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  • The Bent Pyramid

    de Hugh McLeave ...
    Ewan Chisholm, despised drunk albeit gifted Egyptologist, is ordered by his curator at the Aspenwall Museum to fetch Sir William Garfield Tates papers from his widow.Chisholm stumbles on an envelope containing snapshots of a horde of pharaonic jewelry never seen before. When the Aspenwall governors learn about the jewel hoard they decide to send Chisholm to Egypt to find it for their museum.In ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Rogues in the Gallery: The Modern Plague of Art Thefts

    de Hugh McLeave ...
    Rogues in the Gallery exposes it all: the cozy insurance ransom racket, the professional gangs of art thieves, the specialists, the connections with the international drug racket and the Mafia. Hugh McLeave has researched the whys and wherefores of the question for years, drawing on resources available to him through agencies such as Interpol, the FBI, the French Sûreté, and Scotland Yard.Rogues ... Leer más

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  • A Moment of Truth: The Life of Zola

    de Hugh McLeave ...
    A Moment of Truth is a biographical novel of the life and times of Zola. It is also a cultural fresco of late nineteenth-century France. A Moment of Truth tells of Zolas early struggle against poverty and incomprehension; his blood-brother friendship with Paul Cézanne; his backing of the scorned Impressionists; his monumental creation of twenty Rougon-Macquart novels depicting and dissecting the ... Leer más

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  • White Pawn on Red Square

    de Hugh McLeave ...
    At the height of the Cold War a Russian girl plots to steal the mummified body of Lenin and use it as a hostage to free her dissident brother and others from a Siberian gulag. She recruits five people, each with a motive for settling scores with Lenin; she lures an English diplomat, who loves her, into the conspiracy. But someone is a traitor; two plotters die and four others land in the notorious ... Leer más

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  • Casino

    Love and Honor in Las Vegas

    de Nicholas Pileggi ...
    The true story behind the Martin Scorsese film: A "riveting . . . account of how organized crime looted the casinos they controlled" ( Kirkus Reviews ).Focusing on Chicago bookie Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal and his partner, Anthony Spilotro, and drawing on extensive, in-depth interviews, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Mafia classic Wiseguy—basis for the film Goodfellas—Nicholas Pileg. ... Leer más

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  • The Whisky King

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

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Kingpin

    Prisoner of the War on Drugs (Cannabis Americanan: Remembrance of the War on Plants, Book 2)

    de Richard Stratton ...
    Series Libro 2 - Cannabis Americana: Remembrance of the War on Plants
    This fast-paced sequel to Smuggler's Blues is a harrowing and at times comical journey through the criminal justice system at the height of America's War on Plants.Captured in the lobby of the Sheraton Senator Hotel at LAX following a fifteen-year run smuggling marijuana and hashish as part of the hippie mafia, Richard Stratton began a new journey. Kingpin tells the story of the eight years that ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Filthy Rat

    One Man’s Stand Against Police Corruption And Melbourne’s Gangland War

    de Simon Illingworth ...
    "Criminals began killing each other on the streets in broad daylight and police were being ferried into court charged with allegations of involvement in organised crime. Despite my reservations, I knew I had to do something. I simply resigned myself to the fact that I was a dead man walking." As Melbourne's gangland war gathered momentum during the late 1990s, another battle was being fought ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Violated: Part 2 of 3

    A Shocking and Harrowing Survival Story from the Notorious Rotherham Abuse Scandal

    de Sarah Wilson ...
    Violated can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 2 of 3 (Chapters 8-16 of 24).You can read Part 2 one week ahead of release of the full-length eBook and paperback.In the summer of 2014, the Rotherham sex abuse scandal sent shockwaves through the nation. A report revealed that, since the 1990s, up to 1,400 young girls in the town had been regularly ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • The Sink - Crime, Terror and Dirty Money in the Offshore World

    de Jeffrey Robinson ...
    In 1994, when Jeffrey Robinson, author of The Laundrymen, first brought to the world's attention the problems of dirty money -- revealing how otherwise legitimate lawyers, bankers, accountants and even governments were helping drug traffickers hide the proceeds of their crimes -- he labelled money laundering the world's third largest business, estimating that at any given time there was around ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Mobster Biography - Meyer Lansky

    de Stefanina Hill ...
    Meyer Lansky was a legendary mafia tycoon who applied his intelligence to making millions from illegal gambling. From an early life of persecution in the anti-Jewish pogroms of Russia he worked his way up the lower levels of New York's gangland. A close associate of Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Lansky played a pivotal role in the power shift from old guard mobsters to the ambitious "Young Turks" who ... Leer más

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  • Final Confession

    The Unsolved Crimes of Phil Cresta

    de Brian P. Wallace, Bill Crowley ...
    Phil Cresta was no run-of-the-mill thief. Mastermind of the legendary Brink's armored truck robbery and a string of countless other high-stakes heists, he stole more than ten million dollars in escapades that often were breathtakingly daring and at times marvelously inventive. The robberies baffled both police and fellow outlaws for decades, and most of the crimes remain unsolved today. Now the ... Leer más

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