Together, theirs is the tale of how the city of sunshine got noir. --From publisher description.

This delightful journey begins with Andrea di Robilant’s serendipitous discovery of a travel narrative published in Venice in 1558 by the Renaissance statesman Nicolò Zen: the text and its fascinating nautical map re-created the travels ...

But crusading journalist Mabel Norris Reese cannot stop fretting over the case and its baffling outcome. Who was protecting whom, or what? She pursues the story for years, chasing down leads, hitting dead ends, winning unlikely allies.

This work, winner of the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award, provides an account of the international scandal and media activity surrounding the death of Starr Faithfull in 1931.

In this true crime classic, out of print since 1981, Lucky Luciano remains a mythical underworld figure.

FROM NARCISSISM TO AGGRESSION, AN ORIGINAL LOOK AT THE PERSONALITY TRAITS AND BEHAVIORS THAT CONSTITUTE EVIL In this groundbreaking book, renowned psychiatrist Michael H. Stone explores the concept and reality of evil from a new perspective ...

Yes, this is the absolutely official guide to lockpicking from the US government and the Central Intelligence Agency. This is the same information that active agents in the field use to get what they need—even when it’s locked away.

The Prison Break, the Manhunt, the Inside Story In June 2015, two vicious convicted murderers broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, in New York’s North Country, launching the most extensive manhunt in state history.

In a frank and enlightening look at our criminal courts, attorney Roy Black reveals his defense strategies in four cliffhanger cases.

Understanding Parricide is the most comprehensive book available about juvenile and adult sons and daughters who kill their parents.

In a frank and enlightening look at our criminal courts, attorney Roy Black reveals his defense strategies in four cliffhanger cases.

Understanding Parricide is the most comprehensive book available about juvenile and adult sons and daughters who kill their parents.

Here Michaud and Hazelwood go beyond the lurid details, to a deeper understanding of the depraved minds behind the grisly crimes, in a stark, startling, and fascinating work you will not soon forget.

The chilling true story of the Spahalski brothers, who looked alike, acted alike—and killed alike .

This book tells the story of the Galloway Boys, who as young teens banded together in an urban-blighted area of Toronto's east end to sell drugs and run guns.

A model of cultural history, this ambitious book will stimulate and enlighten readers across a broad range of interests.

We take a journey with Big Man, the son of an Italian Mafia don whose only ambitions were to watch his son grow in the ranks of the family.

Al DeMeo will never forget the day in 1992 when a coworker, a fellow trader at the New York Stock Exchange, taunted him with a copy of the hot new book Murder Machine, chronicling the horrific criminal life of DeMeo's father, Roy, the head ...

Con un’analisi puntuale e ricca di documenti inediti, Ron Chepesiuk racconta il dietro le quinte di una guerra spietata, un conflitto epocale che ha lasciato una tragica scia di morte.

Read this book and know the truth about him. It is an urgent message from death row; the whole story of who Damien Echols really is.