William Roughead
Dorothy Sayers called William Roughead "the best showman who ever stood before the door of the chamber of horrors," and his true crime stories, written in the early 1900s, are among the glories of the genre. Displaying a meticulous command of .. [... more]
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01 True Crime Stories
 Give it a Try!: I would defineately disagree with the comments of the other reviewer, perhaps this book is just geared toward a different type of reader. I personally enjoyed this book. I enjoyed looking into how crimes were solved before all the [... more]
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Empty Promises
Not Her Best: Fans of Ann Rule will enjoy reading this. However, it is by no means her best story. The characters and story are fairly simple compared to the topics that she usually writes about. As a result, this one is no nearly as suspenseful, making [... more]
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Shattered Bonds
A Different Kind of True Crime Book: Although I don't read many true crime stories, I loved this one. While visiting Mom in Iowa, I heard Cindy Band (the girl who the book is about) being interviewed on the radio. She sounded so cute and made her story [... more]
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Fbi Killer
Where Is Mark Now?: I was on Mark's side all through the book. He was engrossed in his job and although she posed a threat to it, I fully believe the killing was accidental and he wanted to be punished for it. I would like to know how much time he served, [... more]
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The Boys from New Jersey: How the Mob Beat the Feds
super stuff!: Certainly worth the read, slow to start but when the story speeds up its pretty hard to put the book down. In a nutshell, the Feds put together what they think is a watertight case against Lucchese capo Anthony Acceturo's New Jersey crew, [... more]
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The Trial of Levi Weeks: Or the Manhattan Well Mystery
Somewhat dry but very professional and informative treatment: Notwithstanding the remarks from Publishers Weekly that the trial moved too slowly and the witnesses rambled too much for this story to be of interest to any but true-crime buffs, it is [... more]
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Son of a Grifter: The Twisted Tale of Sante and Kenny ...
Wish I wrote this well: Very witty and ironic writing. Walker shows the pathos of being a crazy person's kid. He also is apologetic about many things, which upon a second reading makes a lot of sense. A good story from the inside. The Boy Who Could Not [... more]
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Zodiac (Widescreen)
Four Men, One Obsession: Who is the Zodiac?: On December 20th, 1968, Darlene Ferrin and Mike Mageau are shot. Darlene dies and Mike lives. Seven months later, the San Francisco Chronicle receives a letter in which the writer claims he is Darlene's killer [... more]
CDN$21.99
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Stalking Of Kristin
From Amazon.com: "This is Kristin's story. I'd give anything not to have written it." Kristin Lardner's father won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of Washington Post articles about this promising young art student who was killed by a jealous ex- [... more]
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Fakes & Forgeries: The True Crime Stories of History's ...
Author: Brian Innes Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 364.163 EAN: 9780762106257 ISBN: 0762106255 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 2005-10 [... more]
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Terribly True Crime Stories
Author: Terry Deary Author: David (Illus) Wyatt Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780439950190 ISBN: 0439950198 Number Of Pages: 112 Publication Date: 2006-05-22 [... more]
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