Murder Files from Scotland Yard and the Black Museum, Gordon R. Michael
Автор: Delano, Anthony Название: Slip-up ISBN: 0955823838 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780955823831 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3931.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Keith Waterhouse, who wrote an ill-fated screenplay based on this book, said that Slip-Up was Perhaps the best analysis of Fleet Street at work ever written . It is the story of the discovery in Rio de Janeiro of Ronald Biggs, a celebrity fugitive on the run for 12 years after the Great Train Robbery of 1963 and the fiasco that resulted when newsmen and detectives worked out a bizarre plot to bring him back to Britain. Initially a cosy, if highly irregular, conspiracy between Scotland Yard and the Daily Express, the hunt for Biggs soon embroiled every circulation-hungry rival newspaper. And where Fleet Street led, the world s news media followed. It was The Story of the Century. Scotland Yard was outwitted from bungled beginning to embarrassed end. The Express was mercilessly mauled by its opponents. The ends of justice were soon forgotten. Biggs had (unwittingly though literally) planted the seeds of his own salvation and, infamously, he kept out of jail for another 27 years. Behind the blazing headlines an even more entertaining farce had been played out but the enthralled public and exasperated British government knew nothing of it until Anthony Delano, a veteran Fleet Street man himself, produced this riveting account of greed, ambition and double-dealing among a tribe of high-powered hacks on the warpath.
Автор: Fitzmaurice J. M. Название: Stories from the Old Yard: Book One ISBN: 1647019273 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781647019273 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2752.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In his book Stories from the Old Yard: Book One, the Murders, J. M. Fitzmaurice chronicles two decades of brutal murder inside the MAX-custody federal penitentiaries at Lompoc, California, and other Bureau of Prisons facilities. From Lompoc to Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and Florence, Colorado, to Marion, Illinois, Fitzmaurice reveals the backstory behind the brutal killings carried out in medieval fashion by deadly prison gangs and ruthless predators on the federal penitentiary circuit. Interlaced with humanity, humor, and compassion, Stories from the Old Yard is much more than regurgitated investigative reports-it captures the courage and heroism of the young men and women who risk their lives daily to protect one another and Convict Nation alike Some of these BOP staff gave their lives in this mission, and Fitzmaurice pays them the tribute they earned by making the ultimate sacrifice The afterword includes a sneak peek from book two, More Stories from the Old Yard
Описание: With startling new evidence, this gripping reexamination of the Black Dahlia murder offers a definitive theory of a quintessential American crime.
Автор: Nelson, Stanley Название: Klan of devils ISBN: 0807176079 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807176078 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4383.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the summer of 1965, several Ku Klux Klan members riding in a pickup truck shot two Black deputies on patrol in Washington Parish, Louisiana. Deputy Oneal Moore, the driver of the patrol car and father of four daughters, died instantly. His partner, Creed Rogers, survived and radioed in a description of the vehicle. Less than an hour later, police in Mississippi spotted the truck and arrested its driver, a decorated World War II veteran named Ernest Ray McElveen. They returned McElveen to Washington Parish, where he spent eleven days in jail before authorities released him. Afterward, the FBI sent its top inspector to Bogalusa, Louisiana, to participate in the murder inquiry—the only civil rights–era FBI investigation into the killing of a Black law enforcement officer by the KKK. Despite that assistance, lack of evidence and witnesses unwilling to come forward forced Louisiana prosecutors eventually to drop all charges against McElveen. The FBI continued its investigation but could not gather enough evidence to file charges, leaving the murder of Oneal Moore unsolved.Klan of Devils: The Murder of a Black Louisiana Deputy Sheriff is Stanley Nelson's investigation of this case, which the FBI probed from 1965 to 2016. Nelson describes the Klan's growth, and the emergence of Black activism in Bogalusa and Washington Parish, against the backdrop of political and social change in the 1950s and early 1960s. With the assistance of two retired FBI agents who worked the case, Nelson also explores the lives of the primary suspects, all of whom are now dead, and points to the Klansmen most likely responsible for the senseless and horrific attack.
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