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21) Barrenjoey Road
Author
Publisher
ABC Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A gripping expose of a notorious cold case 1978. An idyllic beachside community. A series of abductions and rapes. So what happened to Trudie Adams? Back in the 1970s, Sydney's Northern Beaches felt like a slice of paradise to those lucky enough to live there. Bordered on one side by the glistening blue of the Pacific, and on the other by stunning rugged bushland, it was the kind of place where everyone knew everyone. No wonder the area was known...
Author
Publisher
Muriwai Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A CORPSE ON HIS DOORSTEP LURES MCHUGH INTO THE ARMS OF THE MAFIA-AND A LETHAL FEMALE…McHugh called his joint "The Door," and for the stranger with the shiv in his guts, it was the door to Death. It was a tough caper to figure. McHugh finally put the pieces together-just in time to save himself from being fed to the fish in Monterey Bay. FRIENDLY PERSUASION…"It would be wise for you to tell us all about it," the dark man said softly. She held out...
Author
Publisher
Barakaldo Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An astonishingly beautiful Eurasian girl with shoulder-length black hair cut in a page-boy bob had occupied her place. The Eurasian girl looked up, smiling. She had lovely eyes, dark, almond shaped, with very long black lashes that swept her cheeks.
"Miss Mildred Woodford?" she asked in polished English.
The Englishwoman conquered her surprise, but she was ruffled. Antagonism showed plainly upon her features. "I'm Woodford," she said flatly.
"I'm...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The story of Bletchley Park's codebreaking operations in the Second World War is now well known, but its counterparts in the First World War — Room 40 & MI1(b) — remain in the shadows, despite their involvement in and influence on most of the major events of that war.
From the First Battle of the Marne, the shelling of Scarborough, the battles of Jutland and the Somme in 1916, to the battles on the Western Front in 1918, the German naval mutiny...
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of THE OUTSIDER Serial killers are the headline-grabbing criminals of the modern world. But despite extensive police investigations, court trials, and news stories, a complete map of the serial-killer mindset has proven elusive. This fascinating study by one of the world's foremost popular criminologists lays bare the roots of a terrifying modern phenomenon. The term serial killer" is still relatively new, coined by the...
Author
Publisher
RosettaBooks / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author recounts riding along with street cops in California's most dangerous city: Compton ( Los Angeles Times ). In 1974, Compton, California, had the highest per capita crime rate in the nation. And Bruce Henderson, then a young, idealistic newspaper reporter, was determined to spend the summer riding with the Compton police. His journalistic accounts of the day-to-day activities he witnessed is a vivid narrative...
Author
Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A chilling piece of journalism" from the bestselling author of Wrecking Crew: Demolishing the Case Against Steven Avery (Ron Franscell , author of Alice & Gerald ). In this thrilling true crime book, bestselling and award-winning author John Ferak explores the murder, investigation, trial, conviction and eventual exoneration -- the largest such ever in the United States -- of the Beatrice 6. On February 5, 1985, one of the coldest nights on record,...
Author
Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
By the creators of Criminology: a complete chronicle of the Golden State serial killer investigation, including photographs and documents.
In 1976, a serial rapist terrorized California's Sacramento County, breaking into homes and leaving a trail of destruction behind him. As the masked predator expanded his turf, his evil urges drove him to murder. In Northern California, he was known as the East Area Rapist. In Southern California, he was called...
Author
Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The veteran true crime author chronicles the terrifying murders, surprising arrest and dramatic trial of Illinois serial killer Milton Johnson. In the summer of 1983, an elusive serial killer stalked the blue-collar industrial city of Joliet, Illinois. One overnight killing spree took five victims, including members of the Will County Sheriff's Office. The following month brought a quadruple murder inside a shop known for its pottery classes. The...
Author
Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Derbyshire Murders brings together fifteen of the county's most extraordinary and shocking cases. The crimes covered made not just local but in some cases national headlines. For this fascinating, illustrated collection, Martin Baggoley has returned to original sources - including police interviews, trial transcripts and contemporary newspaper reports - to rebuild each story from scratch. Cases include a murder and robbery committed in 1842 in Stanley,...
31) Somerset Murders
Author
Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Somerset Murders brings together numerous murderous tales that shocked not only the county but also made headlines throughout the country. They include the cases of Elizabeth and Betty Branch, a mother and daughter who beat a young servant girl to death in Hemington in 1740; 13-year-old Betty Trump, whose throat was cut while walking home at Buckland St Mary in 1823; factory worker Joan Turner, battered to death in Chard in 1829; George Watkins, killed...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
What motivated John George Haigh to murder at least six people, then dissolve their corpses in concentrated sulphuric acid? How did this intelligent, well-educated man from a loving, strongly religious family of Plymouth Brethren become a fraudster, a thief, then a serial killer? In the latest of his best-selling studies of criminal history, Jonathan Oates reinvestigates this sensational case of the late 1940s. He delves into Haigh's Yorkshire background,...
Author
Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"[A] meticulously researched guide book into the baddest of the bad in LaLa Land." -- Steve Hodel, New York Times -bestselling author of Black Dahlia Avenger Los Angeles is where America's dreams and nightmares got all tangled up. In this otherworldly place of seemingly everlasting life, death could have an otherworldly quality, too. In a city where anything was possible, even the ghastly could happen. Where else does a list of a city's top five most...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The chilling true account of the Sandyford murder case and the sensational nineteenth-century trial that forever changed how homicides are investigated. Jessie M'Lachlan was one of the countless thousands who lived in the tenements of Glasgow, Scotland. In poor health ever since her pregnancy, the single mother worked herself to the bone to provide for her child, but there was never enough to make ends meet. Her only solace in the brutal port town...
Author
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Kent State University Press is excited to reissue these classic true crime detective stories by Allan Pinkerton, the Scottish American detective and spy who founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1850. His agency was the largest private law enforcement organization in the world at the height of its power, and its well-known logo of a large, unblinking eye actually served as inspiration for the term "private eye." In Bank Robbers...
Author
Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The true crime story behind the film Casino from the mob enforcer who lived it and the author of The Accidental Gangster . Tony Spilotro was the Mob's man in Las Vegas. A feared enforcer, the bosses knew Tony would do whatever it took to protect their interests. The "Little Guy" built a criminal empire that was the envy of mobsters across the country, and his childhood pal, Frank Cullotta helped him do it. But Tony's quest for power and lack of self-control...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This true crime saga reveals the case of a missing Nashville woman, a husband on the run, and a rare cold case murder conviction. Janet March had it all: a corporate lawyer husband, two beautiful children, a promising career as an artist, and a dream house she designed herself. But behind closed doors, her husband led a destructive double life. On August 16, 1996, Janet had an appointment to finally file for divorce. But she never arrived. On the...
Author
Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The terrifying life of a rampaging Indiana killer is vividly chronicled in this true crime book by the co-authors of Race to Justice.
Maybe the youngest son of a violent criminal named Hoggy Thompson was born a beast. Maybe rage was beaten into him. One thing was certain, by the time he reached manhood, Jerry Thompson was a savage killer. He had no conscience about rape, child molestation, or thrashing a dozen men in a prison fight. Once he got his...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The definitive account of audacious con woman Cassie Chadwick, the Carnegie Imposter
Queen of the Con tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and "one of the top 10 imposters of all time," according to Timemagazine. Born Betsy Bigley in 1857 in Canada, she first operated as Madame Devere, a European clairvoyant, and in 1890 was arrested for defrauding a Toledo bank of $20,000. In the mid-1890s, while working as a madam in Cleveland,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history
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