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Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, Erik Larson's spellbinding bestseller intertwines the true tale of two men--the brilliant architect behind the legendary 1893 World's Fair, striving to secure America's place in the world; and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims ... More

For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies, wreaking unparalleled damages to America's social fabric and business enterprises while emerging as the nation's most formidable crime empire. The vanguard of this criminal juggernaut is... More

Fifteen internationally recognized homicide investigators share insights gained from decades of experience tracking notorious criminals.... More

From The Author Of 'hotel Babylon' Comes This Trawl Through The Highs, And Lows - And The Rapid Descents, Of The Travel Industry. It Catalogues The Births, The Deaths, The Drunken Brawls, The Sexual Antics, And The Debauchery Behind The Scenes Of The Ultimate Service Industry - Where The World Is Di... More

In a fast-paced, hard-edged style that reads like a novel, FBI special agent Rehder chronicles the lives and crimes of bank robbers in today's Los Angeles who are as colorful and exciting as the legends of long ago.FBI SPECIAL AGENT WILLIAM J. REHDER, the man CBS News once described as "America's se... More

Those who find the fictional plots of such dramas as "C.S.I." exciting will be amazed by the true stories told by Dr. Wecht, with the help of two top-flight veteran reporters in this amazing real-life thriller.A fresh analysis of nine famous cases using the tools of forensic pathology, which can rev... More

This is an omnibus edition of two books about how the police force works. In the first, Morton unravels the tangled history of key players, including Bertie Smalls, the original supergrass, and his successor, "King Squealer" Maurice O'Mahony. The second is a study of police corruption in the UK.... More

In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory.Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad ... More

With the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious literature. As he reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, Capote generates suspens... More

"Steer clear of that ship", warns the mysterious gentleman who shares the coach to Dover with John Spencer and his father. "Death she'll bring you", says the gentleman. "It's the way of a ship that was christened with blood".This is an ominous introduction to the schooner John is about to be entrust... More

From the creator of HBO's "The Wire," the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television showThe scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicid... More

A noted "New York Times" journalist presents the history of the Mafia's infamous Five Families, the campaign to eradicate them, and the Mob's refusal to die.Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) ... More

Now in paperback, the explosive #1 bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Front Page Editor of The Wall Street Journal that blows the lid off insider trading. With all the elements of a miniseries, Den of Thieves reveals how SEC agents and detectives caught the biggest crooks Wall Street has eve... More

AN ABUSIVE MOTHERRaised in the suburb of Riverside, California, twenty-year-old college student Jason Bautista endured for years his emotionally disturbed mother's verbal and psychological abuse. She even locked him out of the house, tied him up with electrical cord, and on one occasion, gave him a ... More