Crime category: 24427 books
True Crime Stories: The Worlds Most Dangerous Killers: Serial Killers Evil True Crime Stories
True Crime Stories, #2
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
As a society, we are fascinated by crime. It is something that dominates our interest, given the high viewership and ratings for shows such as Law & Order and Criminal Minds. We remain highly interested not only in the way the crime is committed, and then solved, but also in the psyche of the...
Crime Fiction in the City
Capital Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Crime Fiction in the City: Capital Crimes expands upon previous studies of the urban space and crime by reflecting on the treatment of the capital city, a repository of authority, national identity and culture, within crime fiction. This wide-ranging collection looks at capital cities across Europe,...
The Mississippi Sativa Cooperative
The Mississippi Sativa Cooperative, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
What...
...if 4 people took cannabis growing to the next level.
...if it is more science than anything else?
...makes them successful?
...makes them dangerous?
Mike, Charlie, Allen and Danny are the Mississippi Sativa Cooperative -- two botanists, an engineer, and a security specialist. They...
Queenpins
Notorious Women Gangsters of the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The cut throat world of organized crime has long been dominated by men, and such macho godfathers and kingpins as Al Capone, John Dillinger, Pablo Escobar and John Gotti have become legendary. Yet, dig deep into the annals of crime and one can find smart, ambitious and ruthless women who have cracked...
Jay Robert Nash's Crime Chronology
A Worldwide Record 1900-1983
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1984
Jay Robert Nash, best-selling author and one of the world's foremost crime historians, has compiled in one volume thousands of the most significant and fascinating crimes of the twentieth century.
This extensive worldwide chronology is a year-by-year, crime-by crime historical record, Organized...
Hard Cases – True Stories of Irish Crime
Profiling Ireland’s Murderers, Kidnappers and Thugs
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2005
From crime to verdict, award-winning journalist Gene Kerrigan tells the brutal stories of some of Ireland’s most notorious murders, kidnappings and violent attacks
Hard Cases is a collection of startling stories about the reality of crime and court cases in Ireland. In these stories, there...
Iced
The Story of Organized Crime in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Canada is lauded the world over as a law abiding, peaceful country - a shining example to all nations. Such a view, also shared by most Canadians, is typically naïve and misinformed. Throughout its history, to present day and beyond, Canada has been and will continue to be home to criminals and crime...
Stealing History
Art Theft, Looting, and Other Crimes Against our Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
When compared to terrorism, drugs and violent crimes that occupy the news today art is not considered as important. But, as it turns out, art and cultural crime is currently ranked as the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world. What exactly is art crime? Why does art matter? And what is law...
by R. Barri Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2018
From R. Barri Flowers, award-winning criminologist and bestselling author of Murder of the Horse Trainer’s Rival, Murderess on the Loose, Murder at the Pencil Factory, Murder of the Doctor’s Wife, and Murder During the Chicago World’s Fair, comes the thought-provoking historical true crime short,...
by Jay Robert Nash
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Several decades ago the boxer “Kid” McCoy was sent to San Quentin for the murder of his girlfriend. A taciturn prisoner, McCoy once blurted to his warden: “You know who I am, don’t you—I’m McCoy, not one of those Hollywood types or the kind you find in made-up stories in the pulps. I’m...
by David Pietras
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
For some it is the sight of death and carnage that draws a person to crime scenes. And others prefer to visit famous crime scenes from the past. The morbid curiosity of the human race is a force that is so strong that even scientists cannot explain it. But what causes the dead to return to the scene...
Public Enemies: 5 True Crime Gangster Stories from the Roaring Twenties
Public Enemies, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Public Enemies – True Crime Gangster Stories from the Roaring Twenties
From the era of gangsters, molls and prohibition, almost (but not quite), lost in the mists of time, these tales romp along with plenty of action and recreate the atmosphere of this exciting and dangerous era using the...
by Robert Lacey
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
First published in 1991 as Little Man: The Gangster Life of Meyer Lansky, the original text has been revised and updated for this edition by Robert Lacey, and much bonus material added.
“Daring and well written … it would be criminal not to read it.” People magazine
They called...
by James Ellroy, Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slaves (the most requested and widely read New York Times story of 2004), a piece from The New Yorker by...