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66) The road to ruin
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Series
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English
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This time out John Dortmunder and his merry band of crooks return to the scene of the crime world in an attempt to steal a fleet of automobiles that would leave the Sultan of Brunei blushing. The mark is Monroe Hall, corrupt CEO of a now defunct conglomerate, who spent more of his company's money on himself than the boys at Enron and WorldCom combined. Having escaped prosecution, Hall is holed up on his massive Pennsylvania farm and Dortmunder, as...
67) Flashfire
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Series
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English
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Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital-the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone. But cash isn't everything, and now Parker's after a fortune in jewels. In Flashfire, Parker's in West Palm Beach,...
68) Jack Maggs
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English
Description
Jack Maggs, a boy who was deported to Australia for thieving, returns to London in 1837 as a grown man and inveigles his way into a wealthy household where he becomes acquainted with an author who is fascinated by mesmerism and the criminal mind.
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English
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Award-winning memoirist and best-selling author Nuala O'Faolain branches into new territory with her biography of the infamous Irish-American prostitute and thief, Chicago May. O'Faolain uses May's autobiography, primary sources from the turn of the 19th century and her own experience as an Irishwoman to bring May-and all her heartache, deception and violence-to life.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels--a new, electrifying stand-alone thriller set in Oslo in the 1970s: the story of an unusually complicated contract killer--the perfectly sympathetic antihero--that is, as well, an edgy, almost lyrical meditation on death and love. This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented "fixer" whose unexpected capacity for love is as far-reaching as his talent for murder. He works for Oslo's...
71) Animal
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
James 'Animal' Allen is locked up in a maximum security prison, and meets a revolutionary who changes his life. Now a reformed man, James is released only to find that his own son has assumed a life of crime and violence.
72) Hotel Artemis
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Set in riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, a nurse operates a secret, members-only emergency room for criminals.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, Robert Miller, a.k.a. "Count Victor Lustig," moved to Paris hoping to be an artist. A "con" artist, that is. He used his ingenious scams on unsuspecting marks all over the world, from the Czech Republic, to Atlantic ocean liners, and across America. Tricky Vic pulled off his most daring con in 1925, when he managed to "sell" the Eiffel Tower to one of the city's most successful scrap metal dealers! Six weeks later, he tried to...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A new edition of the iconic, best-selling account of America's most fascinating serial killer, "perhaps the most unnerving true-crime book ever published" (Victoria Beale, The New Yorker), with a foreword by Georgia Hardstark. In 1971, while working the late-shift at a Seattle crisis clinic, true-crime writer Ann Rule struck up a friendship with a sensitive, charismatic young coworker: Ted Bundy. Three years later, eight young women disappeared in...
76) Criminal destiny
Author
Series
Masterminds volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment, and they must find a way to prove it to the rest of the world.
77) Prizzi's honor
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Language
English
Description
Charley Partanna works as a hitman for the Prizzis, New York's most dangerous crime family. When he meets Irene Walker, an LA-based tax consultant, it's pretty much love at first sight. But Irene also moonlights as a hit woman-and had a hand in a big-money heist in Vegas. Now Charley has been told that she's got to go. Faced with divided loyalties, he must make a choice-between the only family he's ever known and the woman he loves.
78) Fargo: Year two
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The second chapter is set in 1979 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Luverne, Minnesota, where young State Police Officer Lou Solverson, recently back from Vietnam, will tackle an all-new 'true crime' case.
Author
Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 33
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1971
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In trying to trace a missing will, detectives Frank and Joe Hardy trap a dangerous criminal who is willing to risk all--including murder--for money.
Author
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Beginning six years after season four, the country is in the throes of the Great Depression--a stark contrast with the Roaring Twenties. With the end of Prohibition in sight, Nucky is looking to legitimize himself by forging alliances with liquor producers, including Bacardi in Cuba.
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