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Rutledge Hill Press
America`s Dumbest Criminals Description: This hysterical collection of stories of actual crimes committed by clumsy crooks and fumbling felons will have you laughing out loud at painfully dumb attempts at crime. Illustrated.... Read More about the "America`s Dumbest Criminals" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Kodansha International
Confessions Of A Yakuza Description: This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn`t a good life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one; and the tale he has to tell presents an honest and oddly attractive picture of an insider in that separate, unofficial world. In his low, hoarse voice, he describes the random events that led the son of a prosperous country shopkeeper to become a member, and ultimately the leader, of a gang organizing illegal dice games in Tokyo`s liveliest entertainment area. He talks about his first police raid, and the brutal interrogation and imprisonment that followed it. He remembers his first love affair, and the girl he ran away with, and the weeks they spent wandering about the countryside together. Briefly, and matter-of-factly, he describes how he cut off the little finger of his left hand as a ritual gesture of apology. He explains how the games were run and the profits spent; why the ties between members of the brotherhood were so important; and how he came to kill a man who worked for him. What emerges is a contradictory personality: tough but not unsentimental; stubborn yet willing to take life more or less as it comes; impulsive but careful to observe the rules of the business he had joined. And in the end, when his tale is finished, you feel you would probably have liked him if you`d met him in person. Fortunately, Dr. Saga`s record of his long conversations with him provides a wonderful substitute for that meeting.... Read More about the "Confessions Of A Yakuza" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Plexus Publishing
Ed Gein Description: The life of Edward Gein is a dark legend. When police raided his mid-western American farmhouse in November 1957, they found a gruesome cache that roused the Eisenhower era from its slumbers. In more than four decades since Gein was locked away in a mental institution, his story has bled its way into popular culture: Alfred hitchcock`s Psycho (1960) based the mother-fixated Norman Bates on the oedipal Gein; The Silence of the Lambs (1991) featured a grotesque skin tranvestite based on Gein. Autumn 2001 now sees the UK release of Ed Gein the first time filmmakers have dared tell the story without a leavening of fiction.... Read More about the "Ed Gein" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Avalon Publishing
Hit 29 Based On The Killers Own Account Description: After the crime-primer success of Joey the Hitman, Hit 29 takes readers on a stranger-than-fiction journey of one actual hit taken on by Jewish hitman, numbers king, and loan shark Joey. But the twenty-ninth contract hit Joey has taken on (without a conviction) turns out to be a lot more complicated than it first appears. As recounted in Joey`s patented matter-of-fact, regular-guy tone, the target, a low-level numbers controller, turns out to be an old acquaintance from the neighborhood, the client is a man who once tried to have Joey hit, and there are enough twists and double-backsnot to mention fascinatingly credible mob details and colorto keep Soprano fans up all night. This New York Times best-seller, soon to be a major motion picture from Paramount, is a true-crime classic.... Read More about the "Hit 29 Based On The Killers Own Account" on the The Nile Book Store Website

The Nile Book Store
Iceman: Confessions Of A Mafia Contract Killer Description: Richard Kuklinski, aka `the Ice Man`, will go down as one of the most vicious killers in history. Responsible for well over 200 murders, he is the man who claims a direct link to the killing of Jimmy Hoffa and he is one of the reasons for John Gotti`s rise to power. The wife of one victim referred to him as `the devil`. Yet behind every monster, even the most cold-blooded ones, there lies a human story. After 240 hours of face-to-face interviews with Richard Kuklinksi and even more time spent with Kuklinski`s family, Philip Carlo reveals all in The Iceman. He led a double life: professional assassin and devoted family man. As described by his wife Barbara, Richard was two people. At times he was a model father that would return home with a car full of groceries and presents, and at other times he was a monster, frequently subjecting Barbara to abuse and leaving their children to watch in horror. But despite even his worst moments at home, his family never knew of his other life as a top hitman contracted by the bosses of east coast crime families. On the day Richard was arrested, the police found not one single weapon in the house. His family never knew of the nights he would meander into Manhattan`s Upper West Side and brutally kill whatever panhandler stepped in his path. In short, Richard Kuklinksi may have been one of the greatest enigmas ever.... Read More about the "Iceman: Confessions Of A Mafia Contract Killer" on the The Nile Book Store Website

John Blake Publishing
Jack The Ripper`s Black Magic Rituals Description: For more than a century, the horrific story of Jack the Ripper has endured. The ghastly crimes of the world`s most notorious serial killer are legend, and since they were committed, contemporary sleuths have spent many lifetimes attempting to identify their perpetrator. Jack the Ripper`s Black Magic Rituals takes the reader step-by-step through the precise events at the center of the Ripper`s reign of terror, uncovering a twisted melange of murder and black magic. More importantly, author Ivor J. Edwards makes a convincing case as to Jack the Ripper`s true identity. That man is Dr. Robert Donston Stephenson, an army surgeon, occultist, and magician, who may have also murdered and dismembered his own wife before the terrible spree in Whitechapel began.... Read More about the "Jack The Ripper`s Black Magic Rituals" on the The Nile Book Store Website

John Blake Publishing
Murder On The Common Description: No one could have imagined that when beautiful Rachel Nickell went for a walk on Wimbledon Common with her little son, it would have resulted in a wicked, sickening crime that appalled a nation; or that the police investigation that followed would cost over a million pounds. This is the book that the Metropolitan Police tried to ban. It contains shocking letters between police and the chief suspect of this terrible crime, that will make you wonder if justice was really done...... Read More about the "Murder On The Common" on the The Nile Book Store Website

John Blake Publishing
Muscle Description: Carlton Leach is a man to be reckoned with: make a friend of Carlton and you have an ally for life; cross him at your peril. Here he presents his life as a key member of the dreaded Essex Boys gang which ran riot in the eighties and nineties, sparking a savage drugs war.... Read More about the "Muscle" on the The Nile Book Store Website

John Blake Publishing
Parkhurst Tales Description: Revealing the secret world of one of Britain`s highest security jails as no one on the outside could possibly imagine, Norman Parker has spent over half his life in prison. He was released from prison after 23 continuous years in prison.;From his arrival in Parkhurst in the early 1970s as a category-A prisoner, he mixed with some of Britain`s hardest cases. Parkhurst is immensely tough. But Norman Parker has one special quality that helped sustain him there - he is a natural observer of the human condition.;There at close quarters he encountered: gangsters, such as Reg and Ron Kray and Eddie Richardson; armed robbers, including Great Train Robber Buster Edwards; characters such as Billy G, a well-known London club owner who went robbing with John McVicar; and Lambo Rony Lambrianou of the Krays, as well as a host of others who would prove that Parkhurst itself was such a dangerous place that you had to watch out for your life.... Read More about the "Parkhurst Tales" on the The Nile Book Store Website

John Blake Publishing
Parkhurst Tales 2 Description: Norman Parker himself was an inmate at Parkhurst. Now an educated and respected writer, he returns to the prison which spawned so many stories and introduces us to a harmless burglar, IRA bombers, a cannibal and serial killer.... Read More about the "Parkhurst Tales 2" on the The Nile Book Store Website

HAWKSMERE LTD
Poison Farm: A Murderer Unmasked After 60 Years Description: A true crime story: investigative journalist David Williams unravels the 60-year-old mystery of who murdered wealthy Suffolk businessman and womaniser William Murfitt.... Read More about the "Poison Farm: A Murderer Unmasked After 60 Years" on the The Nile Book Store Website

John Blake Publishing
Romeo Killer Description: The Good-Looking Charmer Who Loved Women...to Death. The new Wensley Clarkson collection comprises a new Clarkson title every month. Blake Publishing are launching this series in response to an overwhelming demand for more books from the world`s greatest true crime author.... Read More about the "Romeo Killer" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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