2,177円 This is a horror story of native American violence. It carries a grim lesson for the whole country. Political doctrines have played no part in the violence and murder that have brought much ill fame to one corner of Illinois. On the map, Williamson is just another county. But in history it is a p...

453円 CHARLES "LUCKY" LUCIANO was an Organization Man with a difference. The organization he belonged to was The Mafiaーa natural setup for a vicious thug with unlimited ambition and a heart of ice. Murder by murder, rape by rape, he established the biggest chair of brothels ever seen in New York. Ever...

150円 Vice and murder prowl the back alleys of North Side Chicago… Ed Hunter is eighteen, and he isn't happy. He doesn't want to end up like his father, a linotype operator and a drunk, married to a harridan, with a harridan-in-training stepdaughter. Ed wants out, he wants to live, he wants to see the ...

604円 No gangster has ever been more powerful than Charles "Lucky" Luciano (1897-1962). By the mid-1920s, he had taken over the New York bordellos and was making more than a million dollars a year. In 1931 he engineered the murders of the two reigning New York crime bosses, Joe Masseria and Salvatore M...

756円 One of the most famous of all works of Holmesian scholarship, this is a volume eagerly sought by readers and fans. Among the delights to be found in its pages are essays on "The Care and Feeding of Sherlock Holmes," "Dr. Watson's Secret," and "Was Sherlock Holmes an American?" Can anyone resist t...

756円 From the great raconteur of the American underworld, and author of The Gangs of New York, comes Sucker's Progress: An Information History of Gambling in America. From Midwestern Riverboats to East Coast Racetracks, Herbert Asbury explores the legal and illegal history of gambling in pre-WWII Amer...

1,157円 The One Who Got Away is a remarkable personal account from the original intended target of convicted murderer, Mark Twitchell. On October 3 2008, computer company contractor Gilles Tetreault logged onto a dating website, looking for companionship. There he met what he thought was a pretty, young ...

496円 The mysterious appearance of a priceless masterpiece by Raphael sets off a chain of events that travel all the way to the hallowed halls of Harvard University, where they entangle Professor Clara Brindini in a web of political intrigue and murder. After a series of gruesome murders, Clara finds h...

311円 The Potomac River, near where Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland come together, was where the bodies of two young women, ages 16 and 18, were recovered in mid June 1956. The girls disappeared in early June.. They were last seen getting into a blue Ford while waiting for a bus in Beltsville, Mar...

933円 The true confession of an assassin, a sicario, who rose through the ranks of the Southern California gang world to become a respected leader in an elite, cruelly efficient crew of hit men for Mexico's "most vicious drug cartel," and eventually found a way out and an (almost) normal life. Martin C...

604円 THE MOUNTAINS WERE SILENT… He was handsome, shrewd, lustfulーa scoundrel who would do anything for money. She was beautiful, innocent, lonelyーand she possessed a fortune… Alina would not be the first woman Royal Ludovici had pretended to loveーbut she might be the first with whom his practiced d...

604円 The American people were aroused to a white-hot anger. Clergymen of all faiths joined in prayer. Messages of sympathy came in from presidents, prime ministers, dictators, friends, crackpots, the morbid, the curious… THE LINDBERGH BABY HAD BEEN KIDNAPED! State, city and federal law enforcement gro...