Author : Mark Fuhrman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 1999-01-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 006109692X
Profiles the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley, presents new evidence that points the finger of suspicion to Martha's neighbors, and discusses how the police mishandled the case and may have prevented the crime from being solved.
Author : Liz Freeland
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496714253
For fans of HBO’s The Gilded Age, explore the dazzling world of America’s 19th century elite in this lush, page-turning saga… In early twentieth-century New York, a young social butterfly discovers the darker side of the big city . . . First in this suspenseful historical mystery series. A year before World War I breaks out, the sidewalks of Manhattan are crowded with restless newcomers chasing the fabled American Dream, including a sharp-witted young woman who discovers a talent for investigating murder . . . New York City, 1913. Twenty-year-old Louise Faulk has fled Altoona, Pennsylvania, to start a life under dizzying lights. In a city of endless possibilities, it’s not long before the young ingénue befriends a witty aspiring model and makes a splash at the liveliest parties on the Upper East Side. But glitter fades to grit when Louise’s Greenwich Village apartment becomes the scene of a violent murder and a former suitor hustling for Tin Pan Alley fame hits front-page headlines as the prime suspect. Driven to investigate the crime, Louise finds herself stepping into the seediest corners of the burgeoning metropolis—where she soon discovers that failed dreams can turn dark and deadly . . . Praise for the Louise Faulk Mystery series “Maisie Dobbs fans will be pleased.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Elon Green
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250833027
"In this work of nonfiction, Elon Green reports on a series of baffling and brutal crimes. The victims of the serial murderer dubbed the 'Last Call Killer' were all gay men, and Green tries to shine a light onto their complicated lives and the queer community in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s as well. Peter Stickney Anderson was the first of the known victims"-- Adapted from the publisher's description.
Author : Lynne Kennedy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,92 MB
Release : 2016-08-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781535572859
When a young reporter is pushed from a ninth story window in Greenwich Village, NYPD Homicide Lieutenant Frank Mead soon connects the case to a murder that took place at the same site a hundred years earlier, during the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.Following the devastating suicide of his wife seven years earlier, Frank abandoned his daughter Amanda and the city he loved. Now he's back to make amends and finds he has an urgent and personal reason to track today's killer. Amanda, also a reporter and friend of the dead girl, has gone missing. In the family tenement, Frank finds a "murder book" and evidence of the 1911 murder. The victim was, in fact, his great grandmother, a seamstress at the Triangle. Now, working with modern forensics, he is able to uncover killers in both centuries and in doing so, establish a tentative truce with his daughter.With a Masters' Degree in Science and more than 28 years as a science museum director, Lynne Kennedy has had the opportunity to study history and forensic science, both of which play significant roles in her novels. She has written six historical mysteries, each solved by modern technology. Time Exposure: Civil War photography meets digital photography to solve a series of murders in two centuries.The Triangle Murders was the winner of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Mystery Category, 2011, and was awarded the B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree Award for independent books of high standards.Deadly Provenance has also been awarded a B.R.A.G. Medallion and was a finalist for the San Diego Book Awards. With the release of Deadly Provenance, Lynne has launched a "hunt for a missing Van Gogh," the painting which features prominently in the book. "Still Life: Vase with Oleanders" has, in actuality, been missing since WWII.Her fourth book, Pure Lies, won the 2014 "Best Published Mystery" award by the San Diego Book Awards, and was a finalist in Amazon's Breakthrough Novel Award.Time Lapse, her fifth mystery, premiered at the end of 2016 to all 5-star reviews.Lynne's newest novel, Hart of Madness, premiered August of 2018 to all 5-star reviews.She blogs regularly and has many loyal readers and fans. Visit her website at www.lynnekennedymysteries.com
Author : Joyce Johnson
Publisher : Putnam Adult
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,12 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780399134746
A brilliantly researched investigation into the psychological, sexual, and social forces behind one of the most horrifying domestic crimes of the decade--the murder of six-year-old Lisa Steinberg.
Author : Dominick Dunne
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2012-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307815129
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER They were the family with everything. Money. Influence. Glamour. Power. The power to halt a police investigation in its tracks. The power to spin a story, concoct a lie, and believe it was the truth. The power to murder without guilt, without shame, and without ever paying the price. They were the Bradleys, America's royalty. But an outsider refuses to play his part. And now, the day of reckoning has arrived. Praise for A Season in Purgatory “Highly entertaining.”—Entertainment Weekly “Stunning.”—Liz Smith “Compelling.”—New York Daily News “Mesmerizing.”—The New York Times “Potent characterization and deftly crafted plotting.”—Publishers Weekly
Author : Marcia M. Gallo
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0801455898
In "No One Helped" Marcia M. Gallo examines one of America's most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese in a middle-class neighborhood of Queens, New York. Front-page reports in the New York Times incorrectly identified thirty-eight indifferent witnesses to the crime, fueling fears of apathy and urban decay. Genovese's life, including her lesbian relationship, also was obscured in media accounts of the crime. Fifty years later, the story of Kitty Genovese continues to circulate in popular culture. Although it is now widely known that there were far fewer actual witnesses to the crime than was reported in 1964, the moral of the story continues to be urban apathy. "No One Helped" traces the Genovese story's development and resilience while challenging the myth it created."No One Helped" places the conscious creation and promotion of the Genovese story within a changing urban environment. Gallo reviews New York's shifting racial and economic demographics and explores post–World War II examinations of conscience regarding the horrors of Nazism. These were important factors in the uncritical acceptance of the story by most media, political leaders, and the public despite repeated protests from Genovese's Kew Gardens neighbors at their inaccurate portrayal. The crime led to advances in criminal justice and psychology, such as the development of the 911 emergency system and numerous studies of bystander behaviors. Gallo emphasizes that the response to the crime also led to increased community organizing as well as feminist campaigns against sexual violence. Even though the particulars of the sad story of her death were distorted, Kitty Genovese left an enduring legacy of positive changes to the urban environment.
Author : Lacey Fosburgh
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1504038541
The real story behind the murder of a Manhattan schoolteacher that became a symbol of the dangers of casual sex: “A first-rate achievement” (Truman Capote). In 1973, Roseann Quinn, an Irish-Catholic teacher at a school for deaf children, was killed in New York City after bringing a man home to her apartment from an Upper West Side pub. The crime made headlines and the ensuing case quickly evolved into a cultural phenomenon, spawning both a #1 New York Times–bestselling novel and a film adaptation starring Diane Keaton and Richard Gere, and sparking debates about the sexual revolution and the perils of the “pickup scene” at what were popularly known as singles bars. In this groundbreaking true crime tale, Lacey Fosburgh, the New York Times reporter first assigned to the story, utilizes an inventive dramatization technique, in which she gives the victim a different name, to veer between the chilling, suspenseful personal interactions leading up to the brutal stabbing and the gritty details of its aftermath, including the NYPD investigation and the arrest of John Wayne Wilson. An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this classic of the genre is “more riveting, and more tragic, than the Judith Rossner novel—and 1977 movie Looking for Mr. Goodbar” (Men’s Journal).
Author : Nicholas Pekearo
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,29 MB
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765320261
Drifting from town to town after a dishonorable discharge, Marlowe Higgins struggles with a werewolf nature that forces him to kill bad guys during every full moon, leading to a deadly confrontation with a serial killer in small-town Tennessee.
Author : Herbert Asbury
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Crime
ISBN :
