Author: Carrie Hagen
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 159020896X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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This “relentlessly suspenseful” story of America’s first known kidnapping in nineteenth century Philadelphia is “elegantly told, superbly accomplished” (The Philadelphia Enquirer). In 1874, a little boy named Charley Ross was snatched from his family’s front yard in Philadelphia. A ransom note arrived three days later, demanding twenty thousand dollars for the boy’s return. The city was about to host the America’s Centennial celebration, and the mass panic surrounding the Charley Ross case plunged the nation into hysteria. The desperate search led the police to inspect every building in Philadelphia, set up saloon surveillance in New York’s notorious slums, and begin a national manhunt. With white-knuckle suspense and historical detail, Hagen vividly captures the dark side of an earlier America. Her brilliant portrayal of its criminals, detectives, politicians, spiritualists, and ordinary families will stay with the reader long after the final page. “Hagen skillfully narrates a saga that transcends one kidnapping, a saga tied up with the World’s Fair that was about to open in Philadelphia.” —Kirkus Reviews “As Erik Larson mined the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair for Devil in the White City, Hagen chronicles a tragically more relevant 19th-century story.” —Michael Capuzzo, author of The Murder Room
Author: Steve Russell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451665121
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 525
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Presents a description by a lieutenant colonel in the 1st Battalion, 22nd infantry regiment of the strategies and resources used in the hunt for Saddam Hussein, which resulted in his capture in December of 2003 in Operation Red Dawn.
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Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Author: Nathan J. Robinson
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ISBN: 9781682194010
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Author: William Harris Elson
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Author: Denis Mackail
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin
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Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Languages : en
Pages : 1296
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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Author: Laura Nowlin
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402277849
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...
