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Vendor: Rick Anderson
Floating Feet: Irregular dispatches from the Emerald City, with spies, assassins and Bin Laden's chauffeur
A memorable collection - expanded, revised and updated - from investigative journalist and columnist Rick Anderson. He solves the mystery of the Floating Feet, where suspected crime is measured by the nautical foot (the 15 extremities that washed up on Seattle and Vancouver beaches...- $6.99
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A Dented Badge: Tales From The Street
WILD AND REAL-LIFE STORIES ABOUT LAPD COPS A Dented Badge is a snapshot of LAPD during the 1970s and 80s. Between the pages you'll find over one-hundred and thirty stories about LAPD coppers and the extreme violence--as well as wild behavior--associated with high crime...- $13.58
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Dreadful Deeds and Awful Murders: Scotland Yard's First Detectives 1829-1878
Scotland Yard's early history in Victorian London has never previously been told. Dreadful Deeds and Awful Murders fills the gap, painting a vivid picture of the difficulties and considerable triumphs of London's first detectives. The author presents detailed and intriguing accounts from the detectives'...- $12.95
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Exploiting the Wilderness: An Analysis of Wildlife Crime
Illegally harvested ivory and endangered plants, mammals, reptiles, birds, and even insects are easily found for sale throughout East and Southern Africa. And this is just one part of the multi-billion-dollar illegal global trade in wildlife. Wildlife is an important and even vital asset...- $28.95
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Vendor: Marvin Marable
Deadly Roses: The Twenty Year Curse
An autobiographical drama in which an innocent man paid his reputation and nearly his life for almost twenty years, Deadly Roses by Marvin Marable is a shocking tale of what happens when officials follow the wrong leads and guilty men have the means to...- $12.99
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Alphonse Bertillon's Instructions For Taking Descriptions For The Identification Of Criminals And Others, By Means Of Anthropometric Indications (1889
Alphonse Bertillon's Instructions For Taking Descriptions For The Identification Of Criminals And Others, By Means Of Anthropometric Indications (1889) is a book that provides detailed guidelines for collecting and recording physical measurements of individuals for the purpose of identification. The book is written by...- $22.95
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Cryptographic Crimes: The Use of Cryptography in Real and Fictional Crimes
This book examines the use of cryptography in both real and fictional crimes - a topic that is rarely broached. It discusses famous crimes, such as that of the Zodiac Killer, that revolve around cryptic messages and current uses of encryption that make solving...- $109.30
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Celeste: The Celeste Beard Johnson Story
After serving 17 years of a life sentence on Capital Murder, and Injury to an Elderly Person, Celeste Beard Johnson, breaks the silence in her newly released biography, Celeste: The Celeste Beard Johnson Story. Never before revealed information about their life and the high...- $18.99
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Anyone's Daughter: Amanda Todd, Bullying, Anonymous and the Dark Side of the Internet
You know the story, now learn the truth. Amanda Todd was an ordinary Canadian girl who made the mistake of flashing online. An online predator captured the image and used it to blackmail her. When she refused to give in to his demands, he...- $12.99
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Following Orders: The Death of Vince Foster, Clinton White House Lawyer
Journalists are not supposed to only cover one side's negatives. Following Orders is a book the Clintons, apparent partisan hacks who don't read books, and the extreme right-wing murder conspiracy peddlers don't want you to read - conspiracy peddlers who have peddled more conspiracies...- $16.99
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for Mischief done
A gruesome discovery and the arrest of a child ignite a crisis of confidence in post-Revolutionary New London, Connecticut. As the summer of 1786 unfolds, an investigation exposes the contradictions in the young nation's hard-won liberty, forcing the town to consider the fate of...- $12.00
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Vendor: Aubrey Rike
At the Door of Memory, Aubrey Rike and the Assassination of President Kennedy
While in Trauma Room 1, Dallas, Texas, Aubrey Rike found himself at the center of an unparalleled time in history, and in doing so, assumed the unscripted yet essential role of providing selfless and heartfelt assistance to Jacqueline Kennedy. The emotional incident Aubrey shares...- $22.50
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Vendor: Robert Blagojevich
Fundraiser a: My Fight for Freedom and Justice
Most people will recognize the name Robert Blagojevich as the brother of ill-fated Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. But many don't know why Robert came to work for his brother or how he came to be named as a defendant in the criminal trial accusing...- $24.00
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Dynamite and Six-Shooter: The Story of Thomas E. "Black Jack" Ketchum
Thomas E. Ketchum, better known as "Black Jack" Ketchum, at six foot two inches tall with dark skin and black hair and described as having a "wonderful physique," never became one of those folklore desperados whose violent and lawless ways were burnished with an...- $26.95
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Bandit Years: A Gathering of Wolves
Live again the days of the Old West when travel was not only rough but dangerous! The days when outlaws lurked behind boulders and along remote trails, ready to trap and rob the unwary drivers and their passengers. Billy LeRoy, Bill Miner, Charley Allison...- $16.95
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Vendor: Mike Tapia
Gangs of the El Paso-Ju疵ez Borderland: A History
This thought-provoking book examines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico. Known as the El Paso-Ju疵ez borderland region, the area contains more than three million people spanning 130 miles from east to west. From the badlands--the...- $45.00
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Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, Memory
Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained out of...- $41.95
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Vendor: Michael Middleton
Cop: A True Story
In this brutally honest portrait, Sergeant Michael Middleton--a now-retired veteran of the LAPD--tells the gripping tale of his two decades on some of the America's meanest streets.Author: Michael MiddletonISBN-10: 0809225409ISBN-13: 9780809225408Publisher: McGraw-Hill CompaniesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/22/2000Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.12w x 0.94d- $23.00
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I, Pierre Rivi駻e, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century
To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Rivi鑽e decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his seven-year-old brother. Then,...- $20.00
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Vendor: Yan Sun
Corruption and Market in Contemporary China
Is corruption an inevitable part of the transition to a free-market economy? Yan Sun here examines the ways in which market reforms in the People's Republic of China have shaped corruption since 1978 and how corruption has in turn shaped those reforms. She suggests...- $35.95
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Vendor: Andrew H. Wedeman
Double Paradox: Late Scholastic Theory of Supertranscendental Being
According to conventional wisdom, rising corruption reduces economic growth. And yet, between 1978 and 2010, even as officials were looting state coffers, extorting bribes, raking in kickbacks, and scraping off rents at unprecedented rates, the Chinese economy grew at an average annual rate of...- $33.95
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Vendor: Ko-Lin Chin
Heijin: Organized Crime, Business, and Politics in Taiwan
This work examines the structure and illegal activities of organized crime groups in Taiwan and explores the infiltration of crime groups into the business and political arenas. It looks at the intricate relationship among government officials, elected deputies, businessmen, and underworld figures.Author: Ko-Lin ChinISBN-10:...- $62.95
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Vendor: Peter Laufer
Forbidden Creatures: Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets
Forbidden Creatures chronicles Laufer s worldwide quest to penetrate the underworld network of hunters, traders, and customers who constitute the nefarious business of animal smuggling."Author: Peter LauferISBN-10: 0762771801ISBN-13: 9780762771806Publisher: Lyons PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/2011Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.50w x 0.80d- $16.95
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Vendor: R. Michael Wilson
Great Train Robberies of the Old West
During the 1800s trains carried the nation's wealth throughout the east, but no one thought to rob a speeding train until 1866. In 1870 the first western train was robbed in Nevada and within hours a second train was robbed. Railroads made every alteration...- $12.95
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Vendor: Neil Arnold
Haunted Chatham
Chatham is a town steeped in history and strange folklore, but much of its ghostly past, and present, remains unwritten. For the first time ever the spectral secrets of this place are uncovered as we delve into ghost stories obscure and well known. The...- $18.95
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A Grim Almanac of Herefordshire
A Grim Almanac of Herefordshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 365 ghastly tales from around the county. Full of dreadful deeds, strange disappearances, and a multitude of mysteries, this almanac explores the darker side of Herefordshire's past. Here are stories of tragedy, torment, and...- $27.95
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A Dangerous Place: The Story of the Railway Murders
In September 1970, two boys met in the playground on their first day at secondary school in North London. They formed what would be described at the Old Bailey thirty years later as 'a unique and wicked bond'. Between 1982 and 1986, striking near...- $23.95
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Vendor: Daniel Diehl
Eat Thy Neighbour: A History of Cannibalism
Cannibalism is unquestionably one of the oldest and deepest-seated taboos. Even in an age when almost nothing is sacred, religious, moral and social prohibitions surround the topic. But even as our minds recoil at the mention of actual acts of cannibalism there is some...- $24.95
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Illegal Tender: Gold, Greed, and the Mystery of the Lost 1933 Double Eagle
It's the most valuable ounce of gold in the world, the celebrated, the fabled, the infamous 1933 double eagle, illegal to own and coveted all the more, sought with passion by men of wealth and with steely persistence by the United States government for...- $23.99
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Vendor: Venessa Garcia
Gendered Justice: Intimate Partner Violence and the Criminal Justice System
Gendered Justice takes a unique, multi-layered look at the various elements that factor into our understanding of domestic violence and how the criminal justice system handles situations of domestic violence. The book focuses primarily on the role of gender, but also considers socio-economic status...- $49.00
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Vendor: Joseph E. Divietro Jr
Auburn Police
Auburn Police traces the history of the Auburn Police Department, which dates back to the mid1800s. It portrays many of the faces of those people who have devoted 20, 30, or more years of service to their community. Although a number of aspects of...- $24.99
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Vendor: Michael Garramone
AKA Michael
This is the story of a young boy born to two hard working Italian parents, as an only child, in an affluent area of Queens New York, with a very bright future. That all came to a crashing end the morning his mother shot...- $24.99
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Bangs: A Policeman's Guide to Corruption
On a perfect autumn night in 1984, a retired policeman charged into his neighbor's garage, hell-bent on collecting a long-overdue narcotics debt. Instead, he met two shotgun blasts-one shredded his chest, and the other ripped a hole in his back as he tried to...- $24.99
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Better Dead Than Divorced: The trials of Panayota
"Better Dead Than Divorced," responds a young wife to those who urge her to divorce her adulterous, manipulative and abusing husband, who plans to kill her. She knows about his evil intentions and she is urged to leave him and save her life but...- $20.00
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Vendor: Words Uncaged
Disconnected/Reconnected: Writing from Lancaster Prison
"Disconnected/Reconnected" is a collection of writing from prisoners at Lancaster State Prison in Los Angeles County exploring how pain and trauma lead to incarceration, and how love and meaningful reflection lead to healing. The program at Lancaster was implemented by Words Uncaged, a non-profit...- $28.00
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Vendor: Katie Hafner
Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised
Using the exploits of three international hackers, Cyberpunk provides a fascinating tour of a bizarre subculture populated by outlaws who penetrate even the most sensitive computer networks and wreak havoc on the information they find -- everything from bank accounts to military secrets. In...- $25.95
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A Certain Arrogance: U.S. Intelligence's Manipulation of Religious Groups and Individuals in Two World Wars and the Cold War -And the Sacri
A Certain Arrogance is a reticulation of eight essays on the history of international intelligence (primarily U.S. espionage), on Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles and their manipulation of religious groups and individuals to achieve U.S. elitist goals, on the development of U.S. psychological...- $34.99
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Flashback: Drugs and Dealing in the Golden Age of the London Rave Scene
This book is a detailed and close examination of the rave club drugs market as it took place in nightclubs, dance parties, pubs and bars and among friendship networks in London, in the mid to late 1990s. It focuses on the organizational features of...- $54.95
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Elite Deviance
Tracing the causes of elite deviance to the structure of U.S. power and wealth, this book introduces students to theories of elite deviance and covers both criminal and non-criminal elite acts that cause significant harm. This considerably updated, 11th edition enriches its coverage of...- $99.95
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Art Crime: Terrorists, Tomb Raiders, Forgers and Thieves
Since the Second World War, art crime has shifted from a relatively innocuous, often ideological crime, into a major international problem, considered by some to be the third-highest grossing criminal trade worldwide. This rich volume features essays on art crime by the most respected...- $169.99
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History of the Pirates Who Infested the China Sea from 1807 to 1810
Piracy on the coast of China in the nineteenth century inflicted chaos and serious economic damage, with large mobs of bandits attacking coastal villages as well as wreaking havoc at sea. Yung-lun Y an's account of this period, published in Chinese in 1830 and...- $37.99
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From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime: The Criminalization of Racial Violence in American History
This book explores the complex ways in which political debates and legal reforms regarding the criminalization of racial violence have shaped the development of American racial history. Spanning previous campaigns for criminalizing slave abuse, lynching, and Klan violence and contemporary debates about the legal...- $41.99
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Democracy, Inequality and Corruption: Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines Compared
In this comparative, historical survey of three East Asian democracies, Jong-sung You explores the correlation between inequality and corruption in the countries of South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines. Drawing on a wealth of rich empirical research, he illustrates the ways in which economic...- $41.99
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Illuminating Dark Networks: The Study of Clandestine Groups and Organizations
Some of the most important international security threats stem from terror groups, criminal enterprises, and other violent non-state actors (VNSAs). Because these groups are often structured as complex, dark networks, analysts have begun to use network science to study them. However, standard network tools...- $120.00
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Global Shell Games: Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism
Every year a staggering number of unidentified shell corporations succeed in hiding perpetrators of terrorist financing, corruption and illegal arms trades, but the degree to which firms flout global identification standards remains unknown. Adopting a unique, experimental methodology, Global Shell Games attempts to unveil...- $126.00
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Destroying Their God: How I Fought My Evil Half-Brother to Save My Children
In 1991, Wallace Jeffs was coerced to become an FLDS polygamist. In 2011, Wallace rebelled against the sect, and the FBI helped him reclaim his kidnapped children.Then an "accident" put Wallace into a forty-five-day coma. Growing up as half-brother to future Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saint...- $14.95
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Code 33: : True California Cop Stories from the 1970s
Code 33: True California Cop Stories from the 1970s has won three CIPA - EVVY Awards, a national and international book competition, for Literary Non-Fiction, Memoir - Autobiography, and Inspirational. It has also received a positive book review and posted in the San Francisco...- $18.95
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History of Australian Bushrangers: & The Jerilderie Letter
The history of Australian and New Zealand Bushrangers from first settlement of Australia to the death of Ned Kelly in 1880. Includes an extensive index of place and person names and the full transcript of Ned Kelly's famous Jerilderie Letter.Author: George E. Boxall, Ned...- $29.00
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Conversations with Jean: A Tragedy of Domestic Violence
"Victims of domestic violence who read this book will know they are not alone." -Laurel Lynch, Director Hope Family Services Bradenton, Florida "Here the mind of the murderer is revealed in his own words. This book is for women and all who have daughters...- $18.95
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Greenhead Politics: The Story Brigantine Taxpayers Were Never Told
When John Costello was hired as the new Director of Public Works for the small island town of Brigantine, NJ, he was expected to maintain the status quo and enjoy the ride at taxpayers' expense. Costello instead began an earnest effort to clean up...- $16.95
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True Crime Books
True crime books are a genre of literature that focuses on real-life criminal cases and explores the details of the crimes, investigations, trials, and sometimes the aftermath. These books are typically written by authors who meticulously research and analyze the events surrounding the crimes, often including interviews with the individuals involved, such as witnesses, law enforcement, and sometimes even the criminals themselves. True crime books cover a wide range of criminal activities, including murder, serial killings, kidnappings, heists, and other high-profile cases. They offer readers a unique perspective into the darker side of human behavior and often delve into the psychology of criminals, as well as the motivations behind their actions.
One of the main appeals of true crime books is the captivating storytelling that they offer. Readers can immerse themselves in the suspenseful narratives, unraveling the mystery alongside the investigators and experiencing the thrill of solving the crime. These books also provide a glimpse into the complex workings of the criminal justice system, shedding light on the challenges faced by law enforcement and the legal proceedings involved in bringing criminals to justice. True crime books have gained significant popularity over the years, with many becoming bestsellers and even serving as the basis for movies and television shows. They appeal to a wide range of readers, including true crime enthusiasts, mystery lovers, and those interested in psychology and criminology. These books not only entertain but also often spark discussions and debates around topics such as criminal profiling, forensic science, and the flaws within the justice system.
It is essential to note that true crime books can be intense and graphic, as they depict real-life crimes and the often-violent nature of these cases. They may not be suitable for all readers, particularly those sensitive to explicit or disturbing content. However, for those with an interest in understanding the darker aspects of human nature and the pursuit of justice, true crime books offer a compelling and thought-provoking reading experience.
Popular True Crime Books
True crime books have gained immense popularity over the years, gripping readers with their tales of mystery and intrigue. These books delve deep into real-life criminal cases, providing a gripping narrative that keeps readers on the edge of their seats. In this article, we will explore some of the most popular books in the true crime genre.
1. "In Cold Blood"
2. "Helter Skelter"
3. "The Stranger Beside Me"
4. "Mindhunter"
5. "The Devil in the White City"
These books represent just a fraction of the vast collection of true crime literature available. From notorious killers to unsolved mysteries, true crime books continue to captivate readers with their intense storytelling and exploration of the human psyche. Whether you're a long-time fan of the genre or just starting to dip your toes into true crime, these popular books provide an excellent starting point for your journey into the captivating world of real-life crime.
Known True Crime Book Authors
True crime books have become a popular genre for readers who are fascinated by the dark and haunting world of criminal investigations and the human psyche. Over the years, several authors have made significant contributions to this literary niche, capturing the attention of readers with their gripping storytelling and meticulous research. Let's explore some of the popular authors of true crime books:
1. Ann Rule
2. Truman Capote
3. Michelle McNamara
4. Erik Larson
5. Vincent Bugliosi
6. John Douglas
7. Robert Kolker
8. Harold Schechter
These authors, among many others, have contributed significantly to the popularity and evolution of true crime books. Through their meticulous research, captivating narratives, and dedication to uncovering the truth, they have captured the imaginations of readers and allowed them to explore the chilling world of real-life crime.
At White Rain Book House, we understand that true crime books serve a dual purpose. On one hand, they offer a chilling and gripping reading experience, pulling readers into the twisted minds of criminals and the intricate puzzles that surround their crimes. On the other hand, they provide an opportunity for readers to gain insight into the criminal justice system while questioning societal norms, ethics, and morality.