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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Rolf Harris: Australia's Forgotten Son -- Wrestling with Demons -- The Rise and Fall of the Disco King -- The Vampire of Holloway Drive -- Lord Lucan: The Twice-Dead Aristocrat -- Life of the Party -- Jim Fixed It: The Shocking Crimes of Jimmy Savile -- Garth Drabinsky: Theatrical Impresario to Convicted Fraudster -- The Blood Countess -- The Boy Who Thrived -- The Devil's Prophet -- Baretta in Cold Blood -- Alfredo Codona: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze -- About the Editor -- About the Contributors.

Outrageous acts of villainy have slowly drifted out of the national limelight and into the dustbin of Texas history. Consider the uproar over the 1879 shooting of actor Maurice Barrymore in Marshall and the 1949 murder of oil field legend Tex Thornton in Amarillo. The 1909 Coryell County Courthouse massacre committed by a sixteen-year-old girl remains just as shocking today. For the long-suffering associates of repeat offenders like Fort Worth's Flapper Bandit or Temple's International Man of Mystery. notoriety couldn't fade quickly enough. From the lawless days of the frontier to the rise of organized crime, Clay Coppedge sifts through eighteen obscure case files to chart the evolution of crime and punishment in the state

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Foreword -- Contents -- Five-Card Draw -- Artful -- Baccarat -- Under Concrete -- Twine -- Trojan Horse -- The Device -- Wooden Box -- Guns for Sale -- Proactive -- The Entertainer -- Escape -- Ramble -- Wasted Effort -- Sniffer Dogs -- Dreamin' -- Gamma Rays -- Good Oil -- Arson -- By Many Means.

"This book explores contemporary American true crime narratives across various media formats. It dissects the popularity of true crime and the effects, both positive and negative, this popularity has on perceptions of crime and the justice system in contemporary America. As a collection of new scholarship on the development, scope, and character of true crime in twenty-first century American media, analyses stretch across film, streaming/broadcast TV, podcasts and novels to explore the variety of ways true crime pervades modern culture. The reader is guided through a series of interconnected topics, starting with an examination of the contemporary success of true crime, the platforms involved, the narrative structures and engagement with audiences, moving on to debates on representation and the ethics involved in portraying both victims and perpetrators of crime within the genre. This collection provides new critical work on American true crime media for all interested readers, and especially scholars and students in the humanities and social sciences. It offers a significant area of research in social sciences, criminology, media and English Literature academic disciplines"--

With questions about killers and kidnappers, blackmailers and burglars, The True Crime Quiz Book is the definitive proving ground for readers fascinated with the hard facts of true crime throughout history.

Fact proves far stranger than fiction in this collection of real-life crimes, scandals, tragedies and murders which either influenced the works of the world's most popular mystery writer or affected the lives of many famous personalities involved in her long and brilliant career. Discover the truth behind many of her books, such as how the exploits of Jack the Ripper inspired the serial killings in The ABC Murders and how the plot twist in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was suggested by Lord Mountbatten. This book also reveals how many of her illustrious acquaintances found themselves immersed in