Lone Star and the Texas Killers
Title | Lone Star and the Texas Killers PDF eBook |
Author | Wesley Ellis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 1989 |
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Texas Ranger
Title | Texas Ranger PDF eBook |
Author | James Patterson |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2018-08-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316556688 |
In James Patterson's #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, a Texas Ranger fights for his life, his freedom, and the town he loves as he investigates his ex-wife's murder. Across the ranchlands and cities of his home state, Rory Yates's discipline and law enforcement skills have carried him far: from local highway patrolman to the honorable rank of Texas Ranger. He arrives in his hometown to find a horrifying crime scene and a scathing accusation: he is named a suspect in the murder of his ex-wife, Anne, a devoted teacher whose only controversial act was ending her marriage to a Ranger. In search of the killer, Yates plunges into the inferno of the most twisted and violent minds he's ever encountered, vowing to never surrender. That code just might bring him out alive.
Lone Star #86 Texas Killers
Title | Lone Star #86 Texas Killers PDF eBook |
Author | Gene Walden |
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ISBN | 9785551026150 |
Texas Confidential
Title | Texas Confidential PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Varhola |
Publisher | Clerisy Press |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2011-07-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1578604583 |
“Everything is bigger in Texas,” as the saying goes, and this certainly applies to the history of sleaze, iniquity, and violence associated with the Lone Star State. Texas Confidential: Sex, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem provides a glimpse at the state’s seamy underbelly and delves into some of the most striking episodes of lust, corruption, slaughter, and chaos in Texas and the people who have perpetrated them. To a colorful rogues’ gallery of lunatics, corrupt politicians, prostitutes, murderers, and every other sort of scoundrel that appears in the book, author Michael O. Varhola has added a smattering of UFOs, mythological beasts, and other paranormal oddities. Specific chapters among the 54 that appear in Texas Confidential include “Rogues of the Alamo,” a look at the things that just about everyone connected with the famous battle had to hide; “The Ivory Tower of Death,” on the bloody 1966 University of Texas rampage that left 18 people dead and 42 wounded; “Porno, Texas Style,” which includes a list of adult actors from the state; and “The Aurora UFO Incident,” about the state’s oldest documented UFO incident, which occurred in 1897.
The Midnight Assassin
Title | The Midnight Assassin PDF eBook |
Author | Skip Hollandsworth |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 2016-04-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0805097686 |
A New York Times bestseller, The Midnight Assassin is a sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885. In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. For almost exactly one year, the Midnight Assassin crisscrossed the entire city, striking on moonlit nights, using axes, knives, and long steel rods to rip apart women from every race and class. At the time the concept of a serial killer was unthinkable, but the murders continued, the killer became more brazen, and the citizens' panic reached a fever pitch. Before it was all over, at least a dozen men would be arrested in connection with the murders, and the crimes would expose what a newspaper described as "the most extensive and profound scandal ever known in Austin." And yes, when Jack the Ripper began his attacks in 1888, London police investigators did wonder if the killer from Austin had crossed the ocean to terrorize their own city. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth brings this terrifying saga to life.
Lone Star 90/cripple
Title | Lone Star 90/cripple PDF eBook |
Author | Wesley Ellis |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 1990-02-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101170255 |
Jessie and Ki risk death to settle a bloody battle over a gold mine! Utilizing all the seductive charm and martial arts firepower they can respectively muster, Jessie and Ki dive headlong into an explosive labor dispute at the Bluebell mine at Cripple Creek.
Murder Most Texan
Title | Murder Most Texan PDF eBook |
Author | Bartee Haile |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 133 |
Release | 2014-11-11 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1625852622 |
A chronicle of sixteen ruthless killings from Lone Star history and the dirty details that have shocked and bewildered Texans for decades. Texas has long boasted of its iron fist and strict treatment of criminals. Nevertheless, a number of homicidal scoundrels and fiends have slipped through the state’s justice system despite even the best efforts of the legendary Texas Rangers. In 1877, Texas saw its first high-profile murder case with the slaying of a woman in Jefferson and the subsequent “Diamond Bessie” trial. More than a century later, state legislator Price Daniel Jr., was shot in cold blood by his wife at their home in Liberty, TX. True crime writer and historian Bartee Haile unburies these and other stories from Texas’s murderous past. With these stories and more—from senseless roadside murders to political assassinations—discover the seedy underbelly of the Lone Star State’s murderous past.