Murdered Midas

Murdered Midas
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9781443449366
ISBN-13 : 1443449369
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Murdered Midas by : Charlotte Gray

Download or read book Murdered Midas written by Charlotte Gray and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year In this “engrossing must-read” by “Canada’s most accomplished popular historian” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine), the glittering life and brutal murder of Sir Harry Oakes is newly investigated. Murdered Midas is “superior true-crime writing” (The Globe and Mail). On an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes, gold-mining tycoon, philanthropist and one of the richest men in the British Empire, is murdered. The news of his death surges across the English-speaking world, from London, the Imperial centre, to the remote Canadian mining town of Kirkland Lake in the Northern Ontario bush. The murder becomes celebrated as the crime of the century. The layers of mystery deepen as the involvement of Count Alfred de Marigny, Oakes’s son-in-law, comes into question. Also suspicious are the odd machinations of the governor of the Bahamas, the former King Edward VIII. But despite a sensational trial, no murderer is convicted. Rumours about Oakes’s missing fortune are unrelenting, and fascination with the story has persisted for decades. Award-winning biographer and popular historian Charlotte Gray explores the life of the man behind the scandal—from his early, hardscrabble days during the massive mineral rush in Northern Ontario, to the fabulous fortune he reaped from his own gold mine, to his grandiose gestures of philanthropy. And Gray brings fresh eyes to the bungled investigation and shocking trial on the remote colonial island, proposing an overlooked suspect in this long cold case. Murdered Midas is the story of the man behind the newspaper headlines, a man both admired and reviled who, despite great wealth and public standing, never experienced justice.

Box Set: Speed Kills and The Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh Books One and Two

Box Set: Speed Kills and The Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh Books One and Two
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Publisher : Arthur Jay Harris
Total Pages : 723
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Book Synopsis Box Set: Speed Kills and The Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh Books One and Two by : Arthur Jay Harris

Download or read book Box Set: Speed Kills and The Unsolved Murder of Adam Walsh Books One and Two written by Arthur Jay Harris and published by Arthur Jay Harris. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPEED KILLS: He built the fastest boats -- for royalty, the rich, spies, smugglers, Feds and a former U.S. President. Then came six shots. THE UNSOLVED MURDER OF ADAM WALSH BOOK 1: It was the crime of the decade -- and the perpetrator may have been the most notorious serial killer in history BOOK 2: 30 years after he was reported as dead, could the Walshes' little boy, Adam, actually be alive?

The Unsolved Murder of Jack Renter

The Unsolved Murder of Jack Renter
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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages : 85
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ISBN-10 : 9781483644271
ISBN-13 : 1483644278
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Unsolved Murder of Jack Renter by : Marshall Mitchell

Download or read book The Unsolved Murder of Jack Renter written by Marshall Mitchell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is about Mitch Mitchell young man that was attending college as an investigative lawyer. He found a newspaper clipping one day that involved an older gentle man and his wife. While searching the paper he came across the death of his dear friend Mr. Renter, he use to work for. The young man Mitch Mitchell never found a cause of death. He graduated school, and decided that there was something wrong with the article stating fact in the cause of his friends death, and had a need to investigate the mysterious cause of death, right after his graduation. When he went to the house where everything took place, but he notice a lot of strange thing go on.

The Thursday Murder Club

The Thursday Murder Club
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9781984880987
ISBN-13 : 1984880985
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Thursday Murder Club by : Richard Osman

Download or read book The Thursday Murder Club written by Richard Osman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller | Soon to be a major motion picture “Witty, endearing and greatly entertaining.” —Wall Street Journal “Don’t trust anyone, including the four septuagenarian sleuths in Osman’s own laugh-out-loud whodunit.” —Parade Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves A female cop with her first big case A brutal murder Welcome to... THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?

Chaos

Chaos
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Publisher : Little, Brown
Total Pages : 500
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ISBN-10 : 9780316477574
ISBN-13 : 0316477575
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Chaos by : Tom O'Neill

Download or read book Chaos written by Tom O'Neill and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to "gobsmacking" (The Ringer) new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this "kaleidoscopic" (The New York Times) reassessment of an infamous case in American history. Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order -- their crimes lit a flame of paranoia across the nation, spelling the end of the sixties. Manson became one of history's most infamous criminals, his name forever attached to an era when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia -- or dystopia -- was just an acid trip away. Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up behind the "official" story, including police carelessness, legal misconduct, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents. When a tense interview with Vincent Bugliosi -- prosecutor of the Manson Family and author of Helter Skelter -- turned a friendly source into a nemesis, O'Neill knew he was onto something. But every discovery brought more questions: Who were Manson's real friends in Hollywood, and how far would they go to hide their ties? Why didn't law enforcement, including Manson's own parole officer, act on their many chances to stop him? And how did Manson -- an illiterate ex-con -- turn a group of peaceful hippies into remorseless killers? O'Neill's quest for the truth led him from reclusive celebrities to seasoned spies, from San Francisco's summer of love to the shadowy sites of the CIA's mind-control experiments, on a trail rife with shady cover-ups and suspicious coincidences. The product of two decades of reporting, hundreds of new interviews, and dozens of never-before-seen documents from the LAPD, the FBI, and the CIA, Chaos mounts an argument that could be, according to Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Steven Kay, strong enough to overturn the verdicts on the Manson murders. This is a book that overturns our understanding of a pivotal time in American history.

Dr. Mary's Monkey

Dr. Mary's Monkey
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Publisher : TrineDay
Total Pages : 461
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ISBN-10 : 9781937584986
ISBN-13 : 1937584984
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Dr. Mary's Monkey by : Edward T. Haslam

Download or read book Dr. Mary's Monkey written by Edward T. Haslam and published by TrineDay. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new updated edition is not only hard cover for long life, but it contains an additional 25 pages of revelations from the author including documents from the FBI, CIA, CDC, and NOPD, plus the actual crime scene photos of the Mary Sherman murder. You'll see why we say this is the "Hottest cold case in America." The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposÉ of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades. Following a trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this revealing book presents evidence of a web of medical secret-keeping that began with the handling of evidence in the JFK assassination and continued apace, sweeping doctors into cover-ups of cancer outbreaks, contaminated polio vaccine, the arrival of the AIDS virus, and biological weapon research using infected monkeys.

Murder in Greenwich

Murder in Greenwich
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 436
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ISBN-10 : 9780061096921
ISBN-13 : 006109692X
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Murder in Greenwich by : Mark Fuhrman

Download or read book Murder in Greenwich written by Mark Fuhrman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1999-01-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley, presents new evidence that points the finger of suspicion to Martha's neighbors, and discusses how the police mishandled the case and may have prevented the crime from being solved.