Sifakis, Carl

This complete and up-to-date encyclopedia is not only a first- rate reference work on a long-negleted--if less than edifying-- theme in American history but is also a compulsively readable account of some of the most colorful figures and incredible talesimaginable. It offers conclusive evidence that truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction.

Defines the words and phrases that crooks and felons use to describe themselves, their associates, their victims, and their crimes.

A reference guide to the American prison system, past and present, that presents more than two centuries of U.S. penal history, providing information on famous and infamous prison wardens, prisoners, prisons, escapes, riots, fires, convict labor, prison society, reformers, and prison technology.

An exhaustive collection of some of the world's most creative and well-known money-making schemes and elaborate practical jokes.

Documents of over 350 assassinations and assassination attempts from preRoman times to the present.

Documents of over 350 assassinations and assassination attempts from preRoman times to the present.