- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Supernatural
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Unexplained Phenomena
- HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
- PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical
- TRUE CRIME / General
- TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
- TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Supernatural
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Unexplained Phenomena
- HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
- PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical
- TRUE CRIME / General
- TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
- TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime
Steel City Mafia
9781467153751
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%George Washington's Long Island Spy Ring
9781467143479
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The 1788 Morristown Ghost Hoax
9781467150972
Regular price $21.99 Sale price $11.00 Save 50%A Fabulous Fable of the Supernatural Kind
The saga of the Morristown ghost has been told around campfires and dinner tables in Morris County for generations. Local legend claimed British Loyalists secretly buried stolen Patriot treasure on Schooley Mountain as they fled the oncoming forces of George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Years later in 1788, a former school teacher from Connecticut, Ransford Rodgers, convinced local prominent Morristown families that a ghost was protecting the true location of the treasure and he alone could exercise it. Little did the victims know, Rodgers was perpetuating an elaborate hoax and eventually extorted large sums of money from the embarrassed local elite. The tale has been recounted in various sensational pamphlets and publications ever since, leaving behind a mystery of what is true or myth.
Author Peter Zablocki separates fact from fiction in the story of the great Morristown ghost hoax.
Jailing the Johnstown Judge
9781467152037
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%In 1988, Judge Joe O'Kicki was regarded by his peers as one of the most brilliant legal minds in the United States. He was newly re-married, sworn in as the president judge of a Pennsylvania county and on the fast track to a federal bench....
Silently, however, a state police vice unit was in the midst of covert operation into O'Kicki's personal affairs. The judge would be accused of soliciting bribes, frequenting brothels and running the county as if he were a "battleship commander.'? Later he'd concoct a plan to flee the country and exact revenge on his enemies.
Set in the aftermath of the 1977 Johnstown flood and including courtroom testimony, the memos of whistleblowers, contemporary interviews and excerpts from O'Kicki's unfinished tell-all memoir, "Jailing the Johnstown Judge'? is a fresh examination of the extraordinary Western Pennsylvania case that attained international infamy.
Bizarre Brooklyn
9781467152396
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Brooklyn. The most populous borough in New York City. Birthplace of the Dodgers, Sweet'n Low, and Season 21 of "The Real World.'? With more than 400 years under its belt, the borough is filled with a history of both sweet and savory moments.
It's hard to imagine Brooklyn as anything other than a concrete jungle. Who would guess that that first battle of the Revolutionary War was fought here? Or that the world's oldest subway is hidden beneath the streets of Boerum Hill? Or how an airplane fell from the sky and landed in the middle of the street in Park Slope? Hundreds of people pass by the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park everyday. Virtually no one stops to read the plaque. If they did, they would learn that it is actually a grave, holding up to 15,000 bodies.
Author Allison Huntington Chase, Brooklyn's own Madame Morbid, takes readers on a journey beyond the brownstones, to discover the hidden, macabre and bizarre throughout Brooklyn history.
Death on the Devil's Teeth
9781467153003
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Four decades after Jeannette DePalma's tragic death, authors Jesse P. Pollack and Mark Moran present the definitive account of the shocking Springfield township cold case.
As Springfield residents decorated for Halloween in September 1972, the crime rate in the quiet, affluent township was at its lowest in years. That mood was shattered when the body of sixteen-year-old Jeannette DePalma was discovered in the local woods, allegedly surrounded by strange objects. Some feared witchcraft was to blame, while others believed a serial killer was on the loose. Rumors of a police cover up ran rampant, and the case went unsolved - along with the murders of several other young women.
The Killing of John Sharpless: The Pursuit of Justice in Delaware County
9781626190238
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The Brockport Murder Dog Trial
9781467148306
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