The
Art of the Steal: How to Recognize and Prevent Fraud--America's #1 Crime
by Frank W. Abagnale
(Hardcover - October 2001)
Are
You There Alone? : The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates
by Suzanne O'Malley
Book Description: In the tradition of In Cold Blood, The Executioner's
Song, and A Civil Action, Suzanne O'Malley exposes the human mystery of
the most horrifying crime in recent history and the legal drama surrounding
it.
Hardcover from Simon & Schuster
Book Published: 02 February, 2004
The Andean Cocaine Industry
by Patrick L. Clawson, et al
Listed under Cocaine Addiction
Barry & 'the Boys' : The CIA, the Mob and America's Secret History
by Daniel Hopsicker
This is the story of Barry Seal, the biggest drug smuggler in American
history, who died in a hail of bullets with George Bush's private phone
number in his wallet...
Listed under Barry and The
Boys
Blow
: How a Smalltown Boy Made $100 Million With the Medellin Cocaine Cartel
and Lost It All
by Bruce Porter
Paperback - 384 pages Revised edition (March 2001)
Griffin Trade Paperback; ISBN: 0312267126
Beware
the Night
by Ralph Sarchie, Lisa Collier Cool
(Paperback - October 2001)
Black
Mass : The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between FBI and the Irish Mob
by Dick Lehr, Gerard O'Neill
(Paperback - May 2001)
The Boys on the Tracks
by Mara Leveritt
An in-depth investigation of the suspicious deaths of two Arkensaw
boys reveals drug running, murder and corruption at the highest levels.
Db
Listed under Arkansas History
Bummy Davis vs. Murder, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mafia
and an Ill-Fated Prizefighter
by Ron Ross
Listed under Boxing
The
Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most
Baffling Crimes
by Colin Evans
(Paperback)
Contract on America : The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy
David E. Scheim
Listed under JFK
Catch
Me If You Can: The Amazing True Story of the Most Extraordinary Liar in
the History of Fun and Profit
by Frank, Jr. Abagnale, et al
(Paperback)
Chasing
the Dragon : Into the Heart of the Golden Triangle
by Christopher R. Cox
Paperback - 352 pages Reprint edition (September 1997)
Henry Holt (Paper); ISBN: 080505507X
Dark
Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide and the Criminal Mind
by Roy Hazelwood, Stephen G. Michaud
Synopsis: Roy Hazlewood spent two decades studying sexual sadists,
serial rapists, child molesters, and serial killers. The cases he worked
are as shocking as they are perplexing; their resolutions are as fascinating
as they are innovative: A young woman disappears from a convenience shop.
Her skeleton is later found in the woods, near the torture rack where she
was killed. Who did it and why? A teenager's corpse hangs in a storm sewer.
His clothes are folded nearby and a pocket watch rests in his mouth....
(Hardcover - July 2001)
In
Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
by Truman Capote
"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact,
few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like
the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down
the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had
never stopped there." If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism
written with the language and structure of literature--this "nonfiction
novel" about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers
would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless
writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece
of creative nonfiction. The images of this tale continue to resonate in
our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter teaching a friend how to bake a cherry
pie, Dick Hickock's black '49 Chevrolet sedan, Perry Smith's Gibson guitar
and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and
the final "thud-snap" of the rope-broken necks. Amazon.com
(Paperback - February 1994)
Dead
Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers
by Michael, M.D. Baden, Marion Roach
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair
That Changed America
by Erik Larson
Listed under Serial Killers
Dillinger: The Untold Story
by G. Russell Girardin, William J. Helmer (Contributor)
Listed under John Dillinger
Doctor
Dealer : The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar
Cocaine Empire
by Mark Bowden
Drugs
and Money: Laundering Latin America's Cocaine Dollars
by Robert E. Grosse
Drug
Lord, the Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin
by Terrence E. Poppa, Peter Lupsha (Foreword)
Dirty
Dealing: Drug Smuggling on the Mexican Border and the Assassination of
a Federal Judge-An American Parable
by Gary Cartwright
(Paperback - June 1998)
Everybody
Pays: Two Men, One Murder and the Price of Truth
by Rick Kogan, Maurice Possley
(Hardcover - September 2001)
Famous
Crimes Revisited : From Sacco-Vanzetti to OJ Simpson
by Henry C. Lee, et al
(Hardcover)
Fraud
101 : Techniques and Strategies for Detection
by Howard R. Davia
Written by an accountant with over 30 years of proactive fraud-specific
auditing experience, this one-of-a-kind, how-to guide provides rare expertise
and hard-to-find information on this increasingly staggering and costly
problem. The Publisher
Hardcover: 272 pages
John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471373095; (October 2000)
Gangbusters: How a Street-Tough, Elite Homicide Unit Took Down New
York's Most Dangerous Gang
by Michael Stone
(Hardcover)
Listed under Street Gangs
Hell's Angels : A Strange and Terrible Saga
by Hunter S. Thompson
Listed under Motorcycle Outlaws
Going
Up the River : Travels in a Prison Nation
by Joseph T. Hallinan
(Hardcover - March 2001)
Henry
Lee's Crime Scene Handbook
by Henry C. Lee, et al
(Hardcover - July 2001)
The
Informant: A True Story
by Kurt Eichenwald
"The FBI was ready to take down America's most politically powerful
corporation. But there was one thing they didn't count on."
So reads the cover of this high-powered true crime story, an accurate
teaser to a bizarre financial scandal with more plot twists than a John
Grisham novel. In 1992 the FBI stumbled upon Mark Whitacre, a top executive
at the Archer Daniels Midland corporation who was willing to act as a government
witness to a vast international price-fixing conspiracy. ADM, which advertises
itself as "The Supermarket to the World," processes grains and other farm
staples into oils, flours, and fibers for products that fill America's
shelves, from Jell-O pudding to StarKist tuna. The company's chairman and
chief executive, Dwayne Andreas, was so influential that he introduced
Ronald Reagan to Mikhail Gorbachev, and it was his maneuvering that ensured
that high fructose corn syrup would replace sugar in most foods (ever wondered
why Coke and Pepsi don't taste quite like they used to?). There were two
mottoes at ADM: "The competitors are our friends, and the customers are
our enemies" and "We know when we're lying." And lie they did. With the
help of Whitacre, the FBI made hundreds of tapes and videos of ADM executives
making price-fixing deals with their corrivals from Japan, Korea, and Canada,
all while drinking coffee and laughing about their crimes. The tapes should
have cinched the case, but there was one problem: Their star witness was
manipulative, deceitful, and unstable. Nothing was as it seemed, and the
investigation into one of the most astounding white-collar crime cases
in history had only just begun.
Kurt Eichenwald, an investigative reporter, covered the story for The
New York Times and interviewed more than 100 participants in the case.
He methodically records the six-year investigation, leaving no plot twist
or tape transcript unexplored. While his primary focus is on deconstructing
the disturbed Whitacre and revealing the malleability of truth, the portrait
of ADM (and even the Justice Department) is damning enough to make anyone
a cynic. --Lesley Reed - Amazon.com
Paperback: 352 pages
Broadway Books; ISBN: 0767903277; 1st Trade edition (July
3, 2001)
John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks' Tour of Crime and Corruption
in St. Paul, 1920-1936
by Paul Maccabee
Listed under Minnesota History
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
Listed under Charles Manson
Killer
Cops: An Encyclopedia of Lawless Lawmen
by Michael Newton
Paperback: 232 pages
Breakout Productions; ISBN: 1559501715; (November 1997)
Killing
Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
by Mark Bowden
Hardcover - 400 pages (April 25, 2001)
Atlantic Monthly Pr; ISBN: 0871137836
The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Trial: A Headline Court Case (Headline
Court Cases)
by Judy Monroe
Listed under The Lindberghs
The
London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale
by Jan Bondeson
A mystery slasher in late 18th century England.
Hardcover: 256 pages
University of Pennsylvania Press; ISBN: 0812235762; (December
2000)
Machine
Gun Kelly's Last Stand
Book Description: Orchestrated to the sounds of getaway cars
and machine guns, the abduction of Oklahoma City businessman Charles Urschel
in 1933 was a highly publicized crime in an era when gangsters were folk
heroes and kidnapping had become a scourge. The criminals' interstate flight
to a desolate hideout in Texas called for federal action, instigating the
most intensive manhunt the country had yet seen. It also set in motion
a chain of events that would have lasting significance for crime-fighting
in America.
In an exciting account of that celebrated manhunt, Stanley Hamilton
rekindles the spirit of yesterday's newsreels to chronicle the pursuit
and capture of George Machine Gun Kelly and his wife, Kathryn. Tapping
a wealth of newspaper reports, court transcripts, literary accounts, and
recollections of participants, he draws readers into the chase and its
aftermath, unraveling what was then considered the most compelling crime
mystery of the day.
Hamilton sets the stage with an overview of the lawlessness of that
era and of Kelly's formative years, getting under the skin of a hard-boiled
criminal to show us what made Kelly tick. He assembles a cast of larger-than-life
characters to weave this tale of true crime, one of the largest of whom
was the 38-year-old director of the national police force, J. Edgar Hoover.
Hoover had revitalized an ineffective agency whose operatives were still
not authorized to carry firearms or make arrests, and when the Urschel
case broke, it was Hoover who stepped up to coordinate the manhunt. Hamilton
takes readers behind the scenes in Hoover's operation to show how this
case was responsible for popularizing the G-man and institutionalizing
the FBI, creating the agent-as-hero image that replaced earlier characterizations
of blundering foils to glamorous gangsters.
This iconic kidnapping case, breathlessly followed by a fascinated public,
was so quickly and effectively concluded that it was largely instrumental
in bringing about the end of the Gangster Era in America. Machine Gun Kelly's
Last Stand brings that era to life again by providing a fresh look at one
of America's most notorious criminals, vividly recreating the times in
which he lived and sharing the stories of the people whose lives he touched.
by Stanley
Hamilton
Hardcover from Univ Pr of Kansas
Book Published: June, 2003 |
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Monster : Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
by Sanyika Shakur, Monster Kody Scott
Listed under Street Gangs
No
Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine
by Brooks Brown, Rob Merritt
Book Description: On April 20, 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric
Harris, two seniors at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, walked
into their school and shot to death twelve students and one teacher, and
wounded many others. It was the worst single act of murder at a school
in U.S. history.
Few people knew Dylan Klebold or Eric Harris better than Brooks Brown.
Brown and Klebold were best friends in grade school, and years later, at
Columbine, Brown was privy to some of Harris and Klebold’s
darkest fantasies and most troubling revelations After the shootings, Brown
was even accused by the police of having been in on the massacre—simply
because he had been friends with the killers.
Now, for the first time, Brown, with journalist Rob Merritt, gets to
tell his full version of the story. He describes the warning signs that
were missed or ignored, and the evidence that was kept hidden from the
public after the murders. He takes on those who say that rock music or
video games caused Klebold and Harris to kill their classmates and explores
what it might have been that pushed these two young men, from supposedly
stable families, to harbor such violent and apocalyptic dreams.
Shocking as well as inspirational and insightful, No Easy Answers is
an authentic wake-up call for all the psychologists, authorities, parents,
and law enforcement personnel who have attempted to understand the murders
at Columbine High School. As the title suggests, the book offers no easy
answers, but instead presents the unvarnished facts about growing up as
an alienated teenager in America today.
Paperback from Lantern Books
Book Published: 01 October, 2002 |
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Perfect Poison: A Female Serial Killer's Deadly Medicine
by M. William Phelps
Listed under Serial Killers
Policing
Sexual Assault
by Jeanne Gregory, Sue Lees
(Hardcover - September 1998)
Special Order
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed
by Patricia Cornwell
Listed under Jack the Ripper
Sex
Crime: Sex Offending and Society (Crime and Society Series)
by Terry Thomas, Hazel Croall (Editor)
(Paperback - July 2000)
Special Order
Shots
in the Dark: True Crime Pictures
by Gail Buckland, Harold Evans (Introduction)
(Paperback -- October 2001)
The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold: The Secret Life of FBI Double
Agent Robert Hanssen
by Adrian Havill
Listed under Espionage
Son
of a Grifter: The Twisted Tale of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the Most Notorious
Con Artists in America: A Memoir by the Other Son
by Kent Walker, Mark Schone (Contributor)
(Hardcover - April 2001)
Snowblind
: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade
by Robert Sabbag
Paperback - 288 pages Reprint edition (October 1998)
Grove Press; ISBN: 0802135897
Squeaky
: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme
Jess Bravin
Would-be presidential assassin, erstwhile groupie, eco-activist, keeper
of the Manson Family faith during Charlie's imprisonment, Lynette "Squeaky"
Fromme rubbed elbows with fame and the famous. Booklist.
Paperback / Published 1998
Sympathy
for the Devil: The Emmanuel Baptist Murders of Old San Francisco
by Virginia A. McConnell
Hardcover: 376 pages
Praeger Pub Trade; ISBN: 027597054X; (November 2001)
Shots
in the Dark: True Crime Pictures
by Gail Buckland, Harold Evans (Introduction)
(Paperback - October 2001)
Sunk
Without a Sound : The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie
Hyde
by Brad Dimock
(Paperback)
Target
U.S.A : The Inside Story of the New Terrorist War
by Louis R., Jr. Mizell, James Grady
(Hardcover - May 1998)
Shot
in the Heart
by Mikal Gilmore
(Paperback - September 1995)
Working
With Victims of Crime: Policies, Politics and Practice
by Brian Williams
(Paperback - December 1998)
Unsolved
Crimes: Great True Crimes of the Twentieth Century
by Kirk Wilson, Colin Wilson (Introduction)
Paperback: 288 pages
Carroll & Graf; ISBN: 0786710225; (March 10, 2002)
Webs
Of Smoke: Smugglers, Warlords, Spies, and the History of the International
Drug Trade
by Kathryn Meyer, Terry M. Parssinen
This fascinating history of international drug trafficking in the first
half of the 20th century follows the stories of American narcs and gangsters,
Japanese spies, Chinese warlords, and soldiers of fortune whose lives revolved
around opium.
Inside the Cocaine Cartel : The Riveting Eyewitness Account of Life
Inside the Colombian Cartel
by Max Mermelstein, et al
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by Roy Graham
(Paperback - March 2001)
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