Highway Patrol Season 2-4 now on DVD

Finally the season 2 through 4 of Highway Patrol are now on DVD and at a very great price of $12.99 each as of this posting. The video on the DVD is very crisp black and white very good quality considering the age of the show.

Each season comes in a box that holds two DVD cases, the box fits nicely on the shelf with other DVDs my only concern is that the first case holds three of the DVDs and it is a case where they are stacked on top of each other on the spindle where case two only has two DVDs with their own holding spindle.

Other than the packaging of the first three DVDs this is a must have set for anyone who digs cop shows and wants to see where it all started. Every story seems very fresh compared to cop dramas today a different formula. That and seeing a bunch of sweet cars and locations that are now just part of history.

  At $12.99 you get 975 minutes of entertainment and 39 episodes each season they didn't waste time back then they hammered them out.

Review of Todd Robinson The Hard Bounce

5.0 out of 5 stars Take two shots of Jim Beam & call me in the morning

You ever wonder whats it is like to be a bouncer? and what if that bouncer is also doing security duties that fall under PI work well this book covers it in a Hard Boiled bourbon soaked romp that leaves you wanting more from 4DC "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap".

Two misfits from what they call The Home grow up together and bond a friendship and business, and their first case almost ends up being their last. Filled with crocked cops and other misfits with special talents they find a way to get their own street justice.

Throw in a bit of romance, violence,rock trivia, and druggies you have a book full of lines i could not stop highlighting and laughing over.

This is the New Pulp this is entertainment I hope to read more about 4DC I will purchase the book the day it comes out.

Highway Patrol Complete Series coming to DVD

Yes the complete series is finally becoming available on DVD one of the best police shows is resurrected and coming to you on DVD box sets.

The first season is available right now through Amazon on DVD video on demand service but season 2-4 are being commercially released 

Packed with fast motorcycles, powerful patrol cars, helicopters and two-way radios, Highway Patrol screamed onto the scene destined to be one of the most popular syndicated television series of all time. This action packed show filled with harrowing roadway adventures sped its way from the TV screen into pop culture with the catch phrase "10-4".

Ann Rule A Fever In The Heart Review

 More like a four and a half

Yes this is a great book, one of those book you open up just to get a taste of it and then you find yourself completely engrossed in the story. Then when the first story was over you just could not still put it down. The first story is the main meat of the book taking up at least 70% of the book and the 5 bonus stories are just as good but not as detailed but glad to have them included.

Ann Rule really knows how to write True Crime, she hooks you and unfolds it to you in a mystery making you follow the case like it is unfolding in front of you.

I just want to say i'm thrilled to see these Case File books are coming to the Kindle even though i have most of them also in paperback I find reading on a Kindle is so much more engrossing, but with that said I have One complaint. Yes this ebook has some of the photos included in the original release but the point is SOME OF THEM. The paperback includes photos not in the ebook and one of the photos was a key photo to include because it was a piece of artwork even mentioned in the txt of the story.

I know ebooks are still coming to age but come on put the effort into giving us what we pay for this is an actual publisher putting this out, you can even do more with ebooks than you can with print why scrimp?

Is this book worth having on Kindle? Yes but please publishers take the time and give the book in the best presentation.

After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Crimescape) Review

Jim Williams had it all: style, culture, charisma, and sophistication. As a premier antiques dealer in Savannah, he mingled with celebrities, including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the Rockefellers, who came to admire his extraordinary treasures. His legacy thrust Savannah into the national spotlight and transformed the genteel city into a tourist mecca.

But three decades of hard work came crashing down the night he shot Danny Hansford, his wild young lover. Jim Williams stood trial four times over the next decade for premeditated murder.

Today, tourists flock to Mercer House to see the gorgeous mansion depicted in Clint Eastwood's movie and the book from which it was made--Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil--where flamboyant designer and antiques dealer Jim Williams (Kevin Spacey) killed Danny Hansford (Jude Law). While the movie and book portrayed the natives of Savannah as remarkably decadent, exotic characters, they missed the surprising dark side of Jim Williams himself. He was a smooth predator whose crimes could have put him behind bars long before the death of Danny Hansford.

After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is the newly revised and expanded version of the #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling true account of the crime, which includes crucial testimony recreating the courtroom drama between a gifted prosecutor and a brilliant defense attorney as they battle over the future of a self-made aristocrat. More than 40 photos and revealing insider interviews bring new life to the vivid cast of characters in this unique southern crime story.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marilyn Bardsley is a respected expert on serial killers and the editor of RosettaBooks' bestselling Crimescape™ series, as well as the former executive editor and founder of Time Warner's Crime Library, a premier true crime website.

She has written about some of the most famous serial killers, including Jeffrey Dahmer, Jack the Ripper, the Boston Strangler, and Charles Manson. Her work is also considered an important resource for law enforcement; her feature reporting on child murder cases was mandatory reading for the police team assigned to the Green River serial murders.

ABOUT THE SERIES

Crimescape™ is a bestselling RosettaBooks collection of compelling, short nonfiction crime eBooks by the best true crime authors in the business. Taking readers into the dark heart of the criminal mind and the tense hunt to bring the perpetrators to justice, Crimescape™ authors stand apart from others because of their expertise in the field as police detectives, forensic professionals, criminal psychologists, and investigative reporters. As riveting storytellers, our authors bring readers unique insight into the murderous mind and some of the world's most mysterious and fascinating cases.

5.0 out of 5 stars In depth look at a interesting case

Another True Crime book I could not put down, this book goes way beyond ordinary research. I like the structure of the book giving you both sides of the story and then giving the blow by blow of what happened in the court room.

A very flawed investigation put on the the police starts to fall apart after four trials and the truth starts to emerge.

Another high note on the book is the included photos that seem to be perfectly adapted to the ebook form, I really enjoy photos in True Crime books and these are very well presented. In most ebooks one you click on the photo the photo is no bigger that a postage stamp, but these photos had much more detail and you could zoom and in and actually see them.

LAWBREAKERS  Lee Marvin DVD collection coming 

March 26

For decades, generations of viewers have tuned in faithfully to witness the dirty deeds, and clean resolutions, that televised crime shows routinely deliver. It s a time proven format that never fails to satisfy justice served, in well under an hour."Lee Marvin Presents: Lawbreaker", featuring the talents of one of Hollywood's most iconic tough guys, stands out in a genre that has produced some of televisions most popular and influential programming, and also some of it's more memorable personalities.
Cast as a bad guy early in his career, Lee Marvin began making a name for himself with supporting roles in "The Wild One' and "The Big Heat" in 1953, before his performance as a sadistic cowboy in "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955) cemented his reputation as a leading screen villain. He was propelled to stardom and leading man status following outstanding performances in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962), and in "The Killers" (1964). The Western-comedy "Cat Ballou" (1965), earned Marvin widespread critical kudos, as well as an Academy Award for Best Actor.
In addition to his big-screen successes, Marvin starred in two television series, "M Squad" (NBC, 1957-1960), which cast him as a plainclothes detective who is a member of a special squad with the Chicago Police Department that takes on organized crime, and later, as host and narrator of "Lee Marvin Presents: Lawbreaker". One of the first television crime dramas to feature semi-documentary re-creations of real life cases, the show pioneered a format that is still wildly popular almost fifty years later. Marvin s tough-as-nails persona and his trademark no nonsense delivery shine through as he guides us through a sordid collection of criminal activity extracted from the crime dockets of some of America s biggest cities.

Review of Ann Rule 

Danger In The Dorm (Retro Ann Rule True Crime Short)

5.0 out of 5 stars Thin line between

This book is a nice introduction to Ann Rule if you want to check out her style of writing and not wanting to invest in a full book.

I'm also happy to see these books come out like this, I am a collector of the True Crime magazines and everyday they seem harder and harder to find, with books like this we get a taste of what was presented in those magazines .

The book is an informative but quick read and also including nice black and white photos enhancing to the true crime experience.

I look forward to any future releases in this format.Ann Rule is one of the best when it comes to True Crime.

It was 1972, and the Oregon State University campus was considered one of the safest in America. Dorm residents felt so secure that some of them never bothered to lock their doors, unaware of the evil that lurked nearby. Everyone was shocked when the first girl was attacked. Soon there were more assaults. When honor student Nancy Wyckoff was murdered in her dorm room, detectives worked round the clock to catch her killer. But they were stumped when more victims came forward. The attacks did not seem to follow any pattern. DANGER IN THE DORM is one of Ann Rule's earliest true crime stories, published over four decades ago. In this first RETRO ANN RULE TRUE CRIME SHORT, Rule reports on the tragic murder that frightened students on campuses all over Oregon and beyond.