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"The 1931 murder of 'Broadway Butterfly' Vivian Gordon exposed an explosive story of graft, corruption and entrapment that went all the way to the top of the state. Wolraich brings a journalist's eye and a novelist's elegance to this story of Jazz Age...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761041761Author Garry LinnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia

Shortlisted for the Speaker's Book Award * Shortlisted for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book"You have taken our civil rights-we want our human rights." On April 14, 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked the guards at Kingston...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456662585Author Brittany WeinbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Ebookit.comPublisher Ebookit.comWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456662592Author Brittany WeinbergerFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Ebookit.comPublisher Ebookit.comWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

From the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and betrayal. On December 10, 1887, a shark fishing boat disappeared. On board the...

The 1890s was the tail end of the Gilded Age that began with the coming of industrialization after the Civil War. It was not a "Golden Age," it was gilded-a veneer, and peeled back the age's facade to reveal the structure that was supporting society. The...

Swindler. Murderer. Scoundrel. Robert Boatright was one of Middle America's greatest confidence men. Although little remembered today, his story provides a rare glimpse into America's criminal past. Working in concert with a local bank and an...

With no witnesses and destroyed evidence, questions still surround the mysterious death of baby Lawrence Noxon. This the account of the 1940s murder case, arrest, trial, and conviction of John Noxon as well as a story of changing city and state. It's not...

On July 3, 1972, twenty-four hippies from Clearwater, Florida, set up tents and settled in for the night at Briar Bottom, a public US Forest Service campground in western North Carolina. The impromptu campout was a pit stop for the group on their way to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988963433Author Walter BatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Universitas PressPublisher Universitas Press

Albin Ludwig was furious. He had caught his wife, Cecilia, with other men before; now, after secretly following Cecilia one evening in 1906, Albin was overcome with suspicion. Albin and Cecilia quarreled that night and again the next day. Prosecutors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988963426Author Walter BatesFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Universitas PressPublisher Universitas Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634994668Author Margaret LaplanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)...

A dark secret lurked aboard HMASAustralia, the flagship ofthe Royal Australian Navy. In 1942, with a Japanese invasion looming, those aboard the ship were shocked and completely unprepared to deal withthe brutal murder of a young sailorby twoshipmates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936828685Author Mark W CurranFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Nmd BooksPublisher Nmd BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681791579Author Ted HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Eakin PressPublisher Eakin PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060926946Author Michele SlatallaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493081233Author Ken WidnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Globe Pequot PressPublisher Globe Pequot Press

The story of a single family during the Irish Revolution, Four Killings is a book about political murder, and the powerful hunger for land and the savagery it can unleash. 'A vivid and chilling narrative... Confronts uncomfortable questions that...

In the autumnal darkness of October 6, 1894, an unseen figure rang the doorbell at the Parkdale home of a well-to-do Toronto family and then shot Frank Westwood in his doorway, murdering him in cold blood. Six weeks later, Clara Ford, a Black tailor and...

'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA 'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA 'Both epic and intimate' MARGO JEFFERSON An...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781471002731Author Graham J McEwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu Press IncWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887963981Author Patricia O'SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 416g

In the Spring of 1993, federal agents raided the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. A 51-day standoff ensued. Known as the Waco Siege, it has become a founding myth of the extreme wing of American conservatism, invoked by militiamen, gun rights...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992325275Author Sarah StaveleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Blackwattle Press Pty LtdPublisher Blackwattle Press Pty LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662936647Author James DisserFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Gatekeeper PressPublisher Gatekeeper PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639366279Author Philippa LangleyFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 163mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982168605Author Ali WinstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 147mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960332820Author Joan RennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Wildblue PressPublisher Wildblue PressWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648364030Author Denise Carrington-SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Storixus Media and PublishingPublisher Storixus Media and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684511785Author Jonathan HainsworthFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Regnery HistoryPublisher Regnery HistoryWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739714918Author Ben OakleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Twelvetrees CamdenPublisher Twelvetrees Camden

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316463607Author Miles HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524745653Author John OllerFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Dutton BooksPublisher Dutton BooksWeight(grams) 152g

'The pre-eminent historian of the secret world . . . His books have set the gold standard for accurate historical reporting, but read like heart-pounding thrillers' Mick HerronFrom the author of Sunday Times #1 bestsellers COLDITZ, SAS: ROGUE HEROES and...

The closest friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Soviet wife Marina upon the couple's arrival in Texas breaks a sixty-year silence with a riveting story of his time with JFK's assassin and his candid assessment of the murder that marked a turning point in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925816631Author David PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 256gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 154mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063433526Author Matthew PearlFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...