Crime category: 24427 books

18 Shocking True Crime Murder Cases From Around The World, including; The Girl in the Basement: A 16-year-old girl is kept in a basement and systematically tortured to death by a gang of neighborhood children. Secret Sauce: Omaima Nelson had a unique way of getting rid of her husband’s...

Sometimes the best intentions can have the worst results. In 1908, British reformers banned the export of Indian opium to China. As a result, the world price of opium soared to a new high and a century of lucrative drug smuggling began. Just as the banning of alcohol in America during Prohibition...

Oriental Prisons: Prisons and crime in India, the Andaman Islands, Burmah, China, Japan, Egypt and Turkey. It is as true of crime in the Orient as of other habits, customs and beliefs of the East, that what has descended from generation to generation and become not only a tradition but an established...

Charles "Lucky" Luciano was a driving force in the evolution of organized crime. He staged a takeover from the old guard mobsters in the 1930s and remade the criminal world as the National Crime Syndicate with himself occupying one of the seats on The Commission; the committee which was...

Injustice in America (formerly The Cheesecake Theory of Crime) is an offbeat guide for laypersons about crime and justice in America. The reader will acquire practical insights about how justice is administered, why most people commit crimes, and where does it all end. It is a very different look...

«Cosa ci verrei a fare? Sono americano. Ebreo. Ho ottantadue anni. Sono un vedovo in pensione. Un marine». Sheldon Horowitz non è andato per il sottile la prima volta in cui sua nipote Rhea ha osato chiedergli di trasferirsi da lei e Lars, suo marito, a Oslo. Un ebreo del New England, un ex combattente,...

Dead and Gone is a collection of twelve crime stories, including four stories previously published in magazines and anthologies. * Contents: Afterburn - a retired astronaut investigates the death of an old friend (mystery) Diamond Pass – a man returns to his home town and discovers...

These excellent reports have been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The first report deals with the potential threat to American national security from transnational street gangs, with the most widely recognized and publicized of these gangs is Mara Salvatrucha...

Crime Uncovered: Antihero is a fascinating and timely collection of essays that all examine the antihero in crime fiction, television and film. The antihero has enticed readers and audiences for generations: why is it that we root for characters such as Tom Ripley, Dexter Morgan and Walter White,...

By the author of McIlvanney-prize-listed Cross Purpose. "My husband is trying to kill me": a new client gets straight to the point. This is a whole new ball game for Maggie Laird, who is trying to rebuild her late husband's detective agency and clear his name. Her partner, "Big"...

If there’s anything scarier than ghosts and paranormal phenomenon, it’s the criminals who kill for gut-wrenching reasons. What is happening in these people’s minds to make them commit heinous crimes without any sign of remorse? This book will feature some of the craziest serial killers,...

Murder from the NewsdeskSeven Crampton of the Chronicle mystery storiesJoin Colin Crampton, ace crime reporter on the Evening Chronicle in 1960s Brighton, in seven more cozy crime mysteries.The Mystery of the African Charity: Amateur sleuth Colin discovers greed - and a murder mystery...

An engaging account of an extraordinary, trailblazing woman - Australia's first female detective - LILLIAN ARMFIELD is also the vivid and gripping story of the origins of Sydney's organised crime underbelly. 'Special Constable' Lillian Armfield was policing Sydney's mean streets during some...

Seven years ago in Cape Town three young white South African schoolboys were abducted in broad daylight on three consecutive days. They were never heard of again. Now, a new case for the unpredictable Colonel Vaughn de Vries casts a light on the original enquiry; for him, a personal failure...