One time king of the underworld, Jack Spot was known as one of the most powerful criminals in Britainamassing incredible wealth and being associated with a string of women throughout his 30-year career. From taking to the streets of London in the 1930s and associating with the pantheon of criminals who led the 1960s organizations, Jack Spot’s tale is a gripping cocktail of dastardly crimes and glamourous associations.

Hit 'Em Hard: Jack Spot, King of the Underworld

Biographies & Memoirs

Clarkson, Wensley

True Crime

HarperCollins, UK

One time king of the underworld, Jack Spot was known as one of the most powerful criminals in Britain—amassing incredible wealth and being associated with a string of women throughout his 30-year career. From taking to the streets of London in the 30s and associating with the pantheon of criminals who led the 60s organizations, Jack Spot’s tale is a gripping cocktail of dastardly crimes and glamourous associations.

The Cage is a ring enclosed by a steel box where participants are urged to fight to the death - an illegal sport that attracts some of the world's richest and most powerful people as its shadowy patrons. This is the true story of the star of this deadly sport. In this compelling account of his fight for survival, "X" tells of his twelve-year career in The Cage. Transported to fights like some medieval warlord, he was drugged by opponents against his will and almost murdered by a gang intent on preventing him taking on another fighter, because of his reputation as the most deadly opponent in the world. "X" breaks the sport's strict code of silence to tell, with Wensley Clarkson's help, how he started life on the mean streets, and was led into petty crime then - just months before his 16th birthday - recruited to become the star of this most deadly of sports.

Inside the Cage: My Life in the World's Deadliest Fight Game

Merritt, Carl

Sports & Outdoors

Vanessa: A Portrait of Evil

Penguin Group

Chronicles the chilling true tales of psychopathic physicians, such as the jealous doctor who tortured his unfaithful wife with acid, the surgeon who took a liposuction operation on his wife too far, and others. Reprint.

Doctors of Death

St Martins Pr

To neighbors, she was the brave single mother... Raising her five kids alone in a rundown section of Sacramento, Theresa Cross Knorr seemed like the ultimate survivor. But her youngest daughter, 16-year-old Terry, told police another story: one almost too terrible to believe.
But accused of imprisoning her children in a house of horrors... According to Terry, Theresa--no longer the petite brunette she once was--had turned insanely jealous of her pretty eldest daughters and enlisted the help of her two teenaged sons in a vicious campaign against their sisters.
Of beating, torturing and killing her own flesh and blood... Terry's gruesome tale told how Theresa had drugged, handcuffed and shot 16-year-old Suesan, allowing her wounds to fester, until the day she ordered her sons to burn their sister alive. Next, Terry said Theresa severely beat 20-year-old Sheila and then locked her in a stifling broom closet, so that when the girl finally starved to death, her brothers dumped her body in the same desolate mountain range where they had cremated Suesan.
She could be one of the most evil murderesses of our time... It took Terry five agonizing years to convince authorities to investigate her grisly accounts of burning flesh, starvation and torture...of a mother from hell, so sadistic and so deranged, she had become her children's own executioner.
Wensley Clarkson Whatever Mother Says ... is the true story of a mother, madness and murder.

Whatever Mother Says...: A True Story of a Mother, Madness and Murder

Literature & Fiction

St. Martin's Paperbacks

Deadly seduction

Young, Galmorous and Sexy, She Was Every Man's Fantasy... And A Nightmare of Death For Her Husband. She Hid Her Criminal Past... Prominent Indiana attorney Jimmy Grund thought he'd found the woman of his dreams when he wed his second wife Susan. But beneath the silky blond society lady lurked a calculating, evil-tempered seductress whose murderous future was about to rival her sordid past, She Plotted A Brutal Murder... While she hid her previous marriages and an appalling crime from Jimmy, she was soon plotting to get her hands on his fortune. When Jimmy Grund finally found out the truth about his wife, he told her he was divorcing her. But no one left Susan Grund. She Killed Her Husband With A Gun Stolen From His Own Son... all of Peru, Indiana was stunned when it was revealed the fatal bullet came from a gun stolen from young David Grund. Yet even that paled next to Susan's incredible testimony that she had carries on a two-year affair with the innocent teenager, who denied the affair and was not implicated in the crime. Here is the story of a real femme fatale, who spun a web of deceit and murder that shocked an entire town.

Deadly Seduction

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

SLAVE GIRLS

Secret prisoners behind closed doors, they were real-life Cinderellas-- with no hope of rescue. Nowhere to run...nowhere to hide...nowhere to turn... Enter today's sordid world of slaves and masters, where innocent young girls are sold to the rich, and subjected to horrifying degradation. Beautiful Laxmi was the servant of two Arab princesses who regularly beat her and even yanked out her gold teeth. Bleeding and hysterical, she escaped-- only to be returned to the evil sisters. Helen was allowed two to four hours of sleep a night by the married couple who kept her. Rarely did a day pass that she wasn't slapped, kicked, punched, and beaten by this cruel doctor and his wife. Marita was sold by her husband to his best friend as a sex slave. He forced her to endure horrific beatings-- often locked in wooden stocks. Virtual captives in the mansions of the rich and famous, they risked their lives to tell their stories for the first time. With 8 pages of revealing photos.

Slave Girls

A white-knuckle tour of women on the edge of hell.They were once sweet little girls-- sugar and spice, and everything nice. Now they're cold-blooded criminals, behind the bars of America's most dangerous prisons-- hardened women doing their time. How and why did they cross to the dark side? What makes women kill husbands, lovers, family, and innocent strangers? Step inside and meet:Patty: The prison beauty slaughtered her mother, father, and little brother after falling in love with an evil Svengali twenty years her senior.Michelle: She lovingly tends the flowers on the prison grounds. Only those who know her best know how she kicked her husband to death.Cynthia: A typical St. Louis girl-- until she met a jailbird and embarked on a murderous rampage worthy of Natural Born Killers.Author Wensley Clarkson has used his unique, unlimited access to some of America's toughest prisons to reveal the shocking world of female criminals-- from their illicit love affairs to race relations, prostitution, protection rackets, drug smuggling, and more.Plus: What happened to notorious criminals Amy Fisher and Pam Smart? Now their tawdry lives behind bars are revealed!

Caged Heat (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

A lovely teenage girl's final goodbye... "I love you and I'm going to bed," were the last words Elyse Pahler ever said to her parents. But she would never dream again, for the pretty blond 15-year-old was about to begin a walking nightmare that would end in her grisly stabbing murder. Three depraved schoolboys' deadly fantasies... Later that night Elyse slipped out of her parent's house for a bit of forbidden fun. She never suspected that three local boys - two of whom rode the school bus with her - were outside in the dark waiting...waiting to perform a human sacrifice - in the name of Satan. An unspeakable atrocity that stunned a nation... The DA claims that teenagers Royce Casey, Jacob Delashmutt, and Joe Fiorella - all in a band called Hatred - believed they had found the ultimate offering to make to the Prince of Darkness. They would sacrifice an innocent young girl, a virgin. Prosecutors say the three boys dragged a terrified Elyse to a deserted area they believed was the devil's altar, where, after being drugged, and attacked, she died of multiple stab wounds. For eight months Elyse's body lay hidden in a eucalyptus grove until an unexpected tip to police revealed the ghastly crime. In The Name of Satan is an unthinkable American tragedy, a horrifying voyage into deepest evil imaginable.

In the Name of Satan

St. Martin's True Crime Classics

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Hit 'Em Hard: Jack Spot, King of the Underworld

Hit 'Em Hard: Jack Spot, King of the Underworld

Inside the Cage: My Life in the World's Deadliest Fight Game

Vanessa: A Portrait of Evil

Doctors of Death

Whatever Mother Says...: A True Story of a Mother, Madness and Murder

Deadly Seduction

Slave Girls

Caged Heat (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

In the Name of Satan