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 Murder, Inc.: The Story of the SyndicateBest Price: $14.88 "Murder Inc." was written by a former Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New... |  The Strange Case of Hellish Nell: The Story of Helen Duncan and the Witch Trial of World War IIBest Price: $3.00 Ms Shandler's style is off-putting. I applaud her diligence in delving into source material,... |  Counterfeit Deterrent Features for the Next-Generation Currency Design (Publication Nmab, 472)Best Price: $98.95 Traditionally, counterfeit deterrent features restricted counterfeiting to only the dedicated... |  Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided AmericaBest Price: $3.98 ABSOLUTE CONVICTIONS is a surprisingly good book. It's thorough, fair, and well-written. ... |  Secrets from the Grave (Secrets from Grave)Best Price: $77.23 The book is a typical true crime book but it does provide background information about the... |
 Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets (St. Martin's True Crime Library)Best Price: $4.65 Having trouble imagining the words "Amish man", "murderous parent",... |  Innocence LostBest Price: $18.00 I bought this book because I am an avid true crime reader and Carlton Stowers is one of the best... |  Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River KillerBest Price: $5.82 David Reichert was the first homicide detective assigned to the Green River murders, and he was... |  The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin PoulsenBest Price: $10.57 I became interested in Kevin Poulson after reading several articles about his exploits. After... |  Death's AcreBest Price: $48.60 On a wooded hillside in Tennessee blowflies, bacteria and buzzards feast on human flesh,... |
 The Corpse Had a Familiar FaceBest Price: $25.00 This was my second introduction to Edna Buchanan's great reporting skill and her method of... |  True Stories of Law & Order: The Real Crimes Behind the Best Episodes of the Hit TV ShowBest Price: $4.98 As a fan of the Law & Order series, I was intrigued by the title. The book actually does... |  Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer RevealedBest Price: $3.90 Zodiac Unmasked is an extraordinarily-detailed, highly entertaining book. I recommend it to any... |  Killer DoctorsBest Price: $86.63 This book is missing one key doctor and that is Dr. Harold Shipman of England but they do... |  The Devil's Dozen: How Cutting-Edge Forensics Took Down 12 Notorious Serial KillersBest Price: $7.38 This is a fascinating book about very cunning serial killer monsters and heroic efforts of... |
 We Have Your Husband: One Woman's Terrifying Story of a Kidnapping in Mexico (Berkley True Crime)Best Price: $1.99 June 13, 2007 began like any other day for Eduardo and Jayne Garcia Valseca; like any other day... |  East End Trilogy: Sins of the Fathers (East End Trilogy) |  Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the BoxBest Price: $4.15 Cameron Hooker appeared to the outside world as a quiet, hard-working, mild-mannered young man... |  Mobbed UpNeff has poured a lot of enthusiasm into the production of this authoritative look at... |  Elite DevianceBest Price: $16.66 |
 Steel Bonnets: Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border ReiversFrom the 13th century to the middle of the 16th, outlaws and ?border lords? reigned supreme on... |  Inventing the Public Enemy: The Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934Best Price: $20.99 Ruth's book is an interesting introduction to gangster movies and their function in American... |  Controlling Unlawful Organizational Behavior: Social Structure and Corporate Misconduct (Studies in Crime and Justice)Best Price: $17.50 This work is not only great because of the topic. It also shows how one sociologist deals with... |  Corruption and Money Laundering: A Symbiotic Relationship (Palgrave Series on Asian Goverance)Best Price: $79.89 Corruption is the biggest single obstacle to development, while money laundering is at the heart... |  Victims of Piracy: Admiralty Court, 1575-1678 |
 Swamp of DeathBest Price: $11.77 Just over one hundred years ago, three young men, all under 25, set out from England for the... |  Perfect Murder: A Century of Unsolved Homicides |  No Crooked Death: Coatesville Pennsylvania and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker (Blacks in the New World)Although I read this book several years ago, I have not forgotten. This book gives a very... |  Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization (Tracking Globalization)Illicit Flows and Criminal Things offers a new perspective on illegal transnational linkages,... |  Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World SeriesBest Price: $8.58 History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld... |
 The Cooper's Wife Is Missing: The Trials Of Bridget ClearyBest Price: $3.15 Hyped as "The Tipperary Witch Case," peddled as "The Cloneen 'Fairy'... |  Watergate In American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, And Reconstruct The PastBest Price: $13.10 The Watergate crisis dominated national politics for the last quarter of the twentieth century,... |  Female Sexual Offenders: Theory, Assessment and TreatmentBest Price: $38.88 Featuring a collection of essays by leading experts, Female Sexual Offenders: Theory,... |  Women Who Sexually Abuse Children: From Research to Clinical Practice (Wiley Series in Child Care & Protection)Best Price: $309.76 Excellent book, which, along with Female Sexual Abuse of Children (ed. Elliot) and When She Was... |  Undercover: Police Surveillance in AmericaBest Price: $42.95 Providing a rich picture of past and present undercover work, and drawing on unpublished... |
 Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)Best Price: $0.57 To reveal how membership in adolescent street gangs influences human development, the authors... |  Murderer with a Badge: 2The Secret Life of a Rogue Cop (True Crime)Best Price: $54.98 An account of the traffic cop who moonlighted as a killer describes how William Leasure... |  In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul IBest Price: $44.33 John Paul I, Albino Luciani, died after being easily elected as Pope only 33 days after his... |  A Book of Scoundrels (Large Print Edition)Best Price: $30.96 This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was... |  Arsenic Under the Elms : Murder in Victorian New HavenBest Price: $8.98 To anyone who reads this book, keep in mind that there is a lot of speculation here based on... |
 The American Murders of Jack the RipperBest Price: $19.49 I have read a lot worse. five stars? no. one star? no. solid three star book. I gave it five... |  Homicide by the Rich and Famous: A Century of Prominent KillersBest Price: $13.49 Many people express shock and horror when they hear of a wealthy or famous person killing... |  The Librarian Spies: Philip and Mary Jane Keeney and Cold War Espionage (Praeger Security International)Best Price: $43.20 In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy declared that the State Department was a haven for communists... |  Crime Casebook: True-Life Crime Stories from the World's Favorite MagazineBest Price: $4.00 From money laundering to cold-blooded murder; contract killings to code-cracking; and kidnapping... |  Book of SlangReg Kray was a friend of mine and his book is a thoughtful dictionary of a lost language of the... |
 Who Killed Sir Harry Oakes? |  All Russia Is Burning: A Cultural History of Fire and Arson in Late Imperial Russia (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)Best Price: $20.25 Rural fires were an even more persistent scourge than famine in late imperial Russia. Destroying... |  Ruth Ellis: The Last Woman to be Hanged |  John Canning's Great Unsolved Mysteries | Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series Best Price: $8.58 History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld... |
| The Cooper's Wife Is Missing: The Trials Of Bridget Cleary Best Price: $3.15 Hyped as "The Tipperary Witch Case," peddled as "The Cloneen 'Fairy'... | Watergate In American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, And Reconstruct The Past Best Price: $13.10 The Watergate crisis dominated national politics for the last quarter of the twentieth century,... | Female Sexual Offenders: Theory, Assessment and Treatment Best Price: $38.88 Featuring a collection of essays by leading experts, Female Sexual Offenders: Theory,... | Women Who Sexually Abuse Children: From Research to Clinical Practice (Wiley Series in Child Care & Protection) Best Price: $309.76 Excellent book, which, along with Female Sexual Abuse of Children (ed. Elliot) and When She Was... | Undercover: Police Surveillance in America Best Price: $42.95 Providing a rich picture of past and present undercover work, and drawing on unpublished... |
| Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) Best Price: $0.57 To reveal how membership in adolescent street gangs influences human development, the authors... | Murderer with a Badge: 2The Secret Life of a Rogue Cop (True Crime) Best Price: $54.98 An account of the traffic cop who moonlighted as a killer describes how William Leasure... | In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I Best Price: $44.33 John Paul I, Albino Luciani, died after being easily elected as Pope only 33 days after his... | A Book of Scoundrels (Large Print Edition) Best Price: $30.96 This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was... |  The Man from Pakistan: The True Story of the World's Most Dangerous Nuclear SmugglerBest Price: $8.23 "The Man From Pakistan's" thrilling high points intersect in 2003; the CIA's... |
 Dead EndsBest Price: $6.94 Dead Ends..... is a true account of the consequences that come with the destruction of a young... |  On the Trail of the AssassinsBest Price: $68.95 The late Jim Garrison's book "On The Trail Of The Assassins" was in large part the... |  Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's DeathBest Price: $3.80 Unexpectedly I first heard of "Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story of Anna Nicole Smith's... |  Double Cross: The Explosive, Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled AmericaBest Price: $2.79 i picked this book up a long time ago, just after initial release. i thought it one of the... |  A Wealth of Evil: The True Story of the Murder of Martha Moxley in America's Richest CommunityBest Price: $39.95 I first read Mark Furhman's book Murder in Greenwich and then read this one. It would not... |
 The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811Best Price: $16.49 A fan of P.D. James' mysteries, I was pleasantly surprised to discover this true crime book... |  Gumshoe: Reflections in a Private EyeImagine the talents of the late John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young... |  Lust Killer (Signet)I've read quite a lot of Ann Rule's writings, and this book, though not the best of all,... |  Precious Victims (Penguin true crime)Best Price: $8.00 This is a superbly written book about the kidnapping and murder of Robert and Paula Sims infant... |  Portrait of a KillerBest Price: $110.20 In this headline-making new work, Cornwell turns her trademark skills for meticulous research... |
 Political Crime: Ideology & Criminality |  Vagrancy: Some New Perspectives |  The Killers Among Us: Examination of Serial Murder and Its Investigations (2nd Edition)As a researcher, writer and student of serial murder, I believe that Dr. Egger's work is... |  Redrum the innocentIf you want a classic case study of Keystone Kops, the wrongful pursuit of the police against... |  Profiling Serial Killers: And Other Crimes in South AfricaBest Price: $22.11 The science of profiling is relatively new, having first been tried in the United States in the... |
 Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex CrimesBest Price: $4.83 Benedict's thought-provoking book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the... |  Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)Best Price: $29.95 "One of the most original approaches to the history of the Mafia and the 'Ndrangheta I... |  Criminal Violence: Patterns, Causes, and PreventionBest Price: $41.00 Criminal Violence: Patterns, Causes, and Prevention, Third Edition, provides a current,... |  Corrupt Exchanges: Actors, Resources, and Mechanisms of Political Corruption (Social Problems and Social Issues)Best Price: $29.95 This is the best review of government corruption that I've read. It is at times overly... |  Donnie BrascoBest Price: $4.39 This is the kind of story many would consider incredible hadn't these events actually taken... |
 Fly, Colton, Fly: The True Story of the Barefoot BanditBest Price: $0.01 This was a decent book following very strictly, the facts concerning Colton's story. What... |  Cheating Death (Onyx)Take a down-and-out, broke, and drug addicted doctor, Richard Boggs, add two men, Melvin Hansen... |  To Kill and Kill Again (Onyx True Crime ; Je 323)Best Price: $293.32 John Coston has written a rapid-paced true crime thriller about Wayne Nance who killed mostly... |  Early Graves (Onyx)I know chriats personally,i met her after she commited her crime.I have to honestly say the book... |  Silent Witness: The Karla Brown Murder Case (Onyx)I not only read the book but I actually know all the characters in the book. I remember when it... |
 Killing Season: The Unsolved Case of New England's Deadliest Serial KillerBest Price: $43.99 Being from the area it brought back a lot of memories. Made me realize that I forgot so much... |  Lethal Shadow: The Chilling True-Crime Story of a Sadistic Sex SlayerBest Price: $7.88 I am an avid true crime reader and this book wasn't worth the typing effort to order. The... |  Death Sentence: The True Story of Velma Barfield's Life, Crimes, and PunishmentBledsoe is a true crime master who exemplifies the best of the genre. Original research, fluid... |  Spoken in Darkness: Small-Town Murder and a Friendship Beyond DeathBest Price: $35.75 Spoken in Darkness is the book The Dead Girl wanted to be. It is more a memoir about growing up... |  Autobiography of a Murderer |
 Daddy's Girl |  After EvilBest Price: $5.15 This is a very well written book .The story told is heartbreaking and very detailed.I cmmend... |  Dangling from the Golden Gate Bridge and Other Narrow EscapesBest Price: $113.07 This is a great book - true stories about extreme situations where there is no hope or chance of... |  Offshore: The Dark Side of the Global EconomyBest Price: $1.74 This is kind of two books in one. On the one hand there is an explanation of how... |  Without a Trace: The Disappearance of Amy Billig--A Mother's Search for JusticeI am a True Crime addict and I remember watching the story of Amy Billig on "Unsolved... |
 Drake's Fortune: The Fabulous True Story of the World's Greatest Confidence ArtistBest Price: $1.94 This lovely book succeeds for a number of reasons, which I'll gladly explain as follows:... |  Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight BackBest Price: $12.96 How did the newspaper, music, and film industries go from raking in big bucks to scooping up... | |||
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