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Known as the Enforcer in the Capone Gang, Nitti has been glamorized in movies. This book gives a warts-and-all portrayal of the gangster. After Capone is the first book to present the complete story of one of America's leading crime kingpins.

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Contains the first six complete issues (24 stories) of the comic book Crime SuspenStories, originally published in 1950 and 1951. This title features stories of crime characterized by ironic O Henry type twist endings.

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Contains the first six complete issues (24 stories) of the comic book Crime SuspenStories, originally published in 1950 and 1951. This title features stories of crime characterized by ironic O Henry type twist endings.

Price: £ 24.54

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Presents the story of social provision from medieval times onwards. This book examines major themes such as the relief of poverty and social care, healthcare and housing, crime and policing, and education. This textbook is aimed at undergraduate...

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Contains the first six complete issues (24 stories) of the comic book Crime SuspenStories, originally published in 1950 and 1951. This title features stories of crime characterized by ironic O Henry type twist endings.

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A dashing lineup of elegant crime tales and gritty hard-boiled detective stories--alternately menacing and cozy, with exotic locales and murder in the mix--are featured in this collection, as heard on National Public Radio. This title includes 3 CDs.

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He has been compared to Lehane, Ellroy, and Pelecanos, but Ace Atkins's rich, raucous, passionate blend of historical novel and crime story is all his own---and never more so than in Infamous....

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In this book, Misha Glenny takes us on a journey through the new world of international organised crime. For three years, he has been recording the stories of gun runners in Ukraine, money launderers in Dubai, drug syndicates in Canada...

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CSA Word specialises in literature on audio. This collection is drawn from a catalogue of over 300 short stories. It showcases romance, horror, detective and crime stories and women's writing. It features writers as Katherine Mansfield and Rudyard...

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Two dozen brand new crime stories from some of the best women writers in their field. Anger, jealousy, gluttony, sloth, lust, greed and pride. The Seven Deadly sins. Doesn't every major crime have one of these deadly sins at its root?

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This collection of Joe R. Lansdale stories represents the best of the Lansdale genre -- a strange mixture of dark crime, even darker humor, and adventure tales. The stories are varied in setting and theme, but they are all pure Lansdale -...

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The Foreigner is a darkly comic tale of crime and contrition, and a riveting story about what it means to be a foreigner--even in one's own family....

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This is the unfinished crime novel started by Dorothy L. Sayers but still uncompleted at her death. Set in London in 1936, it is the thrilling story of a society murder....

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Here is the shocking, true story of Australia's most horrific crime. Katherine Knight showed no mercy when she butchered her lover....

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Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected...

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Mega-City One: the future metropolis bustling with life and every crime imaginable. Keeping order are the Judges, a stern police force acting as judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of all is Judge Dredd. He is the law and these are his stories.

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Prize-winning crime author Steve Hamilton's hugely commercial mainstream breakout tells the extraordinary story of a safe-cracker trying to unlock the key to his past. Michael hit the headlines once before, a seven-year-old kid the papers called...

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The death of a TV reporter from a single bullet wound to the heart is a dramatic news story, and also an unsolved crime....

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El Salvador: America's great Cold War success story and the model for Iraq's fledgling democracy if one ignores the grinding poverty, the corruption, the spiraling crime....

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Britain's best known gangster, Charlie Hook, wants to tell his life story and chooses crime reporter Laurie Lane as his reluctant ghost. But the next day Hook is dead....

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In this collection of stories, Rumpole continues to juggle the vagaries of the law, the ambiguities of crime, and the contradictions of the human heart....

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* In this powerful and groundbreaking book, Misha Glenny takes us on a journey through the new world of international organised crime. * For three years, he has been recording the stories of gun runners in Ukraine, money launderers in Dubai, drug syndicates in Canada, cyber criminals in Brazil, racketeers in Japan and many more.* During his investigation of the dark side, he has spoken to countless gangsters, policemen and victims of organised crime while also exploring the ferocious consumer demand for drugs, trafficked women, illegal labour and arms across five continents.* The journey begins with an appalling and inexplicable murder in England

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'The Sydney Experiment' was the political experiment of founding Sydney as a penal settlement to receive criminals. In late-18th-century Britain, people were hanged for petty offences, yet crime was rife. The gaols were bursting and over-flow prisoners were kept in notorious 'hulks', rotting old ships moored offshore . Out of this situation was born the 'solution': criminals perceived to 'damage' British society would be transported. Australia was surrounded by sea and a very long way away: thus Sydney was founded as 'an open-air prison' with 'walls 14,000 miles thick'.Thus, too, was Australia colonised. There had been no reconnaissance (Captain Cook had landed just the once) and British politicians were utterly ignorant about the undespoiled continent to which they despatched a convoy of 11 ships in 1787 (the First Fleet). The transports spent 8 hellish months at sea. Tom Keneally tells the fascinating story of Captain Arthur Phillip, the Commodore of the First Fleet, who was empowered to govern the new colo...

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