Author:
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1605430277
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Ripped from the Headlines!
Author: Harold Schechter
Publisher: Little A
ISBN: 9781542041805
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films. The necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy; Chicago's Jazz Age crime of passion; the fatal hookup in Looking for Mr. Goodbar; the high school horrors committed by the costumed slasher in Scream. These and other cinematic crimes have become part of pop-culture history. And each found inspiration in true events that provided the raw material for our greatest blockbusters, indie art films, black comedies, Hollywood classics, and grindhouse horrors. So what's the reality behind Psycho, Badlands, The Hills Have Eyes, A Place in the Sun, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Dirty Harry? How did such tabloid-ready killers as Bonnie and Clyde, body snatchers Burke and Hare, Texas sniper Charles Whitman Jr., nurse-slayer Richard Speck, and Leopold and Loeb exert their power on the public imagination and become the stuff of movie lore? In this collection of revelatory essays, true-crime historian Harold Schechter takes a fascinating trip down the crossroads of fact and fiction to reveal the sensational real-life stories that are more shocking, taboo, and fantastic than even the most imaginative screenwriter can dream up.
Publisher: Little A
ISBN: 9781542041805
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films. The necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy; Chicago's Jazz Age crime of passion; the fatal hookup in Looking for Mr. Goodbar; the high school horrors committed by the costumed slasher in Scream. These and other cinematic crimes have become part of pop-culture history. And each found inspiration in true events that provided the raw material for our greatest blockbusters, indie art films, black comedies, Hollywood classics, and grindhouse horrors. So what's the reality behind Psycho, Badlands, The Hills Have Eyes, A Place in the Sun, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Dirty Harry? How did such tabloid-ready killers as Bonnie and Clyde, body snatchers Burke and Hare, Texas sniper Charles Whitman Jr., nurse-slayer Richard Speck, and Leopold and Loeb exert their power on the public imagination and become the stuff of movie lore? In this collection of revelatory essays, true-crime historian Harold Schechter takes a fascinating trip down the crossroads of fact and fiction to reveal the sensational real-life stories that are more shocking, taboo, and fantastic than even the most imaginative screenwriter can dream up.
Ripped from the Headlines
Author:
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1605430277
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1605430277
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Ripped from the Headlines 2
Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426319096
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Read hundreds of weird but true stories.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426319096
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Read hundreds of weird but true stories.
Ripped from the Headlines 3
Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426324219
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Presents facts, brief stories, and photos on topics including extreme body art, incredible inventions, and strange travel destinations.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426324219
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Presents facts, brief stories, and photos on topics including extreme body art, incredible inventions, and strange travel destinations.
Weird But True! 5
Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books
ISBN: 1426311249
Category : Children's questions and answers
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A collection of fun and surprising facts about our world.
Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books
ISBN: 1426311249
Category : Children's questions and answers
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A collection of fun and surprising facts about our world.
National Geographic Kids Weird But True!: Ripped from the Headlines
Author: National Geographic Kids
Publisher: Weird But True
ISBN: 1426315147
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Read hundreds of weird but true stories.
Publisher: Weird But True
ISBN: 1426315147
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Read hundreds of weird but true stories.
All-American Murder
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316412686
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Discover the shocking #1 New York Times bestseller: the true story of a young NFL player's first-degree murder conviction and untimely death -- and his journey from the Patriots to prison. Aaron Hernandez was a college All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later reached the Super Bowl. His every move as a tight end with the New England Patriots played out the headlines, yet he led a secret life -- one that ended in a maximum-security prison. What drove him to go so wrong, so fast? Between the summers of 2012 and 2013, not long after Hernandez made his first Pro Bowl, he was linked to a series of violent incidents culminating in the death of Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro football player who dated the sister of Hernandez's fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins. All-American Murder is the first book to investigate Aaron Hernandez's first-degree murder conviction and the mystery of his own shocking and untimely death.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316412686
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Discover the shocking #1 New York Times bestseller: the true story of a young NFL player's first-degree murder conviction and untimely death -- and his journey from the Patriots to prison. Aaron Hernandez was a college All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later reached the Super Bowl. His every move as a tight end with the New England Patriots played out the headlines, yet he led a secret life -- one that ended in a maximum-security prison. What drove him to go so wrong, so fast? Between the summers of 2012 and 2013, not long after Hernandez made his first Pro Bowl, he was linked to a series of violent incidents culminating in the death of Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro football player who dated the sister of Hernandez's fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins. All-American Murder is the first book to investigate Aaron Hernandez's first-degree murder conviction and the mystery of his own shocking and untimely death.
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Author: John Wilander
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
A hacker thriller, ripped from the headlines of today's newspapers, envisioning a chilling future where citizen hackers are pitted against unaccountable global actors.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
A hacker thriller, ripped from the headlines of today's newspapers, envisioning a chilling future where citizen hackers are pitted against unaccountable global actors.
Author:
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668008718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668008718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
A Rip in Heaven
Author: Jeanine Cummins
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440627916
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book—the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families. A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins’ story of a night in April, 1991, when her two cousins Julie and Robin Kerry, and her brother, Tom, were assaulted on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River just outside of St. Louis. When, after a harrowing ordeal, Tom managed to escape the attackers and flag down help, he thought the nightmare would soon be over. He couldn’t have been more wrong. Tom, his sister Jeanine, and their entire family were just at the beginning of a horrific odyssey through the aftermath of a violent crime, a world of shocking betrayal, endless heartbreak, and utter disillusionment. It was a trial by fire from which no family member would emerge unscathed.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440627916
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book—the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families. A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins’ story of a night in April, 1991, when her two cousins Julie and Robin Kerry, and her brother, Tom, were assaulted on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River just outside of St. Louis. When, after a harrowing ordeal, Tom managed to escape the attackers and flag down help, he thought the nightmare would soon be over. He couldn’t have been more wrong. Tom, his sister Jeanine, and their entire family were just at the beginning of a horrific odyssey through the aftermath of a violent crime, a world of shocking betrayal, endless heartbreak, and utter disillusionment. It was a trial by fire from which no family member would emerge unscathed.