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Bloodletters and Badmen

This new edition of Bloodletters and Badmen represents the book's first major revision. Now Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Keating, David Koresh, John Wayne Gacy and scores of others join Charles Manson, Meyer Lansky, Jesse James and Al Capone in one of the biggest, most fascinating compendium of true crime ever published.

Subject
true crimehistory
Genre
crime
Themes
mafia
Setting
USA
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 698 pages

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