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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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Alcatraz Escape Files: From the Official Records

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy:

Seller ID: 474294

ISBN: 1932519165

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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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The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime

By: Adrian Raine

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Pantheon: Apr-13

Seller ID: 476995

ISBN: 307378845

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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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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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Gangs of Chicago

By: Asbury, Herbert

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Jul-16

Seller ID: 471255

ISBN: 1560254548

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This classic history of crime tells how Chicago's underworld earnedand keptits reputation. Recounting the lives of such notorious denizens as the original Mickey Finn, the mass murderer H. H. Holmes, and the three Car Barn Bandits, Asbury reveals life as it was lived in the criminal districts of the Levee, Hell's Half-Acre, the Bad Lands, Little Cheyenne, Custom House Place, and the Black Hole. His description of Chicago's infamous red light districtwhere the brothels boasted opulence unheard of before or sincevividly captures the wicked splendor that was Chicago. The Gangs of Chicago spans fr...
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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: 316396656

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Alcatraz #1259

By: Baker, William G

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 474264

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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Inventor and the Tycoon: Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures

By: Ball, Edward

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Apr-14

Seller ID: 479981

ISBN: 385525753

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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

A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town

By: Barry Siegel

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: Nov-00

Seller ID: 484546

ISBN: 345432991

Binding: Mass Market 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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