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Uncle John's True Crime

A Classic Collection of Crooks, Cops, and Capers

The Bathroom Readers' Institute
4.1
(11)
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Pages
288
Year
2012
Language
English
Publisher
Portable Press

About

A collection of strange-but-true crime tales featuring cops, lawyers, and some very unusual suspects...

The fact-finding folks at Bathroom Readers' Institute have rounded up the best cops-and-robber articles we've ever done, plus a rogues' gallery of new offenders. You'll read about dumb crooks and criminal masterminds, mafia henchmen and low-level goons, ancient warriors and Old West gunslingers, crazed cops and jovial judges, and even a few loony lawyers and crooked Wall Street types. Find out about...

* New York City's "Mad Bomber"

* The Biddle Brothers and the Queen of the Jail

* Law and Order: Special Pants Unit

* Dopes who hide their dope in the strangest places

* America's first private eye

* NASCAR's bootlegging beginnings

* The real pirates of the Caribbean

* Why CSI makes the cops' job even harder

* Billy the Kid and other outlaws who died with their boots on

* George Luger, Samuel Colt, and other fathers of guns

* The greatest train robberies

* Arrested for farting

* And much more!

Related Subjects

  • Heists & Robberies
  • True Crime
  • Adult Nonfiction
  • Trivia (Reference)
  • Reference
  • Trivia (Form)
  • Form
  • Humor

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