Herefordshire is still a largely rural and agricultural county, centred on the cathedral city of Hereford, but it has had infamous and bloody events in its past, including shocking murders and appalling crimes.
Gang Wars of London charts the development of organised crime in the capital since 1945, from the post-war street gangs to the drug barons, cyber criminals and terrorists that threaten our safety today.
Elmer Gantry is Sinclair Lewis's caustic 1927 novel of American religious commerce, following a swaggering, morally elastic salesman of salvation from college athletics and seminary posturing into the revivalist pulpit.
For true crime readers obsessed with learning the full story, get the book that Publishers Weekly calls a "e;stirring account,"e; and says, "e;dogged reporting and expert pacing make this a good bet for true crime fans.
Charlie Bronson has spent three decades in solitary confinement, and yet has stayed as fit as a fiddle, gaining several world strength and fitness records in the process.
For true crime readers obsessed with learning the full story, get the book that Publishers Weekly calls a "e;stirring account,"e; and says, "e;dogged reporting and expert pacing make this a good bet for true crime fans.
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.
TRUE CRIME & MYSTERY Boxed Set gathers Allan Pinkerton's accounts of detection, pursuit, imposture, and criminal enterprise, works poised between memoir, casebook, and Victorian sensation narrative.
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.
TRUE CRIME - Ultimate Collection gathers Cleveland Moffett's accounts of criminal investigation, detection, and social transgression into a compelling panorama of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century crime writing.
'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.
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.
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.