Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for Innocence, Independence, and Identity
ISBN: 9781608466757 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through intimate portraits of four exonerated prisoners, journalist Alison Flowers explores what happens to innocent people after the state flings open the jailhouse door and tosses them back, empty-handed, into the unknown.
From the front lines of the wrongful conviction capital of the United StatesCook County, Illinoisinvestigative journalist Alison Flowers recounts profoundly human stories of reclaiming life, overcoming adversity, and searching for purpose after exoneration. As she tells each exoneree's powerful story, Flowers vividly shows that release from prison, though... Through intimate portraits of four exonerated prisoners, journalist Alison Flowers explores what happens to innocent people after the state flings ope...
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80,75 zł |
Deadly Service: Murderous Maids, Devious Housekeepers and Butlers Who Kill
ISBN: 9780993180668 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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489,64 zł |
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
ISBN: 9780385536714 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history
On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists on April 3, when the group released a tape of Patty saying she had... From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the defi...
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163,73 zł |
One of the Family: 40 Years with the Krays
ISBN: 9781784750763 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The true life story of two women, Maureen 'Flan' Flanagan and her best friend Violet Kray, whose influence strongly shaped the lives of Ronnie and Reggie Kray.
" One of the Family: 40 Years with the Krays "is the untold, intimate history of the twins and the woman who raised them. Told with humour and insight, it looks back across the decades at the life of this close knit, notorious East End family. Maureen Flanagan, a then 20-year-old hairdresser started visiting the Kray family home in Vallance Road each week to give the twins' mother, Violet, her weekly shampoo and set. Over the... The true life story of two women, Maureen 'Flan' Flanagan and her best friend Violet Kray, whose influence strongly shaped the lives of Ronnie and Reg...
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59,20 zł |
For the Term of His Natural Life: A Convict in Early Australian History
ISBN: 9781523672103 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the Term of His Natural Life By Marcus Clarke For the Term of His Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 (as "His Natural Life"), appearing as a novel in 1874. It is the best known novelisation of life as a convict in early Australian history. Described as a "ripping yarn," and at times relying on seemingly implausible coincidences, the story follows the fortunes of Rufus Dawes, a young man transported for a murder that he did not commit. The book clearly conveys the harsh and inhumane treatment meted out to the... For the Term of His Natural Life By Marcus Clarke For the Term of His Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian J... |
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54,15 zł |
Tall Tales & Half Truths of Pat Garrett
ISBN: 9781467135450 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While many lionize Billy the Kid, the man who killed him, Sheriff Patrick Floyd Garrett, has a rarely told but riveting true story all his own. His adventurous life spawned many a far-fetched, exciting legend. In 1896, Garrett s investigation of the still-unsolved murder of Albert J. Fountain on the White Sands led to nothing but a gunfight and a dead deputy. Some say that Garrett faked the details the night the Kid was brought to ultimate justice, while others swear another wannabe hero did him in. In perfect irony, Garrett s own 1908 death is shrouded in mystery. Some report he died by the...
While many lionize Billy the Kid, the man who killed him, Sheriff Patrick Floyd Garrett, has a rarely told but riveting true story all his own. His ad...
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94,90 zł |
Fatal Affairs
ISBN: 9781911273028 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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489,64 zł |
Blood in the Fields: Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang
ISBN: 9781613736500 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Salinas, California, is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece "East of Eden," but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia. Born in the prisons of California in the late 1960s, Nuestra Familia expanded to control drug trafficking and extortion operations throughout the northern half of the state, and left a trail of bodies in its wake. Award-winning journalist Julia Reynolds tells the gang s story from the inside out, following young men and women as they search for a new kind of family. She also documents the FBI s questionable decade-long effort to...
Salinas, California, is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece "East of Eden," but it is also the home of Nuestra F...
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81,95 zł |
The Bayou Strangler: Louisiana's Most Gruesome Serial Killer
ISBN: 9781504039505 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The true story of Louisiana serial killer Ronald Dominique's ten-year murder spree, the men he slayed, and the detectives who hunted him down.
In 1997, the bodies of young African American men began turning up in the cane fields of the quiet suburbs of New Orleans. The victims--many of them transient street hustlers--had been brutally raped and strangled, but police had no leads on the killer's identity. The murders continued, leaving southeast Louisiana's gay community rattled and the police desperate for a break in the case. Detectives Dennis Thornton and Dawn Bergeron... The true story of Louisiana serial killer Ronald Dominique's ten-year murder spree, the men he slayed, and the detectives who hunted him down. ...
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81,95 zł |
Murder in St. Augustine: The Mysterious Death of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley
ISBN: 9781467118811 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley is notorious more than four decades after it occurred. The only eyewitness said a man attacked Lindsley with a machete in broad daylight on the front steps of her white mansion. Gossip swirled that neighbor Frances Bemis knew who killed Lindsley and would notify authorities. Bemis was later murdered on her nightly walk. Police arrested only one suspect for Lindsley's murder, which remains unsolved to this day. Author Elizabeth Randall puts the rumors to rest through research culled from over one thousand pages of depositions, records, official county...
The murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley is notorious more than four decades after it occurred. The only eyewitness said a man attacked Lindsley with a ...
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94,90 zł |
For the Term of His Natural Life
ISBN: 9781534734043 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,50 zł |
Oklahoma Scoundrels: History's Most Notorious Outlaws, Bandits & Gangsters
ISBN: 9781467135191 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Early Oklahoma was a haven for violent outlaws and a death trap for deputy U.S. marshals. The infamous Doolin gang's OK Hotel gunfight left five dead. Killers like Bible-quoting choir leader Deacon Jim Miller wreaked havoc. Gunslinger femme fatale Belle Starr specialized in horse theft. Wannabe outlaws like Al Jennings traded train robbing for politics and Hollywood films. And Elmer McCurdy's determination and inept skill earned him a carnival slot and the nickname "the Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up." Historians Robert Barr Smith and Laurence J. Yadon dispel myths surrounding some of the most...
Early Oklahoma was a haven for violent outlaws and a death trap for deputy U.S. marshals. The infamous Doolin gang's OK Hotel gunfight left five dead....
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103,53 zł |
The Red Ripper: Inside the Mind of Russia's Most Brutal Serial Killer
ISBN: 9781504040167 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The shocking true story of the Russian serial killer who brutally murdered more than fifty victims--and evaded capture for over a decade.
By the time he was brought to trial in 1992, Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo had killed more than fifty women and children, often sexually abusing them and leaving their bodies mutilated beyond recognition. Although he was initially arrested in 1984, the police lacked enough evidence to pin the unsolved murders on him and he was able to torture and kill dozens more before his eventual conviction. Compiling exclusive interviews and... The shocking true story of the Russian serial killer who brutally murdered more than fifty victims--and evaded capture for over a decade.
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86,27 zł |
Murder of a Herkimer County Teacher: The Shocking 1914 Case of a Vengeful Student
ISBN: 9781467136457 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1914, Poland, New York, was a picturesque slice of small-town America. But that innocence was shattered with the shocking murder of beloved schoolteacher Lida Beecher at the hands of her former student Jean Gianini. At twenty-one years old, Lida wasn't much older than her students. The son of a successful furniture dealer, Jean had all the advantages in life, but he had been labeled as different by all who encountered him. The shocking murder brought the world's best alienists to the packed Herkimer County Courthouse to try to prove that the teenager's mental development precluded his...
In 1914, Poland, New York, was a picturesque slice of small-town America. But that innocence was shattered with the shocking murder of beloved schoolt...
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94,90 zł |
When Did I Start Looking Like a Cop?
ISBN: 9781532009013 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Brooklyn native, Joseph Belcastro joined the New York City Police Department in July, 1983. He spent four years on uniform patrol, then another four years in the precinct's plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit, before being transferred to the NYPD's infamous Street Crime Unit on Randall's Island. In his tell-all memoir, Joe describes his earliest encounters as a rookie cop in uniform, how he developed his unique crime-fighting strategies, and the partners he had along the way. Joe's uncanny ability to follow his gut instincts, along with his determination and perseverance, led him to personally... A Brooklyn native, Joseph Belcastro joined the New York City Police Department in July, 1983. He spent four years on uniform patrol, then another f... |
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60,38 zł |
Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story: Crewe Murders: New Evidence
ISBN: 9780958240178 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jailed for a crime he didn't commit, now for the fi rst time in 40 years, he tells his incredible story as we name a new prime suspect. WAS THE KILLER OF HARVEY & JEANNETTE CREWE A POLICE INSIDER? THE SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE IN A 40 YEAR OLD COLD CASE NEW WITNESS COMES FORWARD: Jailed for a crime he didn't commit, now for the fi rst time in 40 years, he tells his incredible story as we name a new prime suspect. WAS ... |
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116,48 zł |
Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch: The Definitive Account of the Best Little Whorehouse
ISBN: 9781467135634 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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107,85 zł |
The Counterfeit Prince of Old Texas: Swindling Slaver Monroe Edwards
ISBN: 9781540214096 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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138,05 zł |
Wicked Branson
ISBN: 9781540214676 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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138,05 zł |
I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!
ISBN: 9781610273770 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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164,28 zł |