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The King of Diamonds : the search for the elusive Texas jewel thief
by Rena Pederson
An award-winning journalist, who has interviewed more than 200 people, from veteran cops to strippers, follows in the tracks of a high-profile jewel thief dubbed“the King of Diamonds” and discovers beneath the glittering surface of the Swinging Sixties was a world of sex trafficking, illegal gambling and political graft.
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The bishop and the butterfly : murder, politics, and the end of the Jazz Age
by Michael Wolraich
"Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered notebooks full of names--businessmen, socialites, gangsters. And something else: a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Led by the imperious Judge Samuel Seabury, the commission had uncovered a police conspiracy to frame women as prostitutes. Had Vivian Gordon been executed to bury her secrets? As FDR pressed the police to solve her murder, Judge Seabury pursued the trail of corruption to the top of Gotham's powerful political machine--the infamous Tammany Hall"
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Rabbit heart : a mother's murder, a daughter's story
by Kristine S. Ervin
Weaving together themes of power, gender and justice, the author, who was just eight years old when her mother was brutally murdered, recounts her drive to know her mother, and in the process, reckons with contradictions of what a woman is allowed to be and what a "true" victim looks like.
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Jack Ruby : The Many Faces of Oswald's Assassin
by Danny Fingeroth
Jack Ruby changed history with one bold, violent action: killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV two days after the November 22, 1963, murder of President John F. Kennedy. But who was Jack Ruby—and how did he come to be in that spot on that day?
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Blood on their hands : murder, corruption, and the fall of the Murdaugh dynasty
by Mandy Matney
"Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local South Carolina journalist Mandy Matney had an instinct that something wasn't right in the Lowcountry. The powerful Murdaugh dynasty had dominated rural South Carolina for generations. No one dared to cross them. When Mandy and her reporting partner Liz Farrell looked closer at a fatal boat crash involving the storied family's teenage son Paul, they began to uncover a web of mysteries surrounding the deathsof the Murdaughs' long-time housekeeper and a young man found slain years earlier on a backcountry road. Just as their investigations were unfolding, the brutal double murder of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh rocketed Alex Murdaugh onto the international stage"
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