Crime Buff's Guide to Outlaw Washington, DC (eBook)

Ron Franscell (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
232 Seiten
Globe Pequot Press (Verlag)
978-0-7627-8870-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The Crime Buff's Guide to Outlaw Washington D.C. is the ultimate guide to the criminal history of our nation's capital.  It reveals the darker side of the city through riveting tales from history, photos, maps, directions, and GPS coordinates for sites to visit.

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Washington D.C. isn't known as the District of Crime or Murder Capital of America for nothing. Though the capital city's motto is justice for all, D.C. has a darker side, including an extensive history of crimes and misdemeanors, some political and some not. The Crime Buff's Guide to Outlaw Washington D.C. is the ultimate guidebook to the criminal and seedy history of the nation's capital -- plus Maryland, Northern Virginia and (ironically) Arlington National Cemetery. It also contains an entire chapter pinpointing key and little-known sites in the Lincoln Assassination. With photographs, maps, directions, and precise GPS coordinates, this collection of outlaw tales serves as both a travel guide and an entertaining and enlightening read. It is a one-of-a-kind exploration into well-known and more obscure sites in D.C. that retain memories of bandits, corpse-snatchers, murderers, snipers, bootleggers, assassins, rogue scientists, spies, mobsters and corrupt politicians -- even a legendary serial killer dressed in a bunny suit -- and their scandalous deeds.

Autor

Ron Franscell is a rising true-crime figure, a seasoned traveler and a Texan. Ron has ridden the wide range between journalism, fiction and nonfiction with extraordinary success. Ron’s third book, an intimate nonfiction originally entitled "FALL: The Rape and Murder of Innocence in a Small Town," was published in January 2007 and established him as one of the most provocative new voices in narrative nonfiction. FALL (and its best-selling 2008 paperback edition entitled THE DARKEST NIGHT) is the true story of two girls, two men and an entire town — all changed by one harrowing night. But this suspenseful, atmospheric and moving account is more than a typical true-crime yarn; it’s a classic tragedy told by someone who was there, about how the past echoes poisonously into the present — for individuals, for families, for entire communities. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.9.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Crime Buff's Guides
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: District of Columbia • mid-atlantic • South • WASHINTON DC
• ISBN-10: 0-7627-8870-4 / 0762788704
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7627-8870-5 / 9780762788705