1,657円 Thirty-four-year-old New Jersey State Trooper Robert Higbee lay on his back in an Atlantic City Hospital room. His 6’8” frame hardly fit into the bed. Just hours before at 10:00 p.m., Higbee sustained a concussion when the patrol car in which he was “closing the gap” on a speeder, collided with a...

1,917円 "An engrossing look inside Al Capone's murderous ranks." –Kirkus Almost before the gunsmoke from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre cleared, Chicago police had a suspect: "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn. They just couldn't find him. But two weeks later police found McGurn and his paramour, Louise May Rol...

335円 Книга "Как не дать себя обмануть" представляет собой сборник советов и рассчитана на широкий круг читателей. Десять глав книги охватывают почти все сферы жизни, в которых читатель может столкнуться с обманом и мошенничеством. Вот название некоторых из них: "Обман в торговле», "Как обманывают при ...

1,074円 The eighth classic instalment in this genre-changing series of novels starring Detective Inspector Martin Beck. This new edition has an introduction by Michael Connolly. In one part of town, a woman robs a bank. In another, a corpse is found shot through the heart in a room locked from within, wi...

1,126円 Biography is one of the most popular, best-selling, and widely-read of literary genres. But why do certain people and historical events arouse so much interest? How can biographies be compared with history and works of fiction? Does a biography need to be true? Is it acceptable to omit or conceal...

779円 Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture (an advisory measure of the UN General Assembly) is: ...any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him, or a third person, inf...

1,592円 Bloody crimes of passion, political assassinations, sinister poisonings, investment fraud and mass mining disasters … Dr David Klatzow has seen it all. During his extraordinary twenty-six-year career as South Africa’s foremost independent forensic scientist, he has investigated countless high-pro...

549円 Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico. Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to...

777円 While sailing alone one night in the shipping lanes across one of the busiest waterways in the world, John Burnett was attacked by pirates. Through sheer ingenuity and a little bit of luck, he survived, and his shocking firsthand experience became the inspiration for Dangerous Waters. Today's bre...

699円 'A classic tale in the genre of real crime, dealing with one of the most important cases in the legal history of Australia ... on a par with the Lindy Chamberlain case.'Dr Bob Moles, leading campaigner and advocate in cases of miscarriages of justice. In 1978, Edward Splatt was wrongfully convict...

492円 The Great Train Robbery, and the part Ronnie Biggs played in it, is one of the most famous true crime stories of all time. Ronnie’s imprisonment, subsequent escape and life on the run has been the subject of much discussion and this new book sets out the facts for anyone wishing to find out what ...

1,159円 Britain has more than its fair share of criminals, some more evil than others. Behind our prison walls are some of the most feared and dangerous criminals on earth. Sick and twisted delves into the world behind bars, sometimes barbaric and a world we would find hard to comprehend. Behind these ba...