Angie's owed over $50,000 in child support. After the law fails her she blackmails her ex-husband. Unwittingly she ends up entangled with a sinister mobster and unravels an insurance scheme on behalf of her ex. She's been placed in check by his illicit affairs and faces retaliation from the mob if she exposes the insurance fraud. She calculates a devious plan to collect and serve him justice.Angie's life splinters into a thousand fragments when she tragically loses her home to fore...

A classic work on Broadway sharpers, grifters, and con men by the late, great New Yorker journalist A. J. Liebling.Often referred to as “Liebling lowlife pieces,” the essays in The Telephone Booth Indian boisterously celebrate raffishness. A. J. Liebling appreciated a good scam and knew how to cultivate the scammers. Telephone Booth Indians (entrepreneurs so impecunious that they conduct business from telephone booths in the lobbies of New York Ci...

When male serial killers are on the loose they tend to make headlines, for example Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer. Men like these are infamous for the terror that they inflicted in the general population. Many of these men are diagnosed as psychopaths.The reasons for them going down the paths that they chose are analysed and studied and read about. There was a time however that all such crimes were always automatically linked to a man. A general perception was quite common; that ther...

Every single person is unique; with different wants, needs, likes, dislikes and hates. Serial killers, however, have one thing in common, they kill, for diverse reasons and for various outcomes.Their ability to take lives easily, though, is mind-boggling. Some of them kill one or two but some also kill hundreds. It is somehow hard to fathom how these killers can do such gruesome deeds and to dig deeper into their stories can certainly be thought-provoking.The mentality of s...

From the bestselling author of Pop Goes the Weasel, Red Herrings, New World Order, 9/11 Conspiracy and many more.Robert Kennedy, JFK and the Death of Marilyn Monroe.Who Didn't Kill Them?For five decades the world has been told that the killers of John F Kennedy and his brother Bobby were either already dead or languishing in prison.Lee Harvey Oswald was shot the day after the assassination but the Warren Com...

As a society, we are fascinated by crime. It is something that dominates our interest, given the high viewership and ratings for shows such as Law & Order and Criminal Minds. We remain highly interested not only in the way the crime is committed, and then solved, but also in the psyche of the criminal.What possibly could have forced them to commit their crime? What was the impulse behind their actions? Was it that they had faced some abuse in the past? Were they p...

From the best-selling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for my Salad & They Laughed at Galileo.Albert Jack's Mysterious World is a collection of the world's most famous and puzzling mysteries.What really happened to the Mary Celeste?Who killed Marilyn Monroe?Where is Bigfoot?Could Aliens really exist?From crop circles to the Scottish lighthouse keepers who vanished one stormy night...

“Looking into his victim’s eyes, Issei found immense pleasure that she was completely and utterly helpless. It had taken him 4 years to do this, which for him, made the moment even more triumphant. From the kitchen, he took an electric carving knife and started on his quest to tear Renée apart.”A man who had eaten his classmate was given fame and freedom instead of contempt and punishment, a man’s dead body was found on one of Australia’s shores-- his identity and the reason for hi...

Raymond Patriarca became the head of a powerful five state crime syndicate which reached throughout New England. By 1938 Patriarca had already served a stint in the Atlanta Federal Prison. In his formative years as a criminal he worked for Warwick, Rhode Island based Carl Rettich. Patriarca was indicted numerous times for jewelry theft and robbing United States mail trucks. My e-book looks closely at this future crime don in his 20s, looking at him as he matured in organized crime. The Ret...

A gambling syndicate that operated above a prominent Terre Haute, Indiana restaurant in the late 1950s was a multi-million dollar operation. The business was nationwide and featured mobsters from Chicago, Minneapolis, Indianapolis and Las Vegas. My e-book looks at the reach of the betting ring and the men who controlled it. One of the most noteworthy events to grow out of the syndicate involved two prominent American athletic officials from major universities in the South.

As British ex-pats, author Penny White and her husband, Harry, had been living the Florida dream for several years until, through no fault of their own, they found themselves on the wrong side of the law. They suffered wrongful arrest and incarceration. If found guilty, they each faced a hundred and thirty years in prisona situation based on lies told by a former business partner and his aggressive attorney.In Guilty Till Proven Innocent, White shares the story of how, in a dramati...

One of the Midwest’s most notorious organized crime figures, Danny “The Irishman” Greene started out with various criminal operations – gambling, racketeering, and loan-sharking – and earned himself a coveted spot as a mob strongman. Still, Greene managed to avoid facing real persecution up until his death in 1977, which has triggered speculation that he might have also worked as an FBI informant.