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    100 Years of Lynchings
    list: $14.95 - our price: $14.95
    by Black Classic Press
    Paperback (01 September, 1997)
    (5 reviews) 4.4 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: The basis of Black Rage: Ralph Ginzburg in this historic book show that African-Americans are justified in their fear of White America.
    A Beautiful Child: A True Story of Hope, Horror, and an Enduring Human Spirit
    list: $22.95 - our price: $15.61
    by Berkley Publishing Group
    Hardcover (07 September, 2004)

    A Goodfella's Guide to New York : Your Personal Tour Through the Mob's Notorious Haunts,
    list: $12.95 - our price: $9.71
    by Three Rivers Press
    Paperback (22 April, 2003)
    (12 reviews) 3.58 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Witness Profiteering Program: Henry Hill is, of course, the basis of Ray Liotta's character in Scorsese's Goodfellas. He ratted his buddies out,
    A Man of Honor
    list: $7.99 - our price: $7.19
    by St. Martin's Press
    Mass Market Paperback (01 January, 2003)
    (6 reviews) 4.17 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: more to the matter: The book is well written and very interesting. But it seems to sugarcoat the "mafiaoso" world. Where are the stories of violence that the "Tradition" is known for?

    A Rip in Heaven: A Memoir of Murder and Its Aftermath
    list: $12.95 - our price: $9.71
    by New American Library
    Paperback (01 June, 2004)
    (16 reviews) 4.38 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: A Wonderful Composition: Cummins invites the reader into her family as you take part in each event. She continues with a chronologic order of each happening as you take part by reading the in-depth view of all events,
    A Rose For Her Grave & Other True Cases (Ann Rule's Crime Files)
    list: $7.99 - our price: $7.19
    by Pocket
    Paperback (01 August, 1993)
    (14 reviews) 4.79 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Very Interesting Stories-Quite Intense: In A Rose for her Grave, the main story of the book, tells us the story of Randy Roth and how he married and used women for profits.

    A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers (Pocket Books True Crime)
    list: $16.00 - our price: $10.88
    by Pocket
    Paperback (01 November, 1997)
    (60 reviews) 4.07 out of 5 stars
    Editorial Review: The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is a lighthearted but reasonably tasteful collection of information about serial killers, by a respected historian of crime (Harold Schechter) and the author of Human Monsters (David Everitt).
    A Wayward Angel : The Full-Story of the Hell's Angels by the Former Vice-President
    list: $14.95 - our price: $10.17
    by The Lyons Press
    Paperback (01 August, 2004)
    (1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Not for the faint at heart: This book reveals the secrets and lifestyles of the notorious Hells Angels that for so long have been shrouded in scandal,

    Ace of Spies: The True Story of Sidney Reilly (Revealing History (Paperback))
    list: $22.95 - our price: $16.07
    by Tempus Publishing, Limited
    Paperback (01 March, 2004)
    Ahead of the Parade: A Who¿s Who of Treason and High Crimes: Exclusive Details of Fraud and Corruption of the Monopoly Press,
    list: $41.90 - our price: $41.90
    by Dandelion Books, LLC
    Paperback (July, 2003)
    (2 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Why the high price?: Why is this book priced so above the cost? Amazon?

    America's Dumbest Criminals : Wild and Weird Stories of Fumbling Felons, Clumsy Crooks,
    list: $8.99
    by Rutledge Hill Press
    Paperback (01 October, 1995)
    (8 reviews) 3.75 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: America's Dumbest Criminals: This was a pretty good book, very amusing. It was about dumb criminals doing, of course, dumb things.
    American Assassination: The Strange Death Of Senator Paul Wellstone
    list: $14.00 - our price: $10.50
    by Vox Pop102004
    Paperback (November, 2004)

    American Taboo : A Murder in the Peace Corps
    list: $25.95 - our price: $16.35
    by HarperCollins
    Hardcover (01 June, 2004)
    (10 reviews) 3.6 out of 5 stars
    Editorial Review: On October 4, 1976, a brutal murder shocked the tiny island nation of Tonga. A young Peace Corps volunteer had been stabbed 22 times; another volunteer was identified at the scene, but despite the damning evidence against him,
    And the Truth Shall Set You Free
    list: $24.95
    by Bridge of Love Publications
    Paperback (01 June, 1997)
    (44 reviews) 3.84 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Mind Blowing, Compelling and Dangerous: The most scholarly of "conspiracy" books that I've ever read. Packed with enough "facts" to convince even the most skeptical reader,

    Assassination Science : Experts Speak Out on the Death of JFK
    list: $18.95 - our price: $18.95
    by Open Court Publishing Company
    Paperback (01 October, 1997)
    (22 reviews) 3.41 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Emphasis on 'Science' : Think or Get out of the Kitchen!: The Thinking Man's Warren Report...Fetzer's collation of articles by meticulous JFK assassination researchers is fascinating,
    Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling,
    list: $23.95 - our price: $16.29
    by Little, Brown
    Hardcover (September, 2004)

    Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing
    list: $29.95 - our price: $29.95
    by Oxford University Press
    Hardcover (01 June, 2002)
    (3 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Profound book: This work shows why explorations of the nature of human nature are not just the stuff of ivory towers. It adds an evolutionary psychology element to previous discussions of genocide with good effect.
    BITTER HARVEST: A WOMAN'S FURY A MOTHERS SACRIFICE : "A Woman's Fury, a Mother's
    list: $22.00
    by Simon & Schuster Audio
    Audio Cassette (01 February, 1998)
    (104 reviews) 3.57 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: fascinating book about an exceptionally troubled woman: The true-crime story explored in Bitter Harvest is gripping and disturbing on many levels,

    Black Dahlia Avenger: The True Story
    list: $27.95 - our price: $17.61
    by Arcade Publishing
    Hardcover (11 April, 2003)
    (147 reviews) 2.92 out of 5 stars
    Editorial Review: For 56 years, the Black Dahlia murder case remained one of the most notorious and high-profile unsolved crimes of the 20th century. Now, Steve Hodel, a 24-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department,
    Black Mass : The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mo
    list: $14.00 - our price: $10.50
    by Perennial
    Paperback (22 May, 2001)
    (175 reviews) 4.18 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Kinship gone amuck!: Lehr and O'Neill have compiled the engrossing account of how the power of kinship and ambition turn a blind eye to crime and its cover-up only to be exposed by equally ambitious and dedicated investigators.

    Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story Of A Doctor Who Got Away With Murder
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    by Simon & Schuster
    Paperback (15 June, 2000)
    (89 reviews) 4.54 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Real life more frightening than fiction: I read this investigative 314 page book in one sitting. If there's a lesson in it, it's that authority figures,
    Blood Justice (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
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    by St. Martin's Paperbacks
    Paperback (31 August, 2004)

    Blood Washes Blood: A True Story of Love, Murder, and Redemption Under the Sicilian
    list: $14.00
    by Washington Square Press
    Paperback (04 April, 2002)
    (15 reviews) 4.53 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Blood washes Blood, an awful name for a great story!: This is a true story. I was off-put by the name, fearing itwas going to be a mafia novel,
    Bloodsworth : The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA (Shannon
    list: $24.95 - our price: $16.47
    by Algonquin Books
    Hardcover (09 October, 2004)

    BLOW: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and
    list: $14.95 - our price: $10.47
    by St. Martin's Griffin
    Paperback (21 March, 2001)
    (27 reviews) 4.19 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: AN INSIDE VIEW OF LIFE IN THE FACT LANE!: While it may be difficult to empathize with the downfall of one of the biggest drug cartels in history,
    Boss of Bosses : The FBI and Paul Castellano
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    by Island Books
    Paperback (01 May, 1992)
    (24 reviews) 4.33 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: READ THE BOOK--Don't Rely on the Recent Movie: BOSS OF BOSSES is an extraordinarily well-written account of the development of the case against the head of the Gambino crime family,

    Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for
    list: $14.00 - our price: $10.50
    by Free Press
    Paperback (09 September, 2003)
    (226 reviews) 4.15 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: for real?: Others have written about the holes in the descriptions of the blackjack strategy and games, and how there are very few accounts of their failures -- surprising since their strategy would only give them a 1-2 percent edge on the house,
    Broken Doll
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    by Pinnacle Books
    Mass Market Paperback (01 April, 2004)
    (4 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Painful Story - Excellent Book: Having read all of Burl Barer's work, I made certain to pick up his most recent, "Broken Doll", and was not dissapointed.

    But He Was Good to His Mother : The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangsters
    list: $14.95 - our price: $12.71
    by Gefen Publishing House, Ltd
    Paperback (February, 2000)
    (8 reviews) 4.5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: great book and a fun reading: this book is a great academic book mixed with fun storytelling.
    Cassidy's Run : The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas
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    by Random House
    Paperback (07 March, 2000)
    (12 reviews) 4.42 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Another Book That Should have Been a Magazine Article: Dont buy this book....or if you must read it get it at the Library. This book would have been an excellent article in New York Magazine,

    Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
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    by Broadway
    Paperback (01 August, 2000)
    (236 reviews) 4.24 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Frank Abagnale, Jr., conned me.: He sure did. What starts off as an annoying, arrogant read quickly turns into the sort of real-life account that leaves you saying,
    Chasing the Devil : My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer
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    by Little, Brown
    Hardcover (28 July, 2004)

    Cleaning Up : One Man’s Redemptive Journey Through the Seductive World of Corporate
    list: $25.99 - our price: $17.15
    by Nelson Current
    Hardcover (13 January, 2005)
    Cleveland Cops: The Real Stories They Tell Each Other
    list: $24.95 - our price: $16.47
    by Gray & Company Publishers
    Hardcover (30 October, 2004)

    Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief
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    by Villard
    Hardcover (13 April, 2004)
    (15 reviews) 4.33 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: More than a Jewel Thief: I read this book as it received a lot of publicity on initial release. I didn't find it to be a fast, compelling story of a dangerous jewel thief.
    Conviction : Solving the Moxley Murder: A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year
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    by Regan Books
    Hardcover (12 October, 2004)

    Cook for a Day: Eat for a Month : Frozen Assets Readers' Favorite
    list: $25.00 - our price: $15.75
    by Champion Press (Mi)
    Ring-bound (10 March, 2003)
    (1 reviews) 5 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: What a great cookbook!: This is a great cookbook! I have made a few dozen recipes from this book and everyone is a crowd pleaser at my house.
    Cowboy Mafia
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    by The Grove Pub
    Paperback (March, 2001)
    (28 reviews) 3.75 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Great Story - horrible writing!: If you can ignore the grammatical blunders and repetition throughout the book, you will enjoy the story.

    Cracking Cases: The Science of Solving Crimes
    list: $26.00 - our price: $16.38
    by Prometheus Books
    Hardcover (01 April, 2002)
    (23 reviews) 3.04 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: CRACKING CASES!!! CLEARLY GUILTY...: WOW! This book makes me want to take up forensic science.Dr Henry Lee explains how the smallest or largest detail can lead to cracking cases.O
    Cracking More Cases: The Forensic Science of Solving Crimes : the Michael Skakel-Martha Moxley Case,
    list: $26.00 - our price: $16.38
    by Prometheus Books
    Hardcover (01 August, 2004)

    Cries in the Desert (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
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    by St. Martin's True Crime
    Paperback (17 June, 2002)
    (10 reviews) 3.2 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Couldn't even finish it.................: This book sounded great until I began to read it. I got to about page 70 and decided it wasn't worth the time to read.
    Crime Scene
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    Paperback (02 July, 2002)
    (8 reviews) 4.12 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: An above average reference: Like a reviewer mentioned, this book did need a glossary. It would have been very helpful to look up words and phrases that he used so naturally.H

    Crime School: Money Laundering: True Crime Meets The World Of Business And Financ
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    by Firefly Books Ltd
    Paperback (31 July, 2004)
    (1 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Entertainly written and educational: An excellent discussion of crime, organized crime, and how it affects daily life. Money, and its mysterious movements,
    Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
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    by Clifford Stoll
    Paperback (03 October, 2000)
    (124 reviews) 4.72 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Fantastic Read that Never Gets Old: I first picked this book up from the library in my high school in '97 and couldn't stop reading.

    Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide and the Criminal Mind
    list: $24.95 - our price: $15.72
    by St. Martin's Press
    Hardcover (01 July, 2001)
    (21 reviews) 4.48 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Teriffic book!: Eoy Hazelwood describes his experiences and shares his knowledge of sex criminals from his job in the FBI profiling unit (the 'behevioral science unit' of 'The Silence of the Lambs').
    Dead and Buried: A Shocking Account of Rape, Torture, and Murder on the California
    list: $6.50 - our price: $5.85
    by Pinnacle Books
    Mass Market Paperback (01 October, 2003)
    (9 reviews) 4.67 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Worth the Read!!!: It took me a few hours to read this book from cover to cover and I thought it was very well written and easy enough to follow.T

    Dead Man Walking
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    by Vintage
    Paperback (31 May, 1994)
    (47 reviews) 4.11 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Sister Helen Prejean is an inspiration!: Certain books stay with you forever. You just get them out of your head or shake off their influence.
    Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers
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    by Simon & Schuster
    Paperback (04 September, 2002)
    (41 reviews) 4 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Stunning information, entertainingly delivered!: This is what you get when you mix a brilliant and principled scientist with a passionately curious and witty writer.

    Deadly American Beauty: A True Story of Passion, Adultery, and Murder (St. Martin's
    list: $6.99 - our price: $6.99
    by St. Martin's Press
    Mass Market Paperback (02 March, 2004)
    (8 reviews) 3.88 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: Felt Something Was Missing: I don't know if it was the content, the writing, or Kristen Rossum's soul, but this book just didn't come across to me as very memorable.
    Death by Government
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    by Transaction Publishers
    Paperback (01 March, 1997)
    (13 reviews) 4.69 out of 5 stars
    Customer Review: War not biggest killer - governments kill more of their own: Sometimes it takes the insight of others to help me make better sense of what I already knew.

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