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Homicide (06 Edition) by David Simon Publisher Comments From the creator of HBOs The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Labyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., the Implication of Death Row Records' Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal by Randall Sullivan Staff Pick Who killed Tupac and Biggie? Randall Sullivan has the answer in this compelling true tale of political corruption and gangsta rap. Labyrinth follows Detective Russell Poole as he uncovers the dark morass within the LAPD and its connection to the death of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Blow by Bruce Porter Publisher Comments BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pable Escobar's Medellin cartel-- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein Publisher Comments In the most devastating political detective story of the century, two Washington Post reporters, whose brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation smashed the Watergate scandal wide open, tell the behind-the-scenes drama the way it really happened... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada Publisher Comments A new edition, including the story of the founding of the Harlem Children’s Zone Long before the avalanche of praise for his work—from Oprah Winfrey, from President Bill Clinton, from President Barack Obama—long before he became... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma by Alex Kotlowitz Publisher Comments When the body of a black teenager is found in the St. Joseph's River, unhealed wounds and suspicions surface between two Michigan towns. Beautifully written and painstakingly reported, "The Other Side of the River" sensitively portrays the lives and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fist Stick Knife Gun (Rev 10 Edition) by Geoffrey Canada Publisher Comments Long before U.S. News and World Report named him one of America's Best Leaders and Oprah Winfrey called him "an angel from God," Geoffrey Canada was a small, vulnerable, scared boy growing up in the South Bronx. Canada's world was one where "sidewalk... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Blind Eye: The Terrifying True Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder by James B Stewart Publisher Comments No one could believe the handsome young doctor might be a serial killer. Wherever he was hired -- in Ohio, Illinois, New York, South Dakota -- Michael Swango at first seemed the model physician. Then his patients began dying under suspicious... (read more) List Price $20.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Defending Donald Harvey : the Case of America's Most Notorious Angel-of-death Serial Killer (05 Edition) by William Whalen Synopsis Over the course of eighteen years, Donald Harvey murdered at least fifty-nine people while working as a nursing assistant in Ohio and Kentucky hospitals. His crimes shocked the nation; even today, Harvey's name is invoked whenever those we trust in the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fatal Justice: Reinvestigating the MacDonald Murders by Jerry Potter Publisher Comments This "devastating rebuttal to Fatal Vision" (Boston Phoenix) demonstrates that the jury was not privy to crucial evidence in the case of Jeffrey MacDonald, the Green Beret Captain convicted of the murders of his wife and two young daughters.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown (02 Edition) by Philip Dray Publisher Comments Winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary account of lynching in America, by acclaimed civil rights historian Philip Dray, shines a clear, bright light on American historys darkest stain—illuminating its... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Snakehead (10 Edition) by Patrick Radden Keefe Publisher Comments In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, Patrick Radden Keefe investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown managed a multi-million dollar... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Radioactive Boy Scout : the Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor (04 Edition) by Ken Silverstein Publisher Comments Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science. While he was working on his Atomic Energy badge for the Boy Scouts, David's obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy. Throwing caution to the wind, he plunged into a new project... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fire Lover by Joseph Wambaugh Publisher Comments On an October evening in South Pasadena, a horrifying wave of flame swept through a large home improvement center, snuffing out the lives of four innocent people, including a two-year-old boy. Firefighters rushed to the scene, even as a pair of equally... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Anatomy of a Lynching: The Killing of Claude Neal by James R Mcgovern Book News Annotation An unaltered reprint of the Louisiana State University Press edition of 1982. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Ninetenth-Century New York by Patricia Cline Cohen Publisher Comments In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eros, Magic and Murder of Professor Culianu (96 Edition) by Ted Anton Publisher Comments On May 21, 1991, popular University of Chicago Divinity School Professor Ioan Culianu was murdered execution-style on campus. The crime stunned the school, terrified students, and mystified the FBI. The case remains unsolved. In Eros, Magic, and the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America by J Anthony Lukas Publisher Comments Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglas Publisher Comments During his twenty-five year career with the Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas became a legendary figure in law enforcement, pursuing some of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers of our time: the man who hunted prostitutes... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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