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  Poker Wars - Murder Mayhem and...

  Philip Guitar, Jim Martyka

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  Murder and mayhem, bullets and bombings, carnage andcorruption…and a whole lot of outlaws gambling for the highest stakes of all.Poker Wars tells the true story of the hitmen, bandits, card sharks, andmobsters who brought about the internationally successful World Series ofPoker.The World Series of Poker, the sport’s most popular and lucrative event, hadits inaugural event in 1970 and has since grown well beyond anything itsfounders ever imagined. Especially considering where it came from.Poker Wars chronicles the history of the dangerous key players and theviolent conflicts that brought the game from the dark Dallas underbelly to thebright lights of Las Vegas and turned it into the billion-dollar industry it istoday. Offering an in-depth exploration of the nearly inconceivable life stories ofthe sport’s pioneers—especially those of “The Cowboy,” Benny Binion, anilliterate horse trader turned gambling boss who was as quick tempered as hewas business savvy—Poker Wars is a thorough breakdown of the remarkablesequence of events that brought the card game into the national spotlight.With new insights, Guitar and Martyka offer a behind-the-scenes look into someof the most well-known conflicts in poker history, including Binion’s feud withHerbert Noble, an ambitious gambler who earned the nickname “The Cat” bysurviving several assassination attempts. They also present a comprehensivelook at poker forefathers like Titanic Thompson and Nick the Greek, as well asthe colorful personalities of the Texas Circuit like Johnny Moss and DoyleBrunson, who upped the ante by introducing a brand-new variant of thegame. At once an exposé of the darker side of the tournament’s early legacy and itsconsequences and a wild, colorful, outlandish tale, Poker Wars is atrue crime joyride.

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  Osage Indian Murders The: The...

  Editors Charles River

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  In the late 19th century, Indian Territory became part of the new State of Oklahoma and tribal lands were gradually reduced in size, but on some of the lands assigned to the Osage, which became Osage County, something very dramatic happened: oil was discovered. At first, that didn’t seem too important - in the 1880s, oil was useful but wasn’t the source of wealth it would later become. However, the rise of the automobile changed everything. In 1900, there were only around 4,000 automobiles registered in America, but by 1908, there were over 60,000, and by the early 1920s, there were over 15 million. Every single one needed fuel and lubricants that came from oil, and as a result, “black gold” became one of the most valuable commodities on Earth.  
  	For the Osage, the explosion in demand for oil brought unimaginable wealth. In 1923 alone, the Osage Nation received over $30 million in oil revenue, worth over $400 million in current value, and individual members of the tribe became extremely wealthy. Unscrupulous people began to plot how they could get their hands on some of this wealth.  
  	Then the murders began. 
  	In the early 1920s, members of the Osage Nation and others began to turn up dead, and in many cases, the proceeds of oil revenue owned by these people passed to white “Guardians” appointed by the federal government. By 1925, at least 24 Osage had died in unexplained circumstances, and some accounts suggest that the actual number may have been over 100. Local law enforcement seemed unable (or perhaps unwilling) to investigate effectively, and it was left to a small bureau in Washington to undertake their first homicide investigation under the leadership of a dynamic and ambitious young lawyer named J. Edgar Hoover. As a result, the horrifying true story of the Osage County murders became one of the first assignments for the federal agency that would later become the FBI. 

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  The Trillion Dollar Conman - The...

  Ben Robinson

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  Based on the hit BBC 5Live podcast series, The Trillion Dollar Conman is an audacious tale of an international fraud that is stranger than fiction.
  
  In 2009, Notts County FC were on the brink of bankruptcy when they were taken over by a mysterious company supposedly backed by the Bahraini royal family. The club was promised millions of pounds worth of investment and a list of marquee players, including Sol Campbell and Kasper Schmeichel were signed, in a recruitment drive led by former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson, who was appointed to take the club all the way to the Premier League.
  
  However, within weeks, as the bills began to pile up, the dream came tumbling down as it transpired that the club, the players and the fans had been tricked by a convicted fraudster called Russell King.
  
  The world's oldest professional football club found itself at the centre of one of the most outlandish frauds in sporting and world history, which spanned the globe from Nottingham to North Korea, involving fake sheikhs, fast cars, broken promises and a trail of destruction.

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  Hidden Demons - Evil Visits A...

  Margery B. Metzger

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  A New England community is rocked by a serial killer, a mass shooter, and a sexual predator—all in a single day—in this true crime chronicle. On January 7, 1994, residents of Berkshire Hills woke up to a typical winter day in the majestic woods of Western Massachusetts. But as that fateful day unfolded, three separate crimes—each unsettling in its own way—would converge in this quaint corner of New England. That day, a trial began for college student, Wayne Lo, who celebrated his 18th birthday by purchasing an assault rifle and opening fire on campus—killing two and wounding four others. Elsewhere, two young girls were accosted in the changing room at the local pool. And another young girl narrowly escaped being abducted at gunpoint on her way to school. Her quick thinking later resulted in profound repercussions regarding another case—that of a young boy who vanished from a strip mall. Though these events appeared unrelated, it seemed as though the world had suddenly gone mad. In Hidden Demons, Margery B. Metzger details these events and reveals a savage serial killer, Lewis Lent, Jr., who lurked in the shadows. It was the bravery of a father and daughter, and the remarkable work of law enforcement officers, that would see justice done.

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  Falsely Convicted

  Neil Mercer

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  An Australian True Crime investigation of wrongful imprisonment by the bestselling author of The Kingpin and the Crooked Cop. 
   
   
  Nine wrongful imprisonments. Nine innocent men and women freed. 
   
  Australia has a robust legal system. According to conventional wisdom, only the guilty end up behind bars. The reality is far more complex and, for First Nations Australians and other minorities in particular, the law can become a trap - one that has condemned completely innocent people to years, even decades, of wrongful imprisonment. 
   
  Impeccably researched and compelling told, Falsely Convicted exposes shocking injustices in all their devastating detail. These cases reveal how fragile truth can be, how easily lives can be destroyed, and how freedom - when it arrives - often comes only after everything else has been lost. 
   
  There's teacher Josephine Greensill, whose life was upended by allegations from two former students from three decades before. Henry Keogh, who discovered his fiancée dead in the bath, only to be accused - and convicted - of her murder due to catastrophic forensic failures. And Gene Gibson, an 18-year-old Aboriginal man from one of Australia's remotest communities, convicted of a killing by being in the wrong place at the wrong time, hindered by language barriers and entrenched prejudice. 
   
   
  In Falsely Convicted, Walkley Award–winning crime reporter and bestselling author Neil Mercer turns his investigative skills toward the most chilling crimes of all: the ones committed by the system itself.

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  Dear Jack: Love Letters from...

  Jyll Steen

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  She planned the honeymoon he never gave her.She finished the vows he never spoke.
   
  “Jyll and Jack went far away… and only one of them came back whole.”
   
  It’s been six years since Jack Steen walked away from Jyll Steen, leaving behind a weekend in Vegas he believed meant nothing. But to Jyll, it was never just a trip. It was a wedding night postponed. A marriage interrupted.
   
  In her third letter, Jyll completes the ritual she believes binds them forever. She chooses a man who resembles Jack just enough to serve as a stand-in groom and lures him away on a spontaneous getaway—a honeymoon meant only for her and the husband she insists is waiting for her return.
   
  Inside a quiet lakeside inn, fantasy and memory blur. The bed becomes an altar. The vows become physical. And Jyll consummates the marriage Jack refuses to acknowledge, sealing it with silk, lace, and blood.
   
  Every moment is rehearsed.Every breath is offered.Every souvenir is saved for Jack.
   
  Audio #3: The Honeymoon is the final letter in Jyll’s first trilogy—an intimate, unsettling conclusion that leaves no doubt: Jyll is done practicing. She’s coming home.

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