Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
By Heart
Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
"A boy with no one to listen becomes a man in prison for life and discovers his mind can be free. A woman enters prison to teach and becomes his first listener. And so begins a twenty-five year friendship between two gifted writers and poets. The result is By Heart ? a book that will anger you,...
Une erreur judiciaire.
Deuxième partie : la harpe et le bandant
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
Le lundi 3 octobre 2011 était le 8995ème jour de prison pour Michael Morton. Ce serait son dernier. Il passa la matinée à distribuer les quelques biens qui lui avaient rendu la vie plus supportable : une radio, un ventilateur oscillant, une paire de tennis — et fit une...
by Andrew Meier
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2008
Filled with dramatic revelations, The Lost Spy may be the most important American spy story to come along in a generation.
For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB...
Hermann Goring and the Nazi Art Collection
The Looting of Europe's Art Treasures and Their Dispersal After World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
During World War II, the Nazis plundered from occupied countries millions of items of incalculable value estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Spearheaded by Hermann Göring the looting program quickly created the largest private art collection in the world, exceeding the collections amassed...
Hookers
Candid Confessions of Real Call Girls
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Sex, money, drugs and danger: they are all in a night’s work for millions of prostitutes around the world. But who are they? What are their lives like? And how do they really feel about what they do?
Their answers are here, the unvarnished truth of life in the modern sex trade told by those...
Mob Killer:
The Bloody Rampage of Charles Carneglia, Mafia Hit Man
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
A Crazed Killer
He dissolved the bodies of some of his victims in acid and poured them down the sewer. He hung grisly souvenirs on nails in his junkyard.
La Costra Nostra
Charles Carneglia was a stone-cold killer who fell in with the bloodthirsty John Gotti crew. As the infamous...
Exposed
The Secret Life of Jodi Arias
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
On June 9, 2008, the butchered body of Travis Alexander was found in his Mesa, Arizona home. The grisly nature of his death made instant headlines: with twenty-nine knife wounds, his throat slit, and a gunshot to the head, Travis was left to die. The prime suspect in the case was Alexander’s ex-girlfriend,...
by Ernest Raynaud
Language: French
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Dans ce deuxième tome de ses Souvenirs de police - Au temps de Félix Faure, le commissaire-poète Raynaud est affecté à la surveillance des rois en visite, le Tsar Nicolas II en 1896 entre autres. Il nous rapporte les crises d'hystérie de l'impératrice,...
by Darcy O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
New York Times Bestseller: The “fascinating” true story of John Dale Cavaness, a much-admired Illinois doctor—and the cold-blooded killer of his own son (The Washington Post).
Fusing the narrative power of an award-winning novelist and the detailed research of an experienced investigator,...
While They Slept
An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Early on an April morning, eighteen-year-old Billy Frank Gilley, Jr., killed his sleeping parents. Surprised in the act by his younger sister, Becky, he turned on her as well. Billy then climbed the stairs to the bedroom of his other sister, Jody, and said, “We’re free.” But is one ever free...
Masquerade
A True Story of Seduction, Compulsion, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
A psychologist’s secret life on the seedy side of Detroit gets him entangled with a prostitute—and her murderous pimp—in a “compelling work of true crime” (Detroit Free Press).
In the exclusive suburb of Grosse Pointe, Alan Canty was a respected psychologist, with clients drawn from...
The Wrong Man
The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
This Edgar Award finalist—one of Ann Rule’s top five true-crime picks—is a “gripping” definitive account of the Dr. Sam Sheppard murder case (The New York Times Book Review).
“My God . . . I think they’ve killed Marilyn!”
At 5:40 a.m. on July 4, 1954, the mayor of Bay...
Murder in Wauwatosa
The Mysterious Death of Buddy Schumacher
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
“Looks at the twists and turns in the investigation, possible perpetrators . . . as well as some of the good that eventually came out of this tragedy” (Wauwatosa Patch).
In 1925, the peaceful Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa found itself involved in mystery and horror. Eight-year-old Arthur...
People Wasn't Made to Burn
A True Story of Housing, Race, and Murder in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
A unique study of civil rights struggle in the North in the 1940s
A long-hidden story not previously written about
A sympathetic story as jobs, housing, and economic stability become scarce
Ben Shahn, an artist of the Social Realism art movement important in the U.S. during the...