The crime book
Book - 2017
Explores the cases of over one hundred notorious crimes and criminals from world history, covering bandits, arsonists, hucksters, white collar criminals, organized crime, kidnappers, extortionists, and murderers.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- True crime stories
- Published
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New York, New York :
DK
2017.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- First American edition
- Item Description
- Includes index.
"Published in Great Britain by Dorling Kindersley Limited." -- Title page verso. - Physical Description
- 352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781465462862
9780744028508
- Introduction
- Bandits, Robbers, and Arsonists
- Father of all treasons
- A civil, obliging robber
- Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters
- Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the boy that buys the beef
- They were brave fellows. They were true men
- It's for the love of a man that I'm gonna have to die
- You'll never believe it-they've stolen the train
- Addicted to the thrill
- To me it is only so much scrap gold: The Theft of the World Cup
- Miss, you'd better look at that note
- Without weapons, nor hatred, nor violence: The Société Générale Bank Heist
- I stole from the wealthy so I could live their lifestyle
- Sing of my deeds, tell of my combats... forgive my failings
- The fire becomes a mistress, a lover
- It was the perfect crime: The Antwerp Diamond Heist
- He was an expert in alarm systems: The Theft of the Cellini Salt Cellar
- Weird and unbelievable, but it's a very real criminal case: The Russia-Estonia Vodka Pipeline
- Old-school London criminal gents
- Con Artists
- Under the influence of bad counsels... I fell a martyr: The Affair of the Diamond Necklace
- People took their hats off to such a sum: The Crawford Inheritance
- The smoothest con man that ever lived: The Sale of the Eiffel Tower
- Domela's story rings with the high lunacy of great farce
- If my work hangs in a museum long enough, it becomes real
- It's not stealing because I'm only taking what they give me
- They inflated the raft and left the island. After that nobody seems to know what happened: Escape from Alcatraz
- At the time, virtue was not one of my virtues
- I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off
- Originally I copied Hitler's life out of books, but later I began to feel I was Hitler
- If this is not a ring-in I'm not here: The Fine Cotton Scandal
- White Collar Crimes
- Money... has often been a cause of the delusion of multitudes: The Mississippi Scheme
- Nothing is lost save honor: The Black Friday Gold Scandal
- The old game of robbing Peter to pay Paul
- You can't convict a million dollars
- Citizens were dying right, left, and center: The Bhopal Disaster
- The world's biggest mugging: The City of London Bonds Theft
- It's all just one big lie
- I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal
- He put in peril the existence of the bank
- Bribery was tolerated and... rewarded
- Not just nerdy kids up to mischief in their parents' basement: The Spyeye Malware Data Theft
- The irregularities... go against everything Volkswagen stands for: The Volkswagen Emissions Scandal
- Organized Crime
- The most hazardous of all trades, that of the smuggler
- In Sicily there is a sect of thieves
- They dare do anything
- No more villainous, ruffianly band was ever organized: The Wild Bunch
- Prohibition has made nothing but trouble: The Beer Wars
- If the boss says a passing crow is white, you must agree
- When we do right, nobody remembers. When we do wrong, nobody forgets
- They were the best years of our lives
- All empires are created of blood and fire
- It was always about business, never about gangs: "Freeway': Rick Ross
- Kidnapping and Extortion
- He valued her less than old swords: The Abduction of Pocahontas
- Marvelous real-life romance
- Anne, they've stolen our baby!: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
- Since Monday I have fallen into the hands of kidnappers: The Kidnapping of John Paul Getty III
- I'm a coward. I didn't want to die: The Kid nap ping of Patty Hearst
- I still sleep with a night light. I can't ride a subway: The Chowchilla Kidnapping
- I always felt like a poor chicken in a henhouse: The Kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch
- Murder Cases
- An unusually clear case, like a "smoking gun": The Neanderthal Murder
- Perpetrated with the sword of justice
- Not guilty by reason of insanity
- Gave Katherine warning to leave: The Dripping Killer
- Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks
- Fingerprinting alone has proved to be both infallible and feasible: The Stratton Brothers
- Thank God it's over. The suspense has been too great
- I was driven by a will that had taken the place of my own
- She was very good looking with beautiful dark hair: The Black Dahlia Murder
- The artist was so well informed on chemicals... it was frightening
- I have been a victim of many unusual and irrational thoughts: The Texas Tower Massacre
- Now is the time for Helter Skelter: The Manson Family
- A dingo's got my baby!: The Death of Azaria Chamberlain
- I was Mr. Nobody until I killed the biggest somebody on Earth: The Murder of John Lennon
- Who has sent you against me? Who has told you to do this thing?: The Murder of Roberto Calvi
- I was on death row, and I was innocent
- An act of unparalleled evil: The Murder of James Bulger
- I'm afraid this man will kill me some day
- Foul play while in the Spy Craft store
- People are afraid and don't want to talk to us: The Murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls
- Serial Killers
- Murdering people... for sheer sport
- The said Dame Alice had a certain demon
- The blood of maidens will keep her young
- I will send you another bit of innerds
- They'd rather be dead than be with me
- I just like to kill
- Calculated, cruel, cold-blooded murders
- More terrible than words can express
- This is the Zodiac speaking
- In his own eyes, he was some sort of medical god
- A mistake of nature
- I was sick or evil, or both
- A danger to young women
- Read your ad. Let's talk about the possibilities
- Assassinations and Political Plots
- Insatiable and disgraceful lust for money: The Assassination of Pertinax
- Murdering someone by craft: The Hashashin
- Sic semper tyrannis!: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Dreyfus is innocent. I swear it! I stake my life on it-my honor!: The Dreyfus Affair
- If they shed my blood, their hands will remain soiled: The Assassination of Rasputin
- There has to he more to it: The Assassination of John F Kennedy
- I kiss you for the last time: The Abduction of Aldo Moro
- Barbarity was all around us: The Kid napping of Ingrid Betancourt
- Barbaric and ruthless: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko
- Directory
- Index
- Quote Attributions
- Acknowledgments