Product Description: A carefully-selected and well-written collection of outstanding drum breaks. Each break develops coordination independence or ear training. The book contains many exercies for drum set. Online audio recording available with this book.

Product Description: Two centuries ago, our justice system was based almost entirely on one person’s word against another’s. Today, investigators use state-of-the-art technology—from DNA sequencing to data mining to blood splatter analysis—to catch criminals...read more

Product Description: James Morton was surely the people's favorite to win 2012's Great British Bake Off series—with his Fairisle jumpers and eccentric showstoppers, this soft-spoken Scottish medical student won the viewers' hearts, if not the trophy...read more

Gangland figures cannot function without their lawyers - their mouthpieces - who speak for them in court, obtain bail, throw doubt on the evidence and, if all that fails, try to obtain a reduced sentence. However, in the underworld, this is only half the job. Although many lawyers are honest, possibly the best type of lawyer for gangland figures is dishonest - a shyster - who will act as a go-between with the police, provide false alibis, bribe and intimidate witnesses, jurors and judges and, from time to time, finance and set up robberies and burglaries. Occasionally these lawyers - who may by then have even become judges - will kill on their own or their client's behalf, or may be killed themselves. This book is a worldwide history of these individuals and their tawdry stories, looking at mob lawyers such as Frank Ragan, the Florida lawyer who acted for three mob leaders, Santos Trafficante, "Three Fingers" Lucchese and Carlos Marcello. It covers a wide range of characters from James Sawyer, the barrister and forger who was involved in the First Great Train Robbery to the American Judge Joseph Peel, who had his co-judge killed; from New South Wales's Murray Farquhar, involved with the state's top drug dealers to Illinois judge Thomas J. Maloney, sentenced to 16 years for corruption.

Product Description: A comprehensive investigation of organized crime in Queensland, Australia, this study heads north of the border to tell the exploits of a colorful pantheon of mobsters, shysters, club owners, drug dealers, Black Hand gangs, crooked police, and bikers throughout the last century...read more

Product Description: Eugene François Vidocq was born in France in 1775 and his life spanned the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars and the 1848 revolutions. He was the Inspector Morse, the Sherlock Holmes, the James Bond of his day. A notorious criminal in his youth, he became a police officer and employed a gang of ex-convicts as his detectives...read more

Product Description: In this first major survey of Australian con artists, the history of offers that are too good to be true—and the people who succeeded in making many believe otherwise—is explored. This entertaining and shocking account delves into the world of scammers such as Fairlie Arrow, Mario Condello, Helen Demidenko, Peter Foster, Brenton Jarrett, Lola Montez, and Christopher Skase...read more

Product Description: A fast-paced examination of organized crime, this account details the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks, and mobsters who have made up the criminal and gangland scene in Australia. Tracing the developments in and the shifting dynamics of Australia's criminal underworld from the early 1800s until the Melbourne gangland killings of recent years, this vivid and explosive reading also investigates the role of police, politicians, and lawyers who have helped and hindered the growth of criminal empires...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: Ronnie and Reggie Kray were kings of the sixties underworld - gangland bosses whose escalating crimes of fraud, extortion, violence, and murder spanned over a decade in London's East End. This title explores a culture that allowed the twins to flourish and associate with celebrities; the brutal crimes that eluded justice; and the dogged police investigation led by 'Nipper' Read of Scotland Yard...read more

Product Description: Behind the fashionable bars and clubs of Soho lies a fascinating history of criminal activity, featuring some of London's most notorious gangsters.From the razor gangs of the 1920s to the post-war gangleaders Billy Hill and Jack Spot; from the pre-war French pimps and the Messina brothers to the Albanian gangs, through to the thriving Soho of today, the area has been a Mecca for thieves, conmen, drug dealers, notorious pimps and crooked lawyers...read more

Product Description: The work signifies some basic rules for the solitary ladies inhabiting the cells of a convent. Morton sheds light on the lifestyles and occupations of nuns. Admitting that such a life is a hard one to follow, he asserts that the love of Christ will enable one to carry on the hard schedule...read more

The great, the good and the bad, from Oscar Wilde to Al Capone, have fallen victim to the wiles of the trickster. To the many people who've been the subject of a con, this book describes cons such as: Royal Cons, Psychic Swindlers, Fairground Cons, Sexual Swindles, and Gambling Swindles.