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The Savage City The Savage City T. J. English The safest big city in America? That would be the question a certain generation of New Yorkers would ask someone who praises New York for it's safety and prosperity. A generation that has experienced… OL15695648W
The restless sleep The restless sleep Stacy Horn A behind-the-scenes look into the careers of New York detectives charged with solving cold cases from the past half century follows their often exhaustive pursuits of leads and use of new technologie… OL15858033W
Facing the wind Facing the wind Julie Salamon The story of Robert Rowe, his disabled son, his adopted child, his murder of his wife and three children, and his second wife. The author "addresses the questions of how human beings cope with the bu… OL16047083W
Friends of the family Friends of the family Tommy Dades Chronicles the case involving corrupt NYPD detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, and traces how they provided information to the Lucchese crime family that resulted in at least eight murde… OL18165172W
Thirty-eight witnesses Thirty-eight witnesses A. M. Rosenthal In a decade scarred by some of the worst tragedies in this country's history, March 13, 1964, stands apart from the other atrocities, not because of the identity of the victim--whose name was not Ken… OL1940141W
Sex Money Murder Sex Money Murder Jonathan Green (Journalist) A portrait of the violent drug wars of the Bronx in the late 1980s and early 1990s documents the surge of crack cocaine's popularity and the murderous territory disputes among its dealers, tracing th… OL19741516W
Kitty Genovese Kitty Genovese Catherine Pelonero Written in a flowing narrative style, Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences presents the story of the horrific and infamous murder of Kitty Genovese, a young… OL19975586W
CBS Murders CBS Murders Richard Hammer 244 pages : 20 cm OL21313894W
Blood Legacy Blood Legacy Judith Reitman Have truths, i should know, I'm Rosalind Campanella OL3142308W
Rogue Scholar Rogue Scholar Richard W. Bailey This is the tale of the insalubrious and utterly failed life of the notorious nineteenth-century thief, murderer, professional impostor, and would-be philologist Edward Rulloff, who was condemned to … OL3342928W
Mrs. Harris Mrs. Harris Diana Trilling Chronicles the trial of Jean Harris for the murder of her long-time lover, the author of the Scarsdale diet. OL3924195W
Let me take you down Let me take you down Jack Jones A top crime journalist reveals precisely how the world-shattering murder of John Lennon happened—and why In Let Me Take You Down, Jack Jones penetrates the borderline world of dangerous fantasy in… OL4321500W
Hooked up for murder Hooked up for murder Michael Benson,Robert Mladinich,Robert Mladinlch In this true account, Mark Fisher, a nineteen-year-old college student and star football player, unaware of the dark side of New York City night life, attends a party with a stranger, which leads to … OL8454367W