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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.
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.
?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.
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.
'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...
"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."
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.
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
"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?
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.
Product Note: 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 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.
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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