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Fergus Mason
Read the crime that inspired the movie!
They wanted to create the Perfect Crime–to kidnap and murder a 14-year-old boy for the thrill of getting away with murder.
The crime…
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The truth is stranger than fiction!
For movie buffs, Alfred Hitchcock will always be associated with a long list of Hollywood classics. Between 1921 and 1976 the English director known…
Dido Elizabeth Belle was born in 1761. It would be nearly 100 years before slavery was abolished. The date would be of little importance if not for one important factor…
Jack the Ripper may get all the fame, but his 1960s counterpart, Jack the Stripper, will really send shivers down your spine. At least six women, all prostitutes, were murdered…
A tropic paradise…ideal for murder.
The Galapagos Islands are a scientist’s haven. Home to rare creatures, it was made famous by Charles Darwin and is the ideal spot for study…
The Birds was different from most of Hitchcock’s work.
For admirers of Hitchcock, The Birds also raises disturbing questions about the director as a person. He was a complex and…
Read the story that inspired the classic movie!
It seemed that the entire justice system was deaf to his pleas and all too willing to ignore the evidence his defenders…
In October 1962 it looked to millions of people like the politicians of the United States and Russia were determined to push the other…
You may not know the name Joy Mangano, but you probably know her mop–the Miracle Mop to be more exact. This book is the story of how Mangano built a…
Hundreds of movies and thousands of books have been written about the heroes of World War II. For dozens of years, however, few people knew about one of the greatest…
This biography tells the extraordinary story of one of the most adventurous and fascinating women you will ever encounter.
This is the remarkable story of Brownie Wise.
The 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius was one of the worst disasters in all of European history. In a near instant, over 15,000 people were dead and a city…
In 1823, Hugh Glass did the unthinkable: he wrestled a grizzly bear…and won. But that is only the beginning of the remarkable tale–Glass, badly mauled with a broken leg, was…
Biography of department store tycoon Harry Gordon Selfridge.
You know the brand, but not the man; take a look at the genius that created one of the most recognizable brands in the world with this biography.
