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Throughout the long and colorful history of Galveston, no name has embodied the "Spirit of the Island" quite like the name Maceo. Two penniless Sicilian immigrants rose from modest beginnings to lead an entire city to prosperity, yet the nature of their industry and its abrupt and embarrassing end resulted in a legacy cloaked in stereotypes and rumor. For nearly forty years, Sam and Rose Maceo ruled a far-reaching underground economy of illegal booze...
2) Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How the F.B.I. Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos
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Leaving Vegas a fascinating glimpse into the world of Kansas City mobsters in the 1970sYou don't have to be a local history buff to be interested in the chronicles of Kansas City's infamous mob family. Those of us who were around here in the mid-1970s recall the headlines. Gary Jenkins, a former police detective (now attorney and author) takes us back to the players and key events of those days in Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How the FBI Wiretaps...
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The author has written a how to book on the art of conduct a surveillance on criminals. Gary Jenkins is a retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective and Gary uses real life situations to entertain and educate the reader in the art of surveillance. He tells about sitting in roach infested apartments for days and days, following a serial killer on foot though the back alleys of Kansas City and following professional criminals as they move...
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Marc Olván es un abogado de oficio en horas bajas, enamoradizo y alcohólico, que no pasa precisamente por un gran momento. Lidia Pedralba es una madre desesperada porque su hijo está en prisión preventiva, a la espera de juicio, acusado de violar a un niño de cuatro años. Pedralba necesita un abogado para actuar contra Daniel Trujillo, el juez qua ha enviado a la cárcel a su hijo sin ni siquiera escucharlo, a la vez que ha dejado en libertad...
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The Day Mia Jensen Died, She Finally Got To Live. We've all played the "what if" game. For forty-year-old Mia Jensen, "what if" is a fact of life. Dissatisfied with her choices, she often dreams about what could have been. Now she has the chance to know. But that knowledge will cost her dearly. Only through death can she fully realize the value of her life.
After a terrible day, trying to figure out how she's come to this point-alone, on the cusp...
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Una anciana millonaria aparece brutalmente asesinada en Biarritz, en un apartamento decadente que ella misma había alquilado. ¿Qué razones la llevaron allí y qué vínculo la unía con su asesino? Esos interrogantes serán el punto de partida de una investigación que poco a poco irá revelando otros enigmas y que estará teñida por el contraste entre un mundo de luces -riqueza, poder, arte en los barrios elegantes de París- y otro de sombras.
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Valverde del Camino, 2019. A serial killer leaves a third corpse with the same note in Huelva. It's the police's only lead. Three weeks and nothing.Ángela Ramírez left Valverde after her mother's death, and now, convinced by her partner and her best friend from her youth, she will have to return to face her most difficult case, and not only that, but also her past. A past she thought she had left behind.With the help of the Guardia Civil, Angela...
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New York City. 1974. Captain Don Gregory, a World War II veteran, hires Lee to investigatethe murder of his son, Sean, an ex-hippie who became a successfulentrepreneur.Meanwhile, Lee's sister, Ann, is recovering from a savage attack on her life.During Lee's investigation, he discovers a connection between the two incidents.
9) Sin aditivos
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A finales del mes de julio, al borde de las vacaciones y con el calor acechando cuerpos y mentes, el único objetivo del abogado protagonista de esta novela, con tanta habilidad para sacar adelante sus casos como pocos escrúpulos para complacer a sus clientes, es poder disfrutar de unos días de tranquilidad junto a su pareja y su hija.
Pero ni la isla ni su trabajo le darán tregua. La isla, porque algunos de los cadáveres que con frecuencia recibe...
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Inspector Lech Investigates.
Most people see Canberra as Australia's National Capital and the headquarters of its Federal Parliament and boring politics. Of course it's much more than that. A city of over 400,000 people, of monuments and important institutions and sporting organisations. It's not the perfectly planned city envisioned by its creators however, human nature sees to that. So we have crime – and murder.
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"Equal parts George Saunders, Raymond Chandler and Ludwig Wittgenstein . . . an intelligent and beguiling book that shouldn't be missed." -Time Out New York
Set in the once-great Midwestern city of Trude-a treacherous maze of convoluted shopping malls, barricaded libraries, and elitist assisted-living homes-this novel follows a disconsolate legal clerk named Sven Norberg, who sets out to investigate his wife's disappearance. Written with boundless...
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An ex-con risks his freedom and his life to rekindle an old love affair They call him Bad Dan, the Man Who Can. A talented photographer who makes his living smuggling premium Thai marijuana into the States, he meets Shel at a Las Vegas blackjack table, and falls instantly in love. After two years of whirlwind passion, they are living in California and plotting a final score. But in his haste to escape the con life, Dan makes a fatal mistake. The score...
14) Cause For Alarm!
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An invalid husband wrongly believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in a letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway.
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A daughter suffers from neglect by her rich parents. She & her friends turn to crime by dressing up like guys, holding up gas stations, raping young men at gunpoint, & having makeout parties when her parents are away. Their "fence" gets them to trash the school on request of sinister un-American clients, & they run afoul of the law, apple pie, & God himself. A J.D. extravaganza written by Ed Wood!
16) Jail Bait
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Ed Wood's enjoyably bad attempt at Film Noir on a shoestring budget. The cast includes Lyle Talbot, Dolores Fuller and Timothy Farrell from Wood's classic 'Glen Or Glenda', as well as the 1st appearance by Steve Reeves. Farrell plays a crook who draws a young man into crime. He blackmails the young man's plastic surgeon father into changing his face to evade police. Classic Schlock & fun
17) Never Heard
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Aaron Davis is accused of murder for a crime he didn't commit. His son Jalen gets entangled with dangerous drug dealers. Will Aaron find a way to prove his innocence and save his son's life before it is too late?
18) The Fatal Hour
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When Captain Street's (Grant Withers) best friend Dan Grady is murdered, Street enlists the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong (Boris Karloff) Mr. Wong uncovers a smuggling ring on the waterfront of San Francisco and unmasks the killer, though not until several more murders occur.
19) Nightmare
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A musician (Kevin McCarthy of "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" fame) has a nightmare in which he killed a man. When he wakes up, he finds evidence that the crime really took place and tries to find the truth with the help of his brother-in-law who is a homicide detective (Edward G. Robinson). A Film Noir classic!
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Bank teller Vince Grayson (DeForest Kelley) wakes from a nightmare in which he and an unknown woman murdered a man in a mirrored room. Only a dream but Vince finds he has physical objects and bruises from his "dream." His cop brother-in-law dismisses his story until the family, on a picnic, takes shelter from a thunderstorm in a deserted mansion containing the mirrored room.
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