Picking up where "Wiseguy" leaves off, this book takes readers on the crazy ride of Hills life--hiding out in the Witness Protection Program, testifying in high-profile mafia trials, and eventually ending up in the entertainment business.
Unraveling the Mojave Desert's Most Mysterious Unsolved Crime
On January 6, 1986, Barry and Louise Berman set out for a stroll and never returned. Despite extensive investigations by local and federal authorities, the double homicide of the Kahlua heir and his wife remains unsolved.
Ellen Thomson - The Only Woman Executed in Queensland
North Queensland was alive with goldrush excitement when a young widow moved to the new township of Port Douglas. Vashti Farrer opens the door on a colonial world, and hard pioneering lives in a tropical paradise. This illustrated book describes the men in Ellen Thomsons life, including the husband she was blamed for killing. It ......
An act of terrorism against women that ended with the death of a man. Murder on His Mind details the events of 16 July 2001 when security guard Steve Rogers was shot dead inside Melbourne’s Fertility Control Clinic. The Crown Prosecutor described the gunman as having gone to the clinic with ‘murder on his mind’. ‘Allanson depicts with stark ......
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 ......
True Stories from One of the Last British Police Officers in ColonialHong Kong
Sex, drugs, gambling, ghosts, drinking, rugby, overseas adventures - and even some police work. Hong Kong on the edge of empire was a place teeming with triads, smugglers, Chinese immigrants and Vietnamese refugees.
Digging through the mystery and mythos of the East Harlem Purple, Scott Deitche brings the gritty New York City of the late 1970s and early 1980s back to life in this in-depth account of the Gang, the real members, their operations, and where some of the major players are today.
Originally serialised in 1929, and out of print for 90 years, The Girl Who Helped Ned Kelly was written within the life spans of people who knew the Kellys – including interviews with Ned’s brother Jim, while Ellen Kelly died only a few years before publication. This is one of the earliest romanticised fictions of Ned Kelly.
Utilizing overlooked resources, Arrested Adolescence offers insight and nuance into the mind of Nathan Leopold, a man who committed cold-blooded murder as a teenager and then convinced the world to believe in rehabilitation that he never experienced.
