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Time of Death
ISBN: 9780988416451 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dec. 24, 1963, 8:45 a.m. Stanley Forte pulled up in front of friend Frank Rinaldi's house and honked the car horn. Frank came out and got in. "Together again, baby," Frank said and they set off, driving the twelve miles or so from Chapel Hill to Durham, North Carolina, to go Christmas shopping.They bought gifts for their wives, toys for Stan's two sons and Frank bought a teddy bear for the baby his wife, Lucille, was carrying.When they returned to Frank's duplex apartment, 105 North Street, Chapel Hill, at about 1:30 p.m., they found that Lucille had been struck on the head, gagged, strangled...
Dec. 24, 1963, 8:45 a.m. Stanley Forte pulled up in front of friend Frank Rinaldi's house and honked the car horn. Frank came out and got in. "Togethe...
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Murder In The Yoga Store: The True Story of the Lululemon Killing
ISBN: 9780615833415 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MURDER IN THE YOGA STORE is the true story of the brutal killing of a beautiful young woman at a chic Lululemon yoga-wear shop. The grisly murder was committed on a pleasant Friday night in upscale Bethesda, Maryland, a leafy suburb of Washington, D.C. In this riveting narrative by veteran journalist Peter Ross Range, the author for the first time brings together the tale of what really happened in the yoga store murder. He portrays the personalities of both victim and murderer, along with the strange and convoluted circumstances of the crime and its cover-up. Range meticulously exposes layer...
MURDER IN THE YOGA STORE is the true story of the brutal killing of a beautiful young woman at a chic Lululemon yoga-wear shop. The grisly murder was ...
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27,90 |
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Depression Desperado
ISBN: 9780890159668 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raymond Hamilton, a pal of Bonnie and Clyde was one of the best-known desperadoes of the 1930's. Many thought he was more deadly and dangerous than his counterpart, Clyde Barrow. His 1934 escape from the Texas State Prison in Huntsville Texas made the front page of the New York Times. Although overshadowed, by the legend of Bonnie and Clyde, Raymond Hamilton was every bit as notorious and his crime spree rivaled any of his era. This book chronicles Hamilton's life from humble beginnings in Schulter, Oklahoma to an early demise at the age of 21 in the Texas death house.
Raymond Hamilton, a pal of Bonnie and Clyde was one of the best-known desperadoes of the 1930's. Many thought he was more deadly and dangerous than hi...
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75,83 |
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Forty Years of Murder
ISBN: 9780007291274 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Christie, Hanratty, The Krays ... murderers haunt the mind. We read about them in the press with horrified curiosity and, if we're lucky, this is as close as we get. But Home Office Pathologise Keith Simpson spent forty years in the very midst of murder. This is his autobiography.
Christie, Hanratty, The Krays ... murderers haunt the mind. We read about them in the press with horrified curiosity and, if we're lucky, this is as c...
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75,26 |
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People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and a Journey into Japan’s Shadows
ISBN: 9780099502555 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An incisive and compelling account of the case of Lucie Blackman. Lucie Blackman -- tall, blonde, and 21 years old -- stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave.
The seven months inbetween had seen a massive search for the missing girl, involving Japanese policemen, British private detectives, Australian dowsers and Lucie's desperate, but bitterly divided, parents. As the case unfolded, it drew the attention of prime ministers and sado-masochists, ambassadors and... An incisive and compelling account of the case of Lucie Blackman. Lucie Blackman -- tall, blonde, and 21 years old -- stepped out into the vastness of...
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65,23 |
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Capital Crimes: Seven Centuries of London Life and Murder
ISBN: 9780099539025 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Capital Crimes' tells the shifting story of crime and punishment in London through vivid recreations of a series of murders that stretch from the killing of the Lord Chancellor during the Peasants' Revolt in 1381 to the hanging of Styllou Christofi in 1954.
'Capital Crimes' tells the shifting story of crime and punishment in London through vivid recreations of a series of murders that stretch from the kil...
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86,70 |
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Frenzy! : How the tabloid press turned three evil serial killers into celebrities
ISBN: 9780099557760 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title looks at the origins of the tabloid press' insatiable desire for stories of murder, with three post-war British murderers, Neville Heath, John George Haigh and John Christie.
This title looks at the origins of the tabloid press' insatiable desire for stories of murder, with three post-war British murderers, Neville Heath, J...
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81,60 |
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The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison
ISBN: 9780192806000 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Was Napoleon killed by the arsenic in his wallpaper? How did Rasputin survive cyanide poisoning? Which chemicals in our environment pose the biggest threat to our health today? In The Elements of Murder, John Emsley answers these questions and offers a fascinating account of five of the most toxic elements--arsenic, antimony, lead, mercury, and thallium--describing their lethal chemical properties and highlighting their use in some of the most famous murder cases in history.
In this exciting book, we meet a who's who of heartless murderers. Mary Ann Cotton, who used arsenic to murder her... Was Napoleon killed by the arsenic in his wallpaper? How did Rasputin survive cyanide poisoning? Which chemicals in our environment pose the biggest t...
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72,85 |
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Midnight in Peking: The Murder That Haunted the Last Days of Old China
ISBN: 9780241957172 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One night in January 1937, in the dying days of colonial Peking, a body was found under the haunted watchtower. It was Pamela Werner, the daughter of the city's former British consul. A horrified world followed the hunt for Pamela's killer. Some 75 years later, British historian Paul French accidentally came across the lost case file.
One night in January 1937, in the dying days of colonial Peking, a body was found under the haunted watchtower. It was Pamela Werner, the daughter of ...
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55,19 |
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Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial
ISBN: 9780300181708 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Astringent and absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hills casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell -- the kind of spell to which Ms. Malcolm's admirers (and I am one) have become addicted."--Dwight Garner, New York Times "She couldn't have done it and she must have done it." This is the enigma at the heart of Janet Malcolm's riveting new book about a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention. The defendant, Mazoltuv Borukhova, a beautiful young physician, is accused of hiring an assassin... "Astringent and absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hills casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell -- the kind of spell to which Ms.... |
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50,98 |
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The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox
ISBN: 9780307588593 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Award-winning author and journalist Nina Burleigh's mesmerizing literary investigation of the murder of Meredith Kercher, the controversial prosecution, the conviction and twenty-six-year sentence of Amanda Knox, the machinations of Italian justice, and the underground depravity and clash of cultures in one of central Italy's most beloved cities.
The sexually violent murder of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, on the night of November 1, 2007, became an international sensation when one of Kercher's housemates, twenty-year-old Seattle native... Award-winning author and journalist Nina Burleigh's mesmerizing literary investigation of the murder of Meredith Kercher, the controversial prosecu...
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76,02 |
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Goodbye, Dearest Holly
ISBN: 9780340897911 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On August 4, 2002, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman disappeared. For the next thirteen days their families, police, and local community searched for them. Almost two weeks after their missing, their bodies were found. Two days later Ian Huntley was charged with their murders. This book tells this story that began on August 4th.
On August 4, 2002, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman disappeared. For the next thirteen days their families, police, and local community searched for th...
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55,19 |
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Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris
ISBN: 9780520272729 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Noziere gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication," which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Almost immediately Violette's act of "double parricide" became the most sensational private crime of the French interwar era--discussed and debated so passionately that it was compared to the Dreyfus Affair. Why would the beloved only child of respectable parents do such a thing? To understand the...
On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Noziere gave her mother and father glasses o...
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127,58 |
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Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in Victorian England
ISBN: 9780521684163 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 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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199,20 |
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An Empire on Trial
ISBN: 9780521735070 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An Empire on Trial is the first book to explore the issue of interracial homicide in the British Empire during its height examining these incidents and the prosecution of such cases in each of seven colonies scattered throughout the world. It uncovers and analyzes the tensions of empire that underlay British rule and delves into how the problem of maintaining a liberal empire manifested itself in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The work demonstrates the importance of the processes of criminal justice to the history of the empire and the advantage of a trans-territorial...
An Empire on Trial is the first book to explore the issue of interracial homicide in the British Empire during its height examining these incidents an...
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144,74 |
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The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811
ISBN: 9780571258086 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1811 John Williams was buried with a stake through his heart. Was he the notorious East End killer or the eighth victim in the Ratcliffe Highway Murders? Drawing on contemporary records and newspaper cuttings, the authors reconstruct the events.
In 1811 John Williams was buried with a stake through his heart. Was he the notorious East End killer or the eighth victim in the Ratcliffe Highway Mu...
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65,23 |
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Blood on the Altar
ISBN: 9780571274963 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title combines the gripping true crime case of a 16-year-old girl named Elisa Claps with Jones's deep understanding of Italian culture - the impunity it offers to the powerful.
This title combines the gripping true crime case of a 16-year-old girl named Elisa Claps with Jones's deep understanding of Italian culture - the impu...
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65,23 |
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Black Country Murders
ISBN: 9780750950534 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Located in central England, the Black Country is a distinctive industrial region encompassing numerous ancient towns and villages in a unique and diverse landscape, formed by centuries of mining and iron forging. Here evolved a breed of people much accustomed to the darker tragedies of life, often witness to horrific scenes of tragedy in many an industrial catastrophe, and home to some of the most gruesome murder cases in Britain's history. Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in the Black Country. Ian M. Bott...
Located in central England, the Black Country is a distinctive industrial region encompassing numerous ancient towns and villages in a unique and dive...
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90,32 |
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A Rage To Kill: And Other True Cases
ISBN: 9780751529999 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For this sixth collection of cases, Ann Rule has culled from her private files the most-asked-about homicide cases: accounts of seemingly normal men and women, compelled by a murderous rage to suddenly lash out at innocent victims. She constructs the chain of events leading up to each crime.
For this sixth collection of cases, Ann Rule has culled from her private files the most-asked-about homicide cases: accounts of seemingly normal men a...
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55,19 |
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Norfolk Villains: Rogues, Rascals and Reprobates
ISBN: 9780752460017 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Norfolk Villains
Norfolk Villains
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65,23 |
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