True crime Books
Little, Brown Book Group Mobster
Book SynopsisIn this chilling expose, MOBSTER probes the real world of the Mafia: Its unique lifestyle, its rigid but unwritten code of behaviour, the world of Mafia wives and mistresses, how ''organised'' crime is organised - and the curious relationship between Mafiosi and the FBI agents out to destroy them. MOBSTER also examines the dramatic courtroom battles that have marked Gotti''s criminal career, culminating with his fall in 1992 when he received six consecutive life sentences with no chance of parole. Drawing on wiretap records and sources on both sides of the law, MOBSTER is the fullest portrait we are ever likely to encounter of John Gotti and his gang.Trade ReviewA very well-written biography of a particularly violent and nasty mobster of the new school. * Time Out *
£23.52
AuthorHouse Kill Now Talk Forever Debating Sacco and Vanzetti
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£23.84
AuthorHouse Redmans Tale Whitemans Truth A True Story
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£11.67
AuthorHouse Professional Snoop
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£14.83
AuthorHouse Justice Rendered 2000
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£12.72
AuthorHouse In a System of Corruption
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£13.77
AuthorHouse The Mind of the Monster The Mentality of Atrocity in the World Today and in The New Age Ahead
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£20.19
University Press of America Illegal Enterprise
Book SynopsisRepresenting over four decades of work, this monograph by historian Mark H. Haller includes his work on organized crime in Chicago. This book incorporates Haller’s critique of the Mafia model of organized crime and his elaboration of the illegal enterprise model of gangsters and their role in the American subeconomy.Trade ReviewThis book is well suited for undergraduate classes within criminology or criminal justice programs that focus on policy. The language in the book is written in a manner that citizens outside of criminology will benefit as well. . . .For those in the criminology field, most well-trained criminologists will be familiar with several of the examples of well-documented programs and studies provided in the book, such as problem-oriented policing and drug treatment courts. . . .Mathew Yeager has given us a worthy compendium of Haller's major work and contributions on the subject of how organized crime is actually organized, including some of Haller's publications which are now difficult to find. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *It is organized to showcase three of Haller’s unique contributions to the field: rediscovery and highlighting of the circumstances and content of John Landesco’s 1929 study of organized crime in Chicago; a description and commentary on the activities of the Angelo Bruno family in Philadelphia; and an analysis...of Illegal Enterprise accompanied by studies of three particular businesses, gambling, loan sharking and bootlegging. They are tied together through Haller’s self-perception "as a social scientist, using the tools of a trained historian".... [I]f I were designing an introductory course in Organized Crime, Illegal Enterprise would be one of the books on my recommended reading list. * Trends In Organized Crime *Table of ContentsPart I: Chicago Chapter 1: Illinois Association for Criminal Justice Chapter 2: John Landesco and the Illinois Crime Survey (1929) Chapter 3: Organized Crime in Urban Society: Chicago in the Twentieth Century (1971) Chapter 4: Biographical Sketches: Al Capone, Jack Guzik, Arnold Rothstein, Meyer Lansky and Max Hoff; Definition of Organized Crime Part II : Philadelphia Chapter 5: Philadelphia Bootlegging and the Report of the Special August Grand Jury (1985) Chapter 6: The Bruno Family of Philadelphia: Organized Crime as a Regulatory Agency (1994) Chapter 7: Loansharking in Philadelphia: Social Control in an Illegal Enterprise (1992) Part III - Illegal Enterprise Theory Chapter 8: The Changing Structure of American Gambling in the Twentieth Century (1979) Chapter 9: Loansharking in American Cities: Historical Analysis of a Marginal Enterprise (1977) Chapter 10: Bootleggers as Businessmen: From City Slums to City Builders (1985) Chapter 11: Illegal Enterprise: A Theoretical and Historical Interpretation (1990) Subject Index
£42.30
Running Press Donnie Brasco Unfinished Business
Book Synopsis
£15.29
Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc) Catch ME If You Can The Amazing True Story of the
Book Synopsis
£13.09
Random House USA Inc For the Sins of My Father
Book Synopsis
£14.44
RosettaBooks After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
£13.46
Barry John Cohen The Boys from Bulawayo
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£15.19
Henry Holt & Company Inc American Mafia A History of Its Rise to Power
Book SynopsisReppetto's book earns its place among the best ...he brings fresh context to a familiar story worth retelling. The New York Times Book Review Organized crime the Italian American kind has long been a source of popular entertainment and legend. Now Thomas Reppetto provides a balanced history of the Mafia's rise from the 1880s to the post-WWII era that is as exciting and readable as it is authoritative. Structuring his narrative around a series of case histories featuring such infamous characters as Lucky Luciano and Al Capone, Reppetto draws on a lifetime of field experience and access to unseen documents to show us a locally grown Mafia. It wasn't until the 1920s, thanks to Prohibition, that the Mafia assumed what we now consider its defining characteristics, especially its octopuslike tendency to infiltrate industry and government. At mid-century the Kefauver Commission declared the Mafia synonymous with Union Siciliana; in the 1960s the FBI finally admitted the Mafia's existence unTrade ReviewThe subject is sensational, but the work is never sensationalistic ... Any serious mob-watcher ... will want to have this book. Anyone who reads it with interest will join me in hoping that Reppetto writes a sequel swiftly and as well. The Sun (Baltimore) The Sun (Baltimore) "
£21.34
John Wiley & Sons Pat F Garretts The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid An Annotated Edition
£19.76
University of Oklahoma Press Last Hurrah of the JamesYounger Gang
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£999.99
Kensington Publishing A Tangled Web A Cyberstalker a Deadly Obsession
Book SynopsisIn the tradition of her acclaimed mother, Ann Rule, author of The Stranger Beside Me, bestselling author Leslie Rule delivers a riveting true story for our time--as she exposes the trail of a sadistic sociopath, identity thief, and killer at the dark heart of a real-life fatal attraction...It was a bleak November in 2012 when Cari Farver, thirty-seven, vanished from Omaha, Nebraska.Texts sent indicated that the hardworking mother had quit her job, abandoned her son, and cut ties with everyone--including her dying father. Though Cari's boyfriend, Dave Kroupa, was hurt, he accepted the breakup-text at face value. Her mother, Nancy Raney, however, doubted that kind-hearted Cari had sent the rude texts she received. I need to hear your voice, Nancy begged. When the texter refused to speak, Nancy reported Cari missing. While no one saw or spoke to Cari, more than 12,000 sinister emails and texts were sent in her name over the next years. Police were skeptical of Nanc
£15.26
Kensington Publishing Corporation Red Hook
Book Synopsis
£17.68
Kensington Sisters in Death
Book SynopsisWho killed the Black Dahlia? In this eye-opening shocker, an award-winning producer, true-crime researcher, and Hollywood insider finally solves the greatest - and most gruesome - murder mystery of the twentieth century just before its 80th anniversary.In January 1947, the bisected body of Elizabeth Short, completely drained of blood, was discovered in an undeveloped lot in Los Angeles. Its gruesome mutilations led to a firestorm of publicity, city-wide panic, and an unprecedented number of investigative paths led by the LAPD—all dead ends. The Black Dahlia murder remained an unsolved mystery for over seventy years.Six years earlier and sixteen hundred miles away, another woman’s life had ended in a similarly horrific manner. Leila Welsh was an ambitious, educated, popular, and socially connected beauty. Though raised modestly on a prairie farm, she was heiress to her Kansas City family’s status and wealth. On a winter morning in 1941, Leila’s butchered body was found in her bedroom bearing unspeakable trauma.One victim faded into obscurity. The other became notorious. Both had in common a killer whose sadistic mind was a labyrinth of dark secrets.Eli Frankel reveals for the first time a key fact about the Black Dahlia crime scene, never before shared with the public, that leads inexorably to the stunning identification of a criminal who was at the same time amateurish and fiendish, skilled and lucky, sophisticated and brutish. Drawing on newly discovered documents, law enforcement files, interviews with the last surviving participants, the victims’ own letters, trial transcripts, military records, and more, this epic true-crime saga puts together the missing pieces of a legendary puzzle.In Sisters in Death, the Black Dahlia cold case is finally closed.
£23.20
Kensington Publishing Hollywood vs. Nazis
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£19.40
LSU Press Murder in the MÃtro
Book SynopsisThe first-ever murder in the Paris Metro dominated the headlines for weeks during the summer of 1937, as the shocking truth about the victim was slowly revealed. Gayle Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite unravel a complicated and mysterious life, assessing the victim’s complex identity within the larger political context of the time.
£28.47
Random House Publishing Group Cassidys Run
Book SynopsisCassidy''s Run is the riveting story of one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War—an espionage operation mounted by Washington against the Soviet Union that ran for twenty-three years. At the highest levels of the government, its code name was Operation shocker.Lured by a double agent working for the United States, ten Russian spies, including a professor at the University of Minnesota, his wife, and a classic 'sleeper' spy in New York City, were sent by Moscow to penetrate America''s secrets. Two FBI agents were killed, and secret formulas were passed to the Russians in a dangerous ploy that could have spurred Moscow to create the world''s most powerful nerve gas.Cassidy''s Run tells this extraordinary true story for the first time, following a trail that leads from Washington to Moscow, with detours to Florida, Minnesota, and Mexico. Based on documents secret until now and scores of interviews in the United States and Russia, the book revea
£14.25
Wayne State University Press Justice on Demand True Crime in the Digital Streaming Era Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Book SynopsisOffers a theoretical rumination on the question asked in countless blogs and opinion pieces of the last decade: Why are we so obsessed with true crime? Tanya Horeck examines a range of audiovisual true crime texts, and considers the extent to which the genre has come to epitomize participatory media culture.
£31.46
Thomas Nelson Publishers Sacrifice The Tragic Cult Murder of Mark Kilroy in Matamoros A Fathers Determination to Turn Evil Into Good
£10.44
University of Tennessee Press Congress Oversees Us Intelligence 2E Community 19471993
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£35.06
Mercer University Press Six Inches Deeper
Book SynopsisTells the true story of a horrific murder that has all the elements of a work of suspense fiction: money, power, sex, race, and the haves vs. the have-nots. Multiple lives were forever changed. The outcome would have been totally different if a box had been buried only six inches deeper.
£18.95
Adventures Beyond the Hemisphere Pt 3 Adventures Beyond the Hemisphere Beyond the Sphere of Reasonable Doubt
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£22.25
£13.26
Revel Barker SlipUp How Fleet Street Caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard Lost Him The Story Behind the Scoop
£13.62
Revel Barker The Street of Disillusion
£13.62
Jay F Kay Publishing A Madness Shared by Two
£14.86
Bronwyn Editions Skinhead The Life I Chose
£11.66
Brutus Media The Psychic Jungle 2nd edition
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£11.40
Howling at the Moon Publishing Ltd Arthur Allan Thomas The Inside Story Crewe Murders New Evidence
£18.04
LIGHTNING SOURCE INC I Am Abigail
£24.50
Demand Publications El zar de la droga
£17.53
Turn Around Publishing Ht be A Successful Criminal
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£12.49
Georgene Summers Angels In Sin Mayhem Money and Murder
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£21.69
Michael Madigan The Missing Beaumont Children
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£20.37
JFK Lancer Production Someone Would Have Talked
£23.70
JFK Lancer Production At the Door of Memory Aubrey Rike and the Assassination of President Kennedy
£13.00
Jacobs Books Beyond The Bars
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£22.75
ReedWrite Press Reflections of a Forensic Handwriting Expert
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£23.00
ReedWrite Press Forensic Handwriting Examination
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£43.99
Nimble Books Sandy Berger Should Be In Jail
£13.99
Gorilla Convict Publications Rayful Edmond Washington DCs Most Notorious Drug Lord
£15.94
£19.56
Adventure Books of Seattle Into The Blast The True Story of DB Cooper Revised Edition
£9.37
