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Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
"In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles,...
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"On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual false alarm. As one fireman recounted later, "Once that first stack got going, it was 'Goodbye, Charlie." The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed...
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Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Co
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2018
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English
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"Murder Beyond the Grave: Stephen Small has a loving wife, three boys, a fancy house and a Ferrari. But all he needs right now is enough air to breathe. Kidnapped for ransom and buried in a box, Stephen has forty-eight hours to live. Murder in Paradise: High in Sierra Nevadas, Jim and Bonnie Hood tour Camp Nelson Lodge intending to buy and modernize the beautiful rustic property. But the locals don't like rich outsiders changing their way of life,...
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[2022]
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When Ann Woodward shot her husband, banking heir Billy Woodward, in the middle of the night in 1955, her life changed forever. Though she claimed she thought he was a prowler, few believed the woman who had risen from charismatic showgirl to popular socialite. Everyone had something to say about the scorching scandal afflicting one of the most rich and famous families of New York City, but no one was more obsessed with the tale than Truman Capote....
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