Author: Donald J. Sobol
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780590441476
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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A collection of bizarre true stories about crimes, criminals, prisoners, and police.

Author: Donald J. Sobol
Publisher: Skylark
ISBN: 9780553155129
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Encyclopedia Brown this time is involved with lots of trivia about all kinds of cars.

Author: Donald J. Sobol
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780606018258
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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A collection of bizarre true stories about crimes, criminals, prisoners, and police.

Author: Shirley C. Raines
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780876591673
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Activities to expand children's favorite books. Primary grades.

Author: Donald J. Sobol
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110104232X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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An unexpected midnight quest... A holdup at the First City Bank... A stolen tennis racket... Gerbils who paint in pairs... and fifty mosquitoes netted at the Oddball Olympics! These are just some of the ten brain-twisting mysteries that Encyclopedia Brown must solve by using his famous computerlike brain. Try to crack the cases along with him--the answers to all the mysteries are found in the back!

Author: Eric Jager
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316224537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation. On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled in place of his brother King Charles, who had gone mad. As panic seized Paris, an investigation began. In charge was the Provost of Paris, Guillaume de Tignonville, the city's chief law enforcement officer -- and one of history's first detectives. As de Tignonville began to investigate, he realized that his hunt for the truth was much more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. A rich portrait of a distant world, Blood Royal is a gripping story of conspiracy, crime and an increasingly desperate hunt for the truth. And in Guillaume de Tignonville, we have an unforgettable detective for the ages, a classic gumshoe for a cobblestoned era.

Author: Timothy Appleby
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307888738
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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The horrific and astonishing true story of the double life of Russell Williams, who was at once a respected figure in the Canadian military and a ruthless sado-sexual serial criminal and murderer. A model officer and elite pilot, Colonel Russell Williams was trusted with flying international dignitaries including Queen Elizabeth, as well as commanding Canada's most important military airbase. Yet his dark and violent secret life included breaking into 82 homes of girls and women; thefts of vast amounts of lingerie (which he dressed in); two bizarre sexual assaults that left an uncomprehending Ontario village on a knife's-edge; and eventually, two rape-murders. In A New Kind of Monster, veteran Globe and Mail crime reporter Tim Appleby chronicles a true story that could have been lifted from the darkest pages of pulp fiction, one that offers fascinating--and troubling--insights on human psychopathology.

Author: Donald J. Sobol
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0307781984
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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A stolen teacup... An extra set of footprints... Four very strange words... A pirate's treasure... And a race to find a cheater in Idaville's annual disgusting sneaker contest! These are just some of the ten brain-twisting mysteries that Encyclopedia Brown must solve by using his famous computerlike brain. Try to crack the cases along with him--the answers to all the mysteries are found in the back!

Author: Bill James
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476796270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this “impressive…open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America” (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history. Between 1898 and 1912, families across the country were bludgeoned in their sleep with the blunt side of an axe. Jewelry and valuables were left in plain sight, bodies were piled together, faces covered with cloth. Some of these cases, like the infamous Villasca, Iowa, murders, received national attention. But few people believed the crimes were related. And fewer still would realize that all of these families lived within walking distance to a train station. When celebrated baseball statistician and true crime expert Bill James first learned about these horrors, he began to investigate others that might fit the same pattern. Applying the same know-how he brings to his legendary baseball analysis, he empirically determined which crimes were committed by the same person. Then after sifting through thousands of local newspapers, court transcripts, and public records, he and his daughter Rachel made an astonishing discovery: they learned the true identity of this monstrous criminal. In turn, they uncovered one of the deadliest serial killers in America. Riveting and immersive, with writing as sharp as the cold side of an axe, The Man from the Train paints a vivid, psychologically perceptive portrait of America at the dawn of the twentieth century, when crime was regarded as a local problem, and opportunistic private detectives exploited a dysfunctional judicial system. James shows how these cultural factors enabled such an unspeakable series of crimes to occur, and his groundbreaking approach to true crime will convince skeptics, amaze aficionados, and change the way we view criminal history.

Author: Matt Kindt
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 159643662X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Detective Gould has yet to meet the crime he can't solve, but lately there has been a rash of crimes so eccentric and random that even Gould is stumped. The compulsive chair thief, the novelist who uses purloined street signs to write her magnum opuis, and the photgrapher who secretly documents peoples' most anguished personal moments -- what can they possibly have in common? Can Detective Gould untangle the strange crimes of Red Wheelbarrow or will he finally meet his match in a shadowy criminal conspiracy aimed at discrediting the very idea of criminal justice?