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Murder in the Cathedral
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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… |
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The daughters of Juárez
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Teresa Rodríguez |
For more than twelve years the Mexican border city of Juárez has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls: kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, with most of th… |
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The Polk conspiracy
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Kati Marton |
On May 16, 1948, the body of CBS correspondent George Polk was found floating in Greece's Salonika Bay, where he had been stationed to report on a bloody civil war. The murder was allegedly solved, b… |
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Who killed George Polk?
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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… |
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Nairobi heat
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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… |
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Cruel doubt
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Joe McGinniss |
One hot summer night in 1988, Bonnie Von Stein's second husband was murdered in their bed, Bonnie herself stabbed, beaten, and left for dead beside him. It looked like a brutal but tragically typical… |
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The Girl on the Train
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Pocket,Paula Hawkins |
A debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives.
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes … |
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The reckoning
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Charles Nicholl |
In 1593 the brilliant and controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging-house. The circumstances were shady, the official account -- a violent quarrel … |
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Smoldering embers
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Lisa McVey,Joy Wellman,Susan Replogle |
Explains how Bobby Joe Long, a serial killer responsible for the deaths of ten women and the rapes of more than two hundred, was brought to justice due the endless pursuit of two of his victims fortu… |
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Dust
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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, … |
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Serial murderers and their victims
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Eric W. Hickey |
This text provides an in-depth, scholarly, and broad-based examination of serial murderers and their victims. The coverage is supported by extensive data and research, and it profiles some of the mos… |
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Dark sparkler
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Amber Tamblyn |
Summary:Here is the American starlet: discovered, disrobed, displaced, disused, disgorged. In more than thirty haunting, visceral poetic portraits, acclaimed poet and actress Amber Tamblyn contemplat… |
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The millionaire's wife
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Cathy Scott |
George Kogan grew up in Puerto Rico before making his way to New York City, where he enjoyed great success as an antiques and art dealer. One morning in 1990 George was approached on the street by an… |
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The dead girl
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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… |
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Mary Jane's ghost
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Ted Gregory |
"Summer 1948. In the scenic, remote river town of Oregon, Illinois, a young couple visiting the local lovers' lane is murdered. The shocking crime garners headlines from Portland, Maine, to Long Beac… |
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If I can't have you
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Gregg Olsen |
"In If I Can't Have You, bestselling author Gregg Olsen and co-author Rebecca Morris investigate one of the 21st Century's most puzzling disappearances and how it resulted in the murder of two childr… |
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Black-eyed susans
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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 … |
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Murder of a mafia daughter
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Cathy Scott |
"Susan Berman grew up in Las Vegas luxury as the daughter of Davie Berman, casino mogul and notorious mafia leader. After her father died she learned about his mob connections. Susan then dedicated h… |
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Meredith
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John Kercher |
Meredith Kercher was tragically murdered in November 2007, in Perugia, Italy. Since then, her murder and the subsequent trial have been a source of constant intrigue and media speculation all around … |
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The Romford outrage
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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… |
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