Drawing on his experience in creating fictional bad guys, crime novelist Lawrence Block surveys the underside of American history through fifty of its most infamous characters. Some, like Jesse James, Bonnie Parker, and Joe Colombo, led a life of crime; others, like...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2004-05-13
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This is an account of the curious murder case in which the sixteen-year-old Constance Kent was the central figure. In a little village in Somerset a small boy was murdered in mysterious circumstances, and suspicion centred on many persons, one after another. Jonathan...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-03-06
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The hunt continues. This time, Alex Caine infiltrates both a Hong Kong triad involved in drug trafficking and a gang of skinheads recruited by an organization plotting to detonate a bomb in the capital of Canada. He discovers that his girlfriend, Shannon, with whom he...

Editeur : Juniper Publishing
Parution : 2016-08-31
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Who actually arrived first at the site where Olof Palme was assassinated the 28th of February 1986? Early on in testimonies from first hand witnesses a "stripling" was observed to have been by the side of the fallen person. This "stripling" somehow vanished in...

Editeur : BoD - Books on Demand
Parution : 2025-03-18
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Did you know that Joseph Bonanno took acting classes before leading one of New York's most powerful crime families? Or that Al Capone formed a banjo band while imprisoned at Alcatraz? Has anyone told you how Santo Trafficante Jr., Florida's crime boss, narrowly escaped...

Editeur : BoD - Books on Demand
Parution : 2025-02-26
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If you consider the American system of incarceration a failure in many aspects and as it stands today as a whole, this book is for you. It details the current prison system and provides not only solutions but a clearly defined and laid out path out of this mess. Easy to...

Editeur : BoD - Books on Demand
Parution : 2024-08-15
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Sixty years after the Dallas shootings - and despite more and more documents becoming available - a multitude of myths continue to surround the most famous assassination attempt of the 20th century. With his work, the author tries to bring a little more light into the...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2023-11-22
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Safety rethought Do you sometimes worry that you can no longer go out on the street on your own without a care in the world? And would you also like active support in an emergency? What measures can increase safety without restricting freedom? This book tells us: ......

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2022-09-13
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Safety rethought Do you sometimes worry that you can no longer go out on the street light-hearted on your own? And would you also like active support in an emergency? What measures can increase safety without restricting freedom? This book tells us: ... how security...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2022-09-09
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January 1889, six women die in Managua in a similar way to five in London in autumn 1888. Number „6“ and word „Agua“ are traces. There are bodies of water at distances of 6, 60, 600 and 6000 km, with „knife“ coded twice. Code name Carl Feigenbaum (Carlos, Charles)...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2022-05-05
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This is the story about how I met a true psychopath. He contacted me on Facebook using a fake profile, and before I knew it, I had to run for my life, when he came for me and my children. He started out as my best friend and ended up my worst nightmare. I hope that one...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2021-05-20
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In these books, you can follow Dr. Rose M. Peterson, 37 years, who suffered disappointments at home and thought to run away from these problems for some time. Naive, young and adventurous, but at the same time educated to help people in need, she took service for...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2020-07-17
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In this book, you can follow Dr. Rose M. Peterson, 37 years, who suffered disappointments at home and thought to run away from these problems for some time. Naive, young and adventurous, but at the same time educated to help people in need, she took service for...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2020-07-17
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In modern societies, surgical castration is still an archaic means to treat aggressive sex offenders.In this book, the German author reveals emotional reactions and social coping mechanisms of adult castrates. Based on interviews, he further demonstrates sexual...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2019-03-11
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Of criminals, actual or nominal, there are many kinds. It is necessary, first of all, to enumerate the chief varieties. There is the political criminal. By this term is meant the victim of an attempt by a more or less despotic Government to preserve its own stability....

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2019-01-02
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On consulting my memory and the documents relating to my studies on this subject, I find that its two fundamental ideas-that, for instance, which claims as an essential point the study not of crime in the abstract, but of the criminal himself, in order adequately to...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2018-11-27
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About midnight on Tuesday, January 25, 1876, five masked men entered the house of John Whittelsey in Northampton, Massachusetts. Mr. Whittelsey was the cashier of the Northampton National Bank, and was known to have in his possession the keys of the bank building and...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2018-11-15
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What can you do, if a burglar breaks into your house? How do you avoid a brawl? Whats your possibilities, when you have a noisy neighbour? Whats to be done in dangerous situations? How to make an emergency call properly? ... This book contains lots of useful...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2018-10-09
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