Criminals & Outlaws

The lives of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary--if misunderstood--thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes, jerks, and evil doers from history all get their due in the short essays featured in these enlightening, informative books...

From Deadwood to Aberdeen, Vermillion to Belle Fourche, the frontier towns of South Dakota were populated by some of the toughest and most dangerous characters in the West. Chief Two Sticks led a starving band of rebels on a desperate path of destruction...

Al Brady was an armed robber and murderer in the 1930s and became the FBI's Public Enemy #1. The crime spree of Brady and his gang brought them from the south and midwest to Maine. A hardware store owner in Bangor became suspicious when Brady requested a...

Many nefarious characters have passed through Maine on their way to infamy, including the pirates Dixie Bull and Blackbeard (Edward Teach), and gangster Al Brady, who was gunned down by G-men in the streets of Bangor. The rogues and scoundrels assembled...

This riveting sequel to My Bloody Life traces Reymundo Sanchez's struggle to create a "normal" life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation's most notorious street gangs, and to move beyond his past. Sanchez illustrates how the Latin King motto "once...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501126550Author Dan SlaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm...

Those interested in the history of the infamous Younger Brothers of Missouri know eldest brother Cole's story. Or at least they think they do. Cole told it enough times. Yet his autobiography, his dozens of interviews, the stories told to his friends and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455623174Author Larry L. MasseyFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 374g

Touted in his time as one of the "great men of the West," Stephen Wallace Dorsey was a Reconstruction carpetbagger who went to Arkansas and finagled and bribed his way into getting elected to the US Senate after living only two years in the...

Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan was an outlaw, gunfighter and infamous member of the Butch Cassidy gang. With more than fifteen killings attributed to him, and given his involvement in the Butch Cassidy gang, "Kid Curry" was as renowned a figure as you were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957363578Author Jake AdelsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Scribe UsPublisher Scribe UsWeight(grams) 499g

The lives of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary–if misunderstood–thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes, jerks, and evil doers from history all get their due in the short essays featured in these enlightening, informative, books...

This riveting sequel to My Bloody Life traces Reymundo Sanchez's struggle to create a "normal" life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation's most notorious street gangs, and to move beyond his past. Sanchez illustrates how the Latin King motto "once...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608011247Author Dan BrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressWeight(grams)...

Each volume in this series features approximately fifteen short biographies of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of a given state. The villainous, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455617869Author Chuck MalkusFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811736305Author Patricia A. MartinelliFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Stackpole BooksPublisher Stackpole BooksWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569803172Author William HannerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Barricade Books IncPublisher Barricade Books IncWeight(grams) 522g

The lives of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary--if misunderstood--thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes, jerks, and evil doers from history all get their due in the short essays featured in these enlightening, informative books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932595062Author Anthony PapaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 432g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550228694Author Randall RadicFormat PaperbackPage Count 333Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 558g

In 1876, at only 29 years old, Alexander Graham Bell completed the invention that would turn him into a household name: the telephone. What began as a tool for his deaf students, the device would ultimately change the way people communicate forever...

Bernie Madoff's arrest could not have come at a more darkly poetic moment. Economic upheaval had plunged America into a horrid recession. Then, on December 11, 2008, Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme came to light. A father turned in by his sons; a son...

Joseph Di Prisco's anticipated memoir brings the hustler, gambler, criminal, bookmaker, and confidential informer-Joe's father-back to life, and reveals the fascinating and unsettling truths that simultaneously bound and separated father and son. On the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894864404Author Frank AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Folklore PublishingPublisher Folklore PublishingWeight(grams) 130g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939521187Author Elliott GoldenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Strategic Media BooksPublisher Strategic Media BooksWeight(grams) 452g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939521095Author Marcus ValdespinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Strategic Media BooksPublisher Strategic Media BooksWeight(grams) 384g

"Spieler offers a portrait of an erratic, unstable woman with a protean capacity to shift identities, with the 1960s and '70s as a dramatic backdrop. Fans of true crime accounts or contemporary history will savor this.” ―Publishers Weekly President...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939521026Author Rick TalleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Strategic Media BooksPublisher Strategic Media BooksWeight(grams) 666g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467143523Author Jonita MullinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 340g

CHRIS HILTON WENT TO HAVANA in the early 2000s to escape the drudgery of everyday life in England-and, boy, did he escape it. Suddenly he found himself mixed up with a variety of gangland chancers, some Cuban, one British, all living on the edge of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451645170Author Jeff GuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569803660Author Scott M. DeitcheFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Barricade Books IncPublisher Barricade Books IncWeight(grams) 481g

The daring movie revolutionized Hollywood - now the true story of Bonnie and Clyde is told in the lovers' own voices, with verisimilitude and drama to match Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood". Strictly nonfiction - no dialogue or other material has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061744662Author Philip CarloFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316037723Author Kevin MitnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335449429Author John BoesseneckerFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467147361Author Amy Kinzer SteidingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416557074Author Jeff GuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 158mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525534631Author Leslie SchwartzFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Blue Rider PressPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc