CEAs Jack Diamond Schuster is an intelligent doctor of forensics. He has years of experience with problem-solving, especially with crime scene investigations. He doesnt like the district attorneys offices' way of doing things. Diamond feels that it should be the police that solve the crimes. The district attorneys staff judges the crimes too soon. Schuster has a close partner who he appreciates very much. Rachel Machiavelli is usually right by his side. These two hard working detectives di...

A serious fire developed in the core of a nuclear reactor at Windscale Works, Sellafield, northwest England, which led to the release of significant quantities of radioactive material into the environment during 10–11th October, 1957. In 1957, Windscale Works was operated by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), and on 15th October it was announced by the Chairman of the UKAEA that a Committee of Inquiry had been established under the chairmanship of Sir William Penney to con...

During the Great Depression there was little hope for a boy born into the slums of Cabbagetown, Toronto. But Jack Spayd is offered a ticket out in the form of a Hohner harmonica, won by his brutal drunken father in a late-night card game. Jack makes music as a way of escaping his surroundings, and his talent leads him to a jazz club and, eventually, to the jazz piano.Jack is a virtuoso and hits the road, enchanting audiences in Canada, wartime Europe and Las Vegas, where he is caugh...

An unprecedented heat and humidity has fallen upon the city of Bridges. People are dying. Crops are failing. And the Inventors can't find the cause.With all she's learned in our previous chapter, though, Jacqui has what she needs to unravel the conspiracy against the Four Families.The plans that her old nemesis Jack Diamond has set into motion are all that stands in her way. She's ready to stop him.Warning: Bad language, alcoholism, mental illness, animal abuse/deat...

A lavishly illustrated, in-depth early history covering two thousand years of diamond jewelry and commerce, from the Indian mines to European merchants, courts, and workshopsThis richly illustrated history of diamonds illuminates myriad facets of the "king of gems," including a cast of larger-than-life characters such as Alexander the Great, the Mughal emperor Jahangir, and East India Company adventurers. It's an in-depth study tracing the story of diamonds from their early mining a...

From the blood-soaked streets of Prohibition-era New York to the smoky backrooms of Boston's underworld, Irish Gangsters uncovers the hidden history of three men who shaped American organized crime, and paid the price for it.Owney "The Killer" Madden, the ruthless yet calculating kingpin of Hell's Kitchen, built a criminal empire that stretched from Manhattan speakeasies to the gambling halls of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Jack "Legs" Diamond, the bootlegging playboy known for surviving...

When opposites attract… anything can happen…Dezi was a plain-and-simple type of guy. He loved working for Levi’s company and had enjoyed the jobs he’d been given so far. When a businesswoman contacted Ice over, well, ice, … things got interesting.Diamond was an exclusive jewelry designer, born and raised in the industry, working within her father’s diamond company. When a custom-designed item was checked before shipment, she realized the piece wasn’t her wo...

Jewish mobster Dutch Schultz was assassinated at the Palace Chop House located at 12 E. Park St., Newark, New Jersey because he proposed to The Commission the murder of prosecutor of the county of New York, Thomas Dewey for investigating Dutch Schultz's illegal prostitution and gambling rings. The Commission has a ruling committee headed by five crime bosses representing the five families of New York City in addition to the bosses of the Chicago Outfit and Buffalo, Philadelphia and Detroit...

When the city of neon lights casts shadows that run deeper than the desert sands, secrets surface like ghosts from a tomb.In this pulse-quickening installment of the Solitaire Series, Jack Bardlow returns to Vegas, haunted by more than just the scars on his body. Accompanied by Joseph, a man as enigmatic as the city's labyrinthine underworld, Jack seeks a moment of respite at an old friend's limo business—a place where the walls hold secrets tighter than a gambler's grip on loaded ...

In March 1942, an aircraft prepares for a desperate midnight escape, taking refugees to safety in Australia. Just before take-off, the pilot is entrusted with a mysterious, wax-sealed package.But when the plane is shot down by the enemy and crash lands on the Kimberley coast, the package is forgotten. Until someone stumbles across the find of a lifetime . .

If poker was an addiction then music was an overwhelming obsession; one could never replace the other in my life. During the Great Depression there was little hope for a boy born into the slums of Cabbagetown, Toronto. But Jack Spayd is offered a ticket out in the form of a Hohner harmonica, won by his brutal drunken father in a late-night card game. Jack makes music as a way of escaping his surroundings, and his talent leads him to a jazz club and, eventually, to the jazz piano. Jack is a...

Jacob Little Augie Orgen and Jack Legs Diamond controlled the garment industry racket in New York City for a time. Legs came to Little Augie with his brother, Eddie, who was employed by the East Side gang chieftain before him. Legs worked for the notorious Arnold Rothstein beginning in 1919. He served as the renowned gambler's bodyguard before he left him for employment with Orgen. By 1931 investigators learned that Little Augie, Legs and Rothstein pretty much controlled the revenue in the...