Murder in Sin City

Murder in Sin City
Author: Jeff German
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2009-03-17
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0061749931

The reckless heir to the Horseshoe Club fortune, fifty-five-year-old Vegas casino boss Ted Binionlived the high life constantly teetering on the edge—surrounding himself with guns, heroin, cash, babes and mobsters. But it was a beautiful ex-stripper and her new lover who gave him the final, fatal push over the side. The gripping true story of the fall of a powerful man that culminated in the most publicized murder in Las Vegas history—an almost perfect crime undone by the unbelievable greed of its perpetrators—Jeff German's Murder in Sin City is a stunning account of human deterioration and depravity, a neon-tinged view of the poisonous rot that festers beneath the Vegas glitter. Check out the original Lifetime movie, Sex and Lies in Sin City, based on the book Murder in Sin City by Jeff German, premiering on October 25, 2008 at 8 p.m. EST.

Beneath the Neon

Beneath the Neon
Author: Matthew O'Brien
Publisher: Huntington Press Inc
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2007-03-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0929712390

Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas chronicles O’Brien’s adventures in subterranean Las Vegas. He follows the footsteps of a psycho killer. He braces against a raging flood. He parties with naked crackheads. He learns how to make meth, that art is most beautiful where it’s least expected, that in many ways, he prefers underground Las Vegas to aboveground Las Vegas, and that there are no pots of gold under the neon rainbow.

Vegas Strip Deaths

Vegas Strip Deaths
Author:
Publisher: Jeff Terrozas
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2009-09-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780615316314

30 Million visitors make the trek to the Las Vegas Strip every year - Not all return home. Some come for the glitz, gambling, and glamour. Some come to Kill. Some come to Die.The Las Vegas Strip is not just a tourist stop ? It is the ultimate Destination. However, for some, the fun ends there. This is a compilation of shocking true stories of some of those people when they met their untimely demises. From bombs, electrocutions, Mob Hits, to gruesome murder-suicides ?THIS BOOK TELLS IT. #13;#13;Dozens of Murders, Suicides, and Unusual Deaths happen every year in the biggest Casinos, Hotels, and Resorts. These are the stories they don?t want you to know. #13;#13;

Murder in Vegas

Murder in Vegas
Author: Michael Connelly
Publisher: Forge Books
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429911085

In Murder in Vegas, the International Association of Crime Writers and New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly have gathered twenty-two crime and mystery stories about the ultimate playground and what can happen behind the glitz and glamour. Las Vegas. Lost Wages. Sin City. An artificial oasis of pleasure, spectacle, and entertainment, the gambling capital of America has reinvented itself so many times that its doubtful that anyone knows for sure what's real and what isn't in the miles of neon and scorching heat. Las Vegas is considered the ultimate players destination--no matter what your game. Almost anything is available--for a price, mind you, and sometimes losers walk away from the tables with even less than just an empty wallet or purse--sometimes they don't walk away at all. From a gambler who must-win at the roulette table to stay alive to a courier who's only mistake was accepting a package with Las Vegas as the final destination, come to the true city that never sleeps, where fortunes are made and lost every day, and where snake-eyes aren't found just on a pair of dice. Murder in Vegas features stories by: James Swain, S.J. Rozan, Wendy Hornsby, Michael Collins, T.P Keating, J. Madison Davis, Sue Pike, Joan Richter, Libby Hellmann, Tom Savage, Edward Wellen, K.J.A. Wishnia, Linda Kerslake, John Wessel, Lise McClendon, Ronnie Klaskin, Ruth Cavin, A.B. Robbins , Gay Toltl Kinman, Micki Marz, Rick Mofina, Jeremiah Healy At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Super Casino

Super Casino
Author: Pete Earley
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2009-11-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0307429733

In this lively and probing book, award-winning author Pete Earley traces the extraordinary evolution of Las Vegas -- from the gaudy Mecca of the Rat Pack era to one of the country's top family vacation spots. He revisits the city's checkered history of moguls, mobsters, and entertainers, reveals the real stories of well-known power brokers like Steve Wynn and legends like Howard Hughes and Bugsy Siegel, and offers a fascinating portrait of the life, death, and fantastic rebirth of the Las Vegas Strip. Earley also documents the gripping tale of the entrepreneurs behind the rise and fall and rise again of one of the largest gaming corporations in the nation, Circus Circus -- to which he was given unique access. In his trademark you-are-there style, he takes us behind the scenes to meet the blackjack dealers and hookers, the heavy hitters and bit players, the security officers, cabbies, and showgirls who are caught up in the mercurial pace that pulses at the heart of this astounding city.

Death Orchid

Death Orchid
Author: Jane Brooke
Publisher: Pink Flamingo Media
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1950910555

LAS VEGAS, not THAT Vegas, but N. Vegas, a dangerous black hole of sexual depravity, acid etched freedom, consenting sex, crime, private sex clubs, BDSM, gay, straight, young, old, Goth, Punk, Hip hop kids. Also, lawyers, sport stars, doctors, preachers, rich bi sexual divorcees, and cops, needing release from the 24/7 mass death and carnage. There are top predators, Alpha females and males. One is Mandal, 27, bi sexual, a gorgeous tall blonde ex-grifter, thief, whore, at 25 a contract killer for the New Jersey Mafia. She murders a Mafia Don, six of his crew, stealing a million dollars, then drifts into Vegas. The other female, OBA, a stunning, 6ft 2, lesbian black Somali, ex soldier, killer, tribal, scars on her face, sidekick of an artist, killer, super thief named Mal. They all meet, merge, fall in love and move through Vegas as a vicious serial killer runs amok, killing the homeless. With the backdrop of a young beautiful female’s death, a vengeful Mafia Don’s daughter, a crazed ex childhood Sitcom star and a burnt out homicide cop, here exposed is a hidden world of violence and liberating sexual honesty, a world few human beings ever thought possible.

Death on the Strip

Death on the Strip
Author: J. S. Peck
Publisher: Bejeweled Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2018-07-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780982460702

Thirty-two-year old, Rosalie Bennett, lives in Las Vegas and writes a column for Women Living Well magazine on What's Hip in Vegas. To make extra money she uses her psychic ability and tarot cards to predict the future for her clients. But when the death card shows up and murders follow, she must use her talents in a whole new way and becomes embroiled in cases to either save people or solve murders. After the death of her fiancé, she vows to find his killer and make him pay the price. She goes undercover at the Purple Passion Lounge. Things aren't as simple as they appear causing Rosie to take things into her own hands to save the day. Her silky dog, Sweet Pea, is her sidekick, and her grandmother's spirit still pops into her life with advice or simple expressions of love --- sometimes at the most ill-times moments.

The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture

The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture
Author: Brent Dean Robbins
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2018-04-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1349953563

This book examines how modern medicine’s mechanistic conception of the body has become a defense mechanism to cope with death anxiety. Robbins draws from research on the phenomenology of the body, the history of cadaver dissection, and empirical research in terror management theory to highlight how medical culture operates as an agent which promotes anesthetic consciousness as a habit of perception. In short, modern medicine’s comportment toward the cadaver promotes the suppression of the memory of the person who donated their body. This suppression of the memorial body comes at the price of concealing the lived, experiential body of patients in medical practice. Robbins argues that this style of coping has influenced Western culture and has helped to foster maladaptive patterns of perception associated with experiential avoidance, diminished empathy, death denial, and the dysregulation of emotion.

My Week at the Blue Angel

My Week at the Blue Angel
Author: Matthew O'Brien
Publisher: Huntington Press Inc
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2011-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

A savage journey into the heart of Hunter S. Thompson's Las Vegas with the Good Doctor as tour guide. A Lord-of-the-Rings-like adventure in the city's underground flood channels. A seven-day stay at a seedy motel on East Fremont Street. The stories in My Week at the Blue Angel aren't about Steve Wynn, Cirque du Soleil, or how to play poker, and they aren't set in Caesars Palace, XS Nightclub, or a 2,000-seat showroom. They're about prostitutes, ex-cons, and the homeless, and they're set under Caesars Palace and in trailer parks and weekly motels. In this creative nonfiction collection, Matthew O'Brien--author of Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas--and veteran photographer Bill Hughes show a side of the city rarely seen. A side beyond the neon lights, themed facades, and motel-room doors. A side beyond the barbwire fences, No Trespassing signs, and midnight shadows.