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Author: Eric G. Meeks
Publisher:
Published: 2016-01-20
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780986218989
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of true crime stories, from historic to the present, of Palm Springs, CA, and surrounding communities.
Author: Lee Hollis
Publisher: Kensington Cozies
Published: 2018-07-31
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1496713907
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lee Hollis begins a delightful new series in which Poppy Harmon and her friends find that life after retirement can be much busier—and deadlier—than any of them ever anticipated . . . When Poppy goes from complacent retiree to penniless widow in a matter of weeks, the idea of spending her golden years as the biggest charity case in Palm Springs renders her speechless. With no real skills and nothing left to lose, Poppy uses her obsession with true crime shows to start a career as a private eye . . . But after opening the Desert Flowers Detective Agency with help from her two best friends, Violet and Iris, Poppy realizes that age brings wisdom, not business—until she convinces her daughter's handsome boyfriend, Matt, to pose as the face of the agency. It’s not long before Matt’s irresistible act snags a client desperate to retrieve priceless jewelry burglarized from an aging actress at the Palm Leaf Retirement Village. Or before Poppy stumbles upon the bloodied body of the victim’s arch rival . . . In a flash, Poppy’s innocent detective gig is upstaged by a dangerous murder investigation riddled with slimy suspects and unspeakable scandal. As she and her team uncover the truth, Poppy must confront the secrets about her late husband’s past and swiftly catch a killer lurking around the retirement community—even if it means turning her world upside down all over again.
Author: Aram Saroyan
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The crime at the heart of Rancho Mirage, the murder of wealthy businessman Robert Sand at an exclusive residential country club near Palm Springs, is a study in complexity and moral ambiguity that cuts to the quick of fin de siecle America." "The murder, the investigation that followed it - an investigation complicated by a bizarre series of reported rapes and abductions of the beautiful Mrs. Sand - and the eventual trial of Mrs. Sand for murder, make up one of the strangest and most telling true crime stories ever written." "Andrea Claire was a single mother who had raised two boys and become a highly paid international call girl by the time she met the 68-year-old Robert Sand. Although she was portrayed as a money-hungry sociopath by the prosecuting attorney, there is considerable evidence that she was a "borderline" - and perhaps a multiple - personality: someone who, under conditions of extreme stress, can cross over into a psychotic state in which reality and fantasy, as well as right and wrong, can't be distinguished." "Andrea Claire understood that her marriage to Robert Sand would not be an ordinary one, and that she would be expected to comply with his sexual demands. The extent of those demands - that she was in essence a sexual slave - turned out to be more than she had bargained for. A battered woman from the time of her first marriage at 15 to a man who had raped her, she married Sand believing she would at last achieve a secure lifestyle that would allow her to give up prostitution, a profession she had taken up because she couldn't hold a regular job." "At what point does sex stop being sex and become an act of power? What happens if a man's every wish is a woman's command? Most men can understand Robert Sand; what makes him unique is that he was blessed and cursed with the resources and the will to live out his unbridled fantasies." "A widower in his fifties named Joe Mims, who married Andrea Sand the day after she was indicted for murder, brings the story its strangest twist yet, and provides it with a climax that almost defies the imagination." "Nothing is quite what it seems in Rancho Mirage."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Steve Kosareff
Publisher: Wildblue Press
Published: 2021-02-02
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781952225499
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It was the midcentury murder that fascinated a nation and kept it glued for two years to radio, television and newspapers through three trials. Did the handsome, wealthy doctor and his beautiful young paramour plan to kill his glamorous socialite wife? Or did the gun accidentally discharge as he claimed? Early in the evening on July 18, 1959, Dr. Bernard Finch and his girlfriend, Carole Ann Tregoff, drove from their Las Vegas love-nest to the Finch home in the Los Angeles suburb of West Covina to speak to his wife Barbara about obtaining a speedy divorce in Nevada. But the plan went awry and the conversation turned deadly with Barbara's lifeless body ending up in her in-laws' backyard next door. After a high-speed chase with police, Finch was arrested the next morning in Las Vegas and charged with Barbara's murder. Then, during his court hearing in West Covina, Carole was arrested on the witness stand and charged as his accomplice. Soon others were named as part of a larger conspiracy. But who were they and what parts did they play in these deadly events? Set against the midcentury CinemaScope glamour of Hollywood, Las Vegas and Palm Springs, "Satin Pumps: The Moonlit Murder That Mesmerized The Nation" is a true crime memoir written by former Finch patient, screenwriter and author Steve Kosareff.
Author: Cathy Scott
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-03-27
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0312594356
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes how, in 1990, wealthy antiques and art dealer George Kogan was killed in cold blood and how it took authorities almost twenty years to uncover the evidence needed to convict his estranged wife, Barbara.
Author: Doug Kari
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2024-03-05
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 153818639X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For true crime readers obsessed with learning the full story, get the book that Publishers Weekly calls a "stirring account," and says, "Dogged reporting and expert pacing make this a good bet for true crime fans." At daybreak on January 6, 1986, a couple on a camping trip in the Mojave Desert set out for a stroll and never returned. The local sheriff eventually discovered that Barry and Louise Berman had been murdered. As years passed and the double homicide remained unsolved, the Berman case spawned speculation and conjecture. To date there’s never been an arrest in the case—let alone a conviction. This is the first book to tell the full story of the Berman murders and uncover a likely suspect.
Author: Sherrie Lueder
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2013-04-25
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781484819852
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The breathtaking scope, complexity and theatrics of this scam and these con men rivals any Hollywood movie."--Kamala Harris, Attorney General for the State of CaliforniaJoin International Best Selling Author, Sherrie Lueder and her literary team, Dawn Taarud-Martinez and Kim Hansen, along with Tyson Wrensch--a former friend, now victim, of the con men as they untangle the threads of this decade long crime spree filled with twists, turns and jaw-dropping revelations. With a cast of characters drawn from San Francisco's Castro District, follow the "Dark Prince" and "the Boiz" as they take you from one con to the next--until a single brazen act leads to murder. However, the story doesn't end there. Prepare to experience the dramatic courtroom trials that no one predicted and the shocking ending that no one expected--not even the judge."Until Someone Gets Hurt" contains exclusive insight into the methods and actions of the murderers--as told by a "former driver" Dennis Domine.As seen on truTV.com's Crime Library "Notorious Murderers-Timeless Classics" - "Kaushal Niroula and the Gay Grifters" and Investigation Discovery's New Series "Forbidden" (Series 1 Episode 9) "Prince of Darkness", a documentary about Kaushal Niroula (Includes appearances and interviews with authors Sherrie Lueder and Tyson Wrensch.) ~~~~~~ Characters: Kaushal Niroula, a/k/a the "Dark Prince", Daniel Garcia, David Replogle, Miguel Bustamante, Craig McCarthy, Russell Manning, Clifford Lambert, Tyson Wrensch, Dennis Domine, Thomas White UPDATE: Thomas White died in a Mexican hospital Tuesday, September 10, 2013 of pneumonia.
Author: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2021-07-06
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1617759384
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Palm Springs now joins Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley in California’s Noir Series arena. “Contrary to popular belief, noir doesn’t require a bleak city street for its setting. Nor water, for that matter. Noir thrives on secrets, lies and lust, all flowing plentifully through the jewel in the Coachella Valley’s fragile crown . . . For all the playfulness of the genre and the location, the wisecracks and the kidney-shaped pools, there is an unmanageable darkness waiting to seep in, like so much blood in the pool water.” —Los Angeles Times Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stories by: T. Jefferson Parker, Janet Fitch, Eric Beetner, Kelly Shire, Tod Goldberg, Michael Craft, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Rob Roberge, J.D. Horn, Eduardo Santiago, Rob Bowman, Chris J. Bahnsen, Ken Layne, and Alex Espinoza.
Author: Chloe Hooper
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-01-29
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1439125910
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With the dark suspense of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and the frank and shocking eroticism of Josephine Hart, this debut novel tells the story of a young teacher’s illicit affair and obsession with a historical murder. Tasmanian schoolteacher Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of her most gifted fourth grader, Lucien. Her lover’s wife has just published Murder at Black Swan Point, a true-crime story about the brutal slaying of a young adulteress in a nearby town. Kate herself has become so obsessed with the murder and so convinced that the published account has it all wrong that she sets about writing her own version—this one for children, narrated by Australian animals. Though Lucien’s father brings Kate to life sexually in encounters of escalating eroticism, he cannot dull her obsession. Fixated on the crime of passion, Kate is becoming less and less aware of the present and of how her behavior may align her fate with that of the dead girl. Chloe Hooper chillingly captures this young woman’s unraveling in an intense, witty, superbly crafted novel.
Author: Tod Goldberg
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2022-02-22
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1640095268
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Raymond Carver meets Elmore Leonard in this extraordinary collection of contemporary crime writing set in the critically acclaimed Gangsterland universe, a series called "gloriously original" by The New York Times Book Review. With gimlet-eyed cool and razor-sharp wit, these spare, stylish stories from a master of modern crime fiction assemble a world of gangsters and con men, of do-gooders breaking bad and those caught in the crossfire. The uncle of an FBI agent spends his life as sheriff in different cities, living too close to the violent acts of men; a cocktail waitress moves through several desert towns trying to escape the unexplainable loss of an adopted daughter; a drug dealer with a penchant for karaoke meets a talkative lawyer and a silent clown in a Palm Springs bar. Witty, brutal, and fast-paced, these stories expand upon the saga of Chicago hitman-turned-Vegas-rabbi Sal Cupertine--first introduced in Gangsterland and continued in Gangster Nation--while revealing how the line between good and bad is often a mirage.
