Publisher's Synopsis
TRUE CRIME STORIES: Unsolved Crimes and Violent Revenge - 2 Books in 1
Featuring... *Unsolved Crimes*Violent Revenge
2 Great Books in 1!
Unsolved Crimes
Unsolved crime is everywhere. The creepiness of the past is full of murders and mysteries, many of which still live on without any real conclusion. Despite the best efforts of investigators, amateur and professional, and even modern day technologies used togo back and reexamine the mysteries of the past, there still remain unsolved crimes. The unfortunate truth is, we may never know. Some theories state that perhaps it is the societal obsession with serial killers that keeps the killers so rampant and continues to give them material to perpetuate. In addition to that, the serial murders that go unsolved are regularly covered over and over as time goes on. Society wants resolve. If you are one of those who desires resolve, perhaps this is not the book for you. Let's discuss those very monsters. The monsters who created fear and terror; those who got joy from killing over and over again, and got away with it.
Violent Revenge
And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? - Shylock. Vengeance - It is a primal emotion, one borne from our innately human desires for justice and equality. For some it manifests as simple acts, a refused invitation or an ignored hand shake. Sometimes it gets bigger. Cars get keyed and houses vandalized. But sometimes the human desire for vengeance is so great, so overwhelming, that the only way for them to get satisfaction is through violence. Ever since Homer wrote about the vengeance of the heartbroken Agamemnon, artists and writers have been fascinated with revenge. Shakespeare wrote it into The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Othello, and finally and perhaps most graphically, Titus Andronicus. By the Victorian era, Robert Louis Stevenson had written The Black Arrow and Edgar Allen Poe had written "The Cask of Amontillado." It was during this century that two of the greatest stories of revenge were written. In Moby Dick, Herman Melville paints a dire picture of Captain Ahab, a man consumed by his drive for revenge against a whale who parted him from his leg. And in The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas, père, crafts an intricate tale of intrigue and swashbuckling vengeance as a man fights to destroy the men who sent him to prison. Even today, revenge is a theme in all of our media, from Harry Potter to Star Wars. But vengeance is not simply satisfied in fiction. In the following stories, these angels of vengeance come from all over the world and live at different times. Some readers may find their motivations noble; others might see only the violence they committed. But they are united in one way. All of these people were wronged, and all had their vengeance. And their vengeance came with blood.
