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Enforcer, The: Secrets of My Life with the Krays

Enforcer, The: Secrets of My Life with the Krays

Author: Albert Donoghue ,  Martin Short
ISBN: 9781857825251
Format: Paperback
$36.93

Albert Donoghue was Reggie Kray's right hand man, his minder and chief executive. In this book, he reveals the events...  Read More >>

Body Count

Body Count

Author: Burl Barer
ISBN: 9780786014057
Format: Paperback
$17.16

A half-naked body of 16-year-old street hooker Jennifer Joseph was found in an empty lot. By the day after Christmas,...  Read More >>

While the Locust Slept: A Memoir

While the Locust Slept: A Memoir

Author: Peter Razor
ISBN: 9780873514392
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Through transcendent prose, an Ojibwe man chronicles his survival of abuse and bigotry at a state orphanage in the...  Read More >>

The Man Who Lost Himself: The Unbelievable Story of the Tichborne Claimant

The Man Who Lost Himself: The Unbelievable Story of...

Author: Robyn Annear
ISBN: 9781877008177
Format: Paperback
$34.95

In 1854, the heir to the Tichborne estate was reported drowned off Chile. Twelve years later, a Wagga butcher arrived...  Read More >>

The Gladiator: The Secret History of Rome's Warrior Slaves

The Gladiator: The Secret History of Rome's Warrior...

Author: Alan Baker
ISBN: 9780091886547
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Alan Baker weaves an extraordinary, vivid picture of Roman life as his compelling and evocative history tells the...  Read More >>

To the Last Ridge

To the Last Ridge

Author: W.H. Downing
ISBN: 9781904010203
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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The Thames Torso Murders of Victorian London

The Thames Torso Murders of Victorian London

Author: R. Michael Gordon
ISBN: 9780786413485
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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The Forensic Casebook: The Science of Crime Scene Investigation

The Forensic Casebook: The Science of Crime Scene Investigation...

Author: N.E Genge
ISBN: 9780345452030
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Photographs and illustrations, along with case studies and interviews with forensic and police personnel, highlight...  Read More >>

Was It Murder?: Surprising Facts about 22 Famous Deaths

Was It Murder?: Surprising Facts about 22 Famous Deaths...

Author: Philip L Rife
ISBN: 9780595247509
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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Treasure and Intrigue: The Legacy of Captain Kidd

Treasure and Intrigue: The Legacy of Captain Kidd

Author: Graham Harris (University of Tasmania)
ISBN: 9781554880331
Format: Electronic book text
$60.69

Before he was hanged, Captain Kidd claimed to have hidden a vast fortune in the Indies. Harris concludes there is...  Read More >>

The Rachel Files

The Rachel Files

Author: Keith Pedder
ISBN: 9781904034308
Format: Paperback
$31.65

The ""inside"" story of the operation to catch the killer of Rachel Nickell by the police detective that headed...  Read More >>

Heist: The $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft

Heist: The $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft

Author: Jeff Diamant
ISBN: 9780895872524
Format: Hardback
$65.87

In 1997, an amateurish group of thieves pulled off the second-largest cash heist in America's history. Diamant uses...  Read More >>

The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Outrageous Family

The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Outrageous Family...

Author: Mary S. Lovell
ISBN: 9780349115054
Format: Paperback
$26.99

THE MITFORD GIRLS tells the story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters.  Read More >>

Fires of the Dragon: Politics, Murder, and the Kuomintang

Fires of the Dragon: Politics, Murder, and the Kuomintang...

Author: David E. Kaplan
ISBN: 9780743245388
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Shocking and newsworthy revelations from one of the most knowledgeable authorities on Pacific Rim affairs, David...  Read More >>

Scorned

Scorned

Author: Roger Small
ISBN: 9781401060619
Format: Paperback
$55.41

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The Galapagos Affair

The Galapagos Affair

Author: John E Treherne
ISBN: 9780712668231
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Over half-a-century ago fanciful and exotic stories began to appear in the world's press about settlers on the remote...  Read More >>

The Stupid Crook Book

The Stupid Crook Book

Author: Leland Gregory
ISBN: 9780740726941
Format: Paperback
$26.37

The former Saturday Night Live writer's bestsellers, America's Dumbest Criminals and What's the Number for...  Read More >>

Surviving Stalking

Surviving Stalking

Author: Michele Pathe (Monash University, Victoria Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health, Brunswick, Australia Monash University, Victoria)
ISBN: 9781280159824
Format: Electronic book text
$209.09

Surviving Stalking is a practical and comprehensive survival manual for victims of stalking and related crimes....  Read More >>

The Short and Bloody History of Spies

The Short and Bloody History of Spies

Author: John Farman
ISBN: 9780822508458
Format: Hardback
$52.62

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Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves

Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation...

Author: Gregory A. Freeman
ISBN: 9781556524479
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The John Williams plantation in Georgia was operated largely with the labor of slaves--not surprising, except that...  Read More >>

A Stranger and Afraid

A Stranger and Afraid

Author: Arthur Allwright
ISBN: 9781904224310
Format: Paperback
$37.22

A recollection of the experiences of an eight-year-old London boy evacuated to Somerset at the outset of World War...  Read More >>

Aum Shinrikyo: Japan's Unholy Sect

Aum Shinrikyo: Japan's Unholy Sect

Author: Rei Kimura
ISBN: 9781588987419
Format: Paperback
$24.95

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Corrupt Exchanges: Empirical Themes in the Politics and Political Economy Corruption

Corrupt Exchanges: Empirical Themes in the Politics...

Author: Donatella della Porta ,  Professor Susan Rose-Ackerman
ISBN: 9783789081316
Format: Paperback
$126.72

Corruption undermines the market and challenges government legitimacy. Its hidden character, however, makes it troublesome...  Read More >>

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