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The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America

By: Abbott, Karen

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Crown: August 2019

Seller ID: 429889

ISBN: 0451498623

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The epic true crime story of bootlegger George Remus and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey. Within two years he's a multi-millionaire. The press calls him "King of the Bootleggers," writing breathless stories about the Gatsby-esque events he and his glamorous second wife, Imogene, host at th...
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The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America

By: Abbott, Karen

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Crown: August 2019

Seller ID: 438162

ISBN: 0451498623

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Gangs of New York

By: Asbury, Herbert

Price: $5.00

Publisher: November 2015

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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The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld

By: Asbury, Herbert

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Basic Books: February 2003

Seller ID: 442457

ISBN: 1560254947

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Home to the notorious "Blue Book," which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans's infamous red-light district gained a reputation as one of the most raucous in the world. But the New Orleans underworld consisted of much more than the local bordellos. It was also well known as the early gambling capital of the United States, and sported one of the most violent records of street crime in the country. In The French Quarter, Herbert Asbury, author of The Gangs of New York, chronicles this rather immense underbelly of "The Big Easy." From the murderous ex...
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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: 0692582398

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Few in Anita Barney's social circle realized she came from a humble working class family. When her fairytale marriage to the CEO of Wendy's is cut short, her world is turned upside down. Even as cancer claimed his life, Bob ensured his wife was financially secure and left her with chilling advice, "Don't let a man take all of your money." Now a widow, Anita reconnects with Art Schlichter at a church, after a single brief encounter thirty years earlier. He immediately identifies her as an easy mark. Once celebrated as the starting quarterback for the Ohio State Buckeyes, Art has recently been r...
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Man Who Loved Books Too Much

By: Bartlett, Allison Hoover

Price: $8.00

Publisher: December 2013

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: August 2014

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: March 2015

Seller ID: 41403

ISBN: 0143036939

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Twelve years ago, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil exploded into a monumental success, residing a record-breaking four years on the New York Times bestseller list (longer than any work of fiction or nonfiction had before) and turning John Berendt into a household name. The City of Falling Angels is Berendt's first book since Midnight, and it immediately reminds one what all the fuss was about. Turning to the magic, mystery, and decadence of Venice, Berendt gradually reveals the truth behind a sensational fire that in 1996 destroyed the historic Fenice opera h...
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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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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story

By: Berendt, John

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Vintage Books: June 1999

Seller ID: 413886

ISBN: 0679751521

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

City of Falling Angels, The

By: Berendt, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: March 2015

Seller ID: 414680

ISBN: 0143036939

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

City of Falling Angels, The

By: Berendt, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: March 2015

Seller ID: 435630

ISBN: 0143036939

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: 440623

ISBN: 0679751521

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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Do or Die

By: Bing, Leon

Price: $5.00

Publisher: April 2014

Seller ID: 143882

ISBN: 0060922915

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Do or Die is the first insider account of teenage gangs--the lives, loves, and battles of children who kill--from the only journalist ever allowed inside this closed and dangerous world.

This is no West Side Story. Welcome to a world where teenagers wear colostomy bags and have scrapbooks filled with funeral invitations; where a young man, after being shot in the chest, drives himself to the hospital; where another youngster, caught in crossfire, uses his girlfriend as a human shield; where teenage gangsters are kidnapped, tortured, and held for six-figure ransoms; ...
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Notorious New Jersey: 100 True Tales of Murders and Mobsters, Scandals and Scoundrels

By: Blackwell, Jon

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 381233

ISBN: 0813541778

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Notorious New Jersey is the definitive guide to murder, mayhem, the mob, and corruption in the Garden State. With tabloid punch, Jon Blackwell tells riveting accounts of Alexander Hamilton falling mortally wounded on the dueling grounds of Weehawken; Dutch Schultz getting pumped full of lead in the men's room of the Palace Chop House in Newark; and a gang of Islamic terrorists in Jersey City mixing the witch's brew of explosives that became the first bomb to rock the World Trade Center. Along with these dramatic stories are tales of lesser-known oddities, such as the nineteenth-centu...
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Black Hand: The Story of Rene 'Boxer' Enriquez and His Life in the Mexican Mafia

By: Blatchford, Chris

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 358018

ISBN: 0061257303

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Good

An intense and shocking inside look at the inner workings of La Eme, the Mexican Mafia (La Familia Mexicana), The Black Hand is the story of loyal soldier Rene "Boxer" Enriquez, his life of crime, and his ultimate redemption. Award-winning investigative journalist and author Chris Blatchford tells the never-before-told true story of the most powerful gang in America--and one of the most brutal and ruthless criminal organizations in the world--who control the California underworld and wave the flag of The Black Hand.

Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob

By: Blum, Howard

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 381223

ISBN: 0671687581

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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