Author: Peter Kaufman
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609382137
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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On a February night in 1897, the general store in Walford, Iowa, burned down. The next morning, townspeople discovered a charred corpse in the ashes. Everyone knew that the store’s owner, Frank Novak, had been sleeping in the store as a safeguard against burglars. Now all that remained were a few of his personal items scattered under the body. At first, it seemed to be a tragic accident mitigated just a bit by Novak’s foresight in buying generous life insurance policies to provide for his family. But soon an investigation by the ambitious new county attorney, M. J. Tobin, turned up evidence suggesting that the dead man might actually be Edward Murray, a hard-drinking local laborer. Relying upon newly developed forensic techniques, Tobin gradually built a case implicating Novak in Murray’s murder. But all he had was circumstantial evidence, and up to that time few murder convictions had been won on that basis in the United States. Others besides Tobin were interested in the case, including several companies that had sold Novak life insurance policies. One agency hired detectives to track down every clue regarding the suspect’s whereabouts. Newspapers across the country ran sensational headlines with melodramatic coverage of the manhunt. Veteran detective Red Perrin’s determined trek over icy mountain paths and dangerous river rapids to the raw Yukon Territory town of Dawson City, which was booming with prospectors as the Klondike gold rush began, made for especially good copy. Skull in the Ashes traces the actions of Novak, Tobin, and Perrin, showing how the Walford fire played a pivotal role in each man’s life. Along the way, author Peter Kaufman gives readers a fascinating glimpse into forensics, detective work, trial strategies, and prison life at the close of the nineteenth century. As much as it is a chilling tale of a cold-blooded murder and its aftermath, this is also the story of three ambitious young men and their struggle to succeed in a rapidly modernizing world.
Author: Bryan Burrough
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110103274X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to tell the full story—for the first time—of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barkers. In an epic feat of storytelling and drawing on a remarkable amount of newly available material on all the major figures involved, Burrough reveals a web of interconnections within the vast American underworld and demonstrates how Hoover’s G-men overcame their early fumbles to secure the FBI’s rise to power.
Author: Burrhus Frederic Skinner
Publisher: New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Author: Joan Donaldson Yarmey
Publisher: BWL Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 0228624754
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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David Gastrell is a remittance man in Canada and he is missing. His last telegram home said he was headed to Dawson City, Yukon. His sister Helen and her lady’s maid, Mattie Lewis, arrive in Victoria, British Columbia, from England. Helen hires Detective Baxter Davenport to go with her to Dawson City, Yukon, and help her locate David for their father. Baxter Davenport has his doubts about travelling north with two women. He will have a job to do and can’t be looking after them. Mattie has worked for the family for years and remembers David better than Helen does. She also has her own motive for wanting to find him. The three head north armed with an old photograph. They arrive in Dawson City where the gold rush is in full swing. There they are challenged by deceit, fraud, and danger in their quest to find David.
Author: Estados Unidos. President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
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Languages : en
Pages : 980
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Author: United States. Warren Commission
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Privileges and Elections
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1010
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1598
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Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Author: Richard Allen
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326654039
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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One body. Two identities. Who is this Ministry of Defence research? Why the double identity? Where had he been? Where was he going and Why? Detective Superintendent Mark Faraday of Special Branch and DCI Kay Yin are determined to find out, but in their search for answers they encounter MI5 and America's NSA, treason and callous murder, where deception and duplicity are common place and truth an inconvenience and an illusion.
