Harvard University Press, April 15, 2006. Between 1875 and 1920, Chicago's homicide rate more than quadrupled, making it the most violent major urban center in the United States--or, in the words of Lincoln Steffens, "first in violence, deepest in dirt." In many ways, however, Chicago became more orderly as it.....
Carroll & Graf, August 14, 2006. When Caryl Chessman appeared on the cover of Time's March 21, 1960 issue, he was the most famous prisoner in America and arguably the best-known in the world. He not only put a face on the issue of capital punishment, but he also made.....
Arcadia Publishing, 2016. Author Amy Petulla uncovers the curious case that left two men dead and the incredible story still surrounded by controversy, speculation and myth. In 1982, Tony West and Avery Brock made a visit to notorious Corpsewood Manor under the pretense of a celebration. They brutally murdered their.....
Greenhaven Publishing LLC, December 12, 2008. The type of firearm used in a crime can usually be identified by the bullet or by the casings left at the scene. Provide your readers with a revealing look at the tools and techniques used in ballistics research. The tiniest bit of evidence.....
HarperCollins, July 7, 1999. Lonnie Blake's life and career have been on the skids since his wife was murdered eighteen months ago. Then, one chilly autumn night, Carol Dodson steps suddenly out of the city darkness and asks him to take her in. For that one night, Lonnie and Carol.....
Simon & Schuster, 1995. Ann Rule has no equal in the delineation of the criminal mind. Brad Cunningham is, perhaps, the most complex subject she has ever chosen. The women who loved him were beautiful and extremely intelligent, yet they never saw his need to control and destroy them -.....
Pocket Books, January 1, 2001. MORE THAN 20 MILLION COPIES OFANN RULE'S BOOKS IN PRINT! In this unnerving collection drawn from her personal crime files, "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule brilliantly dissects the convoluted love affairs that all too often end in violence. Expertly analyzing a shocking.....
Simon and Schuster, January 1, 1998. AS SEEN ON 48 HOURS -- AN EXPLOSIVE ACCOUNT OF LETHAL GREED AND TWISTED DESIRE, FROM THE FILES OF AMERICA'S #1 TRUE CRIME WRITER, ANN RULE They were best friends, four talented and charismatic young men who lived charmed lives among the evergreens of.....
Free Press, 2001. If anything ever happens to me, promise me that you will see that there is an investigation....And find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story," Sheila Blackthorne Bellush told her sister after she divorced multimillionaire Allen Blackthorne. Now, in perhaps the first book ever written.....
Warner Books, 1996. "A fever in the heart dissects an explosive triangle that led to obsession and murder in a small town in the north-west of America. Ann Rule reveals the story of an alluring wife and the two men desperate for her love; a story with a bizarre and.....
Pocket Books, February 21, 2003. “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews) presents an all-new collection of crime stories drawn from her private files and featuring the riveting case of a fraudulent doctor whose lifelong deceptions had deadly consequences. Dr. Anthony Pignataro was a cosmetic surgeon and a famed medical researcher.....
Simon and Schuster, 1999-08. New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule brings several riveting accounts of seemingly normal men and women who are compelled by a murderous rage to suddenly lash out in this installment of her Crime Files. Ann Rule dives into one of Seattle’s most infamous crimes: a......
Simon and Schuster, 1993-08. This first installment in the New York Times bestselling Crime Files series is a chilling collection of shocking crimes and the ensuing struggles to bring the perpetrators to justice—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me. Soon to be a Lifetime.....
National Geographic Books, 2022-05-10. A new edition of the iconic, best-selling account of America’s most fascinating serial killer, “perhaps the most unnerving true-crime book ever published” (Victoria Beale, The New Yorker), with a foreword by Georgia Hardstark. In 1971, while working the late-shift at a Seattle crisis clinic, true-crime writer.....
Simon and Schuster, September 1, 1994. From New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule comes a riveting true-crime story about Florida Highway Patrolman Tim Harris and his chilling crimes. In You Belong to Me, Ann Rule fixes her unsparing professional gaze on one of Florida's most shocking criminal cases—that of.....
National Geographic Books, February 16, 2006. Alex Rider is now an IMDb TV/Amazon Original Series! Alex Rider is an orphan turned teen superspy who's saving the world one mission at a time—from #1 New York Times bestselling author! Alex Rider has been through a lot for his fourteen years. He's.....
Dell Pub. January 1, 1992. Employing a rich fund of shocking, never-before-published evidence, this tour de force of investigative journalism unmasks the real murderer of Andrew and Abby Borden--someone who has never previously been considered a suspect. "Highly recommended".--Booklist. Includes Lizzie Borden's testimony. ISBN-10 0440213150.
SUNY Press, October 9, 2003. From the 1970s to the new millennium, the prison population in the United States has quadrupled while an unprecedented amount of sentencing reform has taken place, largely intended to protect the public from dangerous criminals. This book details the California experience, including the history and.....
Avon Books, August 1, 1991. The Old City Lay Dark And Cold... It is night. And Edmund is alone. His mother is gone. His aunt, who went in search of her, is dead. His sister has disappeared. Edmund has no one. Except for a stranger of the night. A dark.....
Grand Central Publishing, November 19, 2019. FBI Agent Atlee Pine returns to her Georgia hometown to investigate her twin sister's abduction, only to encounter a serial killer in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller. FBI Agent Atlee Pine's life was never the same after her twin sister Mercy was.....
Grand Central Publishing, January 1, 1997. A rags-to-riches deal for single mother LuAnn Tyler is deadlier than she ever could have imagined in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from David Baldacci. THE DREAM She is twenty, beautiful, dirt-poor, and hoping for a better life for her infant daughter.....
Greenwood Press, October 30, 2007. Contains one hundred alphabetized, cross-referenced entries, M-Z, on topics related to criminal justice, focusing on the U.S. system and covering social, political, legal, and economic aspects as well as crimes and criminals, and includes a selected bibliography. There are many controversial aspects of our criminal.....
Capstone, January 1, 2004. Describes the science of ballistics, including the types of weapons and ammunition used in crimes, clues guns and bullets leave behind, techniques used by ballistics experts, and how ballistics evidence is used to solve crimes.
Bloomsbury Academic, August 30, 2006. In 1573, there occurred a murder which would leave today's tabloid editors salivating. George Saunders, a respected merchant tailor, was killed by his wife's lover. Involved in the conspiracy were Saunders' wife, her best friend, and a servant. All were found guilty and hanged, but.....
Random House Publishing Group, January 13, 1994. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author The basis for the upcoming Broadway musical, coming in 2025! “Elegant and wicked.....