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Unlikely crime boss, serial killer, prison snitch, suburban boy turned bad, cult hero who was the real Carl Williams? When the 'baby-faced killer' met his shocking end in Barwon Prison's maximum-security unit, he left in his wake a trail of brutal murders, an...
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E-Penguin
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2012-10-24
ePub
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The Badlands, a warren of narrow hutongs in the eastern district of pre-communist Peking, had its heyday in the 1930s. Home to the city's drifters, misfits and the odd bohemian, it was a place of opium dens, divebars, brothels, flophouses and cabarets, and was infamous...
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E-Penguin
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2012-10-15
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*** Richard Lloyd Parry is the Winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize ***In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, and twenty-one years old - had stepped into the vastness of a Tokyo...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-09-30
ePub
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Matvay looked inside and saw something so horrible, so gruesome...it startled even the veteran crime investigator. "There's a body in here," he said. "Another homicide!"From the first whiff of the pungent smell coming from the garbage can, the Las Vegas cops knew what...
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Ebury Digital
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2012-09-27
ePub
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THE BOOK BEHINDTHE MAJOR BBC SERIESNow updated and including previously unseen photographs.'As close to the definitive book on the subject as we are ever likely to read' Manchester Evening NewsThe Lost Boy is the compelling story of some of the twentieth-century's most...
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Transworld Digital
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2012-08-31
ePub
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On the night of October 10, 2008, Johnny Altinger, 38 and single, was heading to his first date with a woman he had met online. Soon after, Johnny's friends received strange emails and computer messages from him, boasting of his new girlfriend and her plans to treat him...
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E-Penguin
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2012-08-22
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'A lot of people know me,' wrote Alan Hillgarth in a letter, 'but I'm very much an enigma to most of them and regarded with suspicion because I don't fit into any category . . . I'm a trouble-maker. I ride the storm.'Captain Alan Hillgarth was just 15 years old when he...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2012-08-02
ePub
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Caroline Norton, born in 1808, was a society beauty, poet and pamphleteer. Her good looks and wit attracted many male admirers, first her husband, the Honourable George Norton, and then the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne.After years of simmering jealousy, George Norton...
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Preface Digital
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2012-07-19
ePub
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In Flesh and Blood, Sunday World Investigations Editor, Nicola Tallant looks at the rising phenomenon of murder-suicide in Ireland, at events which, while shocking in the extreme, happen in tight-knit communities, behind the closed doors of apparently loving homes. She...
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Hachette Books Ireland
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2012-07-16
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What's it like to have the legal sanction to shoot and kill? This compelling and often startling book answers this, and many other questions about the oft-times violent world inhabited by our nation's police officers. Written by a cop-turned university professor who...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2012-06-26
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Armed Candy is the true story of one woman's struggle for survival on Britain's meanest streets. Kay has spent her whole life trying to escape. Sexually abused by her grandmother, she pleaded to return to her mother's care. But instead of finding a safe haven, Kay...
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Mainstream Digital
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2012-06-22
ePub
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In 1945, as part of the Occupation forces sent to postwar Japan Nick Zappetti, a native of Italian East Harlem, entered a world as strange as any he had ever know,In postwar Tokyo, however, he realised there were certain opportunities. He had a failed stint as a...
Editeur :
Constable
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2012-06-21
Collection :
Tom Thorne Novels
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The brutal murder of the Reverend George Parker in the rural village of Oddingley on Midsummer's Day in 1806 - shot and beaten to death, his body set on fire and left smouldering in his own glebe field - gripped everyone from the Home Secretary in London to newspapermen...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-06-21
ePub
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'The Krays were out of control. They had the East End buttoned up too tight and someone had to undo it. Slowly, I realised that someone had to be me...'Bobby Teale and his brothers, David and Alfie, were the three men the Kray twins trusted most. They weren't in the...
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Ebury Digital
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2012-05-24
ePub
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On 23 May 1992 the Mafia assassinated its 'Number One Enemy', the legendary prosecutor Judge Falcone, with a motorway bomb that also killed his wife Francesca and three bodyguards. Fifty-seven days later, the Mafia killed Falcone's friend and colleague, Judge Paolo...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-05-24
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A fresh, new look at gangs in every part of the world which deliberately avoids the stories that have been done to death - about Capone, Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde - and focuses on less well-known gangs such as 'Ma' Barker's Boys; the Smaldones of Denver; Scotland...
Editeur :
C & r Crime
Parution :
2012-04-19
Collection :
Mammoth Books
ePub
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John Gotti: Gangster, killer, celebrity.From the tough streets of Queens to the heights of the American Mafia,John Gotti thought he was invincible. Ruthless, brutal and always immaculately dressed, he was known as the Teflon Don, because no charge the Feds brought...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
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2012-04-12
ePub
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'IT WAS NOT MURDER. WE ARE NOT MURDERERS. IT WAS THE EXECUTION OF AN ORDER, SATAN ORDERED US AND WE HAD TO COMPLY. IT WAS NOT SOMETHING BAD. IT SIMPLY HAD TO BE. WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE VICTIM SUFFERED WELL. MY KNIFE STARTED TO GLOW AND I HEARD THE COMMAND TO...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
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2012-03-31
ePub
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What do you do when your wife abducts your children? This was the question facing Douglas Galbraith when, in 2003, he returned home to Scotland from a few days' work in London. The house was silent, empty and locked; his four and six-year-old sons' pyjamas lay on the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-03-29
ePub
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The Barefoot Bandit tells the riveting true story of Colton Harris-Moore, America's twenty-first-century outlaw. Born into a poor family marred by alcohol abuse, Colt had the local sheriff after him before the age of ten. Colt survived by breaking into homes to forage...
Editeur :
Hachette Books
Parution :
2012-03-20
ePub
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