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Black Dahlia : Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood. by Mann, William J.;
In 'Black Dahlia', William J. Mann offers the first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder - the most famous unsolved true crime case in American history - which humanizes the victim and situates the notorious case within an anxious, postwar country grappling with new ideas, demographics, and technologies.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women; TRUE CRIME / Historical; TRUE CRIME / Murder / General;
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Dangerous Rhythms Jazz and the Underworld [electronic resource] : by English, T. J..aut; cloudLibrary;
From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America. "[A] brilliant and courageous book." —Dr. Cornel West Dangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of jazz and the underworld: a relationship fostered in some of 20th century America’s most notorious vice districts. For the first half of the century mobsters and musicians enjoyed a mutually beneficial partnership. By offering artists like Louis Armstrong, Earl “Fatha” Hines, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, and Ella Fitzgerald a stage, the mob, including major players Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, and Charlie “Lucky” Luciano, provided opportunities that would not otherwise have existed. Even so, at the heart of this relationship was a festering racial inequity. The musicians were mostly African American, and the clubs and means of production were owned by white men. It was a glorified plantation system that, over time, would find itself out of tune with an emerging Civil Rights movement. Some artists, including Louis Armstrong, believed they were safer and more likely to be paid fairly if they worked in “protected” joints. Others believed that playing in venues outside mob rule would make it easier to have control over their careers. Through English’s voluminous research and keen narrative skills, Dangerous Rhythms reveals this deeply fascinating slice of American history in all its sordid glory.
Subjects: Electronic books.; 20th Century; Jazz; Organized Crime;
© 2022., HarperCollins,
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Murder of innocence : true-crime thrillers / by Patterson, James,1947-author.; Bourelle, Andrew,author.; DiLallo, Max,author.; Patterson, James,1947-Murderous affair.;
Two true-crime thrillers include "Murder of Innocence," in which a global effort captures a serial predator; and "A Murderous Affair," in which a rookie FBI agent is set up by his informant.
Subjects: True crime stories.; Murder;
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Murder of innocence [sound recording] : true-crime thrillers / by Patterson, James,1947-author.; Graybill, Stephen,narrator.; Bourelle, Andrew,author.; DiLallo, Max,author.; Patterson, James,1947-Murderous affair.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Stephen Graybill.Two true-crime thrillers include "Murder of Innocence," in which a global effort captures a serial predator; and "A Murderous Affair," in which a rookie FBI agent is set up by his informant.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; True crime stories.; Murder;
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The Secret History of the Five Eyes [electronic resource] : by Kerbaj, Richard.aut; cloudLibrary;
This is the definitive account of the Western world’s most powerful—but least known—intelligence alliance, which remains central to the defense of the free world in a dangerously uncertain time. The Five Eyes—a spy network between the intelligence agencies of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand—has been steeped in secrecy since its official formation in 1956. Yet the Five Eyes’ very existence is not legally binding—it functions as a marriage of convenience riddled with distrust, competing intelligence agendas and a massive imbalance of power that favours the US. Richard Kerbaj draws on interviews with intelligence officials, world leaders and recently declassified archives to reveal the authoritative but unauthorized stories of the alliance. In bypassing the usual censorship channels, he tells this extraordinary account of the Five Eyes’ unlikely cast of characters who played a crucial role in its history, and exposes the network’s hidden role in influencing global events that continue to shape our daily lives.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Espionage; Intelligence & Espionage; Canadian;
© 2025., HarperCollins Canada,
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The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe A True Crime Thriller [electronic resource] : by Patterson, James.aut; Edwards-Jones, Imogen.aut; CloudLibrary;
Subjects: Electronic books.; Biographical; Suspense; Crime; Contemporary Women;
© 2025., Little, Brown and Company,
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The last days of Marilyn Monroe : a true crime thriller / by Patterson, James,1947-author.; Edwards-Jones, Imogen,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Her rise, her triumph, her tragic loss -- only James Patterson can tell the full story of America's tragedy. In the early hours of Sunday, August 5, 1962, Marilyn Monroe's live-in housekeeper wakes with a sinking feeling. She knocks loudly at her employer's locked bedroom door, and when there is no answer, she calls Monroe's psychiatrist, Ralph Greenson. Greenson breaks into Monroe's bedroom and finds a horrifying scene: the thirty-six-year-old movie star lying naked, lifeless, face down on her bed, still clutching the telephone receiver. At 4:20 a.m., Greenson alerts the LAPD. It is established protocol for the chief medical examiner to conduct celebrity autopsies, but inexplicably, junior medical examiner Dr. Thomas Noguchi performs the procedure on the five-four, 118-pound actress. "When you are a coroner," Noguchi believes, "you start from the assumption that every body you examine might be a murder victim." In those final summer days, did Marilyn Monroe have more enemies than friends?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Monroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962; Monroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962; Motion picture actors and actresses;
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The last days of Marilyn Monroe [text (large print)] : a true crime thriller / by Patterson, James,1947-author.; Edwards-Jones, Imogen,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Her rise, her triumph, her tragic loss -- only James Patterson can tell the full story of America's tragedy. In the early hours of Sunday, August 5, 1962, Marilyn Monroe's live-in housekeeper wakes with a sinking feeling. She knocks loudly at her employer's locked bedroom door, and when there is no answer, she calls Monroe's psychiatrist, Ralph Greenson. Greenson breaks into Monroe's bedroom and finds a horrifying scene: the thirty-six-year-old movie star lying naked, lifeless, face down on her bed, still clutching the telephone receiver. At 4:20 a.m., Greenson alerts the LAPD. It is established protocol for the chief medical examiner to conduct celebrity autopsies, but inexplicably, junior medical examiner Dr. Thomas Noguchi performs the procedure on the five-four, 118-pound actress. "When you are a coroner," Noguchi believes, "you start from the assumption that every body you examine might be a murder victim." In those final summer days, did Marilyn Monroe have more enemies than friends?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large print books.; Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Monroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962; Monroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962; Motion picture actors and actresses;
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The First Survivor : Life With Canada's Deadliest Mass Shooter. by Banfield, Lisa.;
After 19 years in a controlling and abusive relationship, Lisa Banfield escaped a violent assault by her partner, Gabriel Wortman - unaware he was about to carry out the deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history. In 'The First Survivor', Banfield tells her story for the first time: of surviving years of intimate partner violence, and of the horrific night she fled barefoot into the freezing woods as Wortman began a murderous rampage that left 22 people and an unborn child dead. Banfield lives in Lower Sackville, NS.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs; TRUE CRIME / Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons; TRUE CRIME / Domestic Violence & Abuse; TRUE CRIME / General;
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The secret history of the rape kit : a true crime story / by Kennedy, Pagan,1962-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A thrilling, novelistic work of journalism that uncovers the remarkable and hidden story of Marty Goddard, the woman who invented the rape kit, changed the course of how we treat sexual assault forever, and then vanished from the record. The idea came to Marty Goddard in 1971. She was working at a crisis hotline, haunted by the stories of survivors and plagued by two principle questions: Why were so many predators getting away with crimes? And, how do we stop them? In the coming years, Marty set off a massive campaign that lobbied to have sexual assault treated and investigated as the crime that it is. By creating the first rape kit, she revolutionized forensics. The kit would live on as one of the most powerful and effective tools for bringing perpetrators to justice. Marty, however, and any record of her, simply disappeared. The Secret History of the Rape Kit chronicles the story of one journalist's mission to uncover the story and woman behind an invention that transformed the lives of women the country over. As Pagan Kennedy peels back the layers behind the history of the kit and Marty's life, she falls into a deeper and deeper obsession. As she pursues this overlooked but critical story from our past, she dives into the inequities built into our patent system and our understanding of technological progress, the problematic and gendered history of forensics, and sexual forensics in particular, the misogyny that runs rampant in police departments, the legacy of Marty's invention and the failings that persist in how we prosecute rape. And, as Pagan unearths who Marty really was, and what happened to her, she reflects on her own experiences with sexual assault, and how one forgotten woman's legacy could have saved her, as it has so many"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; True crime stories.; Goddard, Marty, 1941-2015.; Forensic sciences; Rape kits; Rape;
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