The bestselling true crime classic from the creator of The Wire, is now a canon
When she finds her mentor lying in a pool of blood, clutching a priceless and supposedly cursed copy of Goethe's Faust, book restorer Brooklyn Wainwright is accused of murder and theft by an annoyingly attractive British security officer.
Pellegrini picks up one file for the Callow Avenue addresses and shuffles through a dozen computer printouts. The sheets with sex offense arrests are marked by a red grease pencil.
In American Homicide, Randolph Roth charts changes in the character and incidence of homicide in the U.S. from colonial times to the present.
In introducing the broad spectrum of different features, aspects and forms of homicide, Fiona Brookman examines its patterns and trends, how it may be explained, its investigation and how it may be prevented.
Three murders, counterfeit money, and a soup-stained tie that becomes a deadly weapon engulf grand master of detection Nero Wolfe and his sidekick Archie in intrigue
the family which has suffered the double loss endeavors to kill another of their enemies . ... Finally , we cannot leave a discussion of hunter - gatherer practices without reference to the Kalahari San , the best studied and most ...
Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie's Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty and humorous cozy mystery series by Mia P. Manansala.
Ethnic. and. Immigrant. Homicide. Contrast. It has become commonplace in the social science literature and popular ... however, as James F. Short Jr., in Poverty, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime, contends, “attention has focused on crimes ...
A Scrapbook of Noir Los Angeles Heretofore kept tightly secured under lock and key in police files, the hundreds of historic scene-of -crime photos collected in this book were assembled by a now-deceased Los Angeles police detective.
The Handbook of Homicide presents a series of original essays by renowned authors from around the world, reflecting the latest scholarship on the nature, causes, and patterns of homicide, as well as policies and practices for its ...