Countless criminals have made their mark on Chicago and the surrounding communities. Chicago Sun-Times journalist Jon Seidel takes readers back in time to the days when H. H. Holmes lurked in his "Murder Castle" and guys named Al Capone and John Dillinger ruled the underworld. Drawing upon years of reporting, and with special access to the Chicago ......
Like a character in a Hitchcock movie, Dave McOmie travels the country breaking into bank vaults, cracking jewelry store safes, and decoding unbreakable codes secured deep in government facilities. He's never been arrested or charged with a crime, because -- it's his job! Safecracker reveals a shadowy world where tumblers are twirled, skeletons ......
Room 100 chronicles the tragic story of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, punk rock's very own Romeo and Juliet. Through a wealth of archival material, plus new and exclusive interviews from rock luminaries such as Television guitarist Richard Lloyd, iconic photographer Robert Bayley, and PUNK magazine co-creator John Holmstrom, critically acclaimed ......
How a Ups Driver Became the Greatest Union Reformer of the 20th Century
Probes the enduring impact, and devastating fall, of one of the greatest union organizers of the 20th century In this riveting account, retired UPS driver and unionist, Ken Reiman, gives us the first in-depth portrait of Ron Carey as he rose from a local union officer in the mid-1960s, to president of what was, in 1991, the largest labor union ......
How a Ups Driver Became the Greatest Union Reformer of the 20th Century
Probes the enduring impact, and devastating fall, of one of the greatest union organizers of the 20th century In this riveting account, retired UPS driver and unionist, Ken Reiman, gives us the first in-depth portrait of Ron Carey as he rose from a local union officer in the mid-1960s, to president of what was, in 1991, the largest labor union ......
This book considers the 2015 Charleston mass shooting from a rhetorical perspective and offers an appraisal of the discourses that cradled and emerged from it. It argues that Charleston was different from other mass shootings in America and that the differences can be heard and seen in that rhetoric.
Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers
On the night of September 6, 2011, terror called at the Amish home of the Millers. Answering a late-night knock from what appeared to be an Amish neighbor, Mrs. Miller opened the door to her five estranged adult sons, a daughter, and their spouses. It wasn't a friendly visit. Within moments, the men, wearing headlamps, had pulled their ......
True Stories of Mobster Molls, Violent Vixens, and Murderous Matriarchs
In Pretty Evil Pennsylvania, historical true crime author Stephanie Hoover recounts the crimes committed by nine of the Keystone State's most violent female criminals from the 1850s through the 1930s.
The first novel in veteran crime writer Gerry Boyle's series about young Brandon Blake is a tale of opportunistic predators on a collision course; it is about the ocean, the fortunes it can deliver-and the lives it can swallow whole.
