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    Uncle John's True Crime: A Classic Collection of Crooks, Cops, and Capers
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    Uncle John's True Crime: A Classic Collection of Crooks, Cops, and Capers

    By Bathroom Readers' Institute

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    About this ebook

    You'll be on the edge of your seat reading tales of cops, robbers, criminals, and lawyers with this little tome that packs a lot of heat.

    Do you like to read great stories? This book is loaded with them! We've rounded up the best cops-and-robber articles we've ever done--plus a rogue's gallery of new offenders. You'll read about dumb crooks and criminal masterminds, mafia henchman and low-level goons, ancient warriors and Old West gunslingers, crazed cops and jovial judges, and even a few loony lawyers and crooked Wall Street types. It's the True Crime book that only Uncle John could make! Here are some of the unusual suspects . . .

     

    * New York City’s "Mad Bomber"
    * The Biddle Brothers and the Queen of the Jail
    * Law and Order: Special Pants Unit
    * Dopes who hide their dope in the strangest places
    * America's first private eye
    * NASCAR's bootlegging beginnings
    * The real pirates of the Caribbean
    * Why CSI makes the cops' job even harder
    * Billy the Kid and other outlaws who died with their boots on
    * George Luger, Samuel Colt, and other fathers of guns
    * The greatest train robberies
    * Arrested for farting
    * And much more!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPortable Press
    Release dateSep 1, 2012
    ISBN9781607106784
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    Uncle John's True Crime: A Classic Collection of Crooks, Cops, and Capers
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    Bathroom Readers' Institute

    The Bathroom Readers' Institute is a tight-knit group of loyal and skilled writers, researchers, and editors who have been working as a team for years. The BRI understands the habits of a very special market—Throne Sitters—and devotes itself to providing amazing facts and conversation pieces.

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    • 3/5
      This book does what it sets out to do: entertain in the bathroom. With short snippets to read and fun facts of the great and small criminal minds, it's easy to read, informative and well-written. My favourites are always the losers that get caught by making the dumbest mistakes; it's always a good laugh!
    • 4/5
      Like all of "Uncle John's" books, this is a super-sized book full of stories, facts, trivia, and more. However, where most "Uncle John's" books are a varying collection of articles, this book has gathered together stories of "true crimes". The articles are divided according to length, (or sitting session). Very little of this book is new content, most articles have been published in previous Uncle John books. The book seems be be well researched, and many of the longer articles set the record straight on many infamous crimes that have had the true facts muddled by history. This would be an entertaining read for a true crime buff, and would make an interesting addition to anyone's "reading room."
    • 5/5
      like all the others... very interesting get it and read
    • 4/5
      This is one of those collections of fun facts and interesting stories. Some are a few pages, some are just a paragraph or two. Some little known facts about some cases you may have heard of, The Mad Bomber, The Hatfields and McCoys are two I remember. The stories are grouped together by a common thread, “Stupid Criminals”, “Zany Cops”, “Escape Artists”, these are examples not actual headings. This is one of those books you can read a little at a time, because the stories are a page or two, and it is a lot of stories.