Project Gutenberg 2004-08-13 Public domain in the USA. 238 Train, Arthur Cheney 1875 1945 True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office Reading ease score: 67.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Steven desJardins and Distributed Proofreaders. "True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office" by Arthur Cheney Train is a collection of narratives detailing actual criminal cases, published in the early 20th century. The author, who served as the District Attorney of New York County, shares insights and firsthand accounts of various individuals involved in these crimes, aiming to provide an authentic view of crime and punishment while illustrating human nature’s complexities. The opening of the book introduces the case of Mabel Parker, a clever forger who managed to deceive the authorities through her skillful writing and manipulation. It details her arrest after her husband, James Parker, was apprehended for passing bad checks. The narrative explores the complexities of their relationship, her precarious position when the detectives catch up to her, and her eventual confession to having been more instrumental in the forgeries than anyone initially realized. This engaging account sets the tone for the collection, promising a blend of thrilling detective work and human drama. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Crime HV Text Crime Nonfiction Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Law & Criminology Browsing: Sociology 463349 461144 2024-10-06T06:36:17.733542 2023-10-06T08:05:40.958243 text/html text/html 463682 2020-12-18T00:57:24 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 797422 2020-12-18T00:57:25 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 922211 2024-10-06T06:36:29.410457 application/epub+zip 922255 2024-10-06T06:36:22.178499 application/epub+zip 235363 2024-10-06T06:36:20.210523 application/epub+zip 2519220 2024-10-06T06:36:34.466442 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2494532 2024-10-06T06:36:27.526451 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 451770 2022-09-07T00:37:42.241229 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 438432 438390 2024-10-06T06:36:16.789548 2023-10-06T08:05:40.008287 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 438212 2020-12-18T00:57:24 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 164576 2020-12-18T00:57:25 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 438204 2020-12-18T00:57:24 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 164479 2020-12-18T00:57:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21488 2024-10-06T06:36:34.612420 application/rdf+xml 21716 2024-10-06T06:36:20.795493 image/jpeg 4539 2024-10-06T06:36:20.505501 image/jpeg 885238 2024-10-06T06:36:17.812516 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia