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The Maul and the Pear Tree pax arcanaIn this riveting true crime account, acclaimed author P. D. James, the "Queen of the English mystery novel" (Newsweek) joins forces with historian T. A. Critchley to re create the Radcliffe Highway murders, a series of vicious crimes committed in 1811 The scene is the London Docks near Wapping Old Stairs, a sinister neighborhood where pirates were often hanged. The first victims were two hardworking shopkeepers, along with their baby and shop boy.

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The Tower of Fools

They thought the three of them would be together forever

Cry for five more weeks

until a single night resulted in a scandal that lost him his post

Trouble Boys follows the group as they rise within the early '80s American underground

Ree Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab

Before the ink on Mack's latest round of funding is dry

falls for a wealthy stranger

until she came along

Advice will pour in through friends

was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco