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Contrabando: Confessions of a Drug-Smuggling Texas Cowboy by Don Henry Ford Publisher Comments Don Henry Ford, Jr., is an unapologetic outlaw. For seven years he made his living smuggling marijuana across the U.S.-Mexico border in the Big Bend region of Texas. His business partners were some of the era's biggest narcotraficantes like Pablo Acosta... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Murder at the Brown Palace: Seduction & Betrayal in Early Denver Society by Dick Kreck Publisher Comments Seduction, murder, and mayhem in the courtroom—a true Law and Order tale, as gripping today as it was 100 years ago! On May 24, 1991, one of the most notorious murders in Denver's history occurred. The riveting tale involves high society, adultery... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Encyclopedia of Mass Murder: A Chillling Collection of Mass Murder Cases by Brian Lane Publisher Comments A remarkable, revelatory exploration of the world's worst cases of mass murder, this comprehensive guide has been recently revised and updated for its U.S. debut from two true-crime experts. Eight pages of black-and-white photographs are included.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America by George De Stefano Publisher Comments “Invites Italian-Americans of all backgrounds to the family table to discuss how mob-related movies and television shows have affected the very notion of what their heritage still means in the 21st century.” —Allen Barra, The New York Sun... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Delivered from Evil: True Stories of Ordinary People Who Faced Monstrous Mass Killers and Survived by Ron Franscell Publisher Comments A 12-year-old boy cowers in his closet while a lunatic killer slaughters his family . . . a nursing student unwittingly opens her home to the serial killer on her front porch . . . an 11-year-old girl drifts alone at sea on a flimsy cork raft for almost... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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John Christie (Crime Archive) by Edward Marston Synopsis John Christie (1898-1953) who was an English serial killer active in the 1940s and 1950s... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Police Lab: How Forensic Science Tracks Down and Convicts Criminals by David Owen Publisher Comments An overview of forensic science for young adult readers that includes case studies of actual... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt Publisher Comments "Free the West Memphis Three." Maybe you've heard the phrase. But do you know why their story is so alarming? Do you know the facts? The guilty verdicts handed out to three Arkansas teens in a horrific capital murder case were popular in their home state... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett Staff Pick Wow! What a fascinating book about a fascinating man: John Gilkey, professional book thief. Hoover Bartlett seems to have a hard time untangling herself from her story, which gives the book an interesting discordant feel. It is practically impossible to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Last Rights: 13 Fatal Encounters with the State's Justice by Joseph Burton Ingle Publisher Comments Reverend Joseph Ingle’s moving book argues eloquently and passionately against the death penalty, serving as an enduring testament to the inmates who have touched his life. Ingle, a counselor to prisoners on Death Row since 1974, chronicles his... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $6.27 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival by Stanley N Alpert Publisher Comments On January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley N. Alpert was kidnapped off the streets of Manhattan by a car full of gun-toting thugs looking to use his ATM card. He ended up blindfolded in a Brooklyn... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire by Mark Bowden Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of "Black Hawk Down" comes the true story that "The Baltimore Sun" calls "shocking . . . briskly and brilliantly told" of Larry Lavin, a wealthy dentist who built the foundation for a cocaine empire that would grow to generate... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Everything Mafia Book: True-Life Accounts of Legendary Figures, Infamous Crime Families, and Nefarious Deeds (Everything) by Scott M Deitche Synopsis Millions of television and movie viewers have shown that Americans continue to be fascinated by the remarkable?and often sordid?world of the Mafia. This book takes you beyond fiction and tabloid accounts and relates the true-life accounts of all the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Abolition: One Man's Battle Against the Death Penalty by Robert Badinter Publisher Comments Part legal drama, part political procedural, Abolition is above all a passionate argument against the death penalty and the rare story of politicians' willingness to fight for their principles, even against the popular will. Horrified by the guillotine... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist by Thomas Levenson Publisher Comments A fascinating slice of true-crime history that unfolds in 1695, when law enforcement was unheard of and modern money was little more than a concept When renowned scientist Isaac Newton took up the post of Warden of His Majestys Mint in London, another... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Century of London Murders and Executions by John Eddleston Publisher Comments This fascinating book includes the cases of some of Britains most famous criminals, among them the infamous Dr. Crippen, executed in 1910 for poisoning and dismembering his wife; Neville Heath, who was hanged at Pentonville Prison for the brutal murder... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Police Brutality: An Anthology by Jill Nelson Publisher Comments Ignited by the infamous shooting of Amadou Diallo, unarmed and innocent, at the hands of New York City police officers, journalist Jill Nelson was moved to assemble this landmark anthology on the topic of police violence and brutality: an indispensable... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wainewright the Poisoner by Andrew Motion Publisher Comments Andrew Motion brings all his lyricism and inventiveness to bear in this fictional autobiography of the great swindler, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright. A painter, writer, and friend of Blake, Byron, and Keats, Wainewright was almost certainly a murderer... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Death and Justice: An Expose of Oklahoma's Death Row Machine by Mark Fuhrman Publisher Comments < P> < b> Controversy rages about capital punishment as innocent men and women are being released from death rows all over the country. Are innocent people being executed? Is capital punishment justice or is it revenge? < /b> < /P>... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cop Without a Badge: The Extraordinary Undercover Life of Kevin Maher by Charles Kipps Publisher Comments WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A COP AND KEVIN MAHER? KEVIN DOESN'T HAVE A BADGE. AND HE DOESN'T PLAY BY THE RULES. Cop Without a Badge tracks confidential informant Kevin Maher as he helps the NYPD, the FBI, and many other law enforcement agencies solve... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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