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The Griekwastad Murders - The Crime That Shook South Africa (Paperback, Film Tie-in Edition): Jacques Steenkamp The Griekwastad Murders - The Crime That Shook South Africa (Paperback, Film Tie-in Edition)
Jacques Steenkamp
R320 R286 Discovery Miles 2 860 Save R34 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

ust after dusk on Good Friday, 6 April 2012, the peace and quiet permeating the small Northern Cape town of Griekwastad was disrupted when a young teenage boy sped into town in his father’s Isuzu bakkie and screeched to a halt in front of the town’s nearly deserted police station. It was shortly before 19h00 when Don Steenkamp jumped out of the vehicle and ran into the station’s charge office, covered in blood, to announce that his parents and sister had been brutally shot and killed on the family farm, Naauwhoek.

Although the killings were initially thought to be just another farm attack, months later Don was arrested for the murders, setting in motion a chain of events that would grip South Africa and divide the people of Griekwastad.

Based on interviews with all the role-players, including the investigating offi cers on the case, the forensic and ballistic experts, and family and friends of the deceased, and concluding with the verdict and the sentencing, this is the riveting account of what really happened on Naauwhoek farm on that fateful day, as told by the reporter who followed the case from day one…

Afspraak Met Moord - In Die Kake Van Die Krugersdorp-Kultus (Afrikaans, Paperback): Jana Marx Afspraak Met Moord - In Die Kake Van Die Krugersdorp-Kultus (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Jana Marx
R320 R300 Discovery Miles 3 000 Save R20 (6%) Ships in 7 - 11 working days

’n Blik op die binnekring van die Krugersdorp-kultus

“Daar was bloedspatsels oor die koffietafel, die banke en die banke se kussings. Peter en Joan was oortrek van steekwonde in hul rûe, nekke en agterkoppe. Nicholas het sy pa en ma gesigte na onder in ’n bloedbad op die mat in die sitkamer gekry. Hulle het hul hek en huis vir hul moordenaars oopgemaak, want hulle het ’n afspraak met hulle gehad.”

Elf wrede moorde oor ’n tydperk van vier jaar ruk die gemeenskap van Krugersdorp en haal landwyd nuusopskrifte. Eindelik word al hierdie moorde verbind met Cecilia Steyn en haar kultusgroep, Electus per Deus (uitverkies deur God). Lede van die groep aanbid die grond waarop Cecilia loop en sal selfs vir haar moord pleeg.

Die moordenaars is slim, gewone mense – ’n onderwyseres, ’n finansiële makelaar, ’n kind wat tussen die moorde deur steeds ses onderskeidings in matriek behaal en boonop keuring kry om medies te gaan studeer. Hul slagoffers het bloot ’n sake- afspraak nagekom, min wetend dat dít ’n afspraak met die dood was.

Wie is Cecilia Steyn? Hoe kan een mens vyf ander manipuleer om moord te pleeg en namens haar in die hof te lieg? Watter rol het Satanisme gespeel? Hoe ontduik onervare misdadigers die polisie vir so lank?

Jana Marx beantwoord dié en ander vrae in ’n waremisdaad-verhaal wat gelei het tot een van die opspraakwekkendste moordsake in die land se geskiedenis.

Met behulp van onderhoude uit diegene in die binnekring, hofgetuienis en polisiedossiere oor ’n tydperk van vier jaar poog Marx om die publiek se vrae te antwoord en ’n blik te gee op die binnewerkinge van só ’n kultus.

Showdown At The Red Lion - The Life And Times Of Jack McLoughlin 1859-1910 (Paperback): Charles Van Onselen Showdown At The Red Lion - The Life And Times Of Jack McLoughlin 1859-1910 (Paperback)
Charles Van Onselen
R320 R286 Discovery Miles 2 860 Save R34 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Johannesburg was - and is - the Frontier of Money. Within months of its founding, the mining camp was host to organised crime: the African ‘Regiment of the Hills’ and ‘Irish Brigade’ bandits. Bars, brothels, boarding houses and hotels oozed testosterone and violence, and the use of fists and guns was commonplace.

Beyond the chaos were clear signs of another struggle, one to maintain control, honour and order within the emerging male and mining dominated culture. In the underworld, the dictum of ‘honour among thieves’, as well as a hatred of informers, testified to attempts at self-regulation. A ‘real man’ did not take advantage of an opponent by employing underhand tactics. It had to be a ‘fair fight’ if a man was to be respected.

This was the world that ‘One-armed Jack’ McLoughlin - brigand, soldier, sailor, mercenary, burglar, highwayman and safe-cracker – entered in the early 1890s to become Johannesburg’s most infamous ‘Irish’ anti-hero and social bandit. McLoughlin’s infatuation with George Stevenson prompted him to recruit the young Englishman into his gang of safe-crackers but ‘Stevo’ was a man with a past and primed for personal and professional betrayal. It was a deadly mixture.

Honour could only be retrieved through a Showdown at the Red Lion.

Blood On Her Hands - South Africa's Most Notorious Female Killers (Paperback): Tanya Farber Blood On Her Hands - South Africa's Most Notorious Female Killers (Paperback)
Tanya Farber
R300 R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Save R32 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Meet Daisy De Melker, who 'lovingly' prepared a flask of strychnine-laced coffee for her son. She is very different from Najwa Petersen, who carefully planned a 'house robbery' to eliminate her musician husband. Chané van Heerden placed her victim's facial skin in the freezer for preservation, yet Phoenix Racing Cloud Theron wished to dispose of her mother's body before it was even cold. And Dina Rodrigues? She 'wouldn't harm a fly' - but then went and organised a hit on a baby.

Women are not paragons of virtue who cannot commit murder. Nor are they always insane when they do deliberately cause death. And the women with 'blood on their hands' are not homogeneous.

In Blood on Her Hands, award-winning journalist Tanya Farber investigates the lives, minds and motivations of some of South Africa's most notorious female murders, from the poisonous nurse Daisy de Melker, to the privileged but deeply disturbed Najwa Petersen, to the mysterious Joey Haarhoff, who died before revealing the fate of her victims. Written in a style lighter than the subject matter might suggest, Blood on Her Hands will keep you reading until late at night.

Story of a Murder (Hardcover): Hallie Rubenhold Story of a Murder (Hardcover)
Hallie Rubenhold
R760 R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Save R106 (14%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

No murderer should ever be the keeper of their victim's story …

On 1 February, 1910, vivacious music-hall performer, Belle Elmore, suddenly vanished from her north London home, causing alarm among her circle of female friends, the entertainers of the Music Hall Ladies’ Guild who demanded an immediate investigation.

They could not have known what they would provoke: the unearthing of a gruesome secret, followed by a fevered manhunt for the prime suspect: Belle’s husband, medical fraudster, Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen.

Hiding in the shadows of this evergreen tale is Crippen’s typist and lover, Ethel Le Neve – was she really just ‘an innocent young girl’ in thrall to a powerful older man as so many people have since reported?

In this epic examination of one of the most infamous murders of the twentieth century, prizewinning social historian Hallie Rubenhold gives voice to those who have never properly been heard – the women.

Featuring a carnival cast of eccentric entertainers, glamorous lawyers, zealous detectives, medics and liars, STORY OF A MURDER is meticulously researched and multi-layered, offering the reader an electrifying snapshot of Britain and America at the dawn of the modern era.

Murder in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Paperback): Sonny Longtine Murder in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Paperback)
Sonny Longtine
R571 R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Save R45 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Residents of the idyllic villages scattered throughout the Upper Peninsula's richly forested paradise live in quiet comfort for the most part, believing that murder rarely happens in their secluded sanctuary3/4but it does, and more often than they realize. This collection of twenty-four legendary murders spans 160 years of Upper Michigan's history and dispels the notion that murder in the Upper Peninsula is an anomaly. From the bank robber who killed the warden and deputy warden of the Marquette Branch Prison to the unknown assailant who gunned down James Schoolcraft in Sault Ste. Marie, Sonny Longtine explores the tragic events that turned peaceful communities into fear-ridden crime scenes.

Historic Columbus Crimes - Mama's in the Furnace, the Thing & More (Paperback): David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker Historic Columbus Crimes - Mama's in the Furnace, the Thing & More (Paperback)
David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker
R480 R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Historic Columbus Crimes, the father-daughter team of David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker looks back at sixteen tales of murder, mystery and mayhem culled from city history. Take the rock star slain by a troubled fan or the drag queen slashed to death by a would-be ninja. Then there's the writer who died acting out the plot of his next book, the minister's wife incinerated in the parsonage furnace and a couple of serial killers who outdid the Son of Sam. Not to mention a gunfight at Broad and High, grave-robbing medical students, the bloodiest day in FBI history and other fascinating stories of crime and tragedy. They're all here, and they're all true

Wicked Vermont (Paperback): Thea Lewis Wicked Vermont (Paperback)
Thea Lewis
R548 R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Historic Crimes of Long Island - Misdeeds from the 1600s to the 1950s (Paperback): Kerriann Flanagan Brosky Historic Crimes of Long Island - Misdeeds from the 1600s to the 1950s (Paperback)
Kerriann Flanagan Brosky; Foreword by Joan Harrison
R587 R536 Discovery Miles 5 360 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gangs of St. Louis - Men of Respect (Paperback): Daniel Waugh Gangs of St. Louis - Men of Respect (Paperback)
Daniel Waugh
R636 R579 Discovery Miles 5 790 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

St. Louis was a city under siege during Prohibition. Seven different criminal gangs violently vied for control of the town's illegal enterprises. Although their names (the Green Ones, the Pillow Gang, the Russo Gang, Egan's Rats, the Hogan Gang, the Cuckoo Gang and the Shelton Gang) are familiar to many, their exploits have remained largely undocumented until now. Learn how an awkward gunshot wound gave the Pillow Gang its name, and read why Willie Russo's bizarre midnight interview with a reporter from the St. Louis Star involved an automatic pistol and a floating hunk of cheese. From daring bank robberies to cold-blooded betrayals, The Gangs of St. Louis chronicles a fierce yet juicy slice of the Gateway City's history that rivaled anything seen in New York or Chicago.

Murder & Mayhem in the Highlands - Historic Crimes on the Jersey Shore (Paperback): John P King Murder & Mayhem in the Highlands - Historic Crimes on the Jersey Shore (Paperback)
John P King
R486 R452 Discovery Miles 4 520 Save R34 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Visitors gazing out over the Highlands of coastal New Jersey might never guess that these rolling hills have been a stage for mankind s darkest deeds. In his thrilling new book, "Murder & Mayhem in the Highlands," John King shines a spotlight on the region s violent history of kidnapping, murder, smuggling and extortion. From axe-wielding lunatics to killers who leave calling cards, King presents each case with the care of a criminal investigator, including details from coroners reports and witness testimonies.

In this sensational and gripping read, uncover the gritty history of the Highlands, where a suspicious death usually meant foul play and staying in a hotel might cost you your life.

The McGlincy Killings in Campbell, California - An 1896 Unsolved Mystery (Paperback): Tobin Gilman The McGlincy Killings in Campbell, California - An 1896 Unsolved Mystery (Paperback)
Tobin Gilman
R539 R499 Discovery Miles 4 990 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wicked Columbus, Indiana (Paperback): Paul J Hoffman Wicked Columbus, Indiana (Paperback)
Paul J Hoffman
R544 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gangs and Outlaws of Western Pennsylvania (Paperback): Michael Hassett, Thomas White Gangs and Outlaws of Western Pennsylvania (Paperback)
Michael Hassett, Thomas White
R523 R483 Discovery Miles 4 830 Save R40 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Violent bank heists, bold train robberies and hardened gangs all tear across the history of the wild west--western Pennsylvania, that is. The region played reluctant host to the likes of the infamous Biddle Boys, who escaped Allegheny County Jail by romancing the warden's wife, and the Cooley Gang, which held Fayette County in its violent grip at the close of the nineteenth century. Then there was Pennsylvania's own Bonnie and Clyde--Irene and Glenn--whose murderous misadventures earned the "trigger blonde" and her beau the electric chair in 1931. From the perilous train tracks of Erie to the gritty streets of Pittsburgh, authors Thomas White and Michael Hassett trace the dark history of the crooks, murderers and outlaws who both terrorized and fascinated the citizenry of western Pennsylvania.

The 1910 Slocum Massacre - An Act of Genocide in East Texas (Paperback): E. R. Bills The 1910 Slocum Massacre - An Act of Genocide in East Texas (Paperback)
E. R. Bills
R534 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In late July 1910, a shocking number of African Americans in Texas were slaughtered by white mobs in the Slocum area of Anderson County and the Percilla-Augusta region of neighboring Houston County. The number of dead surpassed the casualties of the Rosewood Massacre in Florida and rivaled those of the Tulsa Riots in Oklahoma, but the incident--one of the largest mass murders of blacks in American history--is now largely forgotten. Investigate the facts behind this harrowing act of genocide in E.R. Bills's compelling inquiry into the Slocum Massacre.

Staten Island Slayings - Murderers & Mysteries of the Forgotten Borough (Paperback): Patricia M. Salmon Staten Island Slayings - Murderers & Mysteries of the Forgotten Borough (Paperback)
Patricia M. Salmon
R530 R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Save R40 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Daughter of the White River - Depression-Era Treachery and Vengeance in the Arkansas Delta (Paperback): Denise White Parkinson Daughter of the White River - Depression-Era Treachery and Vengeance in the Arkansas Delta (Paperback)
Denise White Parkinson; Foreword by Dale P. Woodiel
R560 R516 Discovery Miles 5 160 Save R44 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The once-thriving houseboat communities along Arkansas' White River are long gone, and few remember the sensational murder story that set local darling Helen Spence on a tragic path. In 1931, Spence shocked Arkansas when she avenged her father's murder in a DeWitt courtroom. The state soon discovered that no prison could hold her. For the first time, prison records are unveiled to provide an essential portrait. Join author Denise Parkinson for an intimate look at a Depression-era tragedy. The legend of Helen Spence refuses to be forgotten--despite her unmarked grave.

Wicked Adirondacks (Paperback): Dennis Webster Wicked Adirondacks (Paperback)
Dennis Webster
R477 R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While the Adirondack Mountains are New York's most beautiful region, they have also been plagued by insidious crimes and the nasty escapades of notorious lawbreakers. In 1935, public enemy number one, Dutch Schultz, went on trial and was acquitted in an Adirondack courtroom. Crooks have tried creative methods to sidestep forestry laws that protect the flora of the state park. Members of the infamous Windfall Gang, led by Charles Wadsworth, terrorized towns and hid out in the high mountains until their dramatic 1899 capture. In the 1970s, the Adirondack Serial Killer, Robert Francis Garrow, petrified campers in the hills. Join local author Dennis Webster as he explores the wicked deeds and sinister characters hidden among the Adirondacks' peaks.

Ghosts and Murders of Manhattan (Paperback): Elise Gainer Ghosts and Murders of Manhattan (Paperback)
Elise Gainer
R607 R551 Discovery Miles 5 510 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Manhattan's past whispers for attention amongst the bustle of the city's ever-changing landscape. At Fraunces Tavern, George Washington's emotional farewell luncheon in 1783 echoes in the Long Room. Gertrude Tredwell's ghost appears to visitors at the Merchant's House Museum. Long since deceased, Olive Thomas shows herself to the men of the New Amsterdam Theatre, and Dorothy Parker still keeps her lunch appointment at the Algonquin Hotel. In other places, it is not the paranormal but the abnormal violent acts by gangsters, bombers, and murderers that linger in the city's memory. Some think Jack the Ripper and the Boston Strangler hunted here. The historic images and true stories in Ghosts and Murders of Manhattan bring to life the people and events that shaped this city and raised the consciousness of its residents.

Murder & Mayhem on Staten Island (Paperback): Patricia M. Salmon Murder & Mayhem on Staten Island (Paperback)
Patricia M. Salmon
R525 R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The excitement and vibrancy of big-city thrills take a deadly turn when they hit Staten Island. Edward Reinhardt murdered his wife and rolled her body in a barrel down a busy thoroughfare. A known bootlegger--and suspected police informant--was found shot three times in a Packard on South Beach, sparking one of the island's greatest mysteries. In 1843, the bodies of a mother and daughter were discovered in a Christmas Day fire; a family member would stand trial three times for their deaths. During the Jazz Age, a kiss would cost a popular Port Richmond teenager her life. Local historian Patricia M. Salmon has meticulously researched Staten Island's most horrific murders, some well known and others long forgotten.

Mountain Spirits: - A Chronicle of Corn Whiskey and the Southern Appalachian Moonshine Tradition (Paperback, New): Joseph Earl... Mountain Spirits: - A Chronicle of Corn Whiskey and the Southern Appalachian Moonshine Tradition (Paperback, New)
Joseph Earl Dabney
R654 R603 Discovery Miles 6 030 Save R51 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A thoughtful and informative look at moonshine whiskey and the characters who produced it in the Southern Appalachian region.

Murder & Mayhem on Chicago's North Side (Paperback): Troy Taylor Murder & Mayhem on Chicago's North Side (Paperback)
Troy Taylor
R526 R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1929, Chicago gangster Al Capone arranged a special St. Valentine's Day delivery for his favorite arch enemies: a massacre. Seven North Side mobsters were left dead. Yet random killings and bizarre murders were not unfamiliar in Chicago. Tales of the city's most violent and puzzling murders make this gripping work truly hair-raising: a deranged stalker kills his love object and then himself; a sausage maker uses the tools of his trade to rid himself of his wife; and a meticulous serial killer cleans his dead victims' wounds before taping them closed. Through accounts dripping with mystery, gory details and suspense, Troy Taylor brilliantly tells the twisted history of the worst of Chicago's North Side.

Mobsters, Madams & Murder in Steubenville, Ohio - The Story of Little Chicago (Paperback): Susan M. Guy Mobsters, Madams & Murder in Steubenville, Ohio - The Story of Little Chicago (Paperback)
Susan M. Guy
R601 R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Save R52 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Gambling, prostitution and bootlegging have been going on in Steubenville for well over one hundred years. Its Water Street red-light district drew men from hundreds of miles away, as well as underage runaways. The white slave trade was rampant, and along with all the vice crimes, murders became a weekly occurrence. Law enforcement seemed to turn a blind eye, and cries of political corruption were heard in the state capital. This scenario replayed itself over and over again during the past century as mobsters and madams ruled and murders plagued the city and county at an alarming rate. Newspapers nationwide would come to nickname this mecca of murder "Little Chicago."

Wicked Philadelphia - Sin in the City of Brotherly Love (Paperback): Thomas H Keels Wicked Philadelphia - Sin in the City of Brotherly Love (Paperback)
Thomas H Keels
R526 R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Prim and proper Philadelphia has been rocked by the clash between excessive vice and social virtue since its citizens burned the city's biggest brothel in 1800. With tales of grave robbers in South Philadelphia and and harlots in Franklin Square, "Wicked Philadelphia"; reveals the shocking underbelly of the City of Brotherly Love. In one notorious scam, a washerwoman masqueraded as the fictional Spanish countess Anita de Bettencourt for two decades, bilking millions from victims and even fooling the government of Spain. From the 1843 media frenzy that ensued after an aristocrat abducted a young girl to a churchyard transformed into a brothel (complete with a carousel), local author Thomas H. Keels unearths Philadelphia's most scintillating scandals and corrupt characters in his rollicking history.

Murder & Mayhem on Chicago's West Side (Paperback): Troy Taylor Murder & Mayhem on Chicago's West Side (Paperback)
Troy Taylor
R521 R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Save R40 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Blazing from the West Side, the Great Chicago Fire left nothing but ashy remnants of the developing city leveling its landscape but certainly not its spirit. While the West Side was home to the infamous O'Leary Barn, it was also where the news of some of the city's most gruesome and horrific crime reverberated throughout the state and across the country. Read about the bloody end of Robert 'the Terrible' Toughy, who undoubtedly lived up to his name, met an ill-deserved fate. Troy Taylor also delves into the life of John Wayne Gacy the depraved man masked by the clown costume and yet again proves to be a master storyteller and historian of Chicago's criminal underworld.

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