True Crime 91

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Medellin, Colombia, are large urban cities that have struggl……続きを見る

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Ecuador's role in the cocaine trade has historically differed from its drug-trafficking ……続きを見る

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE, THE JHALAK PRIZE, THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION AND THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARD Saturday, 23rd November 2013. It was just another day in America. And as befits ……続きを見る

“Gato’s head snapped back… We could make out the shots of several 9mms, a couple of 38s and one or two 45s. I hurled myself through the doorway and into the room. I didn’t look back.” Caught in an E……続きを見る

THE MOUNTAINS WERE SILENT… He was handsome, shrewd, lustfulーa scoundrel who would do anything for money. She was beautiful, innocent, lonelyーand she possessed a fortune… Alina would not be the fir……続きを見る

The American people were aroused to a white-hot anger. Clergymen of all faiths joined in prayer. Messages of sympathy came in from presidents, prime ministers, dictators, friends, crackpots, the mor……続きを見る

Cherchez la femme was one rule of detection Ellery Queen was always glad to obeyーbut this case provided too much of a good thing. One girl was a dazzling creature from Hollywood with an unfortunate……続きを見る

Charles 'Cherry Nose" Gioe was a mobster in the Chicago syndicate led by Al Capone. In charge of gambling rackets Gioe consulted with Dutch Schultz as an emissary for Capone in the early 1930s. Late……続きを見る

A partir de documents et de témoignages inédits, ce livre rassemble tous les éléments disponibles pour faire comprendre, un an après, et dans ses moindres détails l'enchaînement du premier attentat ……続きを見る

Jérôme Kerviel se confie en exclusivité sur sa nouvelle vie depuis l'" Affaire ". Un témoignage de rédemption, de résilience et de foi d'une grande force. " Je me suis installé pour quelques jours à……続きを見る

On August 21, 1993, Matt Love and his friend became the chief suspects in the biggest jewelry theft in Portland history. No one was ever arrested in the case, the jewelry never recovered. The statut……続きを見る

What would drive an 18-year-old youth to bash, dismember and mutilate the body of a former lord mayor of Wollongong? Mark Valera stuck tiepins into his victim's eyes and kicked and beat the corpse f……続きを見る

There are many myths about serial killers: that they are all dysfunctional loners; all white males; only motivated by sex; that they all travel and operate across a wide area; cannot stop killing; a……続きを見る

John Wilkes Booth murdered Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre and was killed in Garrett's Barn, Virginia by Sergeant Boston Corbett. But what if the body wasn't John Wilkes Booth? Nate Orlowek believ……続きを見る

The world has changed drastically over the past decade. The Internet has had a huge part in that, as it has made the world more accessible to anyone of any age, race, or gender. Used for entertainme……続きを見る

Quand dirigeants politiques et membres de la mafia trouvent un terrain d'entente... Mémoire historique de la justice anti-mafia, cette haute figure de l’État de droit n’a cessé de donner un sens pol……続きを見る

Le témoignage fascinant du célèbre juge de la lutte anti-mafia On meurt généralement parce qu’on est seul, ou parce qu’on est entré dans un jeu trop grand. On meurt souvent parce qu’on ne dispose pa……続きを見る

Les réflexions d'un pilier de la lutte anti-mafia. Roberto Scarpinato est « le dernier des juges », dernier survivant de la génération des juges Falcone et Borsellino, brutalement assassinés par la ……続きを見る

A brutal assault, dying declaration, corrupt investigation, perjured prosecution, and intractable punishment system; all are elements in a process of Willful Blindness.  George Wilhelm was sta……続きを見る

Writers of fiction have always confronted topics of crime and punishment. This age-old fascination with crime on the part of both authors and readers is not surprising, given that criminal justice t……続きを見る

In the later part of the nineteenth century, Rhoda Derry spent over forty years in the Adams County Poor Farm, curled in a fetal position in a box bed. She had clawed her own eyes out. She had beate……続きを見る

The securities business on Wall Street was considered relatively safe to invest in until the late 1950s. It was in 1959 that New York State Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz began investigating mob c……続きを見る

Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths. If these streets could talk… With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séanc……続きを見る

I followed Big Johnny through the house and out the back door to his garage. Once inside he pointed to a pile of cash on the table: "It's all there, count it." "It looks alright to me." I reached in……続きを見る

The apocalyptic group The Family and their guru, Anne Hamilton-Byrne ー one of very few female cult leaders in history ー captured international headlines throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Hamilton-By……続きを見る

In 1952 Leonard Mocderi was "accidentally" apprehended by police working for a telephone company in Los Angeles. The gangster was placing a phone call to Las Vegas and using slugs to make the calls ……続きを見る

“Members of the jury, have you agreed upon your verdicts?” The court clerk asked her rote question with a wavering, tell-me-don’t-tell-me tone that seemed to capture perfectly the nervous, nerve-wra……続きを見る

These delightful essays by such luminaries as Dorothy L. Sayers, Vincent Starrett, Ronald A. Knox, and S. C. Roberts form a classic work in Sherlockian scholarship, edited by H. W. Bell. Topics incl……続きを見る

Une histoire peu banale; à donner des frissons dans le dos ! Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé comment vous réagiriez si on devait vous enterrer vivant? Sérieusement, que feriez-vous? « Je hurlerais », di……続きを見る

Elémentaire, mon cher Watson... Vous êtes passionné par les enquêtes et les aventures de détectives privés, et vous souhaitez en savoir d'avantage sur cette mystérieuse profession ? Vous souhaitez d……続きを見る