The crime book

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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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Bandits, robbers, and arsonists. Father of all treasons : Thomas Blood --

A civil, obliging robber : John Nevison --

Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters : Edward "Blackbeard" Teach --

Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the boy that buys the beef : Burke and Hare --

They were brave fellows, they were true men : the James-Younger Gang --

It's for the love of a man that I'm gonna have to die : Bonnie and Clyde --

You'll never believe it, they've stolen the train : the Great Train Robbery --

Addicted to the thrill : Bill Mason --

To me it is only so much scrap gold : the theft of the World Cup --

Miss, you'd better look at that note : D.B. Cooper --

I stole from the wealthy so I could live their lifestyle : John MacLean --

Sing of my deeds, tell of my combats, forgive my failings : Phoolan Devi --

The fire becomes a mistress, a lover : John Leonard Orr --

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 : the Hatton Garden heist --

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 : Harry Domela --

If my work hangs in a museum long enough, it becomes real : Elmyr de Hory --

It's not stealing because I'm only taking what they give me : Doris Payne --

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 : Frank Abagnale --

I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off : Clifford Irving --

Originally I copied Hitler's life out of books, but later I began to feel I was Hitler : Konrad Kujau --

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 : Charles Ponzi --

You can't convict a million dollars : the Teapot Dome scandal --

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 : Bernie Madoff --

I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal : the Enron scandal --

He put in peril the existence of the bank : Jerome Kerviel --

Bribery was tolerated and rewarded : the Siemens scandal --

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 : the Hawkhurst Gang --

In Sicily there is a sect of thieves : the Sicilian Mafia --

They dare do anything : the Triads --

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 : the Yakuza --

When we do right, nobody remembers. When we do wrong, nobody forgets : Hells Angels --

They were the best years of our lives : the Krays and the Richardsons --

All empires were created of blood and fire : the Medellin Cartel --

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 : the Tichborne claimant --

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 kidnapping 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 : Jean Calas --

Not guilty by reason of insanity : Daniel M'Naghten --

Gave Katherine warning to leave : the Dripping Killer --

Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks : Lizzie Borden --

Fingerprinting alone has proved to be both infallible and feasible : the Stratton Brothers --

Thank God it's over. The suspense has been too great : Dr. Crippen --

I was driven by a will that had taken the place of my own : Madam Caillaux --

She was very good looking with beautiful dark hair : the Black Dahlia murder --

The artist was so well-informed on chemicals, it was frightening : Sadamichi Hirasawa --

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 : Kirk Bloodsworth --

An act of unparalleled evil : the murder of James Bulger --

I'm afraid this man will kill me some day : O.J. Simpson --

Foul play while in the Spy Craft store : Craig Jacobsen --

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 / Liu Pengli --

The said Dame Alice had a certain demon : Alice Kyteler --

The blood of maidens will keep her young : Elizabeth Báthory --

I will send you another bit of innards : Jack the Ripper --

They'd rather be dead than be with me : Harvey Glatman --

I just like to kill : Ted Bundy --

Calculated, cruel, cold-blooded murders : Ian Brady and Myra Hindley --

More terrible than words can express : Fred and Rosemary West --

This is the Zodiac speaking : the Zodiac Killer --

In his own eyes, he was some sort of medical god : Harold Shipman --

A mistake of nature : Andrei Chikatilo --

I was sick or evil, or both : Jeffrey Dahmer --

A danger to young women : Colin Pitchfork --

Read your ad. Let's talk about the possibilities : John Edward Robinson --

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 be more to it : the assassination of John F. Kennedy --

I kiss you for the last time : the abduction of Aldo Moro --

Babarity was all around us : the kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt --

Barbaric and ruthless : the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko --

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Mellor, Lee,1982-author
Scott, Cathy,author,writer of foreword
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Morris, Rebecca T.,author
Scott, Cathy,author

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9780744028508
9781465462862

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The crime book

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The crime book / [contributors, Shanna Hogan, Michael Kerrigan, Lee Mellor, Rebecca Morris, Cathy Scott] ; foreword by Cathy Scott
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