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Echoes of Shannon Street: The Kidnapping and Murder of Officer Robert S. Hester
ISBN: 9781470094812 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A documentary titled, "Shannon Street: Echoes Under A Blood Red Moon, A Memphis Tragedy," based on the book is due to be released in the Spring of 2016. The film adaptation begins filming in the Summer of 2016, with a release date of January 2017. It is, to this day, the largest number of suspects to die in a non-riotous, local police action in this country. Echoes of Shannon Street is a true crime police procedural that tells the story of the abduction of two white police officers by black cult members in the racially-divided city of Memphis in January, 1983. The event began a...
A documentary titled, "Shannon Street: Echoes Under A Blood Red Moon, A Memphis Tragedy," based on the book is due to be released in the Spring of 201...
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79,82 |
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The 1980 Gray Murders
ISBN: 9781590955802 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1980 Gray Murders
It was a black December night in 1980. Trooper Earl Nicholson sped to the scene of a reported automobile accident. Arriving at the scene, Nicholson expected to see mangled steel and broken glass. Instead, he was met with the sight of a young woman dressed in pajamas - and a small, shirtless, boy - laying under a tree in the front yard of the house facing the street. Scanning the bodies with his flashlight beam, it was evident to the state trooper that the victims had died from multiple stab wounds. Leading away from the stiffening corpses were two frozen... The 1980 Gray Murders
It was a black December night in 1980. Trooper Earl Nicholson sped to the scene of a reported automobile accident. Ar... |
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55,13 |
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Confessions of the Oak Beach Drifter
ISBN: 9781479718504 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,32 |
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Confessions of the Oak Beach Drifter
ISBN: 9781479718511 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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103,99 |
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The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer
ISBN: 9780446608275 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. DEAR MR. MANSON...
It started with a college course assignment, then escalated into a dangerous obsession. Eighteen-year-old honor student Jason Moss wrote to men whose body counts had made criminal history: men named Dahmer, Manson, Ramirez, and Gacy. DEAR MR. DAHMER... Posing as their ideal victim, Jason seduced them with his words. One by one they wrote him back, showering him with their madness and violent fantasies. Then the game spun out of control. John Wayne Gacy revealed all to Jason -- and invited his pen pal to visit him in prison... DEAR MR. GACY... It was an... DEAR MR. MANSON...
It started with a college course assignment, then escalated into a dangerous obsession. Eighteen-year-old honor student Jason M... |
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83,58 |
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The Waterlow Killings: A Portrait of a Family Tragedy
ISBN: 9780522862317 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anthony Waterlow left his decrepit room in a run-down boarding house on November 11th, 2009. By 6 p.m., the 42-year-old was seen leaving another home: his sister Chloe's in Randwick, Australia. He left behind her slaughtered body and that of their father, celebrated art curator Nick Waterlow. The pair had been stabbed multiple times, in front of Chloe's three young children. Delving beneath the public face of a successful and affluent family to reveal private suffering, this account follows Anthony Waterlow's descent into the pits of mental darkness. Ultimately, this book highlights the...
Anthony Waterlow left his decrepit room in a run-down boarding house on November 11th, 2009. By 6 p.m., the 42-year-old was seen leaving another home:...
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121,15 |
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Doubles Jeux
ISBN: 9781479343737 / Francuski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written in French, this is the story of a civil servant's tortuous journey into hell: as his hand is forced by extortion and violence, he gradually assumes the mantle of a professional hitman. Geneva, Paris and the Americas provide the backdrop for this explosive cocktail. This action-packed suspense thriller is the story of a man compelled to lead a double life, if he is to survive in a world where nothing is as it seems. From the very beginning, the plot is steeped in an atmosphere of danger and suspense. The story involves: Character psychology providing motivation for the protagonist and...
Written in French, this is the story of a civil servant's tortuous journey into hell: as his hand is forced by extortion and violence, he gradually as...
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59,87 |
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Where's Evelyn?: The 1953 babysitter's kidnapping that shook the nation
ISBN: 9781479380893 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La Crosse, Wisconsin was an innocent small community in 1953. Equally innocent was bright, young babysitter Evelyn Hartley. But, someone came in and snatched her while she was baby-sitting and she was never seen again. This story still haunts La Crosse sixty years later, with just about everyone holding a theory about what happened to her or a story about how they were affected by her disappearance and presumed murder. There was no CNN, MSNBC, or Fox News then. In fact, La Crosse did not even have its own TV station. Still, the national media descended on the city just like they do today....
La Crosse, Wisconsin was an innocent small community in 1953. Equally innocent was bright, young babysitter Evelyn Hartley. But, someone came in and s...
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71,64 |
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Death Comes Uninvited
ISBN: 9781480015814 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Life as a homicide detective is a fast-paced whirlwind down death's corridor. In the final installment of an extraordinary glimpse into the innermost workings of a homicide unit, "Death Comes Uninvited "carries you through the rigorous pace of a homicide detective's life. Race from scene to scene with the detectives in ten different cases as evidence leads these detectives throughout one of the most violent cities in the country-Baltimore. As detectives rush under the gun to identify and capture these ruthless killers, pressure from the administration builds to a contentious boiling point...
Life as a homicide detective is a fast-paced whirlwind down death's corridor. In the final installment of an extraordinary glimpse into the innermost ...
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59,83 |
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Who Killed Chrissy?: The True Crime Memoir of a Pittsburgh girl's Unsolved Murder in Las Vegas
ISBN: 9781480023642 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A miracle, a vision, a premonition, and an unsolved death in Las Vegas, have hung in my memory like a broken antique for the last twenty four years of my life. I've had that long to think about the reason it all happened in the first place and why I was drawn to, and ultimately placed in the old apartment building on Riverview Avenue in Pittsburgh. If you believe that nothing happens by accident, or if you have lost your faith, this true story of fate and divine intervention will shed a bright light on all the possibilities. I've had this true story locked in my mind since June of 1982. I...
A miracle, a vision, a premonition, and an unsolved death in Las Vegas, have hung in my memory like a broken antique for the last twenty four years of...
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31,89 |
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The Awful Grace of God: Religious Terrorism, White Supremacy, and the Unsolved Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
ISBN: 9781619021549 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Awful Grace of God chronicles a multi-year effort to kill Martin Luther King Jr. by a group of the nation's most violent right-wing extremists. Impeccably researched and thoroughly documented, this examines figures like Sam Bowers, head of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi, responsible for more than three hundred separate acts of violence in Mississippi alone; J.B. Stoner, who ran an organization that the California attorney general said was "more active and dangerous than any other ultra-right organization;" and Reverend Wesley Swift, a religious demagogue who...
The Awful Grace of God chronicles a multi-year effort to kill Martin Luther King Jr. by a group of the nation's most violent right-wing extremi...
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72,03 |
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Tod - A Man for All Reasons
ISBN: 9781907695193 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is no such thing as a perfect murder....There is always one element the killer has no control over.
There is no such thing as a perfect murder....There is always one element the killer has no control over.
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59,56 |
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Heartless: The True Story of Neil Entwistle and the Cold Blooded Murder of His Wife and Child
ISBN: 9781250037688 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Neil seemed like a dream come true for Rachel: a handsome, impeccably mannered, success-oriented Englishman, the fairytale husband she had dreamed of meeting. By the time Neil and Rachel Entwistle were husband and wife, living the good life in a New England town, it was too late to guess the truth: that beneath Neil's good looks and manners was a deceit and darkness... On a winter day in 2006, police came to the Entwistle home and found the decomposing bodies of twenty-seven-year-old Rachel and their nine-month old daughter Lillian Rose. Rachel had been shot in the head. Lillian in... Neil seemed like a dream come true for Rachel: a handsome, impeccably mannered, success-oriented Englishman, the fairytale husband she had dreamed ... |
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75,98 |
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When Evil Rules: Vengeance and Murder on Cape Cod
ISBN: 9781250037671 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Cape Cod beach town of Falmouth seemed like a lovely place to visit. But those who lived there year-round knew its other, darker side... Local businessman and infamous bully Melvin Reine had started setting the homes of his so-called enemies on fire. Few of his victims--or even the police--ever dared to implicate him. Because those who did would pay the price... Mysterious events kept creeping up in Falmouth. The disappearance of Melvin's wife, a dead man found in a cranberry bog, a teenager slated to testify against Melvin who boarded a ferry, never to be seen again--was Melvin... The Cape Cod beach town of Falmouth seemed like a lovely place to visit. But those who lived there year-round knew its other, darker side... Local ... |
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75,98 |
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A Second Chance for Justice: The Prosecutions of Gabe Watson for the Death of Tina Thomas
ISBN: 9781443842020 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tina Thomas would have been turning 35 on the day that her husband of less than two weeks stood trial for her murder in the Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, US. Eight years and almost four months had passed since Tina died on her honeymoon, while scuba diving near the SS Yongala wreck on the Great Barrier Reef in Northern Queensland, Australia. During this period, there had been extensive police investigations conducted by local, state and federal agencies in Queensland and the United States; a coronial inquest; a ridiculed plea bargain; a successful appeal against the...
Tina Thomas would have been turning 35 on the day that her husband of less than two weeks stood trial for her murder in the Jefferson County Courthous...
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229,58 |
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The Subject of Murder: Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer
ISBN: 9780226003405 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. But, since at least the nineteenth century, we have seen the murderer as different from the ordinary citizen a special individual, like an artist or a genius, who exists apart from the moral majority, a sovereign self who obeys only the destructive urge, sometimes even commanding cult followings. In contemporary culture, we continue to believe that there is something different and exceptional about killers, but is the murderer such a distinctive type? Are they degenerate beasts or supermen as they have been depicted on the...
The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. But, since at least the nineteenth century, we have seen the murderer as differ...
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408,24 |
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The Subject of Murder: Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer
ISBN: 9780226003542 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. But, since at least the nineteenth century, we have seen the murderer as different from the ordinary citizen a special individual, like an artist or a genius, who exists apart from the moral majority, a sovereign self who obeys only the destructive urge, sometimes even commanding cult followings. In contemporary culture, we continue to believe that there is something different and exceptional about killers, but is the murderer such a distinctive type? Are they degenerate beasts or supermen as they have been depicted on the...
The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. But, since at least the nineteenth century, we have seen the murderer as differ...
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137,78 |
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Intermediate Range: The Forensic Evidence in the Killing of Trayvon Martin
ISBN: 9780615687810 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the rainy Sunday evening of February 26, 2012, the lives of two individuals collided at the Retreat at Twin Lakes, a gated townhouse community in the Orlando suburb known as Sanford, Florida. George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old insurance underwriter and neighborhood watch volunteer, grew suspicious of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old high schooler who was temporarily staying at the home of his father's fiancee who lived in the small gated subdivision. Martin, unarmed and dressed in a dark-colored hooded sweatshirt, was walking home after going to a nearby 7-11 store to buy a can of Arizona Iced...
On the rainy Sunday evening of February 26, 2012, the lives of two individuals collided at the Retreat at Twin Lakes, a gated townhouse community in t...
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59,66 |
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A Crime Unlike Any Other: What the Facts Say About Dr. Bruce Edwards Ivins and The Anthrax Attacks of 2001
ISBN: 9780976616344 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The anthrax letter attacks of 2001 resulted in a seven year investigation that the FBI described as "one of the largest and most complex in the history of law enforcement." However, because nearly seven years passed before the public was made aware of who the FBI had determined was the lone perpetrator, the public's view of the case was muddled by wildly inaccurate news reporting, by a constant barrage of conspiracy theories, and by wild distortions of the actual facts of the case by people who had their own beliefs about who sent the letters and why. "A Crime Unlike Any Other" is a narrative...
The anthrax letter attacks of 2001 resulted in a seven year investigation that the FBI described as "one of the largest and most complex in the histor...
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79,62 |
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War Stories lived by a LA cop
ISBN: 9781475117745 / Angielski / Miękka / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Read about true accounts, written by a LAPD police officer, as lived by him. Follow him as he spent 24 years of his life working on the streets of the city of the Angels, between the years of 1960- 1984. Go into his mind and experience the real life drama of his participation in the Muslim riot in 1962, the LA race riot in 1965, the demonstrations in the streets in 1966, and the transgression from a street cop to a homicide detective. Read about what it took to solve homicides over 17 years, from 1967 until 1983, homicides from "Momma/Papa" cases to organized crime cases. Robert E. Reynolds...
Read about true accounts, written by a LAPD police officer, as lived by him. Follow him as he spent 24 years of his life working on the streets of the...
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79,62 |
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