Love and lust are among the most powerful of emotions, but when joint thirst for violence is thrown into the mix, it creates the ultimate lethal cocktail.
This meticulously edited Pinkerton-True Crime collection includes works based on his own exploits and those of his agents:The Expressman and the DetectiveThe Somnambulist and the DetectiveThe Murderer and the Fortune TellerThe Spiritualists and the DetectivesMississippi Outlaws and the DetectivesDon Pedro and the DetectivesPoisoner and the DetectivesBucholz and the DetectivesThe Burglar's Fate and the DetectivesThe Spy of the Rebellion
For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law - and those who operate just outside of it.
The first thing that caught my eye was the geezer with the gold tooth - the second was that he was holding a shooter - and the third that he was pointing it at me.
'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG'Reads like a wondrous mixture of Heart of Darkness and In Cold Blood.
Due to the international importance attached to the reporting of conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) over the last two decades, scholars have been able to examine the magnitude of the problem across different situations and types of conflict.
Deutschlands bekanntester Rechtsmediziner und Bestsellerautor Michael Tsokos hat es täglich mit Toten zu tun, die auf spektakuläre Weise ums Leben gekommen sind.
Pinkerton National Detective Agency is a private security guard and detective agency established in the United States by Scotsman Allan Pinkerton in 1850.
Citizen Wynn recounts the cautionary saga of uber-wealthy casino king Steve Wynn, who built a global gambling empire on fantasy, grift, and misogyny before hubris and #MeToo brought him down.
The masterpiece of Joseph Conrad's later years, the autobiographical short novel The Shadow-Line depicts a young man at a crossroads in his life, facing a desperate crisis that marks the "shadow-line" between youth and maturity.
A deep dive that "e;has brought together all the evidence"e; in the fascinating cold case of a millionaire widow, the Chicago horse mafia, and murder (Daily Mail).
The Murder of Martin Luther King is a meticulously researched and thought-provoking book that delves into the assassination of the civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr.
The definitive book on one of the most notorious murders in Jazz Age New York history, that of Vivian Gordon, the high-end escort, con artist, and blackmailer connected to gangsters like ';Legs' Diamond and Arnold Rothstein, whose death exposed the dark underbelly of police corruption throughout the cityfrom the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist who is one of the foremost Mafia experts writing today.