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Monk Eastman
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 29.95An intimate biography as well as an epic history, Monk Eastman vividly recounts the life and times of old New York?s most infamous gangster-cum-soldier as he made his way from the sooty streets and dingy saloons of the Lower East Side to the battlefields of the Western Front. Born in 1873 to a respectable New York family, Monk was running wild in... more...
Stone Cold Souls: History's Most Vicious Killers
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 50.00History's most notorious and brutal killers still enjoy fame as public fascination with their lives and their crimes continues to grow. Stone Cold Souls is a detailed examination of the most brutal killers in history. Moffatt does what he does best by looking at historical accounts of events, analyzing them from a psychological perspective, and presenting... more...
Killer Fiction
Feral House 1997; US$ 14.95Including a foreword by a woman who once dated him, the perverse, violent stories, poetry, and fantastic scribblings of a man convicted in 1972 of murdering two women chart the killer's extreme pathology. more...
Best Intentions
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00An exploration of how Edmund Perry, a 17 year old black honors student from Harlem, was killed soon after graduation by a young white plain clothes policeman in an alleged mugging attempt. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Redemption
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00"When I decided to look, I found more love and compassion than I ever imagined existed. Most significantly, I found forgiveness. I might even call it redemption." On July 4, 1990, eighteen-year-old Stacey Lannert shot and killed her father, who had been sexually abusing her since she was eight. Missouri state law, a disbelieving prosecutor, and... more...
Warrior Kings
Andrews UK 2010; US$ 8.99It was the long hot summer of 1976, and a 15-year-old Noel Smith, testosterone jangling, was among many south London kids keen to stamp their mark on the world and find an identity and a sense of belonging. Rock n roll music of the 50s had gripped his imagination and, adopting the dress, hairstyle and dance moves, a Teddy boy was... more...
Dick Turpin
Profile 2005; US$ 14.38Almost everything people know about Dick Turpin and highwaymen is myth. The historical truth is much nastier, more brutal and bloody. As Dick Turpin went to the scaffold in York in 1739 he was determined to look his best. The previous day he had had a new frock coat and pumps delivered to him in the condemned man's cell in York Castle Prison. And... more...
I: The Creation of a Serial Killer
St. Martin's Press 2003; US$ 7.99Prize-winning journalist Jack Olsen, armed with unprecedented access to one of the most infamous serial killers in American history, provides a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a murderer in the killer's own words . . . In February 1990, Oregon State Police arrested John Sosnovke and Laverne Pavlinac for the vicious rape and murder of Taunja... more...
Boardwalk Gangster
St. Martin's Press 2011; US$ 15.99For the first twenty-five years of his criminal career, Charles ?Lucky? Luciano was a vicious mobster who rose to become the multimillionaire king of the New York underworld. For the next twenty-five years of his life, Luciano was a legend---but a fake master criminal without real power, his evil reputation manipulated and maintained by the government... more...









