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A seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crime. Here are ten murder cases of "the old-fashioned sort"-evoking a nostalgia more obviously associated with fiction-that all took place during the festive period from mid-December to Twelfth Night between 1811 and 1933. The settings of these grisly tales range from the Knickerbocker Athletic Club in New York (where a gentleman named Molineux provided a drastic cure for hangovers by putting cyanide in a...
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A witty and informative look at classic American murder cases. On a 6,000-mile train trip across the North American continent from New York City to the West Coast, then back to New York over a southern route, prize-winning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman visited a number of sites where notorious murders occurred-the Kingsbury Run torso murders in Cleveland; the murder by 'thrill-killers' Leopold and Loeb; the St. Valentine's Day Massacre,...
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Sure to capture the imagination of devotees of true crime and the occult. This anthology of thirteen true crime stories includes the mysterious slaying of Charles Walton, who was found slashed and pierced to death in an area notorious for its associations with black magic; the murder of Eric Tombe, whose body was located because of a recurring dream in which his mother saw Eric down a well; the terrorizing of Hammersmith, London, in the early nineteenth...
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