[Uncle John's Bathroom Reader 01] • True Crime

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!