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Award winning crime historian, author, & essayist Albert Borowitz has penned his autobiography. The twist is that he wrote it 73 years ago! Unearthed from his personal archive and published for the first time, this book chronicles the first 13 years of his life, from 1930 to 1944, and affords the reader a preview of a precocious writer that was yet to come and a fascinating look at the formative years of a young Jewish boy growing up in Chicago.

The term "death play" describes "a stock strategy that buys stock on the belief that a key executive will die, the company will be dissolved, and shares will command a higher price at their private market value. " In the novel Death Play, the stock broker Tony Trask begins with stock strategy and ends with deadlier techniques.

This study of Berlin's Reichstag Fire of 1933 analyzes several views of the cause of the fire and its impact on the ensuing Nazi takeover of power.

The term "death play" describes "a stock strategy that buys stock on the belief that a key executive will die, the company will be dissolved, and shares will command a higher price at their private market value. " In the novel Death Play, the stock broker Tony Trask begins with stock strategy and ends with deadlier techniques.

In this third Prye novel, the Pryes take a Danube cruise and find murder on their route. They encounter unwanted assistance from a Russian detective along the way. --Book 3 of the The Paul and Alice Prye Mysteries

Dear Mrs. Richardson, I must let you know how I, and all the members of the Alumni Club, sympathize with you in John's untimely death." In a time of sorrow such a note would be a welcome expression of condolence, but since John Richardson is very much alive when the note arrives, it's a bit disconcerting to his wife. Soon several members of the posh, exclusive, old world New York Alumni Club storm through its venerable portals waving simila...

London, August 1988. Paul Prye, Columbia University professor and true crime nut, and his wife Alice, art historian but a devotee of Agatha Christie, were in town for the centennial of Jack the Ripper's bloody crimes. Paul was meeting a group of fellow crime enthusiasts near the Tower Hill tube station to embark on a walking tour that would retrace the scenes of Jack the Ripper's slaughters, of exactly one hundred years ago. Then one of the...

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For the first time, all 3 Paul and Alice Prye mysteries are published in paperback (and in a single volume).Book 1: The Jack the Ripper Walking Tour MurderLondon, August 1988. Paul Prye, Columbia University professor and true crime nut, and his wife Alice, art historian but a devotee of Agatha Christie, were in town for the centennial of Jack the Ripper's bloody crimes. Paul was meeting a group of fellow crime enthusiasts near the Tower Hill t...

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An interdisciplinary look at eight infamous musical crimes and criminals by one of the world's most respected crime historians.

Albert Borowitz provides a guide to "fact-based crime literature" focusing on two principle groups of works: nonfiction accounts of crimes and criminal trials. The book includes essays, monographs, journalism editions of court transcripts, and more.

In this timely study of the roots of terrorism, author Albert Borowitz deftly assesses the phenomenon of violent crime motivated by motivated by a craving for notoriety or self-glorification. He traces this particular brand of terrorism back to 356 BCE and the destruction of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus by arsonist Herostratos and then examines similar crimes through history to the present time, detailing many examples of what the author c...