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  • Suspicious Baggage
    RichardOJones
    Phoenix, 1931. Two women murdered. Two trunks shipped to Los Angeles. One suspect: a frail, 105-pound tuberculosis patient named Winnie Ruth Judd.The newspapers called her the 'Tiger Woman' and the 'Trunk Murderess.' They sent her to hang. But the man who helped her that night-wealthy lumberman 'Happy Jack' Halloran-walked free, his name barely whispered in court.What followed ...
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  • St. Clair’s Trace
    RichardOJones
    The year is 1791. The fledgling United States is desperate to secure the Ohio frontier, a vast territory claimed on paper but fiercely defended by the Miami and Shawnee nations. To break the Western Confederacy’s grip, the task falls to Major General Arthur St. Clair, a man haunted by past failures and crippled by gout, accepting what he knows may be his last campaign.From the ...
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  • One More Last Call
    RichardOJones
    The clock is ticking on a legal drink. Hamilton, Ohio, 1919. Saloon owner Lyman Williams is set to pour the last legal beer in Butler County, a final, grand hurrah born from a loophole in the new statewide Prohibition law. But as the honest men prepare their dignified farewell, a dangerous new world is already taking shape.War-scarred veteran Joe Jacobs returns from France with...
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    22,15 €

  • A Haunted Picaresque
    RichardOJones
    When American journalist Richard O. Jones sets foot on English soil, he discovers an impossible gift: he can see the dead.What begins as a six-week holiday through Britain with his girlfriend Barbara becomes a pilgrimage through centuries of forgotten lives. From Tudor coachmen to Roman soldiers, from wrongly hanged pirates to bishops erased by time, the restless dead gather ar...
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    21,49 €

  • The Easter Massacre
    RichardOJones
    The Easter Massacre: The True Crime of James Urban RuppertOn Easter Sunday, 1975, the American dream died in a hail of gunfire at 635 Minor Avenue in Hamilton, Ohio. Eleven members of the Ruppert family-parents, siblings, and children, from a four-year-old boy clutching a chocolate egg to their elderly grandmother-were brutally murdered in what remains one of the worst mass kil...
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    16,45 €

  • Big Love in Little Egypt
    RichardOJones
    The tongues of Ina, Illinois, were already wagging about the friendship between the Reverend Lawrence Hight, the local circuit-riding Methodist preacher, and the pretty young housewife Elsie Sweetin when their spouses turned up dead from similar sudden illnesses just a couple of months apart in the summer and fall of 1924. Was it food poisoning as the doctors first said? Or som...
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    7,90 €

  • Woman Slugged; Left for Dead
    RichardOJones
    On November 14, 1912, house detectives at the Saratoga Hotel in Chicago discovered the body of a woman in room 409 on a blood-soaked mattress. The labels in her clothing led police to Cincinnati, where friends and relatives identified the belongings of Mrs. Emma Kraft, a highly-respected widow who had recently taken up with a much younger man of dubious reputation, one John B. ...
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    9,01 €

  • Man Beheaded; Dentist Sought
    RichardOJones
    Here’s a true crime story that is too bizarre to be believed. In 1921, the Roseburg, Oregon, dentist Dr. Richard M Brumfield tried to fake his own death by putting the dead body of the local hermit, Dennis Russell, in the flaming wreckage of Doc’s roadster--after he removed the man’s teeth and set off a stick of dynamite in his mouth. It was a thin ruse, and when the dentist wa...
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    7,90 €

  • Hymns of a Raving Heart
    RichardOJones
    The Rev. S. Althea Berrie of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was no stranger to controversy. In 1932, the handsome hymn writer found himself facing charges of heresy after preaching that Santa Claus was an affront to the Child in the manger. Much deeper trouble was in store when his wife wife, Fannie, died after a long illness and a 30-hour streak of convulsions. Two months later, the Rev....
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    8,91 €

  • The Blood-Soaked Woman at the Top of the Stairs
    RichardOJones
    When the married veterinarian Dr. David Roberts, a renowned expert on exotic cattle and distributor of a line of patent medicines for pets and farm animals, approached the spinster schoolteacher Grace Lusk about helping him edit a textbook on cattle, he sparked a three-year illicit relationship that ended in the killing of the doctor’s wife. The veterinarian and the school teac...
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    8,03 €

  • The Last Emancipation
    Richard O. Jones / Richard OJones
    A play about the commercial exploitation ofAfrican-Americans on food products followingThe Emancipation Proclamation to present. ...
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    11,48 €

  • Storm Shelter Poems for the Children of God
    Richard O. Jones / Richard OJones
    This book was especially written for spiritual people on a spiritual journey that are receptive to a little poetic philosophy along the way. People that are drowning in a sea of false accusations, riding high in the saddle but can’t stand the horse, have big money but low self esteem, living in sin and enjoying every moment, or living right but feeling bad can personally relate...
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    9,61 €

  • Poetry for Laughing Out Loud
    Richard O. Jones / Richard OJones
    This book is an auxiliary of my Ministry of Laughter and to that end, it is my privilege and appointed duty to sprinkle as much laughter into the world until a psych squad scraps me down and hauls me away kicking and laughing. Laughter can save you from danger. It’s true! I once made a street robber laugh so hard that he left me along and robbed my grandmother standing next to ...
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    6,68 €

  • Embracing Monogamy in the Face of Temptation
    Richard O. Jones / Richard OJones
    In today's culture of 'anything goes' it is not surprising to see so many young men in a futile search for manhood. Unfortunately, their desperate journey is often influenced by a poor set of examples. Dragging young boys to church is not the end or beginning of the parental responsibility. There are more young men in prison who were raised by religious parents and grew up regu...
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    18,47 €

  • My Fifth Ex-wife
    Richard O. Jones / Richard OJones
    As Perry Wintergreen, a three times divorced claims adjuster, searches for the root cause of his matrimonial disasters, he becomes entangled in a workplace sex scandal. Simultaneously, Perry perceives that the insurance company, where he has worked many years, has unjustly targeted him for forced early retirement.Meanwhile, he meets a widow who gives him solace, intimacy, and r...
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    14,84 €

  • Church Member from Hell
    Richard O. Jones / Richard OJones
    'Lucinda’s character has proven this book to be an excellent tool for those who need to realize that the power of prayer is available in every midnight situation.' ...
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    15,37 €

  • The Liberation of Aunt Jemima
    Richard O. Jones / Richard OJones
    This book of poetry taps into the emotional, spiritual, and humorous senses of the female reader. The title poem has been a favorite among African American women since 1992. These poems are not poetic rhetoric but instead poems of realistic and spiritual perspectives, admonitions, praise, and straight talk. ...
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    12,73 €