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Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away with Murder
ISBN: 9780393330830 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is the account of the O. J. Simpson case that no one dared to write, that no one else could write. In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Vincent Bugliosi, the famed prosecutor of Charles Manson and author of Helter Skelter, goes to the heart of the trial that divided the country and made a mockery of justice. He lays out the mountains of evidence; rebuts the defense; offers a thrilling summation; condemns the monumental blunders of the judge, the "Dream Team," and the media; and exposes, for the first time anywhere, the shocking incompetence of the prosecution. Here is the account of the O. J. Simpson case that no one dared to write, that no one else could write. In this #1 New York Times bestsell... |
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82,77 zł |
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Missing Beauty: A True Story of Murder and Obsession
ISBN: 9780393332230 / Angielski / Miękka / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1989, this true crime thriller brilliantly reconstructs one of the most extensive murder investigations in recent years the disappearance of Robin Benedict, a beautiful commercial artist and moonlighting prostitute, and her relationship with the suspect, the eminent Dr. William Douglas.
Originally published in 1989, this true crime thriller brilliantly reconstructs one of the most extensive murder investigations in recent years the... |
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126,45 zł |
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No Heroes, No Villains: The Story of a Murder Trial
ISBN: 9780394725314 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On June 28, 1972 in a South Bronx subway station, John Skagen, a white off-duty policeman on his way home, suddenly and without apparent provocation, ordered James Richardson, a black man on his way to work, to get against the wall and put his hands up. Richardson had a gun, and the two exchanged shots. In the melee that followed, Skagen was fatally wounded by a cop who rushed to the scene. In the ensuing trial, William Kunstler handled Richardson's defense and the author of this book, then assistant district attorney, prosecuted the case. Here is a first-hand, behind-the-scenes account of...
On June 28, 1972 in a South Bronx subway station, John Skagen, a white off-duty policeman on his way home, suddenly and without apparent provocation, ...
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87,36 zł |
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The Shankill Butchers: The Real Story of Cold-Blooded Mass Murder
ISBN: 9780415922319 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reprint of the 1989 edition with a new afterword. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Reprint of the 1989 edition with a new afterword. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
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230,81 zł |
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A Beautiful Child: A True Story of Hope, Horror, and an Enduring Human Spirit
ISBN: 9780425204405 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author of "A Deadly Secret: The Strange Disappearance of Kathie Durst" tells the true story of a 20-year-old hit-and-run victim--and the catalyst for an examination of a decades-long failure to track, recover, and identify missing children.
The author of "A Deadly Secret: The Strange Disappearance of Kathie Durst" tells the true story of a 20-year-old hit-and-run victim--and the catalyst ...
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39,27 zł |
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The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
ISBN: 9780425217825 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case-and sent his fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin, to solve the baffling murder of Mary Rogers in "The Mystery of Marie Rogt."
On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force prov...
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104,83 zł |
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Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine
ISBN: 9780425218655 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A dedicated policeman and a former assistant attorney general unveil the investigation into the 2001 murder of Amy St. Laurent that changed the city of Portland, Maine, forever. Includes photos.
A dedicated policeman and a former assistant attorney general unveil the investigation into the 2001 murder of Amy St. Laurent that changed the city o...
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34,90 zł |
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Blood on the Table: The Greatest Cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
ISBN: 9780425219379 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For almost a century, New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has presided over the dead. Over the years, the OCME has endured everything-political upheavals, ghastly murders, bloody gang wars, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and non-stop battles for power and influence-and remains the final authority in cases of sudden, unexplained, or violent death. Founded in 1918, the OCME has evolved over decades of technological triumphs and all-too human failure to its modern-day incarnation as the foremost forensics lab in the world, investigating an average caseload of over 15,000...
For almost a century, New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has presided over the dead. Over the years, the OCME has endured everything...
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104,83 zł |
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Who Killed My Daughter?: The True Story of a Mother's Search for Her Daughter's Murderer
ISBN: 9780440213420 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The best-selling young adult novelist recounts her daughter's mysterious shooting death and her own investigation into the crime, describing her use of a psychic to contact her dead child and expose the truth. "Later I'll see you guys later "
They were the last words Lois Duncan would ever hear her daughter speak. On a balmy midsummer's night in 1989, eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette was shot to death as she drove home along a deserted strip of new Mexico highway. The police called it a random shooting--even though it had all the earmarks of a professional hit. .... The best-selling young adult novelist recounts her daughter's mysterious shooting death and her own investigation into the crime, describing her us...
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34,90 zł |
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Bag Toys: Sex, Scandal, and the Death Mask Murder
ISBN: 9780446516068 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here's the shocking true story of the 1985 Death Mask Murder--a grisly crime linked to prominent Madison Avenue art gallery owner Andrew Crispo, a man who operated in both the forbidding underworld of sadomasochists and drug addicts, and in the glittering art world and New York society. 8-page insert.
Here's the shocking true story of the 1985 Death Mask Murder--a grisly crime linked to prominent Madison Avenue art gallery owner Andrew Crispo, a man...
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170,35 zł |
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The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey Into the Mind of the Serial Killer
ISBN: 9780446523400 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The twisted, but fascinating, mind of a serial killer is revealed with terrifying consequences in this astonishing and shocking exploration. with 20 b&w photos.
The twisted, but fascinating, mind of a serial killer is revealed with terrifying consequences in this astonishing and shocking exploration. with 20 b...
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122,30 zł |
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Small Sacrifices
ISBN: 9780451166609 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ann Rule's shocking and powerful account of the destructive forces that drove Diane Downs, a beautiful young mother, to shoot her three young children in cold blood.
Ann Rule's shocking and powerful account of the destructive forces that drove Diane Downs, a beautiful young mother, to shoot her three ...
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43,64 zł |
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Lust Killer
ISBN: 9780451166876 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When young women begin mysteriously disappearing in Oregon, Police Lieutenant James Stovall leads a relentless search for a killer. With little evidence available, and the public screaming for answers, he must find a remorseless, brutal killer whose identity will shock them all....
When young women begin mysteriously disappearing in Oregon, Police Lieutenant James Stovall leads a relentless search for a killer. With little...
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43,64 zł |
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A Stranger in the Family: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and Unconditional Love
ISBN: 9780451406224 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who would ever connect this handsome, charming, straight-arrow son of a perfect all-American family with the gruesome crimes of a serial killer? Richard Daniel Starrett was the dangerous visitor for too many unlucky young women in Georgia and South Carolina in the late 1980s. Answering "for sale" ads in the classifieds, he was a buyer hunting for victims, not bargains, and he paid in grim coin: rape, kidnapping, murder. Because of his articulate intelligence and prestigious job, no one suspected this "golden boy" of such heinous acts. This gripping, intimately detailed account by...
Who would ever connect this handsome, charming, straight-arrow son of a perfect all-American family with the gruesome crimes of a serial killer? Richa...
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43,64 zł |
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Murder in New York City
ISBN: 9780520221888 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Murder in New York City dramatically expands what we know about urban homicide, and challenges some of the things we think we know. Eric Monkkonen's unprecedented investigation covers two centuries of murder in America's biggest city, combining newly assembled statistical evidence with many other documentary sources to tease out the story behind the figures. As we generally believe, the last part of the twentieth century was unusually violent, but there have been other high-violence eras as well: the late 1920s and the mid-nineteenth century, the latter because the absence of...
Murder in New York City dramatically expands what we know about urban homicide, and challenges some of the things we think we know. Eric Monkko...
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263,14 zł |
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When Men Kill: Scenarios of Masculine Violence
ISBN: 9780521462679 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes various patterns of homicide that involve men killing women and other men. A qualitative study, it eschews heavy use of statistics to focus on case studies. Kenneth Polk then establishes the themes that run through four specific "scenarios of violence." When Men Kill discusses the role of gender and class in homicide and raises a number of important policy issues. It also asks pertinent questions about the nature of masculinity. It will sharpen international understandings of homicide, while the comprehensive classification scheme it develops will be of importance to...
This book describes various patterns of homicide that involve men killing women and other men. A qualitative study, it eschews heavy use of statistics...
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369,16 zł |
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Men of Blood: Violence Manliness and Criminal Justice in Victorian England
ISBN: 9780521831987 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the treatment of violence by men against women in nineteenth-century England. Criminal law came to punish violence more systematically and severely during Victoria's reign because it was promoting a new, more pacific ideal of manliness. Yet, this apparently progressive legal development triggered strong resistance, not only from violent men but others who engaged in arguments about democracy, humanitarianism and patriarchy to establish sympathy with "men of blood."
This book examines the treatment of violence by men against women in nineteenth-century England. Criminal law came to punish violence more systematica...
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453,66 zł |
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Echoes in the Darkness
ISBN: 9780553269321 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On June 25, 1989, the naked corpse of schoolteacher Susan Reinert was found wedged into her hatchback car in a hotel parking lot near Philadelphia's "Main Line."Her two children had vanished.The Main Line Murder Case burst upon the headlines--and wasn't resolved for seven years.Now, master crime writer Joseph Wambaugh reconstructs the case from its roots, recounting the details, drama, players and pawns in this bizarre crime that shocked the nation and tore apart a respectable suburban town.The massive FBI and state police investigation ultimately centered on two men.Dr. Jay C. Smith--By day...
On June 25, 1989, the naked corpse of schoolteacher Susan Reinert was found wedged into her hatchback car in a hotel parking lot near Philadelphia's "...
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39,27 zł |
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Close Pursuit: Meet Eddie Kennedy--A Cop in a Killer's World
ISBN: 9780553762556 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The action is breathtaking and the book is a spellbinding view of a world like no other."--Detroit News
Another night falls on New York City. A victim screams. A siren wails. Eddie Kennedy is on his beat. He's a gold shield homicide detective, and his next week of investigations is a journey you will never forget--an electrifying rite of passage into the heart of what it takes to be a cop. From hookers to murderers, from street-wise muggers to stationhouse rats, from the hectic squad room to a bloody alley, Kennedy takes on a killing city--and takes the reader on a rare... "The action is breathtaking and the book is a spellbinding view of a world like no other."--Detroit News
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82,99 zł |
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The Blooding
ISBN: 9780553763300 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved. Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the blooding of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found.
Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massi...
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109,20 zł |
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