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In the autumn of 1888, a series of grisly murders took place in Whitechapel in London's East End, the Abyss, the Ghetto, the City of Eternal Night. The Whitechapel murderer, arguably the first of his kind, was never caught but the killings gave rise to the best-known pen-name in criminal history -Jack the Ripper. The Whitechapel killer was terrifyingly real but Jack was the creation of Fleet Street, the gallows humor of a newspaper hack whose sole...
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With several million copies sold in the last fifty years, My Secret Life, first published by Grove Press in the 1960s, is one of the most famous pornographic works in literary history. What readers of this long-banned and troubling book of violent sexual fantasies failed to realize is that it is also the confession of history's most fiendish killer.
Written during the era of Jack the Ripper, it's narrated by "Walter," the pseudonym of textile millionaire...
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2007.
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Amateur sleuths and seasoned inspectors investigate cases of a married woman having an affair who turns up dead, the re-opening of old wounds surrounding a childhood murder, a serial killer, a newly widowed woman dating a man with a dark past, jealousy between sisters, and the tragic result of a young girl who discovers the dark secrets of the adults around her.
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2008.
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Amateur sleuths and seasoned inspectors investigate cases of a young man obsessed with an old love, young girls gone missing after a pedophile is released, a teenager unable to account for several hours that he went missing as a boy, a man who wins a fortune and falls for an engaged woman whose fiancé turns up dead, and two mismatched roommates who meet a tragic end.
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[2007]
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These six tales of suspense examine the jealousy, betrayals, and resentments that lead to tragedy. [Bribery &...]: When the daughter of a shipyard owner is murdered, Nicholas Hawthorne, who has always had a crush on her, realizes her life was more complicated than the free-spirited persona she had -- [Front seat]: Cecily Branksome and husband Hugh return to the seaside town where Cecily grew up, and she begins to enlist an old flame in trying to solve...
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