Blazing from the West Side, the Great Chicago Fire left nothing but ashy remnants of the developing city, leveling its landscape but certainly not its spirit. While the West Side was home to the infam
From the very beginning, Chicago thrived on its reputation as a wide-open town. After the Great Fire, no part of the city was rebuilt more quickly than the vice districts, where bribed cops and brutal
New York Police Detective Reardon uncovers the links connecting the murder of a Little Italy restaurateur, the financial manipulations of a Madison Avenue art dealer, and the fluctuations in the inter
We once thought of them as bigots with bats, roaming the streets with premeditated murder on their minds, dangerous to any member of a targeting group who happened into their path. Now we know from st
Agroundbreaking account of London’srelationship with death, this book covers the afterlife, execution, bodysnatching, murder, fatal disease, spiritualism, bizarre deaths, and cemete
Caspi (law and political science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City U. of New York) reminds us that violent domestic far-right groups in the U.S. such as the Aryan Nations are as much of a th
THE GRIPPING DEBUT NOVEL OF AWARD-WINNING NEW YORK POST HEADLINE WRITER DEB PINESMimi Goldman leaves New York City in 1997 to work for a small-town newspaper in the middle of nowhere, Chautauqua, NY.
You are U.S. Army Military Intelligence trainee David Dengler. Following Army M.I. protocol, you are sent on a training exercise to a city you've never visited before and ordered to surveil a public p
New York Times BestsellerEdgar Award winner for Best Fact CrimeThe Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story
Las Vegas. Lost Wages. Sin City. An artificial oasis of pleasure, spectacle, and entertainment, the gambling capital of America has reinvented itself so many times that its doubtful that anyone knows
Las Vegas. Lost Wages. Sin City. An artificial oasis of pleasure, spectacle, and entertainment, the gambling capital of America has reinvented itself so many times that it's doubtful that anyone kn
A New York Times Notable Book: Acclaimed true-crime journalist Linda Wolfe delivers a riveting, comprehensive account of the Preppie Murder, a crime that shocked a city and a nation. It was called the
Twenty notorious London murders; a history of the city and its underbelly. Capital Crimes tells the shifting story of crime and punishment in London through vivid re-creations of a series of murd
