Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+6585+6669 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1374460 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1274982 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279595 Describes how Marjorie Orbin, a stripper turned suburban housewife with a sordid past that included a drug habit and alleged ties to the New York mafia, murdered and dismembered her seventh husband, Jay, a successful art dealer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279589 Describes how Sarah Pender, an attractive, outgoing honors student who was in prison for murder, used her talent for manipulating men to escape jail and elude authorities for months, becoming the most wanted woman in America. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1375734 For the first twenty-five years of his criminal career, Charles Lucky Luciano was a vicious mobster who rose to become the multimillionaire king of the New York underworld. For the next twenty-five years of his life, Luciano was a legend---but a fake master criminal without real power, his evil reputation manipulated and maintained by the government agents who had put him behind bars. Drawing on secret government documents from archives in the United States and Europe, this myth-busting biography tells the real story from Lucianos early days as a top hit man for the Mob to his exploits running sex and narcotics empires. His criminal career abruptly ended with conviction and imprisonment, but his reputation was only enhanced by rumors that he was winning World War II for the Allies in Sicily and the Mediterranean. Now, for the first time, author Tim Newark exposes the truth about what Luciano really did do to help the Allies in the war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1116016 Drawing on thousands of pages of recently discovered government documents, wiretap transcripts, and Al Capones handwritten personal letters, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Eig tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the nations most notorious criminal in rich new detail. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=989282 Jack Ballentine became a Phoenix police officer in 1978 and quickly rose to become one of the worlds most successful undercover operatives. His specialty: posing as a hit man. None of the people who hired him had any inkling that he was actually a cop, and he obtained 24 convictions out of 24 indictments on murder conspiracy charges. He worked with criminals of all sorts, from vengeful spouses and partners to the criminally insane, with one thing in common: the desire to have someone killed. In assuming an alternate identity and developing a reputation among the Phoenix underground--bikers, strippers, junkies, and thugs--Ballentine developed an intricate network of sources who kept him extremely busy. All the while, he strove for the semblance of a normal life with a new wife and stepson. His story is a unique look at how law enforcement delves into the heart of the criminal world.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1061273 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1065672 Rebecca Salcedo had an easy smile, a sexy body, and strong appetites--she wanted the world. Bruce Cleland, she decided, would buy it for her. The shy engineer quickly fell victim to her charms, getting her whatever she wanted. A new car. A boat. A house. But he wasnt Rebeccas only admirer...Even after Rebecca manipulated Bruce into marrying her, hoping to divorce him and take him for everything he had, she occupied herself with a series of lovers. Male strippers, women...they all spent time in Rebeccas bed. But when she learned that a divorce would only get her a few pennies, she knew she had to find another way to secure Bruces fortune. Enlisting two family members as killers-for-hire. Rebecca set in motion her solution to the problem. While she watched, the first bullet hit Bruce in the face. Three more would follow. But while Rebecca kept the blood off her hands, she could not conceal evidence that led straight to her, culminating in a trial that would shock a community. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=999420 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=583579 Known by many names - A. R., Mr. Big, The Fixer, The Big Bankroll, The Man of Uptown, and The Brian - Arnold Rothstein seemed more a myth than a man. He was gambling, and he was money. The inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, he was rumored to be the mastermind of the Black Sox scandal, the fixing of the 1919 World Series. He was Mr. Broadway and has is own booth at Lindys Restaurant in Manhattan, where he held court. Now, in King of the Jews, Nick Tosches examines Rothsteins extraordinary legacy by placing him at the center of nothing less than the history of the entire Western world.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=582485 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=125227 A haunting true story that resonates with todays headlines, Death Sentence takes us inside the life of a multiple killer - and the only woman to be executed in the United States from 1962 until 1998. On February 3, 1978, North Carolina farmer Stuart Taylor was rushed to the hospital. His forty-six-year-old fiancee, Velma Barfield, a devout Sunday school teacher, held vigil at his bedside. But prayers couldnt save him. An autopsy revealed that arsenic had killed him. To those who knew her, Velma was a devoted mother and grandmother, a sweet and selfless caregiver. But her life was a fragile web of lies that unraveled with alarming speed, exposing a deeply disturbed woman addicted to prescription drugs, driven to bouts of suicidal despair. And murder. Turned over to the police by her son, Velma stunned her family by admitting to having murdered four people over the course of ten years - including her own mother. But there were secrets she held back... secrets not known until now.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1001220 Prosecuting Attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insiders position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers. What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his hold over the young women who obeyed his orders? Here is the gripping story of this famous and haunting crime. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=237278 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=196304 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=68423