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Uncle John's True Crime

by Bathroom Readers' Institute
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Do you like to read great stories? This book is loaded with them! We've rounded up the best cops-and-robber articles we've ever done—plus a rogue's gallery of new offenders. You'll read about dumb crooks and criminal masterminds, mafia henchman and low-level goons, ancient warriors and Old West gunslingers, crazed cops and jovial judges, and even a few loony lawyers and crooked Wall Street types. It's the True Crime book that only Uncle John could make! Here are some of the unusual suspects . . .
- New York City's "Mad Bomber"
- The Biddle Brothers and the Queen of the Jail
- Law and Order: Special Pants Unit
- Dopes who hide their dope in the strangest places
- America's first private eye
- NASCAR's bootlegging beginnings
- The real pirates of the Caribbean
- Why CSI makes the cops' job even harder
- Billy the Kid and other outlaws who died with their boots on
- George Luger, Samuel Colt, and other fathers of guns
- The greatest train robberies
- Arrested for farting
- And much more!

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Publisher: Portable Press

Kindle Book

  • Release date: September 1, 2012

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781607106784
  • Release date: September 1, 2012

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781607106784
  • File size: 902 KB
  • Release date: September 1, 2012

Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Business True Crime Nonfiction Humor (Nonfiction)

Languages

English

Do you like to read great stories? This book is loaded with them! We've rounded up the best cops-and-robber articles we've ever done—plus a rogue's gallery of new offenders. You'll read about dumb crooks and criminal masterminds, mafia henchman and low-level goons, ancient warriors and Old West gunslingers, crazed cops and jovial judges, and even a few loony lawyers and crooked Wall Street types. It's the True Crime book that only Uncle John could make! Here are some of the unusual suspects . . .
- New York City's "Mad Bomber"
- The Biddle Brothers and the Queen of the Jail
- Law and Order: Special Pants Unit
- Dopes who hide their dope in the strangest places
- America's first private eye
- NASCAR's bootlegging beginnings
- The real pirates of the Caribbean
- Why CSI makes the cops' job even harder
- Billy the Kid and other outlaws who died with their boots on
- George Luger, Samuel Colt, and other fathers of guns
- The greatest train robberies
- Arrested for farting
- And much more!

Expand title description text
Business True Crime Nonfiction Humor (Nonfiction)
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