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Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French Publisher Comments In the last days of old Peking, where anything goes, can a murderer escape justice? Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumors and superstition. The Japanese are encircling the city, and the discovery of... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice by Fred Burton Publisher Comments On a warm Saturday night in July 1973 in Bethesda, Maryland, a gunman stepped out from behind a tree and fired five point-blank shots into Joe Alon, an unassuming Israeli Air Force pilot and family man. Alon's sixteen-year-old neighbor, Fred Burton, was... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Hitman by Howie Carr Publisher Comments Martin Scorseses The Departed barely touched on his story. Now radio talk show sensation, crime reporter, and Boston Herald columnist, Howie Carr takes us into the heart of the life of Johnny Martorano. For two decades Martorano struck fear into anyone... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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A Silence of Mockingbirds: The Memoir of a Murder by Karen S. Zacharias Publisher Comments Investigative journalist and author Karen Spears Zacharias never anticipated that she would become one of the characters involved in a high-profile murder. But when she reconnects with a young woman named Sarah, who lived in the Zacharias home at one... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--And the Evil That Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry Publisher Comments Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. Richard... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Black Mass by Dick Lehr Publisher Comments Two boys--John Connolly, and James Whitey Bulger--grew up together on the streets of South Boston. Decades later, in the late 1970s, they would meet again. By then, Connolly was a major figure in... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $14.19 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Murder in the Metro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France by Gayle K. Brunelle PW Review "On May 16, 1937, Laetitia Toureaux, a 29-year-old Italian-born factory worker, was murdered in an otherwise empty first-class compartment on a Paris mtro train. The case has never been solved, and the case files were ordered sealed for 101 years. In... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $38.50 New - Hardcover
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The Aleppo Codex by Matti Friedman Publisher Comments In an age when physical books matter less and less, here is a thrilling story about a book that meant everything. This true-life detective story unveils the journey of a sacred text--the tenth-century annotated bible known as the Aleppo Codex--from its... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $22.14 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Most Wanted: Pursuing Whitey Bulger, the Murderous Mob Chief the FBI Secretly Protected by Thomas J Foley Publisher Comments The 20-year campaign to bring the murderous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger to justice and expose the FBI's protection of Bulger's criminal empire.... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Crime Victims: An Introduction to Victimology by Andrew Karmen Publisher Comments A first in the field when initially published and now a true classic, CRIME VICTIMS: AN INTRODUCTION TO VICTIMOLOGY, Eighth Edition offers the most comprehensive and balanced exploration of victimology available today. The author examines the victims... (read more) Your price: $109.95 New - Trade Paper
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Most Wanted: Pursuing Whitey Bulger, the Murderous Mob Chief the FBI Secretly Protected by Thomas J Foley Publisher Comments June 23, 2011. The news of the notorious gangster Whitey Bulgers capture—after sixteen years on the FBIs Most Wanted list—swept the nation. Many breathed a sigh of relief. But for Thomas J. Foley, a former Massachusetts state police... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence by Bill James Publisher Comments From the one-of-kind mind of Bill James, famous for revolutionizing the way we think about baseball, comes a “thought-provoking meditation” (Seattle Times) and epic tour through American crime—now available in paperback... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Dead Biker: Inside the Violent World of the Mexican Drug Cartels by Jerry Langton Publisher Comments Sometimes, you make bad choices. Sometimes, bad choices are made for you. Ned "Crash" Aiken thought he had made a clean break. He had turned on his biker brothers in the Sons of Satan and entered the FBI's witness protection program, only to end up in a... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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Deadly Valentines: The Story of Capone's Henchman "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn and Louise Rolfe, His Blonde Alibi by Jeffrey Gusfield Publisher Comments Capturing one of the most outrageous stories of the Capone era, this is the twin biography of a couple who defined the extremes and excesses of the Prohibition Era in America. “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn, a babyfaced Sicilian immigrant and Al... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Combating Jihadism: American Hegemony and Interstate Cooperation in the War on Terrorism by Barak Mendelsohn Publisher Comments Although terrorism is an age-old phenomenon, jihadi ideology is distinctive in its ambition to abandon the principle of state sovereignty, overthrow the modern state system, and replace it with an extremely radical interpretation of an Islamic world... (read more) Your price: $33.95 New - Trade Paper
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Germany, Poland and Postmemorial Relations: In Search of a Livable Past (Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies) by Kristin (edt) Kopp Publisher Comments Following the end of the Cold War, Germans and Poles engaged in wide-reaching reassessments of their shared traumatic past. This volume examines the roles the German occupation, the Holocaust, and the postwar expulsion of Germans from Poland have come... (read more) Your price: $90.00 New - Hardcover
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Three Days in May by Edward Jay Epstein Publisher Comments A veteran journalist continues his exhaustively researched (The Guardian) investigation of Dominique Strauss-KahnHere investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein casts fresh doubt on the events surrounding a now-infamous sexual encounter between Dominique... (read more) List Price $4.99 Your price: $4.43 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor by Mark Seal Publisher Comments andldquo;Forget fiction. Pop this jaw-dropper in your beach bag.andrdquo; andmdash;USA Today This shocking expose goes behind the headlines to uncover the true story of Clark Rockefeller, wealthy scion of a great American family, who kidnapped his own... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Encyclopedia of Transnational Crime and Justice by Margaret E. (edt) Beare Publisher Comments Transnational crimes involve border crossings as an integral part of the criminal activity. They also include crimes that take place in one country with consequences that significantly affect other countries. Examples include human trafficking, smuggling... (read more) Your price: $132.75 New - Hardcover
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O.J. Is Innocent and I Can Prove It by William C Dear Publisher Comments Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman were brutally murdered at Nicole's home on Bundy Drive in Brentwood, California, on the night of June 12, 1994. The weeks and months that followed were full of spectacle, including a much-watched car chase and the eventual... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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