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This book is a compilation of true crime stories by prize-winning author Bruce Rubenstein, including "The Milwaukee Avenue Massacre, " the Chicago Magazine article that resulted in the pardon of four men who were wrongfully convicted of murder. "Danny's Boat" is a chronicle of modern-day piracy and murder involving a double-agent for the Mafia and the CIA. The book takes its title from the lead story, the saga of the O'Kasick gang, a band of a...

Taking out an insurance policy on your most important employee then murdering him is not the kind of plan they teach in business school, but it just might work. Three beautiful women seem to think that's what happened, but it's hard to convince a skeptic like private investigator Martin McDonough. They're as surprised as you will be when they find out the truth.

Martin McDonough is a private detective whose investigations are usually successful because he knows how to get the low-down from his copper friends-a formula that works for a long time, but not forever. This noir mystery novel follows him from 1930s St. Paul, where a corrupt police force creates a haven for trigger-happy gangsters, to post-World War II San Francisco, where the jazz scene and the local mob uneasily coexist. In McDonough's worl...

Payoffs in the Cloakroom takes up where Three Bullets left off, unraveling a complex web of political corruption and dirty state politics. In the process, the authors demonstrate that Senator Hooper was murdered to prevent his grand jury testimony against republican boss Frank McKay, who was facing bribery charges. Making use of actual court proceeding, personal interviews, and newspaper accounts, and even a re-evaluation of police evidence, R...

When a small midwestern gallery is burgled, artworks by an American icon disappear into the international market for stolen art, but the gallery's owners refuse to give up the search.

In 1979 seven Norman Rockwell paintings and a supposed Renoir, later discovered to be a forgery, were stolen from Elaynes Gallery in Edina. It is still the biggest theft in Minnesota history, and no one was ever convicted for the crime. This is the story of the theft, the investigation, and the twenty-year quest to return the art to its rightful owners. The FBI suspected an inside job. Was it the scrappy working mother who owned the gallery? T...

Like all states, Michigan has grown because of the boldness, wisdom, strength, and creativity of its citizens. In the third edition of their popular text, Professors Rubenstein and Ziewacz have combined to present a different kind of state history, one that includes the traditional accounts -- the impact of the French and British, the rise of the automobile industry, and the tales of lumbering and mining -- but one that also portrays an unflin...

Writing about murder mysteries for over twenty-five years, Bruce Rubenstein gives us a collection of Minnesota crimes in Greed, Rage, and Love Gone Wrong. Whether the killer is greedy and devoid of human compassion, desperate about money or love, or simply filled with bottled-up rage, this book puts the reader at the scene of the most notorious murders in the state. Bruce Rubenstein is a writer who specializes in true crime and legal stories. ...

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Like all states, Michigan has grown because of the boldness, wisdom, strength, and creativity of its citizens. This work features the history of the Great Lakes State.

When the White Sox met the Astros in the 2005 World Series, it marked only the second time a Chicago team had appeared in a televised World Series. (The first was in 1959 when the White Sox lost to the Dodgers.) Of the other 12 Series involving the Cubs or White Sox, seven occurred before the radio broadcasting of baseball. Five others were broadcast, but because the games were played during the workday, fans continued to get their coverage fr...

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