Manyebook

Uncle John's True Crime: A Classic Collection of Crooks, Cops, and Capers

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!

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 288
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781607103189
  • Genres
  • trivia
  • Release date
  • 2011