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Included in this volume are Maximillian Potter’s “The Body Farm” from GQ, a portrait...
In Operation Family Secrets, Frank Calabrese, Jr. reveals for the first time the outfit’s “made” ceremony and describes being put to work alongside his father and uncle in loan sharking, gambling, labor racketeering, and extortion. As members...
The remarkable true story of a turn-of-the-19th century murder and the trial that ensued—a showdown in which iconic political rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr joined forces to make sure justice was served—from bestselling author of the Edgar finalist, Murder of the Century.
In the closing days of 1799, the United States was still a young republic. Waging a fierce battle for its uncertain future
...1564) Echoes in the Darkness
1566) Searching for Savanna: the murder of one Native American woman and the violence against the many
1567) The apparitionists: a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
"Fabulous. I read this in a single weekend and I didn't want it to end. Scammers, con-artists, catfishers – you have met your match" — Jeremy Vine
"A brilliant read. Moves effortlessly between hilarious and informative and back again." — Ed Byrne, comedian and actor
"Astonishing." — Daily Mail
Online romance fraud is a problem across the globe. It causes financial
...In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary...
1573) 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics
A captivating blend of history, women in science, and true crime, 18 Tiny Deaths tells the story of how one woman changed the face of forensics forever.
Frances Glessner Lee, born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family in the 1870s, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity.
Yet she developed a fascination with the investigation of violent crimes, and made it her
...The true story of a brilliant counterfeiter who "made" millions, outwitted the Secret Service, and was finally undone when he went in search of the one thing his forged money couldn't buy him: family.
Art Williams spent his boyhood in a comfortable middle-class existence in 1970s Chicago, but his idyll was shattered when, in short order, his father abandoned the family, his bipolar...
1576) The Onion Field
This is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one March night in a bizarre execution in a deserted Los Angeles field.
“A complex story of tragic proportions . . . more ambitious than In Cold Blood and...
In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, arrived at a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary “fasting treatment” of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed...
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