True Crime 16

The eighth classic instalment in this genre-changing series of novels starring Detective Inspector Martin Beck. This new edition has an introduction by Michael Connolly. In one part of town, a woman……続きを見る

Biography is one of the most popular, best-selling, and widely-read of literary genres. But why do certain people and historical events arouse so much interest? How can biographies be compared with ……続きを見る

Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture (an advisory measure of the UN General Assembly) is: ...any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is ……続きを見る

Bloody crimes of passion, political assassinations, sinister poisonings, investment fraud and mass mining disasters … Dr David Klatzow has seen it all. During his extraordinary twenty-six-year caree……続きを見る

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico. Chris gives us Mexican press dis……続きを見る

While sailing alone one night in the shipping lanes across one of the busiest waterways in the world, John Burnett was attacked by pirates. Through sheer ingenuity and a little bit of luck, he survi……続きを見る

'A classic tale in the genre of real crime, dealing with one of the most important cases in the legal history of Australia ... on a par with the Lindy Chamberlain case.'Dr Bob Moles, leading campaig……続きを見る

The Great Train Robbery, and the part Ronnie Biggs played in it, is one of the most famous true crime stories of all time. Ronnie’s imprisonment, subsequent escape and life on the run has been the s……続きを見る

Britain has more than its fair share of criminals, some more evil than others. Behind our prison walls are some of the most feared and dangerous criminals on earth. Sick and twisted delves into the ……続きを見る

There are more than 60 serial murderers in Canadian history. For too long awareness of serial murder in Canada has been confined toWest Coastbutcher Clifford Olson and the "Schoolgirl Murderers" Pau……続きを見る

The intensely moving memoir of Patrick Maguire, one of the ‘Maguire Seven’ wrongly imprisoned as a teenager for making bombs for the IRA. On the night of October 5 1974, an IRA unit left bombs in tw……続きを見る

The ultimate story of escape to riches, revenge and redemption by ‘the Napoleon of storytellers’. Falsely accused of treason, Edmond Dantes is arrested on his wedding night and imprisoned in the gri……続きを見る

Pork and Beans is a thrilling journey into gangland Chicago set in the 1950's in the waning days of the absolute power and corruption of the gang controlled streets. This story is a collection of me……続きを見る

The Outlaws Motorcycle Club's story is told here for the first time in paperback, by the #1 national bestselling criminal underworld author and former infiltrator Alex Caine. They are the original b……続きを見る

Welcome to Alphabet City, Manhattan's most crime-ridden neighbourhood with murder, rape and violence hitting record levels the streets, fuelled by a drug problem that's got the city by the throat. I……続きを見る

From 2003 to 2009 sensational judicial bribery scandals rocked Mississippi's legal system. Famed trial lawyers Paul Minor and Richard (Dickie) Scruggs and renowned judge and former prosecutor Bobby ……続きを見る

The product of five years of investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the National Human Rights Commission to assign two full……続きを見る

“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.” ーEpictetus “Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will follow.” ーMatthew 24:28 Body Brokers is an audacious, disturbing, and compellingly wri……続きを見る

We all love trivia, but we also love horror movies, especially ones based on true stories. Sly Ainsbury has combined the two to come up with this shockingly disturbing book - Deathly Trivia. Fun for……続きを見る

Martin and Jenny Johnson chose to do something different with their vacation and went with a team to an orphanage in Southern Ukraine. Once there, the childless couple fell in love with a little gir……続きを見る

From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling true story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the Enron scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketpla……続きを見る

In November 1916, just a few years after Federation and while Australia was at war in Europe, Hazel Hood, the beautiful 18-year-old daughter of a Riverina grazier, went to a local dance and never ca……続きを見る

The charismatic forger immortalized in Catch Me If You Can exposes the astonishing tactics of today’s identity theft criminals and offers powerful strategies to thwart them based on his second caree……続きを見る

Two veteran journalists tell the inside story of convicted hate-monger Abu Hamza, his infamous Finsbury Park Mosque and how it turned out a generation of militants willing to die – and kill – for th……続きを見る

Tortoises disappear from a Madagascar reserve and reappear in the Bronx Zoo. A dead iguana floats in a jar, awaiting its unveiling in a Florida court. A viper causes mayhem from Ethiopia to Virginia……続きを見る

This book has been updated on May 27, 2013, with the most current information. Included is a May 10, 2013, press release from the Orange County, California, District Attorney about the arrest of Edw……続きを見る

As a federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every stripe. In From Midnight to Guntown, he recounts amazin……続きを見る

It's the ultimate question. Is the God of the Jews, Christians and Muslims evil? Is he at the core of the malignancy in the human condition? Does his malevolent will touch every corner of the earth,……続きを見る

The rivetingly strange story of the world's most expensive bottle of wine, and the even stranger characters whose lives have intersected with it. The New York Times bestseller, updated with a new ep……続きを見る

This edition features • three complete volumes • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS INTRODUCTION VOLUME ONE Preface ー Jane Griffin ー John Trippuck, Richard C……続きを見る