Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
by Neil R. Storey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
From infamous serial killers to unusual murder weapons to crime scene investigations, a must for everyone interested in true crimeFilled with every conceivable grim fact or fancy about this most despicable of crimes, this is a chilling compendium of intriguing, obscure, and strange facts and trivia...
by Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Extraordinary accounts of forensic crime detection—from poisoners in ancient Rome to modern day serial killers—by the bestselling author of The Outsider.
In 44 BC, a Roman doctor named Antistius performed the first autopsy recorded in history—on the corpse of murder victim Julius Caesar....
Greater London Murders
33 True Stories of Revenge, Greed, Jealousy & Lust
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
This compendium brings together 33 murderous tales — one from each of the capital’s boroughs—that not only shocked the city but made headline news across the country. Throughout its history the great urban sprawl of Greater London has been home to some of the most shocking murders in England,...
by Rudolf Schlossberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
A man detonates a bomb in central Oslo, and then makes his way to a youth camp where he massacres many more innocent victims...
What sounds like the plot of a B-grade horror flick actually happened: Anders Behring Breivik is the man, obsessed by his fear and hatred of Islam and multiculturalism.
His...
Murder by Numbers
Fascinating Figures behind the World’s Worst Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
What is the connection between the number 13 and Jack the Ripper? Why was the number 18 crucial in catching Acid Bath murderer John George Haigh? And what is so puzzling about the number 340 in the chilling case of the Zodiac killer? The answers to all these questions and many more are revealed in...
The Nightingale Shore Murder
Death of a World War 1 Heroine
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
This updated and expanded second edition is the true story of the unsolved murder of Florence Nightingale’s goddaughter. Florence Nightingale Shore grew up in a Victorian family that found itself mired in controversy and scandal. She became a respected Queen’s Nurse, who worked for five years...
Murder at the Inn
A History of Crime in Britain's Pubs and Hotels
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
The first book to explore the fascinating and dark history of England's pubs and hotelsIn which pub did the Krays murder George Cornell and so achieve notoriety as Britain's most feared gangsters? Where is the hostelry in which Jack the Ripper's victims drank? How did Burke and Hare befriend their...
The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
Since 1866 the Ku Klux Klan has been a significant force in Mississippi, enduring repeated cycles of expansion and decline. Klansmen have rallied, marched, elected civic leaders, infiltrated law enforcement, and committed crimes ranging from petty vandalism to assassination and mass murder. This is...
The Swiss Guard Massacre
The Vatican Mysteries Vol. 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
On May 4th, 1998, occurred one of the most bloody crimes ever committed in the Vatican city: the body of the new commander of the Swiss Guard Alois Estermann, his wife Gladys Meza Romero and the vice Corporal Cedric Tornay were found dead in a pool of blood.
There is an official reconstruction...
by Rita Y. Shuler
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
A former forensic photographer and author of Murder in the Midlands chronicles horrific killings that struck at the heart of the Palmetto State.
Ax assault, kidnapping, brutal murder: how could these things happen in a small town? Although regional crimes hardly ever make it to the national...
Murder of a Journalist
The True Story of the Death of Donald Ring Mellett
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Private detectives, crooked cops, gangsters, and bootleggers
The July 1926 murder of the editor of the Canton, Ohio, Daily News, Don R. Mellett, was one of the most publicized crimes in the 1920s. For less than a year, Mellett was the editor of the Daily News, owned by former Ohio governor...
by Gordon Dillow, William J. Rehder
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2004
"With the style and pacing of a good novel...should become a standard in the genre."—Publishers Weekly
FBI Special Agent William J. Rehder, the man CBS News once described as "America's secret weapon in the war against bank robbers," chronicles the lives and crimes of...
Thirty-Eight Witnesses
The Kitty Genovese Case
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist’s groundbreaking account of the crime that shocked New York City—and the world
In the early hours of March 13, 1964, twenty-eight-year-old Catherine “Kitty” Genovese was stabbed to death in the middle-class neighborhood of Kew Gardens, Queens. The...
Surviving Justice
America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Innocent, but imprisoned—troubling stories of wrongful conviction
Surviving Justice presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of life, who, through a combination of all-too-common factors— overzealous prosecutors, inept defense lawyers, coercive interrogation tactics, eyewitness...