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Murder in Baker Company
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Cilla McCain |
Using court transcripts, personal interviews, and police records to retrace the key events of the case, this journey to uncover the truth about what happened to Richard Davis provides a disturbing, e… |
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The Best American Crime Writing 2005
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Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook,James Ellroy |
The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slave… |
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While They Slept
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Kathryn Harrison |
Early on an April morning, eighteen-year-old Billy Frank Gilley, Jr., killed his sleeping parents. Surprised in the act by his younger sister, Becky, he turned on her as well. Billy then climbed the … |
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Angel of darkness
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Dennis McDougal |
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 i… |
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Great cases of Scotland Yard
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Emlyn Williams,Andrew Garve,Julian Symons,Clive Egleton,Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy,Elizabeth Jenkins,Winston Graham,Eric Ambler,Russell Braddon |
Commissioned to investigate these cases and develop a classic mystery story, eight of England's most distinguished mystery writers have recreated some of Scotland Yard's most exciting and notorious c… |
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The Road Out of Hell
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Anthony Flacco |
From 1926 to 1928, Gordon Stewart Northcott committed at least 20 murders on a chicken ranch outside of Los Angeles. His nephew, Sanford Clark, was held captive there from the age of 13 to 15, and wa… |
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The Killer Book of Serial Killers
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Tom Philbin |
The Killer Book of Serial Killers is the ultimate resource (and gift) for any true crime fan and student of the bizarre world of serial killers. Filled with stories, trivia, quizzes, quotes, photos, … |
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Murdered by his wife
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Deborah Navas |
In March 1778, Joshua Spooner, a wealthy gentleman farmer in Brookfield, Massachusetts, was beaten to death and his body stuffed down a well. Four people were hanged for the crime: two British soldie… |
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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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The stabbing of George Harry Storrs
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Jonathan Goodman |
OCTOBER OF 1910 WAS A VINTAGE MONTH FOR murder trials in England. On Saturday, the twenty-second, after a five-day trial at the Old Bailey in London, the expatriate American doctor Hawley Harvey Crip… |
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Great American trials
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Edward W. Knappman,Lisa Olson Paddock,Stephen G. Christianson |
An extraordinary introduction for anyone contemplating a legal career; for the rest of us it is a fine reference and a delight to read. – Chicago Tribune. Two hundred historically significant, legall… |
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Brutes, beasts and human fiends
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Alan Hynd |
Ten True Stores of America's Most Depraved Murderers of All Time.
If your heart and stomach are strong enough, then you will surely enjoy this blood-chilling parade of murders and other grisly deeds… |
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The Kirtland massacre
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Cynthia Stalter Sassé |
When members of the Reorganized Church of the Latter Day Saints moved into the run-down farmhouse being rented by Jeffrey Lundgren and his family, citizens of the rural community of Kirtland, Ohio, b… |
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The Good Rat
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Jimmy Breslin |
"I didn't tell anyone that I was going to Santa Fe to kill myself."On the outside, Terri Cheney was a highly successful, attractive Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer. But behind her seemingly flawle… |
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The nanny murder trial
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Davis, Don |
A real life "Hand That Rocks the Cradle", covered by national news media such as Hard Copy and A Current Affair. Denise and William Fisher were delighted with their 20-year-old Swiss nanny, Olivia Ri… |
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Rope
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Michael Newton |
An account of an American serial killer, Harvey Glatman, who was convicted in 1958 of murders involving rape and torture, in which a rope played a significant role. |
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The Hollywood murder casebook
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Michael Munn |
Bloodletting and mayhem whipped up from the author's ""ten years of prying into the careers and private lives of movie stars and tracing the history of the Hollywood Star System. . ."" The murdered, … |
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By Their Father's Hand
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Monte Francis |
Neighbors were unaware of what went on behind the tightly closed doors of a house in Fresno, California—the home of an imposing, 300-pound Marcus Wesson, his wife, children, nieces, and grandchildren… |
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The Stalking of Kristin
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George Lardner |
In May 1992, investigative reporter and grief-stricken father George Lardner, Jr. began his own pursuit of the truth after his daughter, Kristin, was savagely murdered by her ex-boyfriend following m… |
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