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The Dark Heart Of Hollywood: Glamour, Guns And Gambling - Inside The Mafia's Global Empire
Douglas Thompson - Paperback - Mainstream Publishing
This book reveals the sinister true story of the Mafia in Hollywood: it strips away the veneer of the movie studios' American Dream. Crammed with legends, myths, murders, madness, mayhem, superstar tantrums, super-sexed starlets, power brokers and politics, it is an ambitious account of Hollywood's hidden history.
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The Dark Heart Of Hollywood: Glamour, Guns And Gambling - Inside The Mafia's Global Empire
Douglas Thompson - Paperback - Mainstream
This book reveals the sinister true story of the Mafia in Hollywood: it strips away the veneer of the movie studios' American Dream. Crammed with legends, myths, murders, madness, mayhem, superstar tantrums, super-sexed starlets, power brokers and politics, it is an ambitious account of Hollywood's hidden history.
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The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy Of The Burke And Hare Murders
Caroline McCracken-Flesher - Hardback - Oxford University Press
In 1828, Robert Knox was Edinburgh's charismatic anatomist - but eager medical students needed corpses to practice on, and Knox was supplied by the murderers Burke and Hare. 'The Doctor Dissected' shows how this local crime became a trauma that echoes down the years as fact and fiction and into modern media - particularly in Scotland.
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Doctors Who Kill: Profiles Of Lethal Medics
Carol Anne Davis - Paperback - Allison & Busby
In a comprehensive study of violent crimes perpetrated by health care professionals, Carol Anne Davis offers valuable insights into 34 case studies involving doctors and nurses who have crossed the line from healer to killer.
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Doctors Who Kill: Profiles Of Lethal Medics
Carol Anne Davis - Hardback - Allison & Busby
In a comprehensive study of violent crimes perpetrated by health care professionals, Carol Anne Davis offers valuable insights into 34 case studies involving doctors and nurses who have crossed the line from healer to killer.
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Dali And I: Exposing The Dark Circus Of The International Art Market
Stan Lauryssens - Hardback - Mainstream
An eye-opening behind-the-scenes view of commerce and conspiracy in the art world. Stan Lauryssens made millions selling the work of Salvador Dali. Here he tells Dali's secret history, the studio of artists that made his work, and the money-making machine that kept his lifestyle afloat.
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Dark Heart: Tales From Edinburgh's Town Jail
Douglas Skelton - Paperback - Mainstream
The Old Tolbooth Jail - Edinburgh's Bastille - was for five centuries the capital's heart of darkness. Here, the complete story of the Old Tolbooth is told, from its proud beginnings to its final downfall at the hands of municipal vandals.
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The Devil: Britain's Most Feared Underworld Taxman
Graham Johnson - Paperback - Mainstream
The biography of Stephen French gives a true snapshot of organised crime in Britain, revealing the hidden depth and breadth to which it has penetrated society and how it affects all our lives.
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Druglord: Guns, Powder And Pay-Offs
Graham Johnson - Paperback - Mainstream
Bestselling author and investigative journalist Graham Johnson presents an in-depth account of the £3.5 million bribery scandal involving then Home Secretary Michael Howard and Britain's biggest drug dealer, John Haase, in 1996.
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The Demon Assassin: A Depraved Mercenary's Lifelong Swathe Of Destruction
Visser Athol - Paperback - Mainstream
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was gunned down on a Stockholm street by an unknown assailant. Athol Visser, or "Ivan the Terrible", who has maimed and murdered his way around the globe, gives his account of the assassination as part of a chilling journey through his memory bank of horrors.