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The Wilderness of Ruin
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Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse. Stacy Horn has crafted a compelling and chilling narrative told through the stories of the poor souls sent to Blackwell's, as well as the period's city officials, reformers, and journalists (including the famous Nellie Bly). Damnation Island re-creates what daily life was like on the island....
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Fascinating!
- De tamborine en 08-06-18
De: Stacy Horn
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Duel with the Devil
- The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery
- De: Paul Collins
- Narrado por: Mark Peckham
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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In the closing days of 1799, the United States was still a young republic, its uncertain future contested by the two major political parties of the day: the well-moneyed Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the populist Republicans, led by Aaron Burr. The two finest lawyers in New York, Burr and Hamilton were bitter rivals both in and out of the courtroom, and as the next election approached - with Manhattan likely to be the swing district on which the presidency would hinge - their animosity reached a fever pitch.
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The Trial of the Century
- De Jean en 09-06-15
De: Paul Collins
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
- The Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
- De: Kate Summerscale
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection. At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher.
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Tragic Murder at dawn of detective bureau
- De Kindle Customer en 08-20-14
De: Kate Summerscale
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My Life Among the Serial Killers
- Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers
- De: Helen Morrison M.D., Harold Goldberg
- Narrado por: Helen Morrison
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
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Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than 80 serial killers around the world. What she has learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious killers known to man.
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Boring reader,boring writing
- De P. Minor en 02-03-08
De: Helen Morrison M.D., y otros
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The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones, and Other Victorian Scandals
- De: Michelle Morgan
- Narrado por: Anne Dover
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and outrages of Victorian England, covering high-profile offences - such as the murder of actor William Terriss, whose stabbing at the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre in 1897 filled the front pages for many weeks - as well as lesser-known transgressions that scandalised the Victorian era. The tales include murders and violent crimes but also feature scandals that merely amused the Victorians.
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Doesn’t question it’s sources enough
- De Emily Stoneking en 11-27-18
De: Michelle Morgan
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The Real Lolita
- The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World
- De: Sarah Weinman
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved novels ever. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of 11-year-old Sally Horner. Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history, and literary investigation, The Real Lolita tells Sally Horner’s full story for the first time. Sarah Weinman uncovers how much Nabokov knew of the Sally Horner case and the efforts he took to disguise that knowledge during the process of writing and publishing Lolita.
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Meandering and tedious while never delivering the promised story.
- De Timothy McCarthy en 09-15-18
De: Sarah Weinman
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The Colony
- The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles on Molokai
- De: John Tayman
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
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In 1866, 12 men and women and one small child were forced aboard a leaky schooner and cast away to a natural prison on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. Two weeks later, a dozen others were exiled, and then 40 more, and then 100 more. Tracked by bounty hunters and torn screaming from their families, the luckless were loaded into shipboard cattle stalls and abandoned in a lawless place where brutality held sway. Many did not have leprosy, and most of those who did were not contagious.
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Interesting
- De Matt en 10-31-06
De: John Tayman
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The Professor and the Madman
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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Part history, part true-crime, and entirely entertaining, listen to the story of how the behemoth Oxford English Dictionary was made. You'll hang on every word as you discover that the dictionary's greatest contributor was also an insane murderer working from the confines of an asylum.
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Perfect example of a quality audible book.
- De Jerry en 07-07-03
De: Simon Winchester
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Ripper
- The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
- De: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrado por: Mary Stuart Masterson
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert made a name for himself as a painter in Victorian London. But the ghoulish nature of his art - as well as extensive evidence - points to another name, one that's left its bloody mark on the pages of history: Jack the Ripper. Cornwell has collected never-before-seen archival material - including a rare mortuary photo, personal correspondence and a will with a mysterious autopsy clause - and applied cutting-edge forensic science to open an old crime to new scrutiny.
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I thought this was a new book.
- De Stephanie en 03-01-17
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The Invention of Murder
- How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
- De: Judith Flanders
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 19 h y 57 m
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Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama - even into puppet shows and performing-dog acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other - the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P. D. James and Patricia Cornwell.
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Excellent, awesome and educational!
- De Janalyn en 03-14-20
De: Judith Flanders
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Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
- De: David Grann
- Narrado por: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
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An outstanding story, highly recommended
- De S. Blakely en 06-22-17
De: David Grann
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American Witches
- A Broomstick Tour through Four Centuries
- De: Susan Fair
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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On a tour through history that's both whimsical and startling, we'll encounter 17th-century children flying around inside their New England home "like geese". We'll meet a father-son team of pious Puritans who embarked on a mission that involved undressing ladies and overseeing hangings. And on the eve of the Civil War, we'll accompany a reporter as he dons a dress and goes searching for witches in New York City's most dangerous neighborhoods.
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Christan witch book
- De Nicole en 09-01-20
De: Susan Fair
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The First Family
- Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia
- De: Mike Dash
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
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Before the Five Families who so notoriously dominated U.S. organized crime for a bloody half-century, there was the one-fingered, surpassingly cunning Giuseppe Morello and his murderous coterie of brothers. Born into a life of poverty in rural Sicily, Morello became an American nightmare, pioneering the bizarre initiation rituals, imaginative protection rackets, influential underworld reigns, and Mafia wars later popularized by countless books, television shows, and movies.
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The truth about the origins of the American mafia
- De J. Sovar en 01-09-13
De: Mike Dash
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American Brutus
- John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
- De: Michael Kauffman
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 21 h y 58 m
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In American Brutus, popular historian Michael W. Kauffman delivers a history that reads more like a best-selling novel. This definitive masterwork dispels commonly held myths and reveals the truth about John Wilkes Booth. Luring Southern sympathizers into a “noble” presidential kidnapping, Booth stunned his puzzled pawns by murdering Lincoln. From Booth’s early life and acting career to his escape and death, this meticulously researched book re-examines it all using a wealth of primary sources.
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Good content ruined by bad narrator
- De Gioacchino en 06-25-13
De: Michael Kauffman
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The Italian Secretary
- De: Caleb Carr
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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The best-selling author of the Alienist series returns with a chilling elaboration on the Sherlock Holmes canon, as the famed detective investigates a pair of gruesome murders, which cast an otherworldly shadow as far as Queen Victoria herself.
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A True Delight for the Holmes Enthusiast
- De Sagar en 06-03-05
De: Caleb Carr
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Wilderness of Ruin
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- Carl B.
- 04-01-22
Wasted credit
More of everything not enough about Jesse Pomeroy really disappointed the main character barely mentioned
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- Janice
- 02-13-16
Don't Waste A Credit
Would you try another book from Roseanne Montillo and/or Emily Woo Zeller?
Maybe, but I would read the reviews before trying another book by this author.
Has The Wilderness of Ruin turned you off from other books in this genre?
No, I have read other books in this genre that were very good.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
I found her louder than necessary when quoting dialog or newspaper headlines. Not sure why she felt it necessary to try to deepen her voice when making these announcements, women don't generally do deeper voices very well.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Wilderness of Ruin?
Would, at a minimum,cut all of the Melville nonsense. The story line was hard to follow. I thought it was going to be mostly, if not all, about the young serial killer and the effort it took to bring him to justice. Not so. I am still trying to figure out what the message in all of the various stories is, nothing seems related.
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- Paxan
- 06-16-17
very convoluted
This book was so confusing in how the author went off on these long tangents about authors that had nothing to do with the main character.
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- Rachel Botting
- 06-14-15
Not much about Jessie Pomeroy
Lots of historical information about Boston, the fire, current events and Herman Melville. Not really a true crime story. Disappointing.
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- DreamieM
- 04-27-15
Took a long turn detour in the middle
This book though offering a glimpse into the life and times of late 19th century Boston went off the rails in the middle.
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- Novangelus
- 10-24-17
Poorly written...
The story was reportedly about a young man in the 1800s who was one of the first serial killers.
Unfortunately the story itself has very little to do with him. It has a lot of strange offshoots and sidetracks including a very long one about Herman Melville and his mental state.
I gave it overall a two star because when the story DID discuss the name sake of the book (which wasn’t often) it was somewhat interesting but overall it was very poorly written. This is a little disconcerting considering of the author is supposedly some kind of English or writing professor.
The reading of the book was also subpar in my opinion.
Save your money for something better.
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- Michelle
- 07-31-22
Not much about the purported subject
I bought this book a long time ago and finally got around to listening to it. I had read another book about Jessie Pomery, who is supposed to be the subject of this book. It was much better. Very little of Wilderness of Ruin is about Jessie Pomery. It's a hot mess of a book that is very hard to follow from a timeline perspective and also a relevance standpoint. If you are interested in Herman Melville, who has little to nothing to do about Jessie Pomery, you might enjoy this book. If you want to learn about the Pomery case skip this book. If you want a well-written true crime book, stay far away from tihs one.
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- James De Julio
- 06-20-22
Lots of pointless rants
half of a chapter is nonsense about Moby Dick. Many story’s about people that have nothing at all to do with (what I thought was) the subject matter. Maybe to practice her English accent which I also do not understand, the story did take place in the United States. My advice to the author If your book is only 4 hours long let it be 4 hours long. Don’t make it 7 hours long by adding 3 hours of nonsense. I wish I could get my credit back.
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- Carol B
- 02-17-24
Great Back Story. Iffy Writing. Annoying Performance
A child age serial killer is a plot that should be a slam dunk. However, in addition to the story of Jesse Pomeroy, the author felt the need to augment the pages with the mental struggles of Herman Melville, in which I failed to see much connection. When attempting to create a male voice, the female reader sounded almost comical. Other than Jesse’s mother, there are no female characters in this book. A male reader would’ve done the job better.
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- William Snyder
- 05-05-15
A jumbled, muddled mess
Too many irrelevant characters. Too much unnecessary detail. Poorly constructed chronology. There was simply no need for over half of the book. Why the author thought it necessary to tell Melville's lIfe story (or believed it was relevant to the main character) is beyond me. Presumably, it was to show a) Melville believed that whiteness could represent evil, and b) Melville struggled with mental illness. If that was the reason, though, surely it could have been accomplished in a briefer fashion? Regardless, the reliance on Melville turned this into an incoherent mess about a number of unconnected Bostonians rather than an interesting biography of a troubled, psychopathic youth.
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