Uncle John's True Crime

Do you like to read great stories? This book is loaded with them! We've rounded up the best cops-and-robber articles we've ever done--plus a rogue's gallery of new offenders. You'll read about dumb crooks and criminal masterminds, mafia henchman and low-level goons, ancient warriors and Old West gun [...]
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Do you like to read great stories? This book is loaded with them! We've rounded up the best cops-and-robber articles we've ever done--plus a rogue's gallery of new offenders. You'll read about dumb crooks and criminal masterminds, mafia henchman and low-level goons, ancient warriors and Old West gunslingers, crazed cops and jovial judges, and even a few loony lawyers and crooked Wall Street types. It's the "True Crime" book that only Uncle John could make! Here are some of the unusual suspects . . .

- New York City's "Mad Bomber"

- The Biddle Brothers and the Queen of the Jail

- Law and Order: Special Pants Unit

- Dopes who hide their dope in the strangest places

- America's first private eye

- NASCAR's bootlegging beginnings

- The real pirates of the Caribbean

- Why "CSI" makes the cops' job even harder

- Billy the Kid and other outlaws who died with their boots on

- George Luger, Samuel Colt, and other fathers of guns

- The greatest train robberies

- Arrested for farting

- And much more!