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Murder & Mayhem eBook Series

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  • True Murder Mysteries of Southwestern Pennsylvania

    by A. Parker Burroughs ...
    Series series Murder & Mayhem
    Historical true crime stories from the southwestern corner of the Keystone State, reaching as far back as 1795.In the southwest corner of Pennsylvania, beyond the picturesque scenes of the Monongahela River Valley, there are long-forgotten mysteries of scandal and murder. Amid the hardship of life on the frontier of Washington County in 1795, young Isabel Stewart was found dead, and her killer ... Read more

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  • Queen of Thieves

    The True Story of "Marm" Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York

    by J. North Conway ...
    Queen of Thieves is the gritty, fast-paced story of Fredericka Marm” Mandelbaum, a poor Jewish woman who rose to the top of her profession in organized crime during the Gilded Age in New York City. During her more than twenty-five-year reign as the country’s top receiver of stolen goods, she accumulated great wealth and power inconceivable for women engaged in business, legitimate or otherwise. ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

    The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation

    by Brad Ricca ...
    Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime!This is the shocking and amazing true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing 18-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given up.Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the lawyer, detective, and first woman U.S. District Attorney who turned her back on New York society ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Whisky King

    The remarkable true story of Canada's most infamous bootlegger and the undercover Mountie on his trail

    by Trevor Cole ...
    “True-crime writing at its finest.” —Dean Jobb, author of Empire of DeceptionA rich and fascinating history of Canada’s first celebrity mobster, Rocco Perri—King of the Bootleggers—and the man who pursued him, Canada’s first undercover Mountie, for readers of Erik Larson, Dean Jobb and Charlotte GrayAt the dawn of the 20th century, two Italian men arrived in Canada amid waves of immigration. One, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Man with the Sawed-Off Leg and Other Tales of a New York City Block

    by Daniel J. Wakin ...
    They stand proudly gazing across the Hudson River at the cliffs of New Jersey. Their brows are marked by ornamental pediments. Greek columns stand as sentries by their entrances and stone medallions bedeck their chests. They are seven graceful relics of Beaux Arts New York, townhouses built more than 100 years ago for a new class of industrialists, actors and scientists -- many from abroad -- who ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Empire of Sin

    A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans

    by Gary Krist ...
    From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent CityEmpire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city’s elite “better half” against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Midnight Assassin

    Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer

    by Skip Hollandsworth ...
    The New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Texas Institute of Letters's Carr P. Collins AwardOne of Book Riot's Best Books of the YearIn nineteenth-century Austin, Texas, a ruthless murderer terrorized the city in what would soon become a story more shocking than any fiction.In the late 1800s, just as Austin was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a ... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Man from the Train

    The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

    by Bill James, Rachel McCarthy James ...
    An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, The Man from the Train is an “impressive…open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America” (The Wall Street Journal). In this groundbreaking work of historical true crime, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applies his analytical genius to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Island of Vice

    Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York

    by Richard Zacks ...
    A ROLLICKING NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S EMBATTLED TENURE AS POLICE COMMISSIONER OF CORRUPT, PLEASURE-LOVING NEW YORK CITY IN THE 1880s, AND HIS DOOMED MISSION TO WIPE OUT VICEIn the 1890s, New York City was America’s financial, manufacturing, and entertainment capital, and also its preferred destination for sin, teeming with 40,000 prostitutes, glittering casinos, and all-night ... Read more

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  • Letters to Jackie

    Condolences from a Grieving Nation

    by Ellen Fitzpatrick ...
    "A terrific, original, and important work….Fitzpatrick provides a stunningly fresh look at the impact of JFK's assassination on the American people."—Doris Kearns GoodwinFor Letters to Jackie, noted historian and News Hour with Jim Lehrer commentator Ellen Fitzpatrick combed through literally thousands of condolence messages sent by ordinary Americans to Jacqueline Kennedy following the ... Read more

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  • Five Points

    The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood

    by Tyler Anbinder ...
    The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points, the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-century America, the place where "slumming" was ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Lincoln's Grave Robbers (Scholastic Focus)

    by Steve Sheinkin ...
    A true crime thriller -- the first book for teens to tell the nearly unknown tale of the brazen attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln's body. Reissued in Scholastic Focus, with an exciting new cover.The action begins in October of 1875, as Secret Service agents raid the Fulton, Illinois, workshop of master counterfeiter Ben Boyd. Soon after Boyd is hauled off to prison, members of his counterfeiting ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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