Crime category: 24427 books

True-crime fans and readers interested in the history of American jurisprudence should definitely add Crime: Its Cause and Treatment to their must-read list. Penned by famed lawyer Clarence Darrow, this penetrating look at the origins of criminal behavior draws on Darrow's own experiences defending such infamous characters as the teenage thrill-killers Leopold and Loeb.

On August 21, 1993, Matt Love and his friend became the chief suspects in the biggest jewelry theft in Portland history. No one was ever arrested in the case, the jewelry never recovered. The statute of limitations on the crime, grand larceny, finally expired. At long last, Love is free to confess...

Marseille... cité lumineuse, attirante et sans pitié. Marseille " capitale du crime ", mais dont les grands truands ont fasciné plusieurs générations. Ceux que je vais vous présenter sont devenus des légendes. Ces figures emblématiques du grand banditisme marseillais hantent encore...

On the night Leo Stone returns—notionally from the dead, in reality from the Democratic Republic of the Congo—Cass Tuplin gets a call from Gary Kellett. A call about an actual dead person: Gary’s daughter, killed in a car crash. Gary’s adamant it wasn’t an accident. Cass agrees to...

SPEED KILLS A feature film, SPEED KILLS, based on the book and starring John Travolta, premieres in 2018. He built the fastest boats -- for royalty, the rich, spies, smugglers, Feds and a former U.S. President. Then came six shots. Don Aronow's Cigarette boats were the symbol...

Since 1973, one magazine has covered crime in Texas like no one else, delving deep into stories that may turn your stomach—but won't let you turn away. Texas Monthly On... Texas True Crime is a high-speed read around Texas, chasing criminals from the Panhandle to the Piney Woods, through gated mansions...

From Jack the Ripper to long-forgotten cases, a true crime for ever day of the yearMay 19, 1536: Anne Boleyn, charged with high treason, is beheaded at the Tower of London August 31, 1888: Mary Ann Nichols, the first victim of Jack the Ripper, is found murdered in Buck's Row December 18, 1914:...

True crime that “will appeal to readers interested in gaining an insight into the lives of women accused of murder in the mid 19th century” (Essex Family Historian). For a few years in the 1840s, Essex was notorious in the minds of Victorians as a place where women stalked the winding country...

"Brydon's provocative and unsettling first novel...is a remarkably assured debut by a gifted new writer." --Publishers Weekly, STARRED review, Pick of the Week "James Brydon's brilliant The Moment Before Drowning isn't an easy read. Not because of its style, which is sensuous...

Lowcountry: That portion of the Southeastern United States characterized by low country, generally flat, whether barrier island, tidal marsh, tidal river valleys, swamps. piney forests, or great cities like Charleston and Savannah. Crime: An act, forbidden by a public law, that makes the offender...

"Elmore Leonard fans should be pleased." —Publishers Weekly "Darby Holland is a modern hero in the mod of Sam Spade and Marlow only with more tattoos and in steel-toed boots." —Ace Atkins, New York Times-bestselling author of Robert B. Parker's Slow Burn In this third novel in the...

“Madame,” one of the most brilliant personalities in French society before the War, runs a circle of dashing young adventurers, who commit all sorts of crimes, the members sharing the proceeds. The Virgins consist of Public School men and ‘Varsity men who are virgins in crime until they bind...

The 2013 National Gang Report (NGR) represents an overview of current gang activities and trends in the United States. Intelligence herein depicts survey data retrieved collectively from the National Gang Survey (NGS) of the National Alliance of Gang Investigators Associations (NAGIA); the Gangs and...

Today regarded as an important figure in the development of the field of study that is now known as criminology, William Douglas Morrison was one of the first scholars to attempt a systematic study of criminal behavior and to assess early theories about the origins of this type of social deviance. Crime...