<div><B>From Clifford Irving and his Howard Hughes hoax to the great imposter Frank &ldquo;Catch Me if You Can&rdquo; Abagnale&mdash;a fascinating history of the art of the con.</B><BR />  <BR /> They&rsquo;re shrewd, cunning, devious&mdash;and charmingly trustworthy. While the criminal exploits of these tricksters, frauds, and swindlers can&rsquo;t be condoned, it&rsquo;s near-impossible not to be awed by their audacity and ingenuity.<BR />  <BR /> Take Victor Lustig, the &ldquo;Bouncing Czech&rdquo; who sold the Eiffel Tower&mdash;twice; John Stonehouse, a philandering politician who faked his own death to escape his sins; the impotence cure of the bizarre Dr. John Brinkley who transplanted goat testicles on gullible men; embarrassingly successful Goldman Sachs embezzler Joyti De-Laurey; or Robert Hendy-Freegard, a car salesman and serial seducer who convinced scores of women he was an MI5 agent. Here, too, are the exploits of a &ldquo;friend of the stars&rdquo; who infiltrated a royal castle; a fake Scots &ldquo;laird&rdquo; who operated from the heart of Scotland Yard; evangelists who fell from grace; and other pilferers, parasites, artful dodgers, charming bastards, femme fatales, big fat liars, and grand masters of dishonorable mention.</div>

Crafty Crooks & Conmen

<div><B>One hundred years of the most depraved criminal minds&mdash;from H. H. Holmes and Ted Bundy to John Wayne Gacy, Ian Brady, and Myra Hindley.</B><BR />  <BR /> Their monikers have become part of the true crime lexicon: among them, the Moors Murders; the Hillside Strangler; Killer Clown; Son of Sam; the Love Slave Killers; the Scorecard Killer; and the BTK Strangler. On a scale of evil, they are the world&rsquo;s worst serial murderers with a propensity for sadism and torture that is beyond the pale. What turned seemingly ordinary members of society into sick slayers? How did they justify their heinous deeds? And how did they get away with murder?<BR />  <BR /> For answers, true crime journalist Nigel Blundell looks behind the headlines to delve into the minds of monsters: David Parker Ray an &ldquo;average working guy&rdquo; with a torture chamber in his backyard; Fred and Rose West, married serial killers who counted their own children among their victims; Ivan Milat, a ritual killer who hunted backpackers in Australia; Gerald and Charlene Gallego, a sadistic couple who cruised Sacramento with kidnapping and murder in mind; and former Marines Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, who videotaped the darkest depths of their depravity in their secluded cabin in the Sierra Nevada foothills.<BR />  <BR /> Discover the truth behind the unspeakable crimes in this &ldquo;anthology of evil . . . you can&rsquo;t put down&rdquo; (Dr. Michael Stone, forensic psychiatrist).</div>

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Serial Killers: The World's Most Evil

<div><B>A rare, revealing, and chilling photographic history of Adolf Hitler&mdash;from mollycoddled child to vile propagandist to despotic madman.</B><BR />  <BR /> One of the most intriguing mysteries about the rise of history&rsquo;s most despised dictator is just how utterly ordinary he once seemed. A chubby child, a mama&rsquo;s boy, an idle student, a failed artist, self-pitying outcast, and just another face in the crowd. The early images of Adolf Hitler give no hint of the demonic spirit bent on global domination. Only later in his tortured life came the metamorphosis, and the mask fell away to reveal a monster.<BR />  <BR /><I>Adolf Hitler: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives</I> traces this dramatic process in photographs&mdash;some iconic, some rare and intimate. And they are all revealing in their gradually subtle and disturbing transformation, demonstrating the mesmerizing power that Hitler wielded not only over the German public but also statesmen, industrialists, and the global media. Many culled from the author&rsquo;s private collection, the photographs collected here provide unique insight into the mind of a megalomaniac and architect of the twentieth century&rsquo;s most unfathomable atrocity.</div>

Adolf Hitler

<div><B>The body snatcher who inspired <I>Psycho</I>, the noblewoman known as Countess Dracula, Jack the Ripper, and other killers for whom murder was just the beginning.</B><BR />  <BR /> From Gilles de Rais&rsquo; castle in fifteenth-century France to &ldquo;the Bloody Benders&rsquo;&rdquo; eighteenth-century Kansas farm to Jeffrey Dahmer&rsquo;s quiet apartment in twentieth-century Milwaukee, history is littered with serial murderers whose first impulse was to take a life. For some, it was never enough. The real thrill came after their victims were dead.<BR />  <BR /> In this shocking anthology, true crime journalist Nigel Blundell brings together more than two dozen chilling profiles of the world&rsquo;s most unforgettable fiends, including: Ed Gein, the Plainfield necrophile and inspiration for <I>The Silence of the Lambs</I>; Andrei Chikatilo, the &ldquo;Rostov Ripper&rdquo;, whose uncontrollable hunger was satiated by more that fifty victims; Dennis Nilsen, whose London house of horrors so overflowed with body parts that they blocked the drains; Germany&rsquo;s Fritz Haarmann who killed and consumed more than two dozen men, then peddled the left-over meat on the black market; Hungarian countess <I>Elizabeth B&aacute;thory whose lust for the blood of virgins&mdash;a body count estimated to be in the hundreds&mdash;has branded her the most prolific female serial killer in world history; and many more human monsters whose appetites are still the stuff of nightmares.</I></div>

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Serial Killers: Butchers & Cannibals

<div><B>Charles Manson, Aileen Wuornos, Burke &amp; Hare, the Boston Strangler, the Zodiac Killer, and other remorseless serial murderers whose crimes made history.</B><BR />  <BR /> From Victorian era graveyards to a rented room in Paris to an isolated Indian farm and the California hills, the shocking murders collected in this true crime anthology span the century and the continents. The motivations are just as varied: sex, greed, bloodlust, hatred, and the sheer thrill of it all. But the more than thirty serial killers profiled here share one perverse trait: they killed without conscience, regret, or shame.<BR />  <BR /> Money did it for dapper French ladykiller Henri Landru, homicidal housewife Nannie Doss, Lady Bluebeard Belle Gunness, and Lonely Hearts Killers, Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck. Deadly desires moved Green River Killer Gary Ridgway, Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, and John Christie, whose Notting Hill home was a burial ground. And rage was the trigger for Edmund Kemper, who used his mother&rsquo;s head for a dart board, and for nomadic prostitute Aileen Wuornos who turned her tricks into road kill.<BR />  <BR /> In crime journalist Nigel Blundell&rsquo;s criminally fascinating collection, you will meet the loners, outcasts, lethal lovebirds, twisted fetishists, pleasure seekers, body snatchers, and angels of death who are the very definition of cold-blooded.</div>

Serial Killers: Murder Without Mercy

<div>Its a scandal! How often we use that phrase and what a catalogue of sins it covers. Thats what this book is all about. It is literally a catalogue of sins  committed by some of the most celebrated names on the planet.Within these covers are startling stories of scandals during a century when screen idols seemed to vie with each other in outraging public decency. It was an age when fan fever was at its height and an endless supply of shocking revelations emerged to fuel the frenzy.Because of the perpetrators superstar status, the shame of exposure was often heightened, not only wrecking reputations but often harming careers and, at least, ensuring very public humiliation.The lessons learned from these cases of celebrity scandal (though often, it seems, not by the celebrities themselves) is that the bigger the star, the harder the fall  and that deceit and intrigue so often turn hard-won fame into instant infamy.</div>

Fallen Idols

<div>Winston Churchill was an extraordinary person - a politician, a statesman, a man of letters and a soldier but it was for his wartime leadership during the Second World War that he is chiefly remembered.  In a study of his life, certain bizarre character traits become discernible.  He had excessive energy and required little sleep.  His mind would either flit from one idea to another with bewildering speed or focus obsessively on one particular goal.  He was impulsive, and his attention was easily drawn to irrelevant or unimportant matters.  He enjoyed taking risks almost to the point of self-destruction.  He lacked inhibition and was eccentric in the extreme.  Yet at other times, when he was afflicted with what he called his 'Black Dog', he became depressed, irritable, aggressive, and preoccupied with death and thoughts of suicide. By closely and painstakingly examining the statements of Churchill's doctor, of Winston himself, his family, his friends and acquaintances, Dr. Norman, as a medical man, has been able to ascertain the true nature of Winston's disorder.  The diagnosis having been made, it is now possible for the very first time, and this will remain secret until the book is published, to understand the man himself and what made him 'tick'.</div>

Winston Churchill

<div><B>A pictorial history of the major man-made calamities that shocked the world throughout the twentieth century.</B><BR />  <BR /> It was a period during which the power and scale of industrialization changed the planet&mdash;an unforeseen consequence being the creation of more human-created catastrophes than ever before experienced.<BR />  <BR /> The events recorded here include the needless carnage of history&rsquo;s worst air disaster when two jumbo jets collided on the island of Tenerife. We recall the horrors of Aberfan, the Welsh village in which schoolchildren were buried alive. The story of the explosion aboard the Challenger space shuttle reveals how warnings that were ignored led to the deaths of seven astronauts. And we report on the failings that caused the nuclear nightmare at Chernobyl, a poisonous blot on the face of the globe.<BR />  <BR /> These and the other tragedies in this book were all man-made and, it seems, just waiting to happen. A further link between these horrific events is that they were all caused by either folly or greed&mdash;or both. But despite the tales of monstrous misfortune, many also produced heart-lifting stories of heroism, selflessness, sacrifice, and human resilience.</div>

A Century of Man-Made Disasters

<div>Gathered together within the pages of this book is a roguish array of artful tricksters, fantastic fakers, rascally fraudsters and cunning conmen. They all bend the rules and usually the law. Yet however reprehensible their misdeeds, these thoroughly rotten scoundrels often display the very essence of enterprise and adventure.  It would be wrong to condone their antics, of course, but it is difficult not to admire their artifice. After all, this sort of raffish crime has spawned scores of anti-heroes in books, movies and TV series. But the stories told here are all true – among the most barely-believable dodgy misdeeds of the past two centuries.  Powerful motives drive this book’s extraordinary characters as they rampage on the wrong side of the law. Greed is the most usual, ambition is another, lust sometimes plays a compelling part. But many are compelled by no other cause than a perverted sense of adventure. It is these various forces that link the disparate bunch of characters in this fascinating catalogue of crime.  If, as the saying goes, ‘the Devil has the best tunes’, he certainly also has some of the best stories – and here are some of the most startling case histories. Together they’re the diabolically fiendish work of History’s Most Daring Rogues and Villains.</div>

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Books By Nigel Blundell (9 Books)

Crafty Crooks & Conmen

Serial Killers: The World's Most Evil

Adolf Hitler

Serial Killers: Butchers & Cannibals

Serial Killers: Murder Without Mercy

Fallen Idols

Winston Churchill

A Century of Man-Made Disasters

History’s Most Daring Rogues and Villains

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