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Murder in the Cathedral Murder in the Cathedral T. S. Eliot A dramatization in free verse and with features derived from ancient and medieval theatre of the killing of Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury under King Henry II. Eliot used the device of a c… OL1142294W
Who killed George Polk? Who killed George Polk? Elias Vlanton Reconstructing the murder, investigation, trial, and aftermath, Who Killed George Polk? offers a penetrating analysis of the willingness of the American media - including CBS and a committee of promi… OL15857138W
Nairobi heat Nairobi heat Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ "A young and beautiful white woman is murdered in the US, and the prime suspect is former Rwandan school headmaster Joshua - a hero who had risked his life to save the innocent during Rwanda's genoci… OL16002546W
Justice for Sara Justice for Sara Erica Spindler This is a chilling suspense novel about a woman who goes home ten years after her sister's murder to find the true killer. When seventeen-year-old Katherine McCall awakened one morning to find her be… OL17642832W
Dust Dust Patricia Cornwell Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has just returned from working one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history when she's awakened at an early hour by Detective Pete Marino. A body, … OL17724927W
Butcher Butcher Gary C. King Details the unspeakable crimes committed by Robert "Willie" Pickton, a sadistic psychopath who brutally tortured and butchered more than forty women. OL17739870W
The jackal's share The jackal's share Chris Morgan Jones A vivid and relentless tale of murderous corporate espionage, Chris Morgan Jones's The Jackal's Share follows the money through the rotten alleys of Marrakech and the shining spires of Dubai, reveali… OL17843265W
False Impression False Impression Jeffrey Archer It's September 10, 2001, and Lady Victoria Wentworth is sitting in spacious Wentworth Hall considering the sad state of family fortunes when a female intruder slips in, slashes her throat and cuts of… OL1807045W
Missing and murdered children Missing and murdered children Margaret O. Hyde Discusses missing and abducted children, abused children, and murder victims, and outlines ways to prevent and cope with these increasing problems. OL1886279W
The dead girl The dead girl Melanie Thernstrom Roberta Lee, a lovely Berkeley student of unusual promise, went running one November Sunday in 1984 with her lover Bradley Page. Brad came back alone.... Five weeks later, her battered body was fou… OL1899434W
Entered from the Sun Entered from the Sun George P. Garrett,George Garrett Completing his masterful trilogy of novels set in Elizabethan England, Garrett again applies distinguished literary skills to spin a tale dark with deception and metaphysical questions but teeming wi… OL1910922W
Love and death in the Sunshine State Love and death in the Sunshine State Cutter Wood "When the owner of a Florida motel goes missing, a writer who had been a guest at the motel becomes drawn into the investigation, carrying its facts beyond the actual case and into his own life"-- OL19738272W
Heard it through the grapevine Heard it through the grapevine Liz Lipperman Lainey left Texas nine years ago after her sister Tessa married the only man Lainey ever loved. So when Tessa' house explodes, the last thing anyone expects is for her to appear to Lainey as a ghost.… OL19966158W
Black-eyed susans Black-eyed susans Julia Heaberlin "As a sixteen-year-old, Tessa Cartwright was found in a Texas field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only fragments of memory as to how she got there. Ever since, the press has pursued … OL20011515W
The Iguala 43 The Iguala 43 Sergio González Rodríguez 174 pages : 18 cm OL20197886W
The Romford outrage The Romford outrage Linda Rhodes Inspector Thomas Simmons was murdered near Romford in 1885, and the search for his killers culminated in a second police murder, this time in Cumbria. In tracing the course of the crime, the characte… OL21540380W
Eye of the beholder Eye of the beholder Lowell Cauffiel Eye of the Beholder is thoroughly researched and a very well written true crime novel. Lowell Cauffiel tells of the investigation and prosecution of Brad King for the murder of his wife and TV news a… OL2644412W
Mysterious persons in history Mysterious persons in history Fred Neff Discusses eight unsolved cases of mysterious death, from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, involving Napoleon Bonaparte, Sir Harry Oaks, the Black Dahlia, William Taylor, Lizzie Borden, J… OL3354977W
The Carol Thompson murder case The Carol Thompson murder case Donald John Giese The story of the 1963 case in which St. Paul, Minn. attorney T. Eugene Thompson was convicted of hiring someone to kill his wife, Carol. Written by a former St. Paul newspaper reporter who covered th… OL7328211W
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
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