealing from the rich, and covering along the way pirate...

Intelligence Activities in Ancient Rome: Trust in the Gods But Verify - Paperback

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by Rose Mary Sheldon (Author)Professor Sheldon uses the modern concept of the intelligence cycle to trace intelligence activities in Rome whether they were done by private citizens, the government, or the military.Examining a broad range of activities the book looks at the many types of espionage tradecraft that have left their traces in the ancient sources: * intelligence and counterintelligence gathering* covert action* clandestine operations* the use of codes and ciphersDispelling the myth...

Understanding Sexual Violence: A Study of Convicted Rapists - Paperback

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by Diana Scully (Author)Understanding Sexual Violence examines the structural supports for rape in sexually violent cultures and dispels a number of myths about sexual violence--for example, that childhood abuse, alcohol, and drugs are direct causes of rape. Number of Pages: 218 Dimensions: 0.57 x 9.2 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: September 15, 1990

Serial Killers: Death and Life in America's Wound Culture - Paperback

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by Mark Seltzer (Author)In this provocative cultural study, the serial killer emerges as a central figure in what Mark Seltzer calls 'America's wound culture'. From the traumas displayed by talk show guests and political candidates, to the violent entertainment of Crash or The Alienist, to the latest terrible report of mass murder, we are surrounded by the accident from which we cannot avert our eyes. Bringing depth and shadow to our collective portrait of what a serial killer must be, Mark S...

Emotionally Involved: The Impact of Researching Rape - Paperback

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by Rebecca Campbell (Author)Tackling difficult issues, Emotionally Involved gives a vivid picture the challenges researchers who studey traumatic events face. It is essential reading for researchers, therapists, fieldworkers, for those on the frontlines of rape crisis and domestic violence work, and for anyone concerned with the role of emotions in social science.Author BiographyRebecca Campbell is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is Director of t...

Hate and Bias Crime: A Reader - Paperback

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by Barbara Perry (Editor)Covering everything from hate groups and extremist exploits to Black church arsons and the fall out violence from 9/11; this is an important collection that sheds much-needed light on this growing problem.Author BiographyBarbara Perry is Associate Professor in the department of Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. She is the author of In The Name of Hate: Understanding HateCrimes (Routledge, 2001), which was a finalist for the 2001 C. Wright Mills Award. N...

Strategic Intelligence in the Cold War and Beyond - Paperback

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by Jefferson Adams (Author)Strategic Intelligence in the Cold War and Beyond looks at the many events, personalities, and controversies in the field of intelligence and espionage since the end of World War II. A crucial but often neglected topic, strategic intelligence took on added significance during the protracted struggle of the Cold War. In this accessible volume, Jefferson Adams places these important developments in their historical context, taking a global approach to themes including...

The Last Godfather: The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino - Paperback

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by Simon Crittle (Author)As head of the Bonanno clan, Joey Massino was the last don, and ran his world with an iron hand--until he got hit with a murder rap, and turned on his own people. Here, for the first time, is his shocking true story--a glimpse inside the world of organized crime that we may never see again.Author BiographySimon Crittle is the author of The Last Godfather: The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino. He has appeared on Charlie Rose and his writing has been published in Time maga...

Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine - Paperback

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by Joseph K. Loughlin (Author), Kate Clark Flora (Author)A dedicated policeman and a former assistant attorney general unveil a woman's murder-and the investigation that changed one Maine city forever.Author BiographyJoseph K. Loughlin is a former assistant chief of police for the city of Portland, Maine. He served as the interim chief and retired from service in January 2010 after 30 years of police work. He has the historic distinction of achieving and serving in every single sworn rank wit...

Fear Came to Town: The Santa Claus, Georgia, Murders - Paperback

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by Doug Crandell (Author)In the town of Santa Claus, Georgia, the holiday spirit lived all year round...until Jerry Scott Heidler came to town...In Santa Claus, Georgia, the streets were named Candy Cane Road and December Drive. Christmas was the lifeblood of the people. One terrible night in December 1997, Heidler broke into the home of his former foster family and brutally murdered them. Doug Crandell describes the harrowing incident that changed this one town forever.Author BiographyDoug C...

Dark Heart: A True Story of Sex, Manipulation, and Murder - Paperback

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by Kevin Flynn (Author), Rebecca Lavoie (Author)From the authors of the "true crime classic"* Notes on a Killing comes the harrowing story of the games that couples play--and what happens when role-playing becomes a deadly reality. Was murder part of the game? Seventeen-year-old Kat McDonough grew up with theater in her blood--and a penchant for make-believe. More than a decade older, Seth Mazzaglia was well known in the community theater circle of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He, too, had a ...

The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock's Shower - Paperback

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by Robert Graysmith (Author)Marli Renfro was Janet Leigh's body double in the Hitchcock classic Psycho. When she disappeared, it was believed she was the victim of a serial killer. It was a mystery that took decades to solve-and a crime that could only have happened in Hollywood.Author BiographyRobert Graysmith is the New York Times bestselling author of several true crime novels including Zodiac, Zodiac Unmasked, Auto Focus, and Amerithrax. The major motion pictures Zodiac and Auto Focus are...

Notes on a Killing: Love, Lies, and Murder in a Small New Hampshire Town - Paperback

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by Kevin Flynn (Author), Rebecca Lavoie (Author)Their friendship would kill her... Weaver and fiber artist Edith "Pen" Meyer knew her friend Sandy Merritt's relationship with a married man was wrong. She had even urged Sandy to take out a restraining order against Kenneth Carpenter. Which was why her call to Sandy on February 23, 2005, seemed to come from out of the blue. During it, she told Sandy to drop the restraining order and get back together with Ken. Pen was never seen again. One man...

The Yoga Store Murder: The Shocking True Account of the Lululemon Athletica Killing - Paperback

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by Dan Morse (Author)The full true story of the lululemon murder and what really happened to Jayna Murray and Brittany Norwood--photos included. It was a crime that shocked the country. On March 12, 2011, two young saleswomen were found brutally attacked inside a lululemon athletica retail store in Bethesda, Maryland, one of the nation's wealthiest suburbs. Thirty-year-old Jayna Murray was dead--slashed, stabbed, and struck more than three hundred times. Investigators found blood spattered on...

Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree - Hardcover

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by Dennis McDougal (Author)Randy Kraft was highly intelligent, politically active, loyal to his friends, committed to his work--and the killer of 67 people--more than any other serial killer known. This book offers a glimpse into the dark mind of a living monster. "To open this book is to open a peephole into hell".--Associated Press. Photographs. Number of Pages: 336 Dimensions: 1.06 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: September 20, 2004

Bag Toys: Sex, Scandal, and the Death Mask Murder - Hardcover

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by David France (Author)Here's the shocking true story of the 1985 Death Mask Murder--a grisly crime linked to prominent Madison Avenue art gallery owner Andrew Crispo, a man who operated in both the forbidding underworld of sadomasochists and drug addicts, and in the glittering art world and New York society. 8-page insert. Number of Pages: 350 Dimensions: 1.2 x 9.2 x 6.3 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: April 28, 2004

The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey Into the Mind of the Serial Killer - Hardcover

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by Jason Moss (Author), Jeffrey Kottler (Author)Charles Manson. Jeffrey Dahmer. John Wayne Gacy. Richard Ramirez. Serial killers; arguably the most terrifying criminals in the world. Jason Moss -- a brilliant 18-year-old student -- contacted these killers and mimicked the profiles of their ideal "victims" and disciples in an effort to get them to open up. It worked. Through taped conversations and reams of correspondence (including drawings and birthday cards), the convicts gave him an unprec...

Between Good and Evil: A Master Profiler's Hunt for Society's Most Violent Predators - Hardcover

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by Roger L. Depue (Author), Susan Schindehette (Author)He was a pioneer in modern law enforcement, a trailblazing leader in the hunt for serial killers. But after decades of staring deep into the darkness, he entered a seminary to search for the good... Between Good and Evil. No one gets closer to evil than a criminal profiler, trained to penetrate the hearts and minds of society's most vicious psychopaths. And no one is a more towering figure in the world of criminal profilers than Roger L....

The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey Into the Mind of the Serial Killer - Paperback

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by Jason Moss (Author), Jeffrey Kottler (Author)DEAR MR. MANSON... It started with a college course assignment, then escalated into a dangerous obsession. Eighteen-year-old honor student Jason Moss wrote to men whose body counts had made criminal history: men named Dahmer, Manson, Ramirez, and Gacy. DEAR MR. DAHMER... Posing as their ideal victim, Jason seduced them with his words. One by one they wrote him back, showering him with their madness and violent fantasies. Then the game spun out o...

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by P. D. James (Author), T. A. Critchley (Author)In this riveting true crime account, acclaimed author P. D. James, the "Queen of the English mystery novel" (Newsweek) joins forces with historian T. A. Critchley to re-create the Radcliffe Highway murders, a series of vicious crimes committed in 1811 ... The scene is the London Docks near Wapping Old Stairs, a sinister neighborhood where pirates were often hanged. The first victims were two hardworking shopkeepers, along with their baby and sh...