Unholy Business
A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land
Burleigh, Nina
Collins 2008
Hardback 
 
For millennia, the faithful have sought tangible relics of the Bible story - and the unscrupulous have been willing to provide them. This real-life thriller focuses on the 2002 'discovery' of the St James Ossuary, the first material evidence of the life of Jesus, and its subsequent exposure as a fake. With a colourful cast of collectors, clerics, detectives and con-men, it ranges from Jerusalem's Old City to New York's Fifth Avenue to expose the murky, dangerous world of religious forgery. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge. ...more
 
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The Vendetta
Special Agent Purvis, Dillinger and Hoover's FBI in the Age of Gangsters
Purvis, Alston; Tresniowski, Alex
Public Affairs 2009
Paperback Illustrated
 
FBI agent Melvin Purvis (played by Christian Bale in Public Enemies) was a hero in the Depression-era War on Crime. In this memoir his son explains his contribution to law enforcement against the background of the dysfunction, corruption and paranoia of the newly-formed FBI under J Edgar Hoover. ...more
 
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Murderers' Row
An International Murderers' Who's Who
Odell, Robin; Gregg, Wilfred
Sutton 2006
Paperback Illustrated
 
This A-Z of murderers, unsolved murders and serial killings presents a brief account of over 500 cases, from Burton Abbott, gassed at San Quentin in 1957 after a stay of execution was phoned through too late, to the unsolved Zodiac Murders of 1969 - up to 40 killings forming a huge 'Z' when plotted on the map of California. ...more
 
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The Italian Boy
Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London
Wise, Sarah
Cape 2004
Hardback Illustrated
 
In 1831, the authorities unearthed a series of crimes in East London that appeared to echo the notorious Burke and Hare killings in Edinburgh. The bodysnatchers became known as the London Burkers and their story became 'the Italian Boy Case'. In this historical investigation, Sarah Wise not only illuminates this macabre incident, but also opens a window on the lives of ordinary lower-class Londoners in the 1830s and examines the effects of this crime on their attitudes to community and criminality. ...more
 
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