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The Absinthe Forger
by Rail, Evan
An astonishing true crime story about an eccentric grifter who blew up the lucrative black market for vintage bottles of the legendary drink of artistic renegades, absinthe...
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Red Hook
by Dimatteo, Frank
"The shocking crime-drenched saga of the New York mobs in Red Hook, Brooklyn--where the streets ran red with blood--by a Mafia survivor who grew up there...For more than a hundred years, the Red Hook section of Brooklyn was Ground Zero for organized crime. Whoever controlled the piers controlled everything. From the infamous Irish gang known as The White Hand at the turn of the century, to the notorious Italian Gallo brothers who ran President Street--and everything else--generations later, the blood-soaked history of Red Hook is the story of American crime at its most powerful, corrupt, and coldly efficient. It's all here: the brutal mob hits, bullet storms, and backstabbings of the most colorful cutthroats to ever terrorize the streets. A rogue's gallery of killers with nicknames like "The Mad Hatter," "The Executioner," "Wild Bill," and "Peg Leg." The Brooklyn bar fight that gave Al "Scarface" Capone his legendary scars. The godfather of America's first Sicilian crime family whose gruesomely mangled hand could scare men half to death. And, to bring it all home, the author's own eyewitness account of multiple shootings growing up as the son of a Mafia bodyguard. Packed with jaw-dropping stories of public violence and personal vengeance, vivid insights into the Mafia's way of life, and shocking portraits of America's most wanted crime families, Red Hook is a must-read for anyone fascinated by the history of organized crime in America"
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The devil behind the badge
by Jervis, Rick
A Pulitzer Prize-winning USA Today journalist tells the gripping story of a U.S. Border Patrol agent?—?and family man?—?who violently executed four sex workers, shocking the small border town of Laredo, and along the way, raises serious questions about the border crisis and the abuse of law enforcement. Illustrations.
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Trial by ambush
by Clark, Marcia
Delves into the sensationalized true story of Barbara Graham, a neglected woman wrongfully portrayed as a femme fatale during a media frenzy surrounding a 1953 robbery-murder case, exposing the sexism, misinformation, and critical evidence overlooked by the prosecution that shaped her tragic narrative.
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Scotland Yard
by Read, Simon
Based on official case files, contemporary newspaper reporting, trial transcripts and first-hand accounts, a true-crime history of London's first modern police force tells the tales of some of history's most notorious murders—with cases that proved to be landmarks in the field of criminal inquiry. Illustrations.
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Children of darkness and light
by Hellis, Lori
Delves into the shocking crime saga of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell, whose apocalyptic beliefs and manipulative behavior led to multiple suspicious deaths leading up to the tragic discovery of Vallow's missing children in Daybell's backyard. Illustrations.
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Opus
by Gore, Gareth
Recounting how members of Opus Dei—a secretive, ultra-conservative Catholic sect—pushed its radical agenda within the Church and around the globe, using billions of dollars siphoned from one of the world's largest banks. Illustrations.
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A gentleman and a thief
by Jobb, Dean
Depicts the true story of one of the world's most successful burglars who stole jewels worth $60 million dollars from a Rockefeller, a Woolworth heiress and an oil magnate during the jazz age. 30,000 first printing.
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