A classic work of Acadian history from the award-winning journalist and author of Empire of Deception is finally back in print. The Deportation of the Acadians--one of the darkest events in Canadian history--is replete with the drama of war, politics, and untold human suffering. ...
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"It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Speakeasies thrived, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld domination, Chicago's corrupt political leaders fraternized with gangsters, and y...
"A captivating true-crime caper about Arthur Barry, a jewel thief who charmed celebrities and millionaires, stole from Rockefellers and royalty, and pulled off the most audacious and lucrative heists of the Jazz Age"-- Provided by publisher.
In a time of unregulated madness, nowhere was it madder than Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Enter slick, charismatic lawyer Leo Koretz, enticing hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million -- $400 million today -- in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil we...
"The chilling true crime story of the Victorian era's deadliest doctor "When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals," Sherlock Holmes observed during one of his most puzzling murder investigations. Incredibly, at the time the words of the world's most famous fiction...
Dean Jobb takes listeners to the late nineteenth century as Scotland Yard follows the trail of a cold-blooded serial killer who was as brazen as the notorious Jack the Ripper and who would finally be brought to justice by detectives employing a new science called forensics.
"Many of the most successful criminals in history have something in common. They are polite, charming, and loyal only to rules of their own making. This anthology features stories from crime writers, true-crime podcasters, journalists, and experts in dark crimes, proving that cri...
Calculated Risk is the only comprehensive account of the worst mine disaster in modern Canadian history. It recounts the stories of the miners who died and the families they left behind, as well as the corporate and political machinations behind the development of the ill-fated m...
FINALIST℗ for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-fiction * Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Nonfiction *℗ Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award *℗ Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction * Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing A Globe...
"A captivating true-crime caper about Arthur Barry, a jewel thief who charmed celebrities and millionaires, stole from Rockefellers and royalty, and pulled off the most audacious and lucrative heists of the Jazz Age"-- Provided by publisher.
"Framed around one salacious trial in 1891 London, a fascinating and vividly told true-crime narrative about the hunt for one of the first known serial killers, whose poisoning spree in the US, Canada, and England coincided with the birth of forensic science as well as the public...
"Framed around one salacious trial in 1891 London, a fascinating and vividly told true-crime narrative about the hunt for one of the first known serial killers, whose poisoning spree in the US, Canada, and England coincided with the birth of forensic science as well as the public...
In the tradition of bestselling books like The Devil in the White City and The Man in the Rockefeller Suit, Empire of Deception combines investigative journalism and captivating storytelling to examine one of the greatest con men of the twentieth century It was a time of unregu...
"True-crime writing at its finest." -Dean Jobb, author of Empire of Deception A rich and fascinating history of Canada's first celebrity mobster, Rocco Perri-King of the Bootleggers-and the man who pursued him, Canada's first undercover Mountie, for readers of Erik Larson, Dea...