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Blood and Money
- The Classic True Story of Murder, Passion, and Power
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
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Publisher's summary
Joan Robinson Hill was a world-class equestrian, a glamorous member of Houston high society, and the wife of Dr. John Hill, a handsome and successful plastic surgeon. Her father, Ash Robinson, was a charismatic oil tycoon obsessed with making his daughter's every dream come true.
Rich, attractive, and reckless, Joan was one of the most celebrated women in a town infatuated with money, power, and fame. Then one morning in 1969, she fell mysteriously ill. The sordid events that followed comprise "what may be the most compelling and complex case in crime annals" (Ann Rule, best-selling author of The Stranger Beside Me).
From the elegant mansions of River Oaks, one of America's most exclusive neighborhoods, to a seedy underworld of prostitution and murder-for-hire, New York Times best-selling author Thomas Thompson tracks down every bizarre motive and enigmatic clue to weave a fascinating tale of lust and vengeance. Full of colorful characters, shocking twists, and deadly secrets, Blood and Money is "an absolute spellbinder" and true crime masterpiece (Newsweek).
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Well Written
- By Susie Q on 12-21-17
By: Kieran Crowley
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The Devil's Gentleman
- Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century
- By: Harold Schechter
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
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The wayward son of a revered Civil War general, Roland Molineux enjoyed good looks, status, and fortune - hardly the qualities of a prime suspect in a series of shocking, merciless cyanide killings. Molineux's subsequent indictment for murder led to two explosive trials and a sex-infused scandal that shocked the nation. Bringing to life Manhattan's Gilded Age, Schechter captures all the colors of the tumultuous legal proceedings.
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A Book Without an Accompanying Wiki Page Is Always A Treat
- By Carolina on 02-27-17
By: Harold Schechter
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House of Evil
- The Indiana Torture Slaying
- By: John Dean
- Narrated by: John Glouchevitch
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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In the heart of Indianapolis in the mid-1960s, through a twist of fate and fortune, a pretty young girl came to live with a 37-year-old mother and her seven children. What began as a temporary childcare arrangement between Sylvia Likens's parents and Gertrude Baniszewski turned into a crime that would haunt cops, prosecutors, and a community for decades to come. When police found Sylvia's emaciated body, with a chilling message carved into her flesh, they knew that she had suffered tremendously before her death.
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Horrific
- By Karri on 05-29-18
By: John Dean
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Serpentine
- By: Thomas Thompson
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 24 hrs and 12 mins
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There was no pattern to the murders, no common thread other than the fact that the victims were all vacationers, robbed of their possessions, and slain in seemingly random crimes. Authorities across three continents and a dozen nations had no idea they were all looking for the same man: Charles Sobhraj, aka "The Serpent". A handsome Frenchman of Vietnamese and Indian origin, Sobhraj targeted backpackers on the "hippie trail" between Europe and South Asia. A master of deception, he used his powerful intellect and considerable sex appeal to lure naive travelers into a life of crime.
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Good Story / Weak Narration
- By Chandelle on 10-09-18
By: Thomas Thompson
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Tinseltown
- Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
- By: William J. Mann
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
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By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime and one of the nation's largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence; yet Hollywood's glittering ascendancy was threatened by a string of headline-grabbing tragedies - including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a legendary crime that has remained unsolved until now.
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Everybody's a dreamer...
- By Steven on 01-08-15
By: William J. Mann
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In Contempt
- By: Christopher A. Darden, Jess Walter - contributor
- Narrated by: Christopher Darden
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
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This number-one New York Times best seller is an unflinching look at what the television cameras could not show: behind-the-scenes meetings, the deteriorating relationships between the defense and prosecution teams, the taunting, baiting, and pushing matches between Darden and Simpson, the intimate relationship between Darden and Marcia Clark, and the candid factors behind Darden's controversial decision for Simpson to try on the infamous glove, and much more.
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Author-narrated/well-written - yet abridged
- By J.Chin on 06-28-16
By: Christopher A. Darden, and others
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QB VII
- By: Leon Uris
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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In Queen's Bench Courtroom Number Seven, famous author Abraham Cady stands trial. In his book The Holocaust - born of the terrible revelation that the Jadwiga Concentration camp was the site of his family's extermination - Cady shook the consciousness of the human race. He also named eminent surgeon Sir Adam Kelno as one of Jadwiga's most sadistic inmate/doctors. Kelno has denied this and brought furious charges. Now unfolds Leon Uris' riveting courtroom drama - one of the great fictional trials of the century.
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An Important Revisit to a Dark Era
- By Craig on 06-01-14
By: Leon Uris
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The Onion Field
- By: Joseph Wambaugh
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
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Hollywood. Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn’t have changed the lives of the four men involved, but it did. The Onion Field is the frighteningly true story of a fatal collision of destinies that would lead two young cops and two young robbers to a deserted field on the outskirts of Los Angeles, towards a bizarre execution and its terrible aftermath.
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Haunting
- By Avalon on 03-03-13
By: Joseph Wambaugh
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Butcher's Work
- True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness
- By: Harold Schechter
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. crime. A nineteenth-century female serial killer whose victims included three husbands and six of her own children. A Gilded Age “Bluebeard” who did away with as many as fifty wives throughout the country. A decorated World War I hero who orchestrated a murder that stunned Jazz Age America.
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Another necessary work by Schector
- By Brandon on 12-27-22
By: Harold Schechter
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Lethal Guardian
- By: M. William Phelps
- Narrated by: J. Charles
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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A real-estate lawyer in Connecticut's moneyed seaside communities, Beth Ann Carpenter, 30, had beauty, brains, and success. But she wanted more - namely guardianship of her two-year-old niece, Rebecca, daughter of Beth's estranged sister, Kim.
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Lethal Guardian
- By Tamara on 10-19-10
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Deadly Secrets
- By: M. William Phelps
- Narrated by: J. Charles
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In the lovely town of Pleasant Valley in upstate New York, the maple trees were ablaze with fall's blood-red color. The air was crisp. And a woman named Susan Fassett left her weekly choir practice at a church - when a killer emerged from the shadows and mercilessly gunned her down.
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Great Book!
- By Breinah on 09-04-09
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The Stranger She Loved
- A Mormon Doctor, His Beautiful Wife, and an Almost Perfect Murder
- By: Shanna Hogan
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2007, Dr. Martin MacNeill - a doctor, lawyer, and Mormon bishop - discovered his wife of 30 years dead in the bathtub of their Pleasant Grove, Utah, home, her face bearing the scars of a facelift he had persuaded her to undergo just a week prior. At first the death of 50-year-old Michele MacNeill, a former beauty queen and mother of eight, appeared natural. But days after the funeral, when Dr. MacNeill moved his much younger mistress into the family home, his children grew suspicious.
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The story of a true psychopath
- By Michelle in New York City on 11-27-15
By: Shanna Hogan
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Sidney Sheldon's Angel of the Dark
- By: Sidney Sheldon, Tilly Bagshawe
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
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It was his first big murder case - and one of the bloodiest and most violent crimes LAPD detective Danny McGuire would ever encounter. Andrew Jakes, an elderly multimillionaire art dealer, had been brutally murdered in his Hollywood home, his lifeless body tied to his naked young wife. Raped and beaten, the lovely Angela Jakes had barely survived the attack herself. Gazing into her deep, soulful eyes, Danny swore that he'd find the psychopath behind this barbarous act.
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A great book with a surprising ending
- By Norwegian kebler on 11-04-12
By: Sidney Sheldon, and others
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- BTNRN
- 01-02-23
Spoiler alert…
No real conclusion. It stops before we learn what happened to the father. Two words.
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- Chris
- 06-06-24
Twists and turns!
Love this book and the story it tells. The characters are fascinating and the story is almost unbelievable….yet 100% true. It probably doesn’t hurt that I am a native of Houston and am related to one of the people in the story…..even though I never met her. I’m also a police officer and struggle to imagine a world where so many things could go wrong within the various investigations without someone being thrown under a bus.
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- MCV
- 04-14-19
Way too long.
This book could have easily been reduced by 20-50%. This is in addition to me listening to the book at 2x speed. Interesting story but lost of repetition and unnecessary detail.
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- Tracey
- 01-26-21
Don"t mess with Fathers
First all the narration was great clear easy to listen to .Now the story was detailed and most entertaining.You get the full bio on all true characters involve with this story . From the larger than like father Ash to his beautiful and Tragic daughter Joan and the evil plastic surgeon doctor she married. I love listening to the many intertwine lives and how each one had a role to play in this haunting story. My favorite part was the descriptions of early Houston Texas and how oil made these men rich and powerful, but this father love for his Pose and grand daughter. How her horrifying murder would bring him in contact with the underbelly of life and the people that reside there. If you love Stories of Rich and the powerful and riveting courtroom drama then this is the book and listen for you .
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- Johnna Hollingsworth
- 05-10-23
Enjoyed for the most part
Enjoyed that it went into each characters life but didn’t care for the narrator. He did get better or maybe I just got accustomed to him.
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- tammy
- 07-17-20
Very unsatisfactory ending
You would think after 21 hours, there would be some closure or clarification to what happened to the true mastermind behind the final killing. This book never explains why he was never charged in this case. You can assume money and power but this is never really explored. The narrator was so bland and matter of fact that it sounded more like a news report than a passionate true crime murder. I wouldn't wast a credit or your time.
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- Rosita Emberlin
- 02-28-24
I thought they spent way too much time on Marcia after a Whit just got Tedious.
I liked it I listened to it all the way through. I live in texas so I could relat
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- jaye
- 10-20-18
THIS IS A GREAT BOOK
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS BOOK FOR A LONG TIME. I READ THE PHYSICAL BOOK YEARS AGO. NOW THAT I CAN'T SEE WELL ENOUGH FOR SERIOUS READING I CAN LISTEN TO IT AGAIN!
I DID NOT CARE FOR THE NARRATOR BUT HE WAS OK. HE SEEMED TO LACK SOMETHING.
I DO THINK THAT THE BOOK SHOULD HAVE PORTRAYED DR. HILL TO SHOW HIS TRUE NASTINESS. BUT I SUPPOSE THE BOOK WAS BEING OBJECTIVE. ANYWAY IT WAS A GOOD STORY!
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- The Mickens
- 03-23-19
A Must Read
This book will get you and your friends talking, debating, and thinking over the murders of Mr and Mrs John Hill.
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- BVerité
- 02-09-21
Weird story. Not what I expected but good.
This case changes, Big Time half way thru, I didn’t see it coming, and quite frankly I think the husband is guilty. There are so many more ways to poison that heavy metals. I think the evidence of Petri dish and his behavior made him 100% guilty. But the book takes a chilling turn. I mean it is a true story I believe. I had a hard time caring about the second part, bc I didn’t care about the person who was killed, and the person who causes the crime was insane with grief.
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