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  • Jack the Ripper & the London Press

    de L. Perry Curtis ...
    "Breaks new ground in its examination of the role of newspaper reporting during the police hunt for the first notorious serial killer."— Reviews in HistoryPress coverage of the 1888 mutilation murders attributed to Jack the Ripper was of necessity filled with gaps and silences, for the killer remained unknown and Victorian journalists had little experience reporting serial murders and sex crimes. ... Leer más

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  • Jack the Ripper

    The Forgotten Victims

    de Paul Begg, John Bennett ...
    Two Ripper experts examine unsolved murders—from Great Britain and around the world—that occurred during the era of the notorious killer.The number of women murdered and mutilated by Jack the Ripper is impossible to know, although most researchers now agree on five individuals. These five canonical cases have been examined at length in Ripper literature, but other contemporary murders and attacks ... Leer más

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  • A Criminal History of Mankind

    de Colin Wilson ...
    This "immensely stimulating story of true crime down the ages" tells the history of human violence, from Peking Man to the Mafia ( The Times, London).This landmark work offers a completely new approach to the history and psychology of human violence. Its sweep is broad, its research meticulous and detailed. Colin Wilson explores the bloodthirsty sadism of the ancient Assyrians and the mass ... Leer más

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  • Alcatraz Ghost Story

    Roy Gardner's Amazing Train Robberies, Escapes, and Lifelong Love

    de Brian Stannard ...
    The Incredible True Story of the Most Hunted Man in Pacific Coast History––and the Woman He LovedBefore the 1920s found their roar, a charismatic gambling addict named Roy Gardner dominated news headlines with daring train robberies and escapes from incarceration. Nicknamed "the Smiling Bandit," Gardner spilled no blood––except his own––as he cut a felonious path across the western United States, ... Leer más

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  • Precious Few Clues

    The True Crime Investigation of Kansas City's "Precious Doe" Murder

    de Marla Bernard ...
    A true crime account of the Kansas City police investigation of the murder of a three-year-old girl, whose brutalized body took four years to identify.On an unseasonably warm April evening in 2001, the headless body of a tiny girl was found discarded in a makeshift dump site in the woods on the southeast side of Kansas City, Missouri. One long night turned into four long years for Sgt. David ... Leer más

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  • Killer Colt

    Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend

    de Harold Schechter ...
    An in-the-room account of John Colt's scandalous nineteenth-century murder trial from "America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" ( Boston Review).In this masterful account, renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter takes you into the life and crimes of convicted murderer John Caldwell Colt, drawing parallels between John's rise to notoriety and his brother Samuel ... Leer más

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  • Housewife Assassin

    The Woman Who Tried to Kill President Ford

    de Geri Spieler ...
    The authoritative true crime biography of a seemingly ordinary woman who nearly killed President Ford.President Gerald Ford suffered two attempts on his life during his term in office: one by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme of the Manson Family, and the other by a far less likely candidate—an average middle-aged mother of five—Sara Jane Moore. After thirty years of communication with Moore in prison, ... Leer más

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  • Intruder in the Dark

    de George Bellairs ...
    Series Libro 25 - The Inspector Littlejohn Mysteries
    A corpse in a country house brings Scotland Yard to an eerily quiet English village, in this tale by a master of British mystery.Cyril Savage has inherited the home of his wealthy and estranged aunt. But before Savage has the chance to discover her fortune, he is struck dead in the cellar of this once grand country house in the strange, nearly deserted village of Plumpton Bois.The police are ... Leer más

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  • The Paddington Mystery

    de John Rhode ...
    Series Libro 1 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    A night of revelry ends with a perplexing death in the first novel featuring one of the greatest detectives of the Golden Age of Mystery.In the early hours of a wintery morning, Harold Merefield returns home from a festive little party at The Naxos, a popular nightclub in Paddington. But just as he tries to get some much-needed sleep, he is startled by a gruesome discovery on his bed: a corpse ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Little, Crazy Children

    A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

    de James Renner ...
    For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author of True Crime Addict and creator/host of the podcasts True Crime This Week and The Philosophy of Crime, as he explores the unsolved murder of 16-year-old Lisa Pruett in the real life town of the bestselling novel Little Fires Everywhere for a painstakingly researched account of a senseless and ... Leer más

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  • Regeneration Through Violence

    The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860

    de Richard Slotkin ...
    Series Libro 1 - Mythology of the American West
    National Book Award Finalist: A study of national myths, lore, and identity that "will interest all those concerned with American cultural history" ( American Political Science Review).Winner of the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Award for Best Book in American HistoryIn Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, historian ... Leer más

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  • The Killing of Karen Silkwood

    The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case

    de Richard Rashke ...
    For this edition, Rashke has added a preface and three short chapters that explore what has been released and learned about the Silkwood case since the book's original publication.Karen Silkwood, an employee of the Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant, was killed in a car crash on her way to deliver important documents to a newspaper reporter in 1974. Silkwood was a union activist concerned about ... Leer más

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