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Judge Crater, the Missingest Person

Author : John Winslow Gibson
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160844712X
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Judge Crater, the Missingest Person written by John Winslow Gibson and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2010 marks 80 years since New York State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater vanished and became world famous. Brilliant and secretive, this "faithful husband" and"completely honest man" left behind a mistress, a string of chorus girls, a history of crooked political deals, and one big mystery. Writers have assumed that Crater's life ended the night of August 6, 1930. Yet the evidence shows that he got rid of files that day, repeatedly gave out a false clue, and hid financial information for his wife in a secret drawer that only she knew of. This book hunts down the most realistic guess what became of the man who fooled everybody. John Winslow Gibson has a background in philosophy, and his books have critiqued rationalism and fundamentalism, proposed new institutions for America's future, and examined esoteric writing in Plato's dialogues. As all of this has involved detective work of one sort or another, the Crater case caught his interest. He says his work on it was the most fun he has had writing.

Finding Judge Crater

Author : Stephen J. Riegel
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 081565538X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Finding Judge Crater written by Stephen J. Riegel and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of August 6, 1930, Joseph Force Crater, a newly appointed judge and prominent figure in many circles of Manhattan, hailed a taxi in the heart of Broadway and vanished into thin air. Despite a decades-long international manhunt led by the New York Police Department’s esteemed Missing Persons Bureau, the reason for Crater’s disappearance remains a confounding mystery. In the early months of the investigation, evidence implicated and imperiled New York’s top officials, including then-Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mayor Jimmy Walker, as well as the city’s Tammany Hall political machine, lawyers and judges, and a theater mogul. Drawing on new sources, including NYPD case files and court records, and overlooked evidence discovered years later, Riegel pieces together the puzzle of what likely happened to Joseph Crater and why. To uncover the mystery, he delves into Crater’s ascension into the scintillating and corrupt world of Manhattan in the Roaring Twenties and Jazz Age. In turn, the story of the judge’s vanishing amid the Great Depression unfolds as a harbinger of the disappearance of his lost metropolis and its transformation into modern-day New York City.

Any Resemblance to Actual Persons

Author : Hal Erickson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476629307
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Any Resemblance to Actual Persons written by Hal Erickson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most film buffs know that Citizen Kane was based on the life of publisher William Randolph Hearst. But few are aware that key characters in films like Double Indemnity, Cool Hand Luke, Jaws, Rain Man, A Few Good Men and Zero Dark Thirty were inspired by actual persons. This survey of a clef characters covers a selection of fictionalized personalities, beginning with the Silent Era. The landmark lawsuit surrounding Rasputin and the Empress (1932) introduced disclaimers in film credits, assuring audiences that characters were not based on real people--even when they were. Entries cover screen incarnations of Wyatt Earp, Al Capone, Bing Crosby, Amelia Earhart, Buster Keaton, Howard Hughes, Janis Joplin and Richard Nixon, along with the inspirations behind perennial favorites like Charlie Chan and Indiana Jones.

Conspiracy Theories and Secret Societies For Dummies

Author : Christopher Hodapp
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118052021
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Conspiracy Theories and Secret Societies For Dummies written by Christopher Hodapp and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entering the world of conspiracy theories and secret societies is like stepping into a distant, parallel universe where the laws of physics have completely changed: black means white, up is down, and if you want to understand what’s really going on, you need a good reference book. That’s where Conspiracy Theories & Secret Societies For Dummies comes in. Whether you’re a skeptic or a true believer, this fascinating guide, packed with the latest information, walks you through some of the most infamous conspiracy theories — such as Area 51 and the assassination of JFK — and introduces you to such mysterious organizations as the Freemasons, the Ninjas, the Mafia, and Rosicrucians. This behind-the-curtain guide helps you separate fact from fiction and helps you the global impact of these mysterious events and groups on our modern world. Discover how to: Test a conspiracy theory Spot a sinister secret society Assess the Internet’s role in fueling conspiracy theories Explore world domination schemes Evaluate 9/11 conspiracy theories Figure out who “they” are Grasp the model on which conspiracy theories are built Figure out whether what “everybody knows” is true Distinguish on assassination brotherhood from another Understand why there’s no such thing as a “lone assassin” Why do hot dogs come in packages of ten, while buns come in eight-packs? Everybody knows its a conspiracy, right? Find out in Conspiracy Theories & Secret Societies For Dummies.

Weird New York

Author : Chris Gethard
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402733833
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Weird New York written by Chris Gethard and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a travel guide of sorts to New York's local legends and best kept secrets, filled with crazy characters, cursed roads, abandoned sites, and bizarre roadside attractions that the author feels reflect the shared modern folklore of our time.

What the Fact?!

Author : Gabe Henry
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452168555
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book What the Fact?! written by Gabe Henry and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day is strange if you know your history. This illustrated daily trivia almanac explores a bizarre moment through the ages for each day of the year, such as: The odiferous debut of Smell-o-Vision (January 12, 1960) The execution of Oliver Cromwell, more than two years after his death (January 30, 1661) The day the first pig actually flew (November 4, 1909) That time the United States ran out of toilet paper (December 19, 1973) Drawing on a range of subjects including politics, sports, the arts, pop culture, and more, each What the . . . fact offers daily or dip-in-and-out diversion, and an opportunity to learn something new and stranger every day.

Aubrey McKee

Author : Alex Pugsley
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1771963123
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Aubrey McKee written by Alex Pugsley and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am from Halifax, salt-water city, a place of silted genius, sudden women, figures floating in all waters. “People from Halifax are all famous,” my sister Faith has said. “Because everyone in Halifax knows each other’s business.” From basement rec rooms to midnight railway tracks, Action Transfers to Smarties boxes crammed with joints, from Paul McCartney on the kitchen radio to their furious teenaged cover of The Ramones, Aubrey McKee and his familiars navigate late adolescence amidst the old-monied decadence of Halifax. An arcana of oddball angels, Alex Pugsley’s long-awaited debut novel follows rich-kid drug dealers and junior tennis brats, émigré heart surgeons and small-time thugs, renegade private school girls and runaway children as they try to make sense of the city into which they’ve been born. Part coming-of-age-story, part social chronicle, and part study of the myths that define our growing up, Aubrey McKee introduces a breathtakingly original new voice.

Best Canadian Stories 2018

Author : Russell Smith
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 177196250X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Best Canadian Stories 2018 written by Russell Smith and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 48th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Caroline Adderson, Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Tamas Dobozy, Mavis Gallant, Douglas Glover, Norman Levine, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Kathleen Winter, and many others have appeared in its pages over the decades, making Best Canadian Stories the go-to source for what’s new in Canadian fiction writing for close to five decades. Selected by guest editor Russell Smith, the 2018 edition draws together both newer and established writers to shape an engaging and luminous mosaic of writing in this country today—a continuation of not only a series, but a legacy in Canadian letters. Best Canadian Stories 2018 features work by: Shashi Bhat, Tom Thor Buchanan, Lynn Coady, Deirdre Simon Dore, Alicia Elliott, Bill Gaston, Liz Harmer, Brad Hartle, David Huebert, Reg Johanson, Amy Jones, Michael LaPointe, Stephen Marche, Lisa Moore, Kathy Page, and Alex Pugsley.

Shattered Sense of Innocence

Author : Richard C Lindberg
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809388196
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Shattered Sense of Innocence written by Richard C Lindberg and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1955, three Chicago boys were found murdered, their bodies naked and dumped in a ditch in Robinson Woods on the city’s Northwest Side. A community and a nation were shocked. In a time when such crimes against children were rare, the public was transfixed as local television stations aired stark footage of the first hours of the investigation. Life and Newsweek magazines published exclusive stories the following week. When Kenneth Hansen was convicted and sentenced for the murders, the case was considered solved—until questions were raised about Hansen’s presumed guilt. Shattered Sense of Innocence: The 1955 Murders of Three Chicago Children tells the gripping story of the three murdered boys—thirteen-year-old John Schuessler, his eleven-year-old brother, Anton, and thirteen-year-old Bobby Peterson—and the quest to find and bring to justice their killer. Authors Richard C. Lindberg and Gloria Jean Sykes recount the bungled 1955 police investigation, the failures of multiple law enforcement agencies, and the subsequent convictions of Kenneth Hansen, in 1995 and 2002, and present new information concerning two suspects overlooked by police for five decades. The authors deftly examine all sides of this tragic story, drawing on exclusive interviews with law enforcement agents, with horse trainers affiliated with the so-called horse mafia, and with the man convicted of the murders, Kenneth Hansen. This intensely intimate account offers a rare glimpse into one community and examines how these atrocious crimes altered public perceptions nationwide. Shattered Sense of Innocence, which is also a story of political controversy, a determined federal agent’s quest for justice, and a community’s loss of innocence, includes fifty illustrations.

The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress

Author : Ariel Lawhon
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385537638
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress written by Ariel Lawhon and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and The Frozen River comes a “genuinely surprising whodunit” (USA Today) that tantalizingly reimagines a scandalous murder mystery that rocked the nation. One summer night in 1930, Judge Joseph Crater steps into a New York City cab and is never heard from again. Behind this great man are three women, each with her own tale to tell: Stella, his fashionable wife, the picture of propriety; Maria, their steadfast maid, indebted to the judge; and Ritzi, his showgirl mistress, willing to seize any chance to break out of the chorus line. As the twisted truth emerges, Ariel Lawhon’s wickedly entertaining debut mystery transports us into the smoky jazz clubs, the seedy backstage dressing rooms, and the shadowy streets beneath the Art Deco skyline. Don't miss Ariel Lawhon's new book, The Frozen River!

Vanishing Point

Author : Richard J. Tofel
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vanishing Point written by Richard J. Tofel and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the life and times of Judge Crater, a New York State Supreme Court justice who disappeared in 1930.

The Road Taken Again

Author : Dennis Ford
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663230994
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book The Road Taken Again written by Dennis Ford and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mischievous style of his previous books, Thinking About Everything and Miles of Thoughts, humorist and man of letters Dennis Ford takes to the road and— ~ reveals why heaven is the saddest place ~ invents the practice of kid swapping ~ explains how reasonable people will cause the end of democracy ~ narrates a public radio interview with Jesus ~ describes how to pretend to be mute to avoid confrontations ~ divulges Mayberry Sheriff Andy Taylor’s fatal habit ~ provides a sure-fire method to get God to answer prayers ~ advises against conversing with demon-possessed drain pipes ~ discovers to his delight that there’s beer in the afterlife Amid a generous helping of excellent groaners, Ford demonstrates how to practice mindfulness while cooking Ramen noodles, bestows the Insult to Humanity prize on deserving movies, discloses why the people life dumps on dump on themselves, asks whether we need to chlorinate the gene pool and tells why, if you don’t like fun, you’ll like New Jersey.

Elephant Executed for Murder

Author : James W Henry Jr
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503533875
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Elephant Executed for Murder written by James W Henry Jr and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken from the headlines of the Nation's Newspaper across the 20th century, here are 112 of America's forgotten or little remembered stories. All are true. Many are amazing. Some are funny while others are heartbreaking. A few are almost beyond belief, but each provides a glimpse into the past century in the United States while transporting us back to that ever important place: The Land In Which Dwelt . . . .

Down East

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Down East written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

We Shall See About It

Author : Ambrosine Aureliano
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493144553
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book We Shall See About It written by Ambrosine Aureliano and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12-26 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Shall See About It is the singular and fantastic tale of a well-versed chit and the hazards she confronts in a botanic garden. Watch! as Cliff sallies forth to do battle with peevish, mythical beings and surly, nightmarish beasts. Squirm! as she takes on the most caustically fearsome creature of all: her Great-aunt Vestia at teatime. Thrill! to her adventures which include four quarrelsome cats who would prefer to be elsewhere, and a petulant Shih Tzu who would rather be napping. Salivate! While any number of delectable pastries are described, and Gawk in wonder! when Cliff is disabused of any "iffy" notions she might have had about life being a cakewalk. With elements of Greek mythology and Hindu iconography thrown in, it's certain to be a piquant account worth the reading. Or at least the skimming. Possibly a cursory glance or two while flopped out on the sofa. A choice no longer has to be made between cates and dainties, because We Shall See About It dishes out ample servings of both.

Breaking History: Vanished!

Author : Sarah Pruitt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493030612
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Breaking History: Vanished! written by Sarah Pruitt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A front row seat to the breaking news, photos and hype surrounding history's most mysterious disappearances. Breaking History books offer a front row seat to history as it broke (like “breaking news”) and give the blow-by-blow of historical discovery—what we learned, when we learned it, who made the discovery, and how. Vanished! is an illustrated tour of history’s most confounding cases of disappearance from Amelia Earhart to Jimmy Hoffa; DB Cooper; Alcatraz escapists Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Algin; Jim Thompson; Judge Joseph Force Crater; and more. Starting with the first 30 days surrounding each incident, and then looking at efforts up to this very day to solve each case, this book covers in photos and text history’s most perplexing vanishings.

Empire State

Author : Adam Christopher
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 0857661930
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book Empire State written by Adam Christopher and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE EMPIRE STATE IS THE OTHER NEW YORK. A parallel-universe, Prohibition-era world of mooks and shamuses that is the twisted magic mirror to our bustling Big Apple, a place where sinister characters lurk around every corner while the great superheroes that once kept the streets safe have fallen into dysfunctional rivalries and feuds. Not that its colourful residents know anything about the real New York… until detective Rad Bradley makes a discovery that will change the lives of all its inhabitants. Playing on the classic Gotham conventions of the Batman comics and HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, debut author Adam Christopher has spun this smart and fast-paced superhero-noir adventure, the sort of souped-up thrill ride that will excite genre fans and general readers alike. File Under: Science Fiction [ Pocket Universe | Heroes or Villains | Speak Easy | Loyalties Divided ] e-book ISBN: 978-0-85766-194-4