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Murder City
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Author : Charles Bowden
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-03-30
Murder City written by Charles Bowden and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-30 with History categories.
Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. In Murder City, Charles Bowden-one of the few journalists who spent extended periods of time in Juarez-has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants-a beauty queen who was raped, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing for his life-with a broader meditation on the town's descent into anarchy, Bowden reveals how Juarez's culture of violence will not only worsen, but inevitably spread north. Heartbreaking, disturbing, and unforgettable, Murder City was written at the height of his powers and established Bowden as one of America's leading journalists.
Murder City
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Author : Michael Arntfield
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2015-06-09
Murder City written by Michael Arntfield and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-09 with True Crime categories.
Like the mythic cities of Gotham or Gomorrah, London, Ontario was for many years an unrivalled breeding ground of depravity and villainy, the difference being that its monsters were all too real. In its coming to inherit the unwanted distinction of being the serial killer capital of not just Canada—but apparently also the world during this dark age in the city’s sordid history— the crimes seen in London over this quarter-century period remain unparalleled and for the most part unsolved. From the earliest documented case of homicidal copycatting in Canada, to the fact that at any given time up to six serial killers were operating at once in the deceivingly serene “Forest City,” London was once a place that on the surface presented a veneer of normality when beneath that surface dark things would whisper and stir. Through it all, a lone detective would go on to spend the rest of his life fighting against impossible odds to protect the city against a tidal wave of violence that few ever saw coming, and which to this day even fewer choose to remember. With his death in 2011, he took these demons to his grave with him but with a twist—a time capsule hidden in his basement, and which he intended to one day be opened. Contained inside: a secret cache of his diaries, reports, photographs, and hunches that might allow a new generation of sleuths to pick up where he left off, carry on his fight, and ultimately bring the killers to justice—killers that in many cases are still out there. Murder City is an explosive book over fifty years in the making, and is the history of London, Ontario as never told before. Stranger than fiction, tragic, ironic, horrifying, yet also inspiring, this is the true story of one city under siege, and a book that marks a game changer for the true crime genre.
Murder City
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Author : Michael Lesy
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date : 2008
Murder City written by Michael Lesy and has been published by W. W. Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Chicago (Ill.) categories.
Offers a portrait of Chicago during the 1920s as it became the murder capital of the United States and analyzes how some of Chicago's leaders participated in the criminal and violent activities of the period.
Murder In New York City
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Author : Eric H. Monkkonen
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2001-01-04
Murder In New York City written by Eric H. Monkkonen and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-04 with History categories.
This investigation into urban homicide covers two centuries of murder in America's biggest city. Combining statistical evidence with many other documentary sources, the book attempts to uncover the factors behind the statistics.
The Girls Of Murder City
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Author : Douglas Perry
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010-08-05
The Girls Of Murder City written by Douglas Perry and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-05 with History categories.
The true story of the murderesses who became media sensations and inspired the musical Chicago Chicago, 1924. There was nothing surprising about men turning up dead in the Second City. Life was cheaper than a quart of illicit gin in the gangland capital of the world. But two murders that spring were special - worthy of celebration. So believed Maurine Watkins, a wanna-be playwright and a "girl reporter" for the Chicago Tribune, the city's "hanging paper." Newspaperwomen were supposed to write about clubs, cooking and clothes, but the intrepid Miss Watkins, a minister's daughter from a small town, zeroed in on murderers instead. Looking for subjects to turn into a play, she would make "Stylish Belva" Gaertner and "Beautiful Beulah" Annan - both of whom had brazenly shot down their lovers - the talk of the town. Love-struck men sent flowers to the jail and newly emancipated women sent impassioned letters to the newspapers. Soon more than a dozen women preened and strutted on "Murderesses' Row" as they awaited trial, desperate for the same attention that was being lavished on Maurine Watkins's favorites. In the tradition of Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City and Karen Abbott's Sin in the Second City, Douglas Perry vividly captures Jazz Age Chicago and the sensationalized circus atmosphere that gave rise to the concept of the celebrity criminal. Fueled by rich period detail and enlivened by a cast of characters who seemed destined for the stage, The Girls of Murder City is crackling social history that simultaneously presents the freewheeling spirit of the age and its sober repercussions.
Murder City
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language : en
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Release Date : 2015-01-01
Murder City written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-01 with categories.
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Murder In Space City
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Author : Henry Peder Lundsgaarde
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Murder In Space City written by Henry Peder Lundsgaarde and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Social Science categories.
Murder In The City
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Author : Wilfried Kaute
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2017-06-13
Murder In The City written by Wilfried Kaute and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-13 with History categories.
When night falls on New York, the shadows are everywhere and death wears many faces. How the victims leave their bodies is deeply personal, but the witnesses to their death and the factors that brought it about belong to the public world—a somber world which is encapsulated in this gruesome survey of crime and violence in the 1910s. Parts of the city that are today among its trendiest neighborhoods were once the battlegrounds of evil forces, which left their mark in unforgettable ways. Here, newspaper clippings, police reports and testimonies are placed alongside the scenes that they describe, fleshing them out and giving life to the departed. Complete with an introduction from German actor and writer Joe Bausch, this book is a must for anyone who has ever anxiously imagined how dark an activity like dying can be—and isn’t that everyone?
Murder At City Hall
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Author : Edward I. Koch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996-06-24
Murder At City Hall written by Edward I. Koch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-06-24 with Mayors categories.
A despised real estate developer is murdered at a wedding, and some of New York City's most powerful people are on the list of suspects. It's up to the mayor himself to get to the bottom of the crime.
Violent Death In The City
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Author : Roger Lane
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1979
Violent Death In The City written by Roger Lane and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.
Roger Lane uses the statistics on violent death in Philadelphia from 1839 to 1901 to study the behavior of the living. His extensive research into murder, suicide, and accident rates in Philadelphia provides an excellent factual foundation for his theories. A computerized study of every homicide indictment during the sixty-two years covered is the source of the most detailed information. Analysis of suicide and accident statistics reveals differences in behavior patterns between the sexes, the races, young and old, professional and laborer, native and immigrant, and how these patterns changed overtime. Using both these group differences and the changing overall incidence of the three forms of death, Lane synthesizes a comprehensive theory of the influences of industrial urbanization on social behavior. He believes that the demands of the rising industrial system, as transmitted through factory, school, and bureaucracy, combined to socialize city dwellers in new ways, to raise the rate of suicide, and to lower rates of simple accident and murder. Finally, Lane suggests a relation between these developments and the violent disorder in the postindustrial city, which has lost the older mechanisms of socialization without finding any effective new ones. Original and probing, Lane's combination of statistics and theory makes this a significant new work in social, urban, and medical history.