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  • The Gashouse Gang

    How Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher, Branch Rickey, Pepper Martin, and Their Colorful, Come-from-Behind Ball Club Won the World Series-and America’s Heart-During the Great Depression

    by John Heidenry ...
    With The Gashouse Gang, John Heidenry delivers the definitive account of one the greatest and most colorful baseball teams of all times, the 1934 St. Louis Cardinals, filled with larger-than-life baseball personalities like Branch Rickey, Leo Durocher, Pepper Martin, Casey Stengel, Satchel Paige, Frankie Frisch, and -- especially -- the eccentric good ol' boy and great pitcher Dizzy Dean and his ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Zero at the Bone

    The Playboy, the Prostitute, and the Murder of Bobby Greenlease

    by John Heidenry ...
    "This true crime caper by Heidenry . . . of a 1953 Kansas child kidnapping gone bad carries a solid punch." — Publishers WeeklyIn 1953, six-year-old Bobby Greenlease, the son of a wealthy Kansas City automobile dealer and his wife, was kidnapped from his Roman Catholic elementary school by a woman named Bonnie Heady, a well-scrubbed prostitute who was posing as one of his distant aunts. Her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    A Brave Soldier, a Beautiful Dancer, and a Shocking Double Murder

    The New York Times–bestselling true crime author recounts the dramatic story of a struggling actor's double murder plot.Twenty-six-year-old actor Daniel Wozniak was unemployed, facing eviction, and deep in debt for his upcoming wedding. So he devised a diabolical plan: He asked his neighbor Sam Herr, a young war veteran, to help him move some things into the attic of an empty theater. There, ... Read more

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  • Darker than Night

    The True Story of a Brutal Double Homicide—and an 18-Year-Long Quest for Justice

    by Tom Henderson ...
    Series series St. Martin's True Crime Library
    A chilling account of the murders of two hunters in rural Michigan—a mystery that haunted a community and baffled the police for two decades.In the bitter cold of 1985, two buddies from Detroit embark on a hunting trip to the Michigan wilderness, unaware they will soon become the hunted.The eerie silence surrounding their sudden disappearance is broken after nearly two decades when a relentless ... Read more

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  • Whatever Mother Says . . .

    A True Story of a Mother, Madness and Murder

    Series series St. Martin's True Crime Classics
    In this true crime exposé, a single mother is accused of torturing and murdering her own daughters—and involving their siblings in the coverup.Raising her five kids alone in a rundown section of Sacramento, Theresa Cross Knorr seemed like the ultimate survivor. But her youngest daughter, sixteen-year-old Terry, told police another story: one in which Theresa—no longer the petite brunette she once ... Read more

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  • The Vanishing at Smokestack Hollow

    A Missing Family, a Desperate Plan, an Unsolved Mystery

    by Jake Anderson ...
    An immersive exploration of the mystery that gripped internet sleuths and bloggers and inspires an avid online following to this day—the bizarre disappearance of the Jamison family in the rugged Sans Bois Mountains—from a contemporary master of true crime journalism.“There’s dark stuff up there, sir. You know that, right? Cults and such.” That’s what Starlet Jamison told the Sheriff after her son ... Read more

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  • Open Secrets

    A True Story of Love, Jealousy, and Murder

    A true crime account of a brutal 1983 Texas murder and the ten-year hunt for the killer and the woman who placed a price on the victim's head."One of the most remarkable true crime books I've ever read." —Ann RuleOn a fall afternoon in 1983, in an upscale Dallas suburb, Rozanne Gailiunas was found stripped, bound to her bed, and shot through the skull. Her four-year-old son has been napping ... Read more

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  • While Innocents Slept

    A True Story of Revenge, Murder, and SIDS

    by Adrian Havill ...
    "A suspenseful, well-researched account of the life and trial of a man accused of smothering his babies for the insurance money." — Kirkus ReviewsIn 1981, the daughter of Garrett Wilson—a man prone to money problems and extramarital affairs—apparently succumbed to sudden infant death syndrome. In 1987, remarried and blessed with a new child, Garrett suffered another loss when his infant son also ... Read more

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  • The BTK Murders

    Inside the "Bind, Torture, Kill" Case That Terrified America's Heartland

    by Carlton Smith ...
    A detailed account of the serial killer who terrorized Wichita, Kansas, for more than thirty years from the New York Times–bestselling author.From 1974 to 1991, someone in the midwestern city of Wichita was leaving behind slain tortured bodies and anonymously proclaiming himself to police and reporters as "BTK" for "Bind, Torture, Kill." Then, for the next fourteen years, BTK was silent. But when ... Read more

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  • Mistress of Life and Death

    The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

    **A gripping, unflinching biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, one of the most notorious and contradictory figures at the heart of the Nazi regime, and her transformation from harmless small-town girl to hardened killer.With new details and previously unpublished photographs, this gripping, unflinching examination charts her transformation from engaging country girl to “The Beast” of Auschwitz.* ... Read more

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  • The Good Wife

    The Shocking Betrayal and Brutal Murder of a Godly Woman in Texas

    **From a New York Times–bestselling true crime writer, the true story of a devout Christian marriage destroyed by infidelity and murder.Roger and Penny Scaggs seemed a poster couple for family values. Evangelical Christians living in booming Austin, Texas, in the mid-1990s, they were respected leaders in their church and community. As Roger diligently worked his way up the high-tech corporate ... Read more

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  • My Brother the Killer

    A Family Story

    by Alix Sharkey ...
    "If Angela's Ashes and My Dark Place had a . . . love child, it might look . . . like [this] riveting family chronicle. . . . harrowing, heartbreaking . . . horrifying." —Mark Sarvas, author of. Memento ParkIn the gritty docklands of south-east England, Alix Sharkey and his younger siblings grew up in awe of their charismatic yet violent father, a vicious alcoholic. Yet it was Alix's kid brother ... Read more

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