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De: Simon Baatz
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The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones, and Other Victorian Scandals
- De: Michelle Morgan
- Narrado por: Anne Dover
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 225
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and outrages of Victorian England, covering high-profile offences - such as the murder of actor William Terriss, whose stabbing at the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre in 1897 filled the front pages for many weeks - as well as lesser-known transgressions that scandalised the Victorian era. The tales include murders and violent crimes but also feature scandals that merely amused the Victorians.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Doesn’t question it’s sources enough
- De Emily Stoneking en 11-27-18
De: Michelle Morgan
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The Girls of Murder City
- Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago
- De: Douglas Perry
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
Chicago, 1924. There was nothing surprising about men turning up dead in the Second City. Life was cheaper than a quart of illicit gin in the gangland capital of the world. But two murders that spring were special - worthy of celebration. So believed Maurine Watkins, a wanna-be playwright and a "girl reporter" for the Chicago Tribune, the city's "hanging paper".
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3 out of 5 stars
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Some books should be read
- De zoomcity en 07-31-11
De: Douglas Perry
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Butcher's Work
- True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. crime. A nineteenth-century female serial killer whose victims included three husbands and six of her own children. A Gilded Age “Bluebeard” who did away with as many as fifty wives throughout the country. A decorated World War I hero who orchestrated a murder that stunned Jazz Age America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another necessary work by Schector
- De Brandon en 12-27-22
De: Harold Schechter
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Last Woman Hanged
- The Terrible True Story of Louisa Collins
- De: Caroline Overington
- Narrado por: Jennifer Vuletic
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of 10 children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands had died suddenly and the Crown, convinced that Louisa poisoned them with arsenic, put her on trial an extraordinary four times in order to get a conviction, to the horror of many in the legal community. Louisa protested her innocence until the end.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening, entertaining and exceptionally done
- De Karol Heim en 02-09-24
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An American Tragedy
- De: Theodore Dreiser
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 34 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 880
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 775
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An American Tragedy is the story of Clyde Griffiths, who spends his life in the desperate pursuit of success. On a deeper, more profound level, it is the masterful portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's ambitions and seal his fate; it is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of the American dream.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Funny in Perspective
- De Michael en 11-23-14
De: Theodore Dreiser
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House of Evil
- The Indiana Torture Slaying
- De: John Dean
- Narrado por: John Glouchevitch
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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In the heart of Indianapolis in the mid-1960s, through a twist of fate and fortune, a pretty young girl came to live with a 37-year-old mother and her seven children. What began as a temporary childcare arrangement between Sylvia Likens's parents and Gertrude Baniszewski turned into a crime that would haunt cops, prosecutors, and a community for decades to come. When police found Sylvia's emaciated body, with a chilling message carved into her flesh, they knew that she had suffered tremendously before her death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Horrific
- De Karri en 05-29-18
De: John Dean
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The Financier
- De: Theodore Dreiser
- Narrado por: David McCallion
- Duración: 18 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Set in 18th century Philadelphia, the book follows Frank as he amasses a large fortune through stock speculation and purchases of shares in the growing street railway industry. He marries an older woman and has two children and uses his new found wealth to become socially prominent. Things however take a turn for the worst when he has an affair with Aileen Butler, the daughter of a politically prominent Irish industrialist.
De: Theodore Dreiser
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Bringing Down the Colonel
- A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington
- De: Patricia Miller
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
In Bringing Down the Colonel, journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely 19th-century women’s rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her “ruined”, Pollard brought the man - and the hypocrisy of America’s control of women’s sexuality - to trial. And, surprisingly, she won.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stay with it. It is amazing.
- De Living Downeast en 09-29-19
De: Patricia Miller
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Duel with the Devil
- The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery
- De: Paul Collins
- Narrado por: Mark Peckham
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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In the closing days of 1799, the United States was still a young republic, its uncertain future contested by the two major political parties of the day: the well-moneyed Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the populist Republicans, led by Aaron Burr. The two finest lawyers in New York, Burr and Hamilton were bitter rivals both in and out of the courtroom, and as the next election approached - with Manhattan likely to be the swing district on which the presidency would hinge - their animosity reached a fever pitch.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Trial of the Century
- De Jean en 09-06-15
De: Paul Collins
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Tinseltown
- Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
- De: William J. Mann
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 15 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,893
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,901
By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime and one of the nation's largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence; yet Hollywood's glittering ascendancy was threatened by a string of headline-grabbing tragedies - including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a legendary crime that has remained unsolved until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everybody's a dreamer...
- De Steven en 01-08-15
De: William J. Mann
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Satan's Circus
- Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century
- De: Mike Dash
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
They called it Satan's Circus, a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the 20th century, murder was so common in the vice district that few people were surprised when the loudmouthed owner of a shabby casino was gunned down on the steps of its best hotel.
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4 out of 5 stars
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New York, N.Y
- De Robert en 07-11-07
De: Mike Dash
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A Secret Life
- The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland
- De: Charles Lachman
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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The child was born on September 14, 1874, at the only hospital in Buffalo, New York, that offered maternity services for unwed mothers. It was a boy, and though he entered the world in a state of illegitimacy, a distinguished name was given to this newborn: Oscar Folsom Cleveland. The son of the future president of the United States - Grover Cleveland. The story of how the man who held the nation’s highest office eventually came to take responsibility for his son is a thrilling one that unfolds like a sordid romance novel....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Are the charges true?
- De Jean en 02-16-13
De: Charles Lachman
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American Scoundrel
- The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
- De: Tom Kenneally
- Narrado por: Humphrey Bower
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover in Washington's Lafayette Square, just across from the White House. This is the story of that killing and its repercussions. Thomas Keneally brilliantly recreates an extraordinary period, when women were punished for violating codes of society that did not bind men. And the caddish, good-looking Dan Sickles personifies the extremes of the era.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Good Listen
- De Kindle Customer en 01-10-24
De: Tom Kenneally
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A Bright and Guilty Place
- Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age
- De: Richard Rayner
- Narrado por: Brett Barry
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
In A Bright and Guilty Place, an exhilarating tale of murder in L.A., Richard Rayner finds the source of the city's darkness in real-life events that unfolded in the 1920s, when the booming early years of L.A. started to shade into the Depression, and the city of sunshine revealed the hidden darkness and corruption at its heart.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Didn't hold my interest
- De Hopesurvives en 11-03-17
De: Richard Rayner
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Little Shoes
- The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret
- De: Pamela Everett
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 92
In the summer of 1937, a California crime stunned an already grim nation. Three little girls were lured away from a neighborhood park to unthinkable deaths. After a frantic week-long manhunt for the killer, a suspect emerged. Justice was swift, and the condemned man was buried away with the horrifying story. But decades later, Pamela Everett, a lawyer and former journalist, starts digging, following up a cryptic comment her father once made about losing two of his sisters. Everett unearths a truly historic legal case that included the genesis of modern sex offender laws and the last man sentenced to hang in California.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterful presentation of secrets and crime case!
- De deb en 05-31-18
De: Pamela Everett
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Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency
- De: Dan Abrams, David Fisher
- Narrado por: Adam Verner, Dan Abrams
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,123
At the end of the summer of 1859, 22-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, who had been involved in more than 3,000 cases - including more than 25 murder trials - during his two-decades-long career, was hired to defend him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Courtroom Drama
- De Jean en 04-26-19
De: Dan Abrams, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Great Harry Thaw Case or the Woman's Sacrifice
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- Kindle Customer
- 10-14-22
very interesting
Loved it !! this story. the narrator is so fantastic it's like your really there!! good overall
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- Jen Marth
- 07-04-24
boring
i didn't like how to the letter. it had nothing to get excited over not because the story lacked but because the author didn't.... AUTHOR!
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- Seriously Listening
- 12-21-21
Fascinating look into the ideals and ideologies of the Time
Taking place at the turn of the 20th century, this case was a fascinating look into perceptions of virtue and accountability. The narrator gave a steady and weighted feel to to the story with her clear, concise voice and pacing. Excellent job with the somewhat antiquated language and sometimes repetitive narrative she was given. Thoroughly enjoyable listen of a true crime story!
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