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Frank Costello, Prime Minister of the Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
“DeStefano tells Costello’s story well.”—Kirkus Reviews ** **
The definitive book on the ultimate mob boss—featuring new FBI revelations, rare family photos, and never-before-published material . . .
To authorities, Frank Costello was “The Prime Minister of the Underworld” and “one...
John Wayne Gacy
Defending a Monster
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
"Sam, could you do me a favor?" Thus begins a story that has now become part of America’s true crime hall of fame. It is a gory, grotesque tale befitting a Stephen King novel. It is also a David and Goliath saga-the story of a young lawyer fresh from the Public Defender’s Office whose first client...
by Gary Provost
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
ON ANY SUNDAY MORNING IN THE FLORIDA REDLANDS, DEE CASTEEL MIGHT HAVE SERVED YOU PANCAKES AT THE IHOP …
She was a hard-working, cheerful waitress, one of the nicest people you’d ever want to know. She was also a three-bottle-a-day alcoholic, hopelessly in love with the IHOP’s manager,...
by James Surowiecki
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A year ago it would have been difficult to conceive of an anthology of stories soley devoted to corporate malfeasance. Today, the challenge has been to keep it confined to one volume. From P.J. O’Rourke’s hilarious “How To Stuff A Wild Enron,” in which he compares trying to understand Enron’s...
Carl Williams
The Short Life & Violent Times of Melbourne's Gangland Drug Lord
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Unlikely crime boss, serial killer, prison snitch, suburban boy turned bad, cult hero - who was the real Carl Williams?
When the 'baby-faced killer' met his shocking end in Barwon Prison's maximum-security unit, he left in his wake a trail of brutal murders, an underworld in flames, a police...
Bad
The true story of the Perish brothers and Australia's biggest ever murder investigation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Strike Force Tuno and this investigation is soon to be the subject of the fifth Underbelly television series, Underbelly: Badness
When Terry Falconer's dismembered body turned up in the Hastings River in 2001, detective Gary Jubelin was given the investigation to lead. Falconer had been a violent...
by Caesar Campbell, Donna Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Among members of the outlaw motorcycle clubs, Caesar Campbell is a legend. Former sergeant-at-arms and chief enforcer for the Comancheros, Caesar became the founding member and sergeant-at-arms of the Australian chapter of the Bandidos. He epitomised bikie culture - unbeatable in a fight, brutal in...
by Adrian Gray
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Dark and foggy Victorian streets, the murderous madman, the arsenic-laced evening meal—we all think we know the realities of Victorian crime. Adrian Gray's book thrillingly reflects some of this, ranging over classic murders by knife and poison. But it also covers much more, taking the reader into...
Bringing Down the Mob
The War Against the American Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
The riveting, often bloody account of how the fifty-year attack by the federal government virtually extinguished the nation's most powerful crime syndicate
In the critically acclaimed American Mafia, Thomas Reppetto narrated the ferocious ascendancy of organized crime in America. In this fascinating...
The Crimes and trials of OJ SIMPSON
True Crime
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
He had it all, Fame, Celebrity and money. OJ Simpson was a household name around the world. Professional football player, football broadcaster turned actor, Simpson had the world at his feet but it all went wrong in 1995 when Simson was arrested and charged with the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson...
Untying the Knot
John Mark Byers and the West Memphis Three
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
On May 5, 1993, second-graders Christopher Byers, Stevie Branch, and Michael Moore disappeared from their West Memphis, Arkansas, homes. The following afternoon, their nude, beaten, and bound bodies were discovered in a drainage ditch less than a mile away.
After a troublesome confession, three...
Murder in Sin City
Death of a Casino Boss
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
The reckless heir to the Horseshoe Club fortune, fifty-five-year-old Vegas casino boss Ted Binionlived the high life constantly teetering on the edge—surrounding himself with guns, heroin, cash, babes and mobsters. But it was a beautiful ex-stripper and her new lover who gave him the final, fatal...
Six Degrees of Paris Hilton
Inside the Sex Tapes, Scandals, and Shakedowns of the New Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
In the burgeoning Hollywood club scene, where ecstasy dealers dine alongside celebrities, and illicit money bubbles up from below like the La Brea Tar Pits, a handsome double-murderer and ex-con of refined wit and taste charmed his way into young Hollywood's most elite social circles. Serving as their...
by Dave Courtney
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Will you be held at gunpoint and find yourself reaching for the panic button or will you be laughing all the way to the bank as you try to answer this quiz book’s 450 testing questions cunningly prepared by former London gangster and nowadays best-selling celebrity author and film-maker Dave Courtney...