Russell W Poole

Skaldsagas: Text, Vocation and Desire in the Icelandic Sagas of Poets (Erganzungsbande Zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumsku)

Eleven papers present broad discussions of a small group of sagas which chronicle the lives of Skalds, court poets, and provide a vivid and entertaining portrait of poetry, love and warfare. The contributors examine the typical features of the skald sagas, their date and authorship, the relationship...

America's Road : A photographic journey across the National Road from Baltimore to East St. Louis

As the first Federally funded highway in the United States the National Road has a unique place in American history. Championed by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Gallatin and others during the late 1700s and early 1800s the National Road was envisioned as a means to open the Northwest T...

Tupac 187: The Red Knight

The powerful and compelling true story of corruption, coercion and murder surrounding the Tupac Shakur & Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace homicides brought to 2014. With contribution by former Los Angeles Police Detective Russell Poole, the original Wallace homicide investigator, Michael Douglas ...

Tupac:187: The Red Knight

On September 13, 1996, Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas. Millions of fans wept, while many critics claimed it was the inevitable result of a thugged-out lifestyle. The mystery surrounding the shooting-a suspect has yet to be named-has increased, and rumors of gang wars, disloyalty, and ...

LAbyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., the Implication of Death Row Records' Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal

Acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan follows Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective who in 1997 was called to investigate a controversial cop-on-cop shooting, eventually to discover that the officer killed was tied to Marion Suge” Knight’s notorious gangsta rap label, Death Row Records. D...

Chaos Merchants: Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG

Read about the murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace from the archives of Russell Poole. He was afraid the murder books would be gutted when he left the LAPD so he took his files with him. You can now see what was in those files. The murders could have been solved long ago but that would l...

Viking Poems on War and Peace: A Study in Skaldic Narrative (Toronto Medieval Texts and Translations)

The Old Norse and Icelandic poets have left us vivid accounts of conflict and peace-making in the Viking Age. Russell G. Poole's editorial and critical analysis reveals much about the texts themselves, the events that they describe, and the culture from which they come. Poole attempts to put right m...

Verbal Encounters: Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Studies for Roberta Frank (Toronto Old English)

Due to conquests and colonialism through the centuries, it is not unusual for languages and cultures to be influenced by other, foreign languages and cultures. The modern English language, for example, owes many of its words to Old Norse and Latin, debts dating from contacts made during the Middle A...

Verbal Encounters: Ango-Saxon And Old Norse Studies For Roberta Frank

Old English Wisdom Poetry

Viking Poems on War and Peace: A Study in Skaldic Narrative

Viking Poems on War and Peace: A Study in Skaldic Narrative

Russell Poole

Russell Poole (died August 19, 2015) was an LAPD detective most noted for taking over the investigation of the slain rapper known as The Notorious B.I.G..