Search Results: True Crime from Infinity Books Japan

US: Basic Books, 2003. Paperback. Good. The author of the New York Times best-seller The Gangs of New York returns with a second volume of tales from Gotham's underworld. In this wonderfully colorful and surprising history, Herbert Asbury expands his purview beyond the Five Corners to the entire city of New York. From Lord Cornbury, a loo nily corrupt, cross-dressing British governor of colonial days, to the Broa dway pickpocket who built herself a mansion in Hoboken, where she set herse lf up as European royalty, to prohibitionist Carry Nation's first visit to a scornful city of saloons (and her memorable confrontation with the drunke n John L. Sullivan), All Around the Town brings to vivid life a memorable r ange of characters, grifters, murderers, and madmen. Rediscovering a fascin ating array of lost corners in the history of the city, Asbury shows that t oday's tabloid headlines have nothing on the daily goings-on 150 years ago. From "The Sawing-Off of Manhattan Island" to "The Wickedest Man in… Read More

New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, 1996. Good. Explores the controversial life and violent death of twenty-one-year-old Te ena Brandon, who posed as a man in her flight from the law and her family, and who shared romantic relationships with several young women before she w as exposed and murdered. Original.

US: Dell Publishing Company, 1990. Paperback. Good. Maverick FBI agents Gibbons and Tozzi, who first appeared in Bad Guys, now walk the edge between breaking the law and upholding it as they take on a b izarre murder case involving the Mafia and its Japanese equivalent, the Yak uza.

US: Picador, 2019. Paperback. Very Good. A New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year A ward 'Chilling . . . Reads like a West Coast version of All the President's Men. ' New York Times Book Review The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of The ranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journa list who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the f emale Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" prom ised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make b lood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as L arry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round th at valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion.… Read More

US: Harper Perennial, 2008. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Thieves, liars, killers, and conspirators-it's a criminal world out there, and someone has got to write about it. An eclectic collection of the year's best reportage, The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 brings together the murderers and the master­minds, the mysteries and missteps that make for brilliant stories, told by the aces of the true-crime genre. This latest addition to the highly acclaimed series features guest editor Jonathan Kellerman, bestselling author of more than twenty crime novels, most recently Compulsion and the forthcoming Bones.

US: WH Allen, 2018. Paperback. Good. Black Edge is a nonfiction legal thriller about the U.S. government's attem pt to take down billionaire hedge fund manager Steven A. (Steve) Cohen for insider trading, as well as a look at how much of Wall Street evades the la w by using loopholes in existing laws and regulations to avoid prosecution for their crimes.

US: PublicAffairs, 2015. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A New York Times Bestseller A Boston Globe Bestseller An ABA Indie Bestseller James "Whitey" Bulger became one of the most ruthless gangsters in US histo ry, and all because of an unholy deal he made with a childhood friend. John Connolly a rising star in the Boston FBI office, offered Bulger protection in return for helping the Feds eliminate Boston's Italian mafia. But no on e offered Boston protection from Whitey Bulger, who, in a blizzard of gangl and killings, took over the city's drug trade. Whitey's deal with Connolly' s FBI spiraled out of control to become the biggest informant scandal in FB I history. Black Mass is a New York Times and Boston Globe bestseller, written by two former reporters who were on the case from the beginning. It is an epic story of violence, double-cross, and corruption at the center of… Read More

US: Washington Square Press, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Against the sweeping backdrop of western Sicily, in a riveting seven-year q uest, Frank Viviano pieces together his own harrowing ancestral history of betrayal and redemption. His take is haunted, from its violent opening to i ts stunning climax, by an ancient Sicilian proverb, Lu sangu lava lu sangu, "Blood washes blood": the torrent of unforgiving vengeance that flows from an unforgivable offense. Viviano's great-great grandfather was a legendary bandit who traveled the c ountryside of Sicily by night in the robes of a friar and was known as "the Monk." His brutal murder has remained shrouded in mystery for four generat ions. Until now. Populated by an extraordinary cast of nineteenth-century Robin Hood brigands and twentieth-century underworld bosses, here is a true-life Godfather, in which past… Read More

US: Morrow, 1989. Hardcover. Good/Good. From the author of The Onion Field and Echos in the Darkness, the historic first use of genetic fingerprint to solve two savage murders in the English Midlands.

US: Pete Earley, Inc, 1995. Paperback. Good. Pete Earley's The Hot House gave America a riveting, uncompromising look at the nation's most notorious prison--the federal penitentiary in Leavenwort h, Kansas - a book that Kirkus Reviews called a "fascinating white-knuckle tour of hell, brilliantly reported." Now Earley shows us a different, even more intimate view of justice - and injustice - American-style. In Monroeville, Alabama, in the fall of 1986, a pretty junior college student was found murdered in the back of the dry cleaning shop where she worked. Several months later, Walter "Johnny D." McMillian, a black man with no criminal record, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for the crime. As McMillian sat in his cell on Alabama's death row, a young black lawyer named Bryan Stevenson took up his own investigation into the murder of Ronda Morrison. Finding a trial tainted by procedural mistakes, conflicting eyewitness accounts, and outright perjury, he was determined to see McMillian go… Read More

Toronto ; New York: Bantam Books, 1986. Paperback. Good. Presents a selection of more than ten thousand previously unpublished inter nal documents of the Hughes organization, including three thousand pages of the billionaire's own handwritten memos, which reveal his innermost activi ties and how he tried to buy the American government.

UK: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 1992. Good. An investigation of the convictions, later quashed, arising from the murder of PC Keith Blakelock in the Broadwater Farm Estate riot at Tottenham in 1 985. Based on examination of police reports and legal papers, the book sets out to present evidence of widespread police corruption.

US: John Blake, 2006. Paperback. Good. Norman Parker spent 25 years of his life in a high security Category A pris on. Convicted of murder and manslaughter in the 1970s, he was sentenced to life at the notorious Parkhurst Prison. Norman Parker has certainly seen a lot during his time on the inside, and this is his complete collection of t ales from behind the bars. He encountered some of the highest-profile crimi nals in Britain, from the Kray twins to the Great Train Robbers, and met ca nnibals, IRA bombers, and cold-hearted killers. The Complete Parkhurst Tale s is a shockingly powerful and intimate portrayal of the prison system fill ed with Norman Parker's sharp intelligence and witty observations on every aspect of the secret world in one of Britain's toughest jails.

US: Pocket, 1986. Good.

US: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The Italian-American mafia has its roots in a mysterious and powerful criminal network in Sicily. While the mythology of the mafia has been widely celebrated in American culture, the true origins of its rituals, laws, and methods have never actually been revealed. John Dickie uses startling new research to expose the secrets of the Sicilian mafia, providing a fascinating account that is more violent, frightening, and darkly comic than anything conceived in popular movies and novels. How did the Sicilian mafia begin? How did it achieve its powerful grip in Italy and America? How does it operate today? From the mafia's origins in the 1860s to its current tense relationship with the Berlusconi government, Cosa Nostra takes us to the inner sanctum where few have dared to go before. This is an… Read More

US: HarperCollins, 1992. Near Fine/Near Fine. In excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlig hting. The spine remains undamaged. An account of the brutal murder of Chris Hobson describes how Hobson's stepmother conspired with her son to kill her stepson, driving him to a remote place, making him dig his own grave, and shooting him in it.

US: Granta Books, 2006. Very Good. In the winter of 1996, the writer Janet Malcolm received a letter from a st ranger - a disbarred lawyer named Sheila McGough, who had recently been rel eased from prison, and who wrote that she been convicted of crimes she had not committed. McGough's was an obscure fraud case, just as McGough herself was obscure: a fifty-four- year- old woman who when Malcolm met her 'looke d and sounded like a blandly wholesome heroine of fifties movies', toiling in the lower reaches of the American legal profession. Malcolm, however, de cided to look into her alleged crime. Out of her investigations and her com pelling narration there emerges a startling portrait of American cupidity a nd American law, and of a woman too innocent to survive among either.

Pocket, 1996. Very Good. Another chilling and creepy book from the reigning queen of true-crime, Ann Rule, who also penned the riveting bestseller Small Sacrifices. Here, we e ncounter a charismatic con-artist accused of brutally bludgeoning his wife and follow his case through to its strangely redemptive end.

New York: Doubleday, 1994. First Edition. Very Good/Near Fine. A highly collectible first edition (as stated)not an ex-lib or book club ed ition. Maples' first exposure to his career came as a freshman in college when a class he wanted was full and his adviser then suggested he take the survey course on anthropology. Maples was fortunate, as will be any reader with a strong stomach who picks up his book. He tells how he learned to look at mangled bodies and continues to explain how he learned to both see and observe and how he discovered such fruitful techniques as tasting bone samples. Although it tends to be lifeless, forensic anthropology is not a cut-and-dried subject; nevertheless, Maples narrates his cases clearly and engagingly. He describes the remains (or, when burnt, cremains) presented to him, describes what he looks for, and guides us through his thinking and the search for additional clues and information. His most difficult, fascinating, and perplexing case dealt with a 1985 apparent… Read More

US: Ballantine Books, 2000. Paperback. Good. We want to talk to you about my brother who was murdered twenty-one years ago--can we come in?" The veneer of tranquility in White Bear Lake, Minneso ta, began to crack the day Jerry Sherwood and her son showed up at the poli ce station to inquire about her first-born son, Dennis--adopted by Lois and Harold Jurgens and dead before his fourth birthday. The autopsy report rul ed peritonitis was the cause, but the startling photos of the boy suggested murder. How could the Jurgens kill a small child and get away with it? Determined t o find answers, detectives Ron Meehan and Greg Kindle tracked down old witn esses and rebuilt the case brick by brick until they exposed the demons tha t drove an adopted parent to torture and eventually murder a helpless child . Just as compelling, they investigated why so many people watched and did absolutely nothing. A vivid portrait of an all-American town that harbored a killer, A Death in White Bear Lake is also the… Read More