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  Dragnet - Volume 7 - The Big...

  W.H. Parker, W.A. Wharton

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  Those first four notes of its theme tune were instantly recognised and announced the start of perhaps the most famous police procedural in history.  Set in Los Angeles and headed by police detective Sergeant Joe Friday the show has influenced all the many others that have followed in its illustrious footsteps. 
   
  It was based on real cases from police files. It described the methods used to track down the culprits and its technical language added to its authenticity.  It was a ratings hit year in, year out.  
   
  Played and produced by Jack Webb its pared-down acting brought both the dull routine work and its acts of heroism and unselfishness into the living rooms of ordinary Americans, explaining a side of society that they only read about in the papers, heard in news bulletins or saw fabricated at the movies.  
   
  It’s time for the truth and for Sergeant Joe Friday to set the record straight.

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  Don't Cry Dance - A Memoir of...

  Nina Angelo

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  Janka was a 16 year old Polish School girl when the Nazi's arrived. Alberto was a feisty Spanish/Greek from Thessaloniki. They met in the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. In 2016 Nina Angelo, their daughter raised in Australia, started to write her family's memoir, celebrating her parents' survival and love story, their new life and new beginning in Sydney.This audiobook includes music composed by Yantra De Vilder.

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  The Golden Straitjacket - I lost...

  Christopher Joseph

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  Chris Joseph walked out of university to become a priest. It was a tough decision, and the tasks set by the bishop, even tougher. From nightclub bouncer to Benedictine monk, he worked in a dilapidated iron foundry where he survived a horrific industrial accident. Disabled but undaunted, he finished his degree before joining the world of advertising. Having established his own award-winning agency in the heart of London’s West End, he was struck down by mental illness and the inevitable stigma and chaos that accompany instability. He used his advertising skills to publicise and settle High Court copyright and banking disputes with several high profile multinational companies including Barclays Bank. 
  ‘The Golden Straitjacket’ is a series of short, true, humorous and horrific stories from Chris Joseph’s life that can be read together or in isolation. They should give readers an insight into the joyful, painful, but certainly crazy world that he has inhabited where insanity often follows creativity. Whether it’s madness or genius you be the judge...!

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  The Rush for Second Place -...

  William Gaddis

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  William Gaddis published only four novels during his lifetime, but with those works he earned himself a reputation as one of America's greatest novelists, the heir to Joyce and Nabokov. Less well known is Gaddis's body of perceptive critical writings.Presented here is a wide range of Gaddis's original essays. From "'Stop Player. Joke No. 4,'" Gaddis's first national publication and the basis for his projected history of the player piano—which would ultimately inspire Gaddis's final novel, Agape Agape—to the title essay about missed opportunities in America during the past fifty years, to "Old Foes with New Faces," an examination of the relationship between the writer and the problem of religion, this diverse collection displays the power of an autonomous literary intelligence in an age increasingly dominated by political and religious conservatism.

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  True Crime UK - Real Criminal...

  Adrian Langenscheid

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  "Brutal, factual, neutral in presentation... incredibly shocking." a reader    "Some of the most gruesome and exciting criminal cases that Britain has to offer. I could hardly put the book down." Franziska Singer (Actress)    "A riveting collection of reports that takes the reader to the limits of what is bearable." Jen Stohler    Cold-blooded murders, tragic kidnappings, cruel torture, ruthless abuse, devastating family dramas and a millennium robbery. Real criminal cases.      In the third volume of his book series True Crime International, bestselling author Adrian Langenscheid once again reports truthfully, factually and free of any sensationalism about shocking crimes in people' s immediate neighborhood. Crimes that have actually happened - and not so long ago.    Three excellent podcasts have contributed 5 cases to the book.    Captivated, stunned, amazed and moved to tears, you will question everything you think you know about human nature. Life surpasses all fiction and writes terrible stories. This true crime book sums them up.         Immerse yourself in the breathtaking world of true crime. Simply scroll up and click on "BUY NOW".           "Definitely a must for all fans of true crime fans!"  Katharina Urbanek

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  Landru the Bluebeard of France

  William Le Queux

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  William Le Queux (1864 - 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer, diplomat, traveller, flying buff and wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available.He was phenomenally successful as a novelist and short story writer, and many of his tales are based on his own exploits, albeit vastly exaggerated. He is widely recongnized as one of the first creators of the spy story genre, in which his diplomatic background, familiarity with European high society and his interest in technology combined to create a rich tapestry for his intrigues.The true crime story of Henri Désiré Landru, master of murder and the art of making love, captivated the whole of Europe for almost two years. Landru is known to have murdered at least a dozen women for their savings and their furniture. Moreover, the uncanny fascination which he held for his victims from the moment he fixed them with his strangely compelling eyes, has never been properly explained.

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