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Murder, Salinas Style - Book Three He Shot the Sheriff (Hardcover): Lisa Eisemann Murder, Salinas Style - Book Three He Shot the Sheriff (Hardcover)
Lisa Eisemann
R671 Discovery Miles 6 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Henry Reid Farley is just twenty-eight years old on November 8, 1898, when he is elected Sheriff of Monterey County. Less than a year later, Sheriff Farley lay in his grave. Now the citizens of Salinas are out for revenge. Immediately after the sheriff's murder, local gun stores open their doors in the dark of the night to hand out weapons to several people intending to hunt down George Suesser, the man responsible for the death of the youngest sheriff ever in the history of the State of California. As cries for his lynching echo throughout the streets of Salinas, Suesser is discovered in a crawl space only eighteen inches wide deep in his cellar. The angry citizens of Salinas demand swift justice. The case against the accused is about to begin. Murder, Salinas Style: Book Three shares a unique glimpse into the lives of both a murderer and his victim while revealing the compelling history of a California town, its citizens, and the violence that would become its legacy.

Lost in the Valley of Death - A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas (Paperback): Harley Rustad Lost in the Valley of Death - A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas (Paperback)
Harley Rustad
R216 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R24 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Donna Gentile Story (Hardcover): Anita Defrancesco The Donna Gentile Story (Hardcover)
Anita Defrancesco
R785 Discovery Miles 7 850 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Hollywood Godfather - The most authentic mafia book you'll ever read (Paperback): Gianni Russo Hollywood Godfather - The most authentic mafia book you'll ever read (Paperback)
Gianni Russo 1
R261 R239 Discovery Miles 2 390 Save R22 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Gianni Russo was a handsome twenty-five-year-old mobster with no acting experience when he walked onto the set of The Godfather and entered Hollywood history. He played Carlo Rizzi, the husband of Connie Corleone, who set up her brother Sonny, played by James Caan, for a hit. Russo didn't have to act - he knew the Mob inside and out, from his childhood in Little Italy, to Mafia legend Frank Costello who took him under his wing, to acting as a messenger to New Orleans Mob boss Carlos Marcello during the Kennedy assassination, to having to go on the lam after shooting and killing a member of the Colombian drug cartel in his Vegas club (he was acquitted of murder when the court ruled this as justifiable homicide). Along the way, Russo befriended Frank Sinatra, who became his son's godfather, and Marlon Brando, who mentored his career as an actor after trying to get Francis Ford Coppola to fire him from The Godfather. Russo had passionate affairs with Marilyn Monroe, Liza Minelli and scores of other celebrities. He went on to star in The Godfather: Parts I and II, Seabiscuit, Any Given Sunday and Rush Hour 2, among many other films in which he also acted as producer. Hollywood Godfather is his no-holds-barred account of a life lived on the edge. It is a story filled with violence, glamour, sex - and fun.

Tip And Trade - How Two Lawyers Made Millions from Insider Trading (Paperback, New): Mark Coakley Tip And Trade - How Two Lawyers Made Millions from Insider Trading (Paperback, New)
Mark Coakley
R467 Discovery Miles 4 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

?The story of a friendship that started in law school and ended with the largest insider trading scandal in Canadian history, this eye-opening chronicle reveals for the first time how Gil Cornblum and Stan Grmovsek worked together to rip off Wall Street and Bay Street for over $10 million. Cornblum would scout around his law offices in the middle of the night, looking for confidential information on mergers or takeovers. When he found something, he would tip off Grmovsek, who would make the stock market trades that would gain them illegal profits. From the joint investigation by the Ontario Securities Commission, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the FBI, to Cornblum's resultant suicide and Grmovsek's 39-month prison sentence, Tip and Trade covers the double lives of the twosome and their inevitable downfall. First-person interviews, conducted with Grmovsek from prison, give insight into what case prosecutors called a classic "Hollywood" insider trading tragedy.

Minus One is Forgery (Hardcover): Haydn Thomas Minus One is Forgery (Hardcover)
Haydn Thomas
R780 Discovery Miles 7 800 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Prey - My Fight to Survive the Halifax Grooming Gang (Paperback): Cassie Pike, Katy Weitz Prey - My Fight to Survive the Halifax Grooming Gang (Paperback)
Cassie Pike, Katy Weitz 1
R259 R215 Discovery Miles 2 150 Save R44 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cassie was only thirteen when her mother died of a degenerative illness, leaving her vulnerable to sexual predators in the Halifax area who had been grooming her since the age of eleven. She fell through the net of the care system and reached out for friendship, only to be consumed by an escalating spiral of abuse. This harrowing and truly shocking story captures in vivid detail how gangs of men were able to ply a child with drink and drugs, then rape her and pass her around their associates with no one seemingly able to step in and prevent it. Cassie was lost in a world of appalling degradation for years before a local policeman and caring social worker became instrumental in helping her to escape and rebuild her life. In 2016, the largest case of child sexual exploitation ever brought to trial at that time in the UK resulted in the conviction of 17 men. Since Cassie's abusers were jailed, child safeguarding policies have improved so that vulnerable children like Cassie should never again fall through the net and become prey.

Congratulations You Have Just Met the ICF - They Have Style, They Have Violence... The Intercity Firm Are All Your Worst... Congratulations You Have Just Met the ICF - They Have Style, They Have Violence... The Intercity Firm Are All Your Worst Nightmares Come True (Paperback)
Cass Pennant 1
R268 R247 Discovery Miles 2 470 Save R21 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'People didn't talk about the team, they talked about the mob that came with them' Terrifyingly vicious, brilliantly organised, tremendously feared and highly fashionable, the InterCity Firm were the most notorious football hooligan gang the country had ever seen. Bestselling author Cass Pennant was one of the I.C.F.'s best-known figures and has used his unique position as a West Ham insider to bring together these first-hand accounts of the men who were at the eye of storm, both on and off the terraces. In this classic account of football hooliganism at its terrifying height, all the faces of the West Ham firm reveal their memories and thoughts about the violence, the battles, the campaigns, the run-ins with the authorities, and all that came with it. Congratulations, you are just about to meet the I.C.F...

Just Another Day (Hardcover): Jason Randazzo Just Another Day (Hardcover)
Jason Randazzo
R688 R632 Discovery Miles 6 320 Save R56 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Twisted Confessions - The True Story Behind The Kitty Genovese And Barbara Kralik Murder Trials (Hardcover): Charles E. Skoller Twisted Confessions - The True Story Behind The Kitty Genovese And Barbara Kralik Murder Trials (Hardcover)
Charles E. Skoller
R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"It didn't seem possible. Kitty Genovese had been viciously stabbed to death in Kew Gardens on March 13, 1964, while her neighbors heard her screams from their apartment windows and looked on passively...Everyone from coast to coast, it seemed, including President Lyndon Johnson, was weighing in on the failure of Kitty's neighbors to respond to her screams for help. The incident opened up a whole new phenomenon for students of social psychology to explore and puzzle over: the Kitty Genovese syndrome."

Brain Games - Cold Case Puzzles (Spiral bound): Publications International Ltd, Brain Games Brain Games - Cold Case Puzzles (Spiral bound)
Publications International Ltd, Brain Games
R311 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Save R16 (5%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
When the Daltons Rode (Paperback): Emmett Dalton When the Daltons Rode (Paperback)
Emmett Dalton; Foreword by Kith Presland
R540 Discovery Miles 5 400 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Outlaw, gang member, and loving husband, Emmett Dalton remains a significant figure in American Old West history. His scandalous career of thievery included the ill-fated raid in Coffeyville, Kansas. When the Dalton Gang attempted to rob two banks at once, a deadly shootout ensued, leaving Emmett Dalton with more than twenty gunshot wounds and a life sentence in the Kansas State Penitentiary. This autobiography describes Dalton's everyday life as an outlaw. In it, he recalls such adolescent memories as hearing stories of the Younger gang, his first train robbery and feelings of exultation, visiting his mother, and courting Julia Johnson-the woman who would one day become his wife. Dalton also details the preparations taken for the Coffeyville raid and the suspense that hung in the air as they rode into town, revealing the gang's final moments. In addition to presenting Emmett Dalton's accounts, this pictorial memoir includes a foreword by Dalton authority Kith Presland, who provides a peek into the mind of an outlaw.

Indicting Goliath - The Continuing Real Life Saga of an Immigrant's Pursuit of Justice in a World Infested with Betrayal,... Indicting Goliath - The Continuing Real Life Saga of an Immigrant's Pursuit of Justice in a World Infested with Betrayal, Corruption, Subterfuge and Fraud (Hardcover)
Bhatia Lal
R1,110 Discovery Miles 11 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From Son of Sam to Son of Hope - The Amazing Story of David Berkowitz (Hardcover): Roxanne Tauriello From Son of Sam to Son of Hope - The Amazing Story of David Berkowitz (Hardcover)
Roxanne Tauriello
R571 R525 Discovery Miles 5 250 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Truman Capote's In Cold Blood: Bookmarked (Paperback): Justin St Germain Truman Capote's In Cold Blood: Bookmarked (Paperback)
Justin St Germain
R337 R313 Discovery Miles 3 130 Save R24 (7%) In Stock
Strangeways - A Prison Officer's Story (Paperback): Neil Samworth Strangeways - A Prison Officer's Story (Paperback)
Neil Samworth 1
R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This Sunday Times bestseller is a shocking and at times darkly funny account of life as a prison officer in one of the country's most notorious jails. 'Authentic, tough, horrifying in some places and hilarious in others . . . the author's honesty and decency shine through' - Jonathan Aitken ______________ Neil 'Sam' Samworth spent eleven years working as a prison officer in HMP Manchester, aka Strangeways. A tough Yorkshireman with a soft heart, Sam had to deal with it all - gangsters and gangbangers, terrorists and psychopaths, addicts and the mentally ill. Men who should not be locked up and men who should never be let out. He tackles cell fires and self-harmers, and goes head to head with some of the most dangerous men in the country. He describes being attacked by prisoners, and reveals the problems caused by radicalization and the drugs flooding our prisons. As staffing cuts saw Britain's prison system descend into crisis, the stress of the job - the suicides, the inhumanity of the system, and one assault too many - left Sam suffering from PTSD. Strangeways by Neil Samworth is a raw, searingly honest memoir that is a testament to the men and women of the prison service and the incredibly difficult job we ask them to do. ______________ 'A frequently shocking read' - Daily Express

Perfection To A Fault - A Small Murder in Ossipee, New Hampshire, 1916 (Hardcover): Janice S. C Petrie Perfection To A Fault - A Small Murder in Ossipee, New Hampshire, 1916 (Hardcover)
Janice S. C Petrie
R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Great Pretender - The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness (Paperback): Susannah Cahalan The Great Pretender - The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness (Paperback)
Susannah Cahalan
R505 R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Save R32 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"One of America's most courageous young journalists" and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine (NPR). Doctors have struggled for centuries to define insanity--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, healthy, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane, all eight emerged with alarming diagnoses and even more troubling stories of their treatment. Rosenhan's watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever. But, as Cahalan's explosive new research shows in this real-life detective story, very little in this saga is exactly as it seems. What really happened behind those closed asylum doors?

If You Tell - A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Paperback): Gregg Olsen If You Tell - A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Paperback)
Gregg Olsen
R275 R236 Discovery Miles 2 360 Save R39 (14%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A #1 Wall Street Journal, Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller. #1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen's shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother's house of horrors. After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle's talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother's dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders. Harrowing and heartrending, If You Tell is a survivor's story of absolute evil-and the freedom and justice that Nikki, Sami, and Tori risked their lives to fight for. Sisters forever, victims no more, they found a light in the darkness that made them the resilient women they are today-loving, loved, and moving on.

Whatever Happened to Billy the Kid? (Hardcover): Helen L. Airy Whatever Happened to Billy the Kid? (Hardcover)
Helen L. Airy
R782 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R96 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifts and Cheats of Both Sexes -... A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifts and Cheats of Both Sexes - Previously published 1719 and 1926 (Hardcover, New edition)
Arthur L. Hayward; Captain Alexander Smith
R7,935 Discovery Miles 79 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


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Volume 3 of the 5 volume facsimile collection Key Writings on Subcultures, 1535-1727: Classics from the Underworld [0-415-28675-1]

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals - who have been condemned and executed for murder, the highway, housebreaking, street... Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals - who have been condemned and executed for murder, the highway, housebreaking, street robberies, coining or other offences - Previously published 1735 and 1927 (Hardcover, New edition)
Arthur L. Hayward
R8,222 Discovery Miles 82 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Lives of the Criminals" was originally published in three volumes and sold by John Osborn on Paternoster Row. The volumes recount the lives, crimes and executions of 18th century lawbreakers. By "[setting] forth the entertainments of vice in their proper colours", the volumes were intended to provide a moral banister and reminder that, far from treading a glamorous road of pleasure, the path taken by a criminal was in fact a highway to the gallows. The original prefaces to the books, and the tales themselves, also provide insights into the history of Crown Law at the time, the grounds on which it was founded, the methods by which it prosecuted, and the judgements inflicted on criminals accordingly. This is a reprint of Arthur L. Hayward's 1927 reissue of the three volumes in one.

Arlington County Police Department (Hardcover): Janet Rowe Arlington County Police Department (Hardcover)
Janet Rowe
R719 R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Save R81 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Mother and Child Must Die (Hardcover): Gibson W. Jerue Mother and Child Must Die (Hardcover)
Gibson W. Jerue
R704 Discovery Miles 7 040 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Phantom Prince - My Life with Ted Bundy, Updated and Expanded Edition (Hardcover): Elizabeth Kendall The Phantom Prince - My Life with Ted Bundy, Updated and Expanded Edition (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Kendall; Contributions by Molly Kendall
R675 R582 Discovery Miles 5 820 Save R93 (14%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The inspiration for the five-part Amazon Original docuseries Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer This updated, expanded edition of The Phantom Prince, Elizabeth Kendall's 1981 memoir detailing her six-year relationship with serial killer Ted Bundy, includes a new introduction and a new afterword by the author, never-before-seen photos, and a startling new chapter from the author's daughter, Molly, who has not previously shared her story. Bundy is one of the most notorious serial killers in American history and one of the most publicized to this day. However, very rarely do we hear from the women he left behind-the ones forgotten as mere footnotes in this tragedy. The Phantom Prince chronicles Elizabeth Kendall's intimate relationship with Ted Bundy and its eventual unraveling. As much as has been written about Bundy, it's remarkable to hear the perspective of people who shared their daily lives with him for years. This gripping account presents a remarkable examination of a charismatic personality that masked unimaginable darkness.

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