World's Greatest True CrimeBarnes & Noble Publishing, 2004 - 452 pages |
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Contents
The Sicilian Dons | 3 |
A Miscellany | 19 |
Murder Incorporated | 29 |
Public Enemy Number | 52 |
Depression Mobsters | 61 |
The London Villains | 85 |
Rachman and Michael X | 98 |
Drug Barons | 104 |
The Brinks Bank Robbery | 204 |
98 | 206 |
Public Enemy Number One | 211 |
The BrinksMat Bullion Robbery | 220 |
The Knightsbridge Safe Deposit Robbery | 226 |
Sporting Swindles | 237 |
The Chicago White Sox and the 1919 World Series | 249 |
Fakers and Forgers | 259 |
If You Think Today is Lawless | 113 |
The Theft of the Crown Jewels | 120 |
The Great Vidocq | 129 |
The Drysdale Bank Robbery | 135 |
Jesse James | 141 |
The DAutremont Brothers | 150 |
The Great Bullion Robbery | 158 |
The Case of Orrocks Chisel | 166 |
The Age of Detection | 172 |
The First CatBurglar | 181 |
The Count of Gramercy Park | 187 |
The Age of Gangsters | 196 |
The Howard Hughes Biography | 271 |
Financial Fraudsters | 282 |
The Fall of a National Hero | 288 |
Impish Imposters | 295 |
Here Today Gone Tomorrow | 302 |
Lady Liars | 311 |
The Impecunious Millionaire | 318 |
A Fairytale Princess? | 324 |
Sex Scandals | 333 |
The Preacher and the Adoring | 342 |
The Abode of Love Scandal | 351 |
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