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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Sieben Schüsse in Glienicke	Jakob Augstein	Ein einmaliges Zeugnis der sozialen und politischen Umbrüche in Berlin. Jakob Augstein interessiert sich in seinen Gerichtsreportagen für die Menschen. Er erzählt von der Mutter ohne Zukunftsperspekt…	OL10031386W
Listen to Danger	Dorothy Eden	Life hadn't been easy for Harriet Lacey since her husband had been killed in the same car crash that had left Flynn Palmer blinded. But recently things had been looking better. Flynn, bitter at h…	OL10422235W
Crime and punishment in the Buddhist tradition	Nandasēna Ratnapāla	Chiefly a study on the rules of Buddhist monasticism and religious order; includes reference to the Pārājika (Buddhist law) of Vinayapiṭaka.	OL1059930W
Rum Punch	Elmore Leonard	Ordell "Whitebread" Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie Burke couriers Ordell's profits from Freeport to Miami. But the feds are on to Jackie …	OL111696W
Killshot	Elmore Leonard	It’s not Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne’s fault that they were in the real estate office when a pair of thugs walked in with extortion on their minds. But as far as aging Ojibway Indi…	OL111704W
Crime beat	Michael Connelly	Before Michael Connelly became a novelist, he was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. In these vivid, hard-hitting pieces, Connelly leads the reader past the yello…	OL111725W
Me and my million	Clive King	When Ringo, a young Londoner, finds himself in sudden possession of a stolen painting worth a million pounds, his life turns into a series of wild adventures.	OL11273583W
Tonight, Somewhere in New York	Cornell Woolrich	TABLE OF CONTENTS *********************** TONIGHT, SOMEWHERE IN NEW YORK (aka THE LOSER) Chapters 1-5 Morning after murder -- The night of February 17,1924 -- Murder, obliquely -- The penny-a-…	OL11276652W
Classic crimes	Roughead, William	Dorothy Sayers called William Roughead "the best showman who ever stood before the door of the chamber of horrors," and in Classic Crimes he combines his professional expertise as a lawyer with his i…	OL1157082W
Bad lawyer	David Cray	No one felt bad when Sid Kaplan's addiction to alcohol and cocaine destroyed his career as a lawyer, but when he takes on Themla Barrow's scandalous, media-hot case, sees his two only friends die, an…	OL11656038W
The stairs that kept going down	Sir Compton Mackenzie	In the London house his family occupies, a ten-year-old boy discovers a secret, seemingly endless, staircase that leads him to the scene of a crime.	OL1167508W
Great Short Stories of the World -- a collection of complete short stories chosen from the literatu…	Barrett Harper Clark,Gerda Charles,Mark Twain,Ambrose Bierce,Maxim Lieber,Charles Dickens,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Theodore Dreiser	The two brothers (Anpu and Bata) / Anonymous -- Setna and the magic book / Anonymous -- Eumæus' : talk / Homer -- The country mouse and the town mouse / Æsop -- King Rhampsinitus and the thief / …	OL1191826W
Criminal profiling	Jenny MacKay	Crime solving is painstaking, but modern methods and technological advances have significantly changed the field of criminal investigation. Clues to crimes both spectacular and ordinary can now be fo…	OL11926894W
From guns to gavels	Bill Neal	"Linked accounts of frontier crimes and trials from 1885 to 1929 across West Texas, Indian and New Mexico Territories, and Montana trace the evolution of criminal justice in the American West"--Provi…	OL11994666W
monster	Jonathan Kellerman	*A second-rate actor is found mutilated in a car trunk.* Then a psychologist at a Los Angeles hospital for the criminally insane is murdered in a similar grisly fashion. Suddenly the incoherent r…	OL12729W
Death by Rope - Volume One: 1867 to 1923	Jeffrey E. Pfeifer	Death by Rope: Volume One traces the stories of these men and women from 1867 to 1923and details the crimes they committed as well as their final steps on the gallows. The book provides the opportuni…	OL12795697W
Murder mile	Michael J. Mulloy	352 p. : 18 cm	OL12858118W
Organized crime	Howard Abadinsky	xiii, 417 pages ; 24 cm	OL13262754W
Wodehouse on crime	P. G. Wodehouse	edited and with a preface by D.R. Bensen; foreword by Isaac Asimov. Contents Strychnine in the soup -- The crime wave at Blandings -- Ukridge starts a bank account -- The purity of the turf -- …	OL1337005W
The Killer Inside Me	Jim Thompson	Lou Ford is the deputy sheriff of a small town in Texas. The worst thing most people can say against him is that he's a little slow and a little boring. But, then, most people don't know about the …	OL13420890W