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Drawing on his experience in creating fictional bad guys, crime novelist Lawrence Block surveys the underside of American history through fifty of its most infamous characters. Some, like Jesse James, Bonnie Parker, and Joe Colombo, led a life of crime; others, like...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2004-05-13
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One night in March 1999, fifteen-year-old dance student Rachel Elizabeth Barber vanished. No one could have guessed that she had become another girl's 'perfect' victim. Happy. Beautiful. Talented. She had everything her killer could want. Perceived by crime experts...
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E-Penguin
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2003-06-02
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National parks are a place for family fun, camping, and adventure. Millions of americans and foreign tourists flock to national parks around the globe each year. But for some, they go through the entrance, never to come out again.
In the last century close to 1100...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2026-01-20
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This book is going to look at a variety of cases of missing people. They will have unresolved endings in many of the cases. In some there are conspiracy theories and improbable suggestions for what might have happened.
In others there is every reason to believe in foul...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2026-01-10
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This book is going to look at a variety of cases of missing people. They will have unresolved endings in many of the cases. In some there are conspiracy theories and improbable suggestions for what might have happened.
In others there is every reason to believe in foul...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2026-01-02
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In the heart of London's literary world, a brutal murder shatters the quiet charm of Charing Cross Road.
Mr. Richard Dodsley, a well-known second-hand bookseller, is found dead in his shop—shot in cold blood amidst the dusty shelves and rare first editions. The scene...
Editeur :
Asimis Books
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2025-12-04
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For over a century the French Quarter was the center of a city of sin and gaiety unique on the North American continent.
The development of the New Orleans of legend was fostered by an improbable mixture of Creoles, river gamblers, pirates, politicians, reckless women,...
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Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2025-10-17
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This is an account of the curious murder case in which the sixteen-year-old Constance Kent was the central figure. In a little village in Somerset a small boy was murdered in mysterious circumstances, and suspicion centred on many persons, one after another. Jonathan...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-03-06
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The Seventh Shot is a recounting of two grisly Ontario murders some thirty years on, and the remarkable efforts of police detectives to unravel the senseless brutality of these crimes.The author, and one-time classmate of the killer, haunted by the crimes and some...
Editeur :
Latitude 46 Publishing
Parution :
2020-10-22
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A national bestseller, now updated, expanded, and revised to tell an even bigger story.On July 6, 2011, Richard Oland, scion of the Moosehead brewing family, was bludgeoned to death in his Saint John office. In a shocking turn, the multimillionaire’s only son, Dennis,...
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Goose Lane Editions
Parution :
2019-10-22
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The Murder of Minnie Callan is the dramatic memoir of retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer Thomas Gruchy. It tells the story of a criminal investigation that changed the lives of many, including the author, forever.Sixty-year-old Minnie Callan, wife, mother,...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2018-09-12
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The Murder of Minnie Callan is the dramatic memoir of retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer Thomas Gruchy. It tells the story of a criminal investigation that changed the lives of many, including the author, forever.Sixty-year-old Minnie Callan, wife, mother,...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2018-09-12
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Stories of South Mountain and its notorious Goler Clan are often told in whispers--or not at all.For over a century, a gruesome pattern of sexual and physical abuse, incest, and psychological torture defined the isolated mountain community, and residents of the nearby...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2017-06-30
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Two young girls take an after-school shortcut in a wooded ravine. One walks off, seemingly in a trance, and is never again seen alive.
This short ebook is an excerpt from a book by journalist Pamela Roth: Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City. In...
Editeur :
U of R Press
Parution :
2016-09-12
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The hunt continues. This time, Alex Caine infiltrates both a Hong Kong triad involved in drug trafficking and a gang of skinheads recruited by an organization plotting to detonate a bomb in the capital of Canada. He discovers that his girlfriend, Shannon, with whom he...
Editeur :
Juniper Publishing
Parution :
2016-08-31
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NON CLASSE
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On the evening of February 6, 2000, thirteen-year-old Samantha Walsh left her grandmother's house for her home not far away. It was the last time she was ever seen alive. In the next eighteen days, residents of Fleur de Lys and visitors from all over Newfoundland joined...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2002-09-09
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Who actually arrived first at the site where Olof Palme was assassinated the 28th of February 1986?
Early on in testimonies from first hand witnesses a "stripling" was observed to have been by the side of the fallen person. This "stripling" somehow vanished in...
Editeur :
BoD - Books on Demand
Parution :
2025-03-18
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Did you know that Joseph Bonanno took acting classes before leading one of New York's most powerful crime families? Or that Al Capone formed a banjo band while imprisoned at Alcatraz? Has anyone told you how Santo Trafficante Jr., Florida's crime boss, narrowly escaped...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-02-26
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If you consider the American system of incarceration a failure in many aspects and as it stands today as a whole, this book is for you.
It details the current prison system and provides not only solutions but a clearly defined and laid out path out of this mess.
Easy to...
Editeur :
BoD - Books on Demand
Parution :
2024-08-15
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Sixty years after the Dallas shootings - and despite more and more documents becoming available - a multitude of myths continue to surround the most famous assassination attempt of the 20th century. With his work, the author tries to bring a little more light into the...
Editeur :
Books on Demand
Parution :
2023-11-22
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