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Crimes of New York: Stories of Crooks, Killers, and Corruption from the World's Toughest City (Adrenaline Classics)

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Da Capo Press: Mar-03

Seller ID: 451506

ISBN: 1560255277

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

New York is not only a world capital of finance, fashion, and media, but also of every imaginable variety of criminal activity from the most brutal to the most creative. From rampaging draft rioters to Prohibition-era beer barons, from brilliant art thieves to Wall Street insiders, from the Boss Tweed to Dapper Don, New York's criminals personify the dark side of the most vibrant and diverse city on earth. Crimes of New York takes us from the tortured, violent life of David Berkowitz, aka Son of Sam, who terrorized the city in the process of killing six young women to the story of the Manhatta...
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Death of an Assassin: The True Story of the German Murderer Who Died Defending Robert E. Lee

By: Ackermann, Ann Marie

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 403621

ISBN: 1606353047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From the depths of German and American archives comes a story one soldier never wanted told. The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee's position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape prosecution for murder, the assassin enlisted in a German company of the Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Mexican-American War and died defending Lee's battery at the Siege of Veracruz in 1847. Lee wrote a letter home, praising this unnamed fallen volunteer defender. Military records identify him, but none of the Americans knew about his past life of crime....
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Made in the U.S.A.: The Sex Trafficking of America's Children

By: Alisa Jordheim

Price: $8.00

Publisher: HigherLife Publishing: Sep-14

Seller ID: 446797

ISBN: 1939183405

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The book is a compilation of five true stories of adults (4 woman & 1 man) trafficked as children. Each story is preceded by an overview of the type of trafficking the story addresses and followed up by a statement from the survivors themselves. The purpose of the book is to provide insights on how American children are taken captive and often coerced to remain in a lifestyle of commercial sexual exploitation. All profits from the book will be distributed to nationally recognized agencies providing either preventive or restorative service for child survivors of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking.
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Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers

By: Anabel Hernandez

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Verso: Sep-14

Seller ID: 433310

ISBN: 1781682968

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The product of five years' investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the National Human Rights Commission to assign two full-time bodyguards to its author, Anabel Hern ndez, Narcoland has been a publishing and political sensation in Mexico.

The definitive history of the drug cartels, Narcoland takes readers to the front lines of the "war on drugs," which has so far cost more than 60,000 lives in just six years. Hern ndez explains in riveting detail how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels of Latin Am...
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New York Murder Mystery: The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s

By: Andrew Karmen

Price: $6.50

Publisher: NYU Press: Nov-00

Seller ID: 431484

ISBN: 814747175

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Gangs of New York

By: Asbury, Herbert

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Nov-15

Seller ID: 418775

ISBN: 1560252758

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Asbury presents an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the modern
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Gangs of New York

By: Asbury, Herbert

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Nov-15

Seller ID: 448718

ISBN: 1560252758

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Asbury presents an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the modern
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Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

By: Baatz, Simon

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 461112

ISBN: 0316396656

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From New York Times bestselling author Simon Baatz, the first comprehensive account of the murder that shocked the world.
In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora, dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his townhouse on 24th Street in New York. Nesbit, just sixteen years old, had recently moved to the city. White was forty-seven and a principal in the prominent architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. As the foremost architect of his day, he was a celebrity, responsible for designing countless landmark buildings in Manhattan. That e...
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Alcatraz #1259

By: Baker, William G

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 366524

ISBN: 148275407X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This is a true account of life in Alcatraz prison written by William G. Baker 1259AZ, a former prisoner of Alcatraz. This is how we lived, what we thought and said and did, the good and the bad. This is the true story of Alcatraz.
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Mr. Untouchable

By: Barnes, Leroy

Price: $8.50

Seller ID: 397003

ISBN: 159071041X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From inside the Federal Witness Protection Program, the "Black Godfather" chronicles the 1970s New York City underworld and the most devastating urban crime wave in history.

1962 LEROY "NICKY" BARNES walks out of Green Haven State Prison. There are an estimated 153,000 heroin abusers in the United States.

1977 Two million junkies score $100 million worth of Barnes's smack a year. Sporting flashy suits, riding in a Citroen with a Maserati engine and satisfying a wife while pleasuring a harem of mistresses, Barnes presides over a staggering multinational dealership that pushes dope and laun...
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Quarterback Sneak: Exposing the Criminal Game Plan of Art Schlichter

By: Barney, Anita

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 381209

ISBN: 692582398

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Man Who Loved Books Too Much

By: Bartlett, Allison Hoover

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Dec-13

Seller ID: 111707

ISBN: 1594488916

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the tradition of "The Orchid Thief," a compelling narrative set within the strange and genteel world of rare-book collecting: the true story of an infamous book thief, his victims, and the man determined to catch him.
Rare-book theft is even more widespread than fine-art theft. Most thieves, of course, steal for profit. John Charles Gilkey steals purely for the love of books. In an attempt to understand him better, journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett plunged herself into the world of book lust and discovered just how dangerous it can be.
Gilkey is an obsessed, unrepentant book thie...
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Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

By: Bartlett, Allison Hoover

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Aug-14

Seller ID: 265774

ISBN: 1594484813

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, a compelling narrative set within the strange and genteel world of rare-book collecting: the true story of an infamous book thief, his victims, and the man determined to catch him.

Rare-book theft is even more widespread than fine-art theft. Most thieves, of course, steal for profit. John Charles Gilkey steals purely for the love of books. In an attempt to understand him better, journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett plunged herself into the world of book lust and discovered just how dangerous it can be.

John Gilkey is an obsessed, unrepe...
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City of Falling Angels, The

By: Berendt, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Mar-15

Seller ID: 41403

ISBN: 143036939

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story

By: Berendt, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage Books: June 1999

Seller ID: 42808

ISBN: 0679751521

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder...
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City of Falling Angels, The

By: Berendt, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Mar-15

Seller ID: 435630

ISBN: 143036939

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

City of Falling Angels, The

By: Berendt, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Mar-15

Seller ID: 446083

ISBN: 143036939

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Spy Who Couldn't Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI's Hunt for America's Stolen Secrets

By: Bhattacharjee, Yudhijit

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 361904

ISBN: 1592409008

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The thrilling, true-life account of the FBI's hunt for the ingenious traitor Brian Regan--known as the Spy Who Couldn't Spell.

Before Edward Snowden's infamous data breach, the largest theft of government secrets was committed by an ingenious traitor whose intricate espionage scheme and complex system of coded messages were made even more baffling by his dyslexia. His name is Brian Regan, but he came to be known as The Spy Who Couldn't Spell.

In December of 2000, FBI Special Agent Steven Carr of the bureau's Washington, D.C., offic...
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The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

By: Bill James,Rachel McCarthy James

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Scribner: Sep-17

Seller ID: 446908

ISBN: 1476796254

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

2018 Edgar Award Finalist--Best Fact Crime

Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applies his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history.

Between 1898 and 1912, families across the country were bludgeoned in their sleep with the blunt side of an axe. Jewelry and valuables were left in plain sight, bodies were piled together, faces covered with cloth. Some of these cases, like the infamous Villasca, Iowa, murders, re...
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Do or Die

By: Bing, Leon

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Apr-14

Seller ID: 143882

ISBN: 60922915

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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