"The priceless Satterthwaite Desk has found its way to the island of Jersey and is on display at the local museum. This valuable antique is rich with history, exquisitely crafted, and hides a secret that could destroy the lives of powerful politicians and prominent citizens alike. When a dead body turns up on the museum's grounds, a turbulent family drama becomes an official police inquiry. Detective Inspector Graham, along with his recently lauded investigative team, must untangle the mystery. But the trail of scandal and deceit soon spills out of the museum, and leads into the darkest corners of the island and beyond. Can Inspector Graham and his team solve a crime that seems to have no motive, and no suspects? To bring the killer to justice, they'll have to piece together a secret that the elite will do anything to hide."--Amazon.com.
Oliver Twist: Roman
In this classic account john Pearson explores the strange relationship that bound the twins together, and charts their gruesome career to their eventual downfall and imprisonment for life."--Back cover.
Why? This is the question John Pearson, author of the ground-breaking The Profession of Violence, asked himself as he began to re-examine their history, unearthing much previously unknown material which sheds new light on the deadly duo.
Ever since the Kray twins invited John Pearson to write their official biography more than forty years ago, he has been obsessed with them.
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Stealing an incriminating diary in order to get revenge on a congressman who set him up, Lightfoot Scott wrongly lands in jail a second time, this time for murder, and calls upon his lawyer friend David Cohen for help. Original.
"I?d never even kissed a boy the night I met Stone.
By shedding light on the many factors that can intervene and create inaccurate testimony, [the author] illustrates how memory can be radically altered by the way an eyewitness is questioned, and how new memories can be implanted and old ...
Keeping order are the Judges, a stern polic force acting as judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of all is Judge Dredd. He is the law and these are his stories.
An account of the robberies, killings, and kidnappings by "Ma" Barker and her sons.