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For the first time in paperback, author Ron Chepesiuk chronicles the little known history of organized crime in Harlem. African American organized crime has had as significant an impact on its constituent community as Italian, Jewish, and Irish organized crime has had on theirs. Gangsters are every bit as colorful, intriguing, and powerful as Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, and have a fascinating history in gambling, prostitution, and drug dealing. In...
3664) A grim game
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Rose Beckingham murder mysteries volume 4
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"When Rose Beckingham is hired to investigate a museum robbery, the case leads her into a trap set by her nemesis, the Chess Master. While working to ensnare this villain once and for all, Rose must confront the lies of her own past. Drawn into a dangerous game by the most elusive criminal in London, Rose and French detective Achilles Prideaux must risk everything before time runs out."--Provided by publisher.
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How would you solve the criminal case when the true criminal claims innocent and the innocent one tries to admit for fault. How will the investigators cipher through facial expression analysis, criminal psychology drawings, and hypnosis to find the missing needles in the hay stacks and solve the impossible case?
3671) Indicted
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"Meet Raquelle Summers; a hustler, conartist, drug dealer, and mother. Raquelle was living the American dream. She drank the finest wine, wore designer clothes, lived in a beautiful home, and shopped at the finest malls and boutiques; all funded by her criminal lifestyle. Suddenly her whole world was torn apart by a simple knock on her door. Raquelle was faced with several life altering situations when she found herself the target of a federal investigation"--Page...
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"Twenty years ago, Tracy Lawless escaped the crime-ridden streets of the city for a life in the military, and never looked back. But now his past is dragging him home from the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan, to find out who left his brother lying dead in an alley. As he digs through the wreckage of his family history, infiltrating the underworld life his brother Rick lived, the one thing Tracy has going for him is that no one knows who the hell he...
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When a powerful mob boss gives ex-gangster Jimmy the Saint one last job, it's an offer he can't refuse. All Jimmy and his partners had to do was intimidate their target. But when the job goes awry resulting in a fatal accident, they are marked for death, leaving Jimmy just 48 hours to put things right for his buddies and the woman of his dreams.
3676) Truth will out
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A mother and daughter are snatched on their drive home from a cinema. The crime has a number of chilling similarities to a cold case Professor Nick Fennimore had been lecturing on. Then Fennimore begins receiving taunting messages - is he being targeted by the kidnapper? Meanwhile, a photograph emailed from Paris could bring Fennimore closer to discovering the fate of Suzie, his own daughter, now missing for six years. He seeks help from his old friend,...
3677) Yardie
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Now a major film directed by Idris Elba, Yardie by Victor Headley shines a light on the brutal underworld of 90s London gang culture. At Heathrow Airport's busy immigration desk, a newly arrived Jamaican strolls through with a kilo of top-grade cocaine strapped to his body. And keeps on walking... By the time the syndicate get to hear about the missing consignment, D is in business - for himself - as the Front Line's newest don. But D's treachery...
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"Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe is a topic laced by prejudice on one hand and apologetics on the other. Beginning in the Middle Ages, Jews were often portrayed as criminals driven by greed. While these accusations were, for the most part, unfounded, in other cases criminal accusations against Jews were not altogether baseless. Drawing on a variety of legal, liturgical, literary, and archival sources, Ephraim Shoham-Steiner examines the reasons...
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This provocative account of our immigration system's long, racist history reveals how it has become the brutal machine that upends the lives of millions of immigrants today. Each year in the United States, hundreds of thousands of people are arrested, imprisoned, and deported, trapped in what leading immigrant rights activist and lawyer Alina Das calls the "deportation machine." The bulk of the arrests target people who have a criminal record -- so-called...
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