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The incredible true story of Arthur Barry, one of the world’s most audacious and successful jewel thieves, who charmed the elite of 1920s New York, brazenly swiped gems worth millions from their Long Island and Westchester County estates, and outfoxed the police and private detectives on his trail.
The larger-than-life exploits and make-believe world of 1920s Chicago con man Leo Koretz, a pioneer of the Ponzi scheme, who claimed to control vast oilfields in Panama and hoodwinked hundreds of investors before escaping to a new life in Canada.
The true story of Scotland Yard’s hunt for the Canadian doctor Thomas Neill Cream, who became known as the “Lambeth Poisoner,” a Victorian-era monster who killed as many as six people in Canada and Chicago before he crossed the Atlantic and poisoned four more women in 1890s London.
A collection of 16 stranger-than-fiction tales of crime and punishment, tragedy and redemption, and guilt and innocence, with a lot to say about the past – and the unending quest for justice.
Fifteen tales of true crime drawn from Nova Scotia’s past – a rogues’ gallery of murderers and pirates, bank robbers and fraud artists.
The story of one of the great crimes of history – the deportation of French-speaking Acadian settlers from Canada’s Maritime Provinces in the mid-1700s. An epic saga of exile and survival.
