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  • Pardon My Hearse

    A Colorful Portrait of Where the Funeral and Entertainment Industries Met in Hollywood

    by Allan Abbott, Greg Abbott ...
    Minerva Rus can raise the dead. And it might get her killed. Minerva’s life has never been the same since the childhood car accident that paralyzed her and killed her best friend, Raven. But when the long-dead Raven reappears in her life, now as a very attractive grown man, she discovers that her photographic memory has the power to bring the dead back to life ... heal her paralysis ... and shape ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Pardon My Hearse

    A Colorful Portrait of Where the Funeral and Entertainment Industries Met in Hollywood

    by Greg Abbott, Allan Abbott ...
    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 56 min

    Allan Abbott ran the leading hearse, mortuary, and funeral services company in Hollywood and saw up close how celebrities really live and die. The Forrest Gump of the funeral industry, Abbott was everywhere celebrities died, from helping to prepare Marilyn Monroe's body for burial to standing next to Christopher Walken at Natalie Wood's funeral.This book tells the rags-to-shroud story of how a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Tinseltown

    Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood

    by William J. Mann ...
    Narrated by Christopher Lane ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 55 min

    The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true account of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry.By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime and one of the nation's largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed ... Read more

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  • The Late Show

    by Michael Connelly ...
    In this first installment of the Renée Ballard series, #1 bestselling author Michael Connelly introduces a "complicated and driven" young detective fighting to prove herself on the LAPD's toughest beat (The New York Times).Renee Ballard works the midnight shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing few, as each morning she turns everything over to the daytime units. It's a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Lincoln Lawyer

    A Mysterious Profile

    by Michael Connelly ...
    Series series Mysterious Profiles
    The #1 New York Times –bestselling author tells the origin story of LA defense attorney Mickey Haller.In this concise, absorbing account, Michael Connelly reveals the work—and the strokes of luck—that contributed to his creation of the character Mickey Haller, the subject of multiple bestselling novels as well as the hit Netflix series. He reveals the lawyers, both fictional and real-life, who ... Read more

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  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    Essays

    by Joan Didion ...
    Series series FSG Classics
    Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a masterpiece of American literature and the “foundational text” of her oeuvre (New York Times). First published in 1968, the book remains a defining work about the Sixties, about California, about America.More than perhaps any other book, this collection of essays by Didion—one of the most distinctive prose ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Darker than Night

    The True Story of a Brutal Double Homicide—and an 18-Year-Long Quest for Justice

    by Tom Henderson ...
    Series series St. Martin's True Crime Library
    A chilling account of the murders of two hunters in rural Michigan—a mystery that haunted a community and baffled the police for two decades.In the bitter cold of 1985, two buddies from Detroit embark on a hunting trip to the Michigan wilderness, unaware they will soon become the hunted.The eerie silence surrounding their sudden disappearance is broken after nearly two decades when a relentless ... Read more

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  • Uncle John's True Crime

    A Classic Collection of Crooks, Cops, and Capers

    by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    A collection of strange-but-true crime tales featuring cops, lawyers, and some very unusual suspects . . .The fact-finding folks at Bathroom Readers' Institute have rounded up the best cops-and-robber articles we've ever done, plus a rogues' gallery of new offenders. You'll read about dumb crooks and criminal masterminds, mafia henchmen and low-level goons, ancient warriors and Old West ... Read more

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  • Suburban Legends

    True Tales of Murder, Mayhem, and Minivans

    by Sam Stall ...
    It's a Terrible Day in the NeighborhoodThey told you the suburbs were a great place to live. They said nothing bad could ever happen here.But they were wrong.This collection of terrifying true stories exposes the dark side of life in the ’burbs—from corpses buried in backyards and ghosts lurking in fast food restaurants to UFOs, vanishing persons, bizarre apparitions, and worse. Consider:• The ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

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  • The Murders That Made Us

    How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers, and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area

    by Bob Calhoun ...
    The 170-year history of the San Francisco Bay Area told through its crimes and how they intertwine with the city’s art, music, and politicsIn The Murders That Made Us, the story of the San Francisco Bay Area unfolds through its most violent and depraved acts. From its earliest days when vigilantes hung perps from downtown buildings to the Zodiac Killer and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, murder ... Read more

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  • If Chins Could Kill

    Confessions of a B Movie Actor

    by Bruce Campbell ...
    If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor Here we are together in the digital universe. Somehow, you've clicked yourself to this page. If you came here of your own free will and desire, you and I are going to get along just fine.Life is full of choices. Right now, yours is whether or not to download the autobiography of a mid-grade, kind of hammy actor.Am I supposed to know this guy? you ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Blood Secrets

    Chronicles of a Crime Scene Reconstructionist

    by Rod Englert, Kathy Passero ...
    An exploration of the study of crime-scene blood spatter, featuring real-life examples and scientific analysis.Blood Secrets reveals how forensic experts read the story of a murder told in the traces of blood left behind, providing crucial evidence that has helped convict criminals who might have otherwise walked free.When Rod Englert began his career in law enforcement, virtually no police force ... Read more

    $12.99 USD