Murder category: 3028 books
by K. Scot Macdonald, Patrick MontesDeOca
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Sex, Money and MurderIn 1987 a heroin addict murdered an Emmy Award-winning choreographer in Manhattan. Then a wealthy LA surgeon and his teenaged son were targeted. In 1991, an out-of-work redneck flew to London with cyanide to poison three members of a male exotic dance review. If the poison...
Strange Case of the Mad Professor
A True Tale of Endangered Species, Illegal Drugs, and Attempted Murder
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
It was one of the biggest scandals in New York University history. Professor John Buettner-Janusch, chair of the Anthropology Department, was convicted of manufacturing LSD and Quaaludes in his campus laboratory. He claimed the drugs were for an animal behavior experiment, but the jury found otherwise....
Cincinnati's Savage Seamstress
The Shocking Edythe Klumpp Murder Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
On a cold, drizzly fall afternoon in 1958, a trio of duck hunters stumbled on the charred remains of Cincinnati resident Louise Bergen. When investigators learned that her estranged husband was living with an older divorcee, Edythe Klumpp, they wasted no time in questioning her. When she failed a lie...
Cold Case Files Missing and Unsolved: Ireland's Disappeared
The Cold Case Files
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
The Cold Case Files will leave you shocked that so many of Ireland’s evil killers have not been caught. But by outlining the on-going work of Ireland’s cold-case detectives, this book will also give you hope that these killers will never be allowed to rest easy, and that one day justice will come...
by Frank C. Girardot Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Prepare to be shocked as the grisly details about the murder of San Marino computer geek John Sohus are revealed in Frank C. Girardot's new book, "Name Dropper: Investigating the Clark Rockefeller Mystery." Clark Rockefeller, the prime suspect in Sohus' murder, may have been the last...
Death at Papago Park POW Camp
A Tragic Murder and America's Last Mass Execution
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
World War II came to Arizona via two significant avenues: prisoner-of-war camps and military training bases. Notorious for its prisoners' attempted escape through the Faustball Tunnel, Papago POW Camp also had a dark reputation of violence among its prisoners. An unfortunate casualty was Werner Drechsler,...
Murder Most Foul
Strangled, poisoned and dismembered in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Seemingly safe on the surface, sunny Singapore has seen its fair share of murders that run the gamut from pre-mediated cases to crimes of passion. Here are some cases from the archives. Read about the curry murders where the victim’s body was dismembered and cooked in curry and then disposed of. Then...
Foreigners Behaving Badly
Commiting murder, hooliganism and other crimes in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2013
Moving to a new country to live is difficult, having to adapt to the culture and new environment. Most people settle down nicely but a handful don’t get used to their newly adopted home. Here then are stories of foreigners in Singapore who behave badly; committing murder, financial scams, vandalism...
by Diane Fannon-Langton
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
“Fantastic . . . Sheds new light on the case . . . No stone is left unturned . . . Provides a remarkable snapshot of life in Cedar Rapids in the late 1940s” (The Gazette).
Byron C. Hattman sealed his fate when he checked into the Roosevelt Hotel on December 13, 1948. A maid found...
by John Evangelist Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
On August 29, 1857, in the light of a three-quarter moon, James Metzger was savagely beaten by two assailants in a grove not far from his home. Two days later he died and his assailants, James Norris and William Armstrong, were arrested and charged with his murder. Norris was tried and convicted first....
The Bastard of Fort Stikine
The Hudson's Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Winner, Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History, Jeanne Clarke Memorial Local History Award, and Prince Edward Island Book Award for Non-Fiction
Is it possible to reach back in time and solve an unsolved murder, more than 170 years after it was committed?
Just after midnight on April...
Deadly Secrets
A True Crime Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
From a multiple Edgar Award winner: Three gripping accounts of murder, betrayal, and greed that made headlines and shocked the nation.
A Pulitzer Prize nominee for his landmark work, The Court-Martial of Lt. Calley, Richard Hammer is a fearless chronicler of the dark side of human nature. Here...
Devil's Right Hand
The Tragic Story of the Colt Family Curse
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The Devil's Right Hand chroniclesthe legacy of death and destruction in the gunmaking Colt family during the nineteenth century, a legacy largely remembered for a lurid murder case that inspired Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Oblong Box”—but one that encompassed much more. . .
New York...
Call Me Cruel
A story about murder and the dangerous power of lies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In the four months of their affair, Kylie Labouchardiere and Paul Wilkinson exchanged over 20,000 text messages. She was a trainee nurse; he worked in the New South Wales Police Force. Although Wilkinson eventually killed his lover to save his marriage, his main weapon was always words. He was a frighteningly...