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Cold-blooded murderer or loving father driven insane?In early 1900s Indiana, John Terrell was the wealthiest man in Wells County, thanks to oil discovered on his farm. But when his youngest daughter, Lucy, became pregnant and entered into a forced...

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)...

One of the most colorful parts of American History is the time of train robberies and the daring outlaws who undertook them in the period covering from just after the Civil War to 1924. For decades, the railroads were the principal transporters of...

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 9781990160141Author Julie BurtinshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Tidewater PressPublisher Tidewater PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 214mm *...

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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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806542799Author McCracken King Poston Jr.Format HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

'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) 345gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 7mm

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 9780593419496Author Rory CarrollFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 607gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

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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 *...

A toast to the wild parties, the wicked deeds, the streets and the characters who colored Kansas City history. Welcome to Kansas City-the best town this side of Hell. The Paris of the Plains. Home to the Wettest Block in the World. This collection...

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 *...

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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 9781952225253Author Mike RothmillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Wildblue PressPublisher Wildblue PressWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952225789Author James StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Wildblue PressPublisher Wildblue PressWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681793399Author Ted HintonFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Eakin PressPublisher Eakin PressWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 18mm

Justice is blind, they say, but perhaps not to beauty. In supposedly dispassionate courts of law, attractive women have long avoided punishment, based largely on their looks, for cold-blooded crimes. The Beauty Defense: Femmes Fatales on Trial gathers...