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The big heist : the real story of the Lufthansa heist, the mafia, and murder / by DeStefano, Anthony M.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Deutsche Lufthansa (1953- ); Robbery; Mafia; Organized crime;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Last call : a true story of love, lust, and murder in queer New York / by Green, Elon,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.""In this astonishing and powerful work of nonfiction, Green meticulously reports on a series of baffling and brutal crimes targeting gay men. It is an investigation filled with twists and turns, but this is much more than a compelling true crime story. Green has shed light on those whose lives for too long have been forgotten, and rescued an important part of American history." -David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay community of New York City that he preyed upon. The Townhouse Bar, midtown, July 1992: The piano player seems to know every song ever written, the crowd belts out the lyrics to their favorites, and a man standing nearby is drinking a Scotch and water. The man strikes the piano player as forgettable. He looks bland and inconspicuous. Not at all what you think a serial killer looks like. But that's what he is, and tonight, he has his sights set on a gray haired man. He will not be his first victim. Nor will he be his last. The Last Call Killer preyed upon gay men in New York in the '80s and '90s and had all the hallmarks of the most notorious serial killers. Yet because of the sexuality of his victims, the skyhigh murder rates, and the AIDS epidemic, his murders have been almost entirely forgotten. This gripping true-crime narrative tells the story of the Last Call Killer and the decades-long chase to find him. And at the same time, it paints a portrait of his victims and a vibrant community navigating threat and resilience"--
Subjects: Anderson, Peter Stickney.; Serial murderers; Murder; Trials (Murder); Gay men;
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Diners, drive-ins, and death / by Wenger, Christine Anne,1952-;
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Matkowski, Trixie (Fictitious character); Motorcyclists; Murder; Diners (Restaurants);
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French twist / by Patterson, James,1947-; DiLallo, Richard.;
"Gorgeous women are dropping dead at upscale department stores in New York City. Detectives Luc Moncrief and Katherine Burke are close to solving the mystery, but looks can be deceiving"--Back cover.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Murder; Women; Police;
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The girls : an all-American town, a predatory doctor, and the untold story of the gymnasts who brought him down / by Pesta, Abigail,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.From Abigail Pesta, an award-winning and respected investigative journalist, comes the inside story of how serial predator Larry Nassar got away with abusing hundreds of gymnasts for decades, and how a team of brave women, activists, and lawyers banded together to bring him down
Subjects: Nassar, Larry.; Child molesters; Child sexual abuse; Sex crimes; Sexual abuse victims;
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Midnight alias / by Kennedy, Elle.;
Subjects: Romantic suspense fiction.; Government investigators; Undercover operations; Soldiers of fortune; Organized crime;
© c2013., Signet Eclipse,
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Bloodbath nation / by Auster, Paul,1947-author.; Ostrander, Spencer,photographer.;
"Each year, approximately forty thousand Americans are killed by gunshot wounds, which is roughly equivalent to the annual rate of traffic deaths on American roads and highways. Of those forty thousand gun fatalities, more than half of them are suicides, which in turn account for half of all suicides per year. Add in the murders caused by guns, the accidental deaths caused by guns, the law enforcement killings caused by guns, and the average comes out to more than one hundred Americans killed by bullets every day. On that same average day, another two hundred-plus are wounded by guns, which translates into eighty thousand a year. Eighty thousand wounded and forty thousand dead, or one hundred and twenty thousand ambulance calls and emergency room cases for every twelve-month tick of the clock, but the toll of gun violence goes far beyond the pierced and bloodied bodies of the victims themselves, spilling out into the devastations visited upon their immediate families, their extended families, their friends, their fellow workers, the people of their neighborhoods, their schools, their churches, their softball teams, and communities at large-the vast brigade of lives touched by the presence of a single person who lives or has lived among them-meaning that the number of Americans directly or indirectly marked by gun violence every year must be tallied in the millions"--
Subjects: Firearms accidents; Firearms ownership; Mass shootings; Mortality; Victims of violent crimes;
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Macaroni and freeze / by Wenger, Christine Anne,1952-;
Trixie becomes the focus of a murder investigation when a cook-off judge is murdered after Trixie loses the competition.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Matkowski, Trixie (Fictitious character); Cooking; Restaurateurs (Restaurants); Fund raising; Murder; Cooks;
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Feta attraction / by Hardy, Susannah.;
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Nikolopatos, Georgie (Fictitious character); Restaurateurs; Murder; Television programs; Missing persons; Haunted places; Restaurateurs;
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The last boss of Brighton : Boris "Biba" Nayfeld and the rise of the Russian mob in America / by Century, Douglas,author.;
Boris Nayfeld, a.k.a. "Biba," is the last living boss of the old-school Russian mob in America, and he's survived to tell it all. Filled with sex, drugs, and murder, Biba's story is a mind-boggling journey that took him from petty street crime in the USSR to billion-dollar embezzlement in America. Born in Soviet-era Belarus, abandoned by his parents in infancy, Biba's brutal upbringing left him hungry for more--more power, control, and money. Taking advantage of the rampant corruption in the Soviet Union, Biba's teenage hooliganism quickly turned into bolder "black cash" rackets, making him, by Soviet standards, a very rich young man. When authorities took notice and threatened him with "the supreme measure"-- execution by firing squad--he managed to get out of the USSR just in time. Within months of landing in America, his intimidating presence and street smarts quickly made him legendary in the Soviet émigré community of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, and launched him to the top of New York's Russian Jewish mob, one of the world's most inventive, powerful and violent criminal organizations. After decades as a globe-trotting boss, and three stints in U.S. federal prisons he remains unbroken and unrepentant, even as his entire life has unraveled around him. Now seventy-four years old, Biba is a lion in winter. Douglas Century vividly brings the notorious gangster to life in these pages, telling not only his epic journey but also the history of the Russian mob in America.
Subjects: Biographies.; True crime stories.; Nayfeld, Boris.; Organized crime; Russian American criminals;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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