This gripping anthology of the stories our history teachers didn't tell us includes: the fugutive whose favoruite food was his fellow escapers, the granny who giggled while her victims died in agony; the coral island awash with the blood of the Batavia killings; the lady-killing cad who rivalled Jack the Ripper; the monster of Norfolk Island; voluptuous Lola Montez; the gun molls whose kiss meant death; thegangsters who tried to kill our greatest sporting legend; and the musical genius who sang of the joys of flagellation.
As seen on ABC's The Con, an "e;engrossing account of wine fraud and forgery"e; that duped some of the biggest names in the elite world of wine collecting (Wall Street Journal) In 2002, Rudy Kurniawan, an unknown twentysomething, burst into the privileged world of ultrafine wines.
Sharpe and his adventures has made the 95th Foot renowned again and the discovery of an unpublished diary by an American from Charleston South Carolina who served, despite his father’s objections, as an officer in this elite regiment has caused great excitement.
The book contains eleven dramatic and often horrifying stories, each describing the life of a different prisoner in the camps and prisons of communist Albania.
Petite and feisty, Pam Phree, founder of Phree Bail Bonds, is one of the first female bail bonds agents in a male dominated field, partnered with Mike Beakley, an insightful, quick-witted, former narcotics officer, bounty hunter they take on the underground world of prostitution, drug dealers, AIDS, organized crime and murder while fighting to make changes and dispelling the myths about the bail bond industry in Betrayal, Murder and Greed: The True Story of a Bounty Hunter and a Bail Bond Agent.
Cindi Broaddus didnt realize that her life was about to be forever altered as she sat in the passenger seat of a car on a lonely highway, speeding toward the airport in the early morning hours of June 5, 2001.
This is the story of John Searancke's parents, told mostly from the side of his father, Eddie Searancke, from the time of his calling up in early 1940 to his release from a prisoner of war camp in Germany in 1945, thence his return to England to try to pick up the pieces of his old life.
This is the story of Denis Tanner, a Victorian detective who hit the headlines in 1996 when a newspaper accused him of murdering two women - his sister-in-law Jennifer, whose death in 1984 was treated as suicide, and Adele Bailey, a transsexual prostitute who disappeared in 1978.
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 true story behind the notorious serial killer Peter Manuel, and Detective William Muncie's quest to bring him to justice, recently dramatised in the major ITV drama In Plain Sight.
Praise for The Rescue"e;Steven Trent Smith grapples boldly with several big subjects: the Japanese occupation of the Philippines; the capture of Japan's 'Z Plan' (the decisive-battle strategy for destroying the U.
In this beautifully designed book, Howard Marks' daughter, the writer and lawyer Amber Marks, has collated and curated highlights from Howard´s extensive and, until now, unseen personal archive.
This is a true story of exodus, the inevitable journey of the last of the First People, as they leave the Great Sand Face and head for the modern world and cultural oblivion.
The largest mass murder in Canada's history and how the Canadian court system let a killer go free On the night of April 7, 2006, eight members of the motorcycle gang the Bandidos were killed execution style and left in a farmer's field near London, Ontario.
