[Uncle John's Facts and Trivia 01] • Uncle John's True Crime · A Classic Collection of Crooks, Cops, and Capers
- Authors
- Institute, Bathroom Readers'
- Publisher
- Portable Press
- ISBN
- 9781607106784
- Date
- 2011-08-09T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.58 MB
- Lang
- en
You'll be on the edge of your seat reading tales of cops, robbers, criminals, and lawyers with this little tome that packs a lot of heat.
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!