murderers

Presents the text of the 1946 play about a group of pipe-dreaming drunks in 1912 who hang out at a skid row bar awaiting the annual appearance of the fast-talking, big-spending salesman, Hickey, only to be disappointed by the changes that have occurred in his life.

Odd Thomas, a short order cook at the Pico Mundo Grill, keeps his ability to speak with ghosts a secret from all but his girlfriend, Stormy, and the local police chief who he occasionally helps solve or prevent crime, but his unusual talent leads him and his fellow citizens into big trouble when a strange man comes to town followed by a horde of borachs--ghostly harbingers of mayhem.

Tells the parallel stories of the skepticism and incredulity that accompanied Guglielmo Marconi's invention of wireless communication in the late nineteenth century, and the investigation of the murder of an inconvenient wife by her love-starved husband, Dr. H.H. Crippen, who would likely have pulled off the perfect crime had it not been for the ability to send wireless transatlantic transmissions.

Examines the turbulent life of Diane Downs--filled with sexual obsession and violence--and chronicles the police investigaton that ended in her conviction for the 1983 murder of her seven-year-old daughter and the attempted murder of her other young children.

In the first half of the book, entitled The villians, you will meet outlaws such as Jesse and Frank James, Butch Cassidy, Billy the Kid, John Dillinger, Charles "Lucky" Luciano and many more. The second half, entitled The deeds, describes the exploits of well-known outlaws and mobsters and profiles 20 crimes that shocked the United States.

When Hank Mitchell, his brother Jacob, and a friend find four million dollars their plan to keep it eventually starts to ruin their lives.