Résultats pour "Lincoln" dans Affaires criminelles

"It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller." —Harlan Coben Daniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award–winning author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl, uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve...

“Makes you feel as if you are watching a live camera riveted on a courtroom more than 150 years ago.” —Diane Sawyer The true story of Abraham Lincoln’s last murder trial, a case in which he had a deep personal involvement—and which played out in the nation’s newspapers as he began...

Most Americans are aware that their 16th president was mortally wounded by a man named Booth at a Washington theater in April 1865. These are facts that nobody can dispute. However, a closer look at this history-changing catastrophe raises questions that have still not been fully answered. The passing of the 150th anniversary of the United States' first presidential assassination is an ideal time for students and scholars to consider these questions.

When John Wilkes Booth fired his Derringer point-blank into President Abraham Lincoln's head, he set in motion a series of dramatic consequences that would upend the lives of ordinary Washingtonians and Americans alike. In a split second, the story of a nation was changed. During the hours that followed, America's future would hinge on what happened in a cramped back bedroom at Petersen's Boardinghouse, directly across the street from Ford's Theatre.

In this startling and original work, best-selling author Charles Higham (Howard Hughes: The Secret Life) addresses one of the greatest historical mysteries: Did John Wilkes Booth act alone on the night of Good Friday, 1865, or was he part of a wide conspiracy? Drawing from letters, diaries, previously unstudied records of official hearings, railway timetables, and obscure shipping manifests, Higham weaves a spellbinding account of intrigue.

A shocking murder in the nations capital, the young wife of the Attorney General, Edmund Trevor, meets an untimely and mysterious end. The case is quickly closed, with a suspect possessing the means, motive, and opportunity swiftly convicted on largely circumstantial evidence. But not everyone is convinced. Discrepancies in the case spark a dangerous investigation, threatening to ensnare some of Washingtons most powerful players. As detectives and investigative reporters step delicately through this political minefield, the question remains Can they truly solve the Trevor case? (Summary by ...

Judith Richards, stone deaf, sits undisturbed in her fathers library as a man breaks into her fathers safe and is mysteriously killed by a flying blade. The shock comes when she identifies the thief as her uncles stepson. Enter Detective Ferguson, who deduces that the murderer is someone within the household. As suspicion and evidence intertwine, the truth begins to unfold. But who in the family could commit such a heinous crime? Listen to find out.

Dive into the thrilling world of Three Strings, an electrifying mystery from the renowned Inspector Mitchell series by Natalie Sumner Lincoln. A young woman stumbles upon a chilling scene in her deserted family home - a dead man in her library. But who is he? And was his death an accident or a cold-blooded murder? As she unravels her familys secrets, a tale of intrigue and suspense unfolds. - Summary by Natalie Fortier

In the heart of Ten Acres, David Curtis, a visually impaired doctor, stumbles upon a gruesome discovery - the lifeless body of his host, John Meredith. Instantly, suspicion surrounds Merediths niece, Anne. Despite his own limitations, Curtis is determined to prove her innocence, engaging in an enthralling pursuit of the truth. As we delve into a tangled web of promises and obligations, Anne was coerced into accepting a marriage proposal from Curtis by her uncle before his untimely demise. This, along with mounting evidence, almost seals Annes fate. However, Curtis relentless efforts eventually...

Napoleon famously observed that "history is a set of lies agreed upon", and Edward Steers Jr. investigates six of the most amazing frauds ever to gain wide acceptance in this engrossing book. The controversies that Steers presents show that there are two major factors involved in the success of a hoax or forgery - greed and the desire to believe.

Controvertible is a True Crime Podcast, that sorta isn't true.

Six murders. One house. A nightmare rewritten by time. In the predawn darkness of November 13, 1974, the DeFeo family was executed as they slept in their suburban Amityville home. The killer? Their own son — 23-year-old Ronald “Butch” DeFeo Jr. What investigators uncovered was more than a massacre. It was a story soaked in dysfunction, fear, and chilling calculation. And then came the haunting. Dead Quiet cuts through the fog of superstition and Hollywood spectacle to expose the horrifying truth behind one of America’s most infamous crimes.

In this book of the PATHS CROSSED Series, join Edwards' team as they enter into the haze BATTLING DRUG DEALERS. As you do, you will feel the "rush" of covert investigations as you live the true stories of police infiltrating the illicit drug trade. A world where fight, flight, or freeze often seems the only way out. Along the way, you will get a glimpse of the impact such work has on the personal life of the detective and the behind the scene activities necessary to make such cases.

In the second book of the PATHS CROSSED series, the listener shadows the author as he sheds the uniform of a trooper for the plainclothes of a detective to take a closer look at unsolved crimes. These true cases, ranging from murders, to a serial kidnapper of children, to organized crime, to police shootings, and more, are full of twists and turns that often sound like fiction.

Five shoot-outs, each more bizarre than the previous, sprinkled with suspenseful interludes, make for a compelling book. The story unfolds in 1957 when a WWII veteran, convicted sexual predator, and parole absconder, picks up a hitchhiker in Maine, who is a drifter with no criminal record. Matched, they embark on an undetected nationwide crime spree until an intuitive Michigan trooper begins to unmask their criminality.