Uncle John's True Crime: A Classic Collection of Crooks, Cops, and Capers

A collection of strange-but-true crime tales featuring cops, lawyers, and some very unusual suspects . . . The fact-finding folks at Bathroom Readers' Institute have rounded up the best cops-and-robber articles we've ever done, plus a rogues' gallery of new offenders. You'll read about dumb crooks and criminal masterminds, mafia henchmen 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. Find out about . . . * 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! Read more