Jay Robert Nash: 24 books
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...
The Dark Fountain
A Novel of Horror
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1982
Bible-toting Earle Leonard Nelson fancied himself a man of mission. The Lamb of God, in fact, divinely empowered to cleanse the world of sin. But the priesthood that carried him across the country from San Francisco to Buffalo and ultimately into Canada during the 1920s assumed grisly proportions—the...
Murder, America
Homicide in the United States from the Revolution to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 1980
Here is a comprehensive collection of the most fascinating homicide cases in our nation's history. Jay Robert Nash brings the dark side of America to life in these briefs. Included are the most ingenious and the most notorious murders, perpetrated by a group of criminals of frightening and fascinating...
Hustlers and Con Men
An Anecdotal History of the Confidence Man and His Games
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 1976
Jay Robert Nash takes you into the real and fascinating world of the criminal elite—the con man. Hustlers and Con Men is an entertaining look at the boldest, most sophisticated, most wildly imaginative criminals of the past 200 years, including the Gondorf brothers, Lou Blonger, Charles Ponzi,...
by Jay Robert Nash
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 1983
According to the FBI, public enemy number one John Dillinger was gunned down by agents at the Biograph Theatre in July, 1934. However Jay Robert Nash calls this report into question in this fascinating piece of investigative journalism. Nash asserts that it was Dillinger's doppelgänger rather than...
by Jay Robert Nash
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1976
Here is Jay Robert Nash's exhaustive chronology of world disaster's—900 disasters, from sinking ships to famines treated in-depth, often accompanied by eye-witness accounts and illustrations. But Darkest Hour is no mere listing, no dry catalog of events. In hundreds of instances Nash's research...
by Jay Robert Nash
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2004
This unparalleled reference spans the entire scope of world history offering a thorough investigation into the most infamous crimes and their perpetrators throughout recorded time. Arranged by subject, from Assassination to Terrorism, each chapter begins with an essay that introduces the topic and...
People to See
An Anecdotal History of Chicago's Makers and Breakers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1981
People to See is an irreverent and revealing portrait of the merchant princes and magnates Marshall Field, William Randolph Hearst, P.K. Wrigley, George Pullman; crime kings Roger Plant, Al Capone, Arnold Rothestein, who fixed the 1919 World Series and "Shoeless Hoe" Jackson who played it...
Murder Among the Mighty
Celebrity Sightings That Shocked America
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1983
In this riveting book of celebrity murders Jay Robert Nash provides keen insights into the mind of the murderer, and has carefully researched each murder to bring new facts to light. He devotes a chapter to each celebrity murder spanning from the slaying of Big Jim Fisk in 1872 up through the poisoning...
Zanies
The World's Greatest Eccentrics
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 1982
Here is a catalog of eccentrics--the men and women who broke the mold and give us a glimpse of inspired flakiness, a peek at the outrageous. Their unswerving dedication to outlandish desires, their flamboyant disdain of the acceptable, these people chose to shock and horrify—or delight—you and...
Dictionary of Crime
Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Law Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1992
In order to understand the machinations and inner workings of crime and punishment in this country, it is necessary to negotiate through the wild linguistic labyrinth of its esoteric terminology and pungent slang. Here is Jay Robert Nash's comprehensive Dictionary of Crime: Criminal Justice, Criminology,...
by Jay Robert Nash
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 1989
With over 1000 entries and 400 illustrations, this volume is the most fact-packed history of the west ever assembled. Bestselling crime historian Jay Robert Nash has left no stone unturned in his search for the gunmen, train robbers, gangs, desperadoes, range warriors, gamblers, and lawmen that roamed...
Open Files
A Narrative Encyclopedia of the World's Greatest Unsolved Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1983
Here is a fascinating compendium of unsolved crimes—from murder to robbery, arson to forgery—presenting the most baffling cases on record, starting with the murder of Lord Darnely, Mary, Queen of Scots' husband in 1566 and ending in the 1980s. The hundreds of entries, arranged alphabetically,...
by Jay Robert Nash
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 1981
The crime takes place late one night in the mansion of Illinois Governor-elect Maitland Ashmore. His only son, Day, is bludgeoned to death, gruesomely slaughtered in his own bed. This is a textbook murder—no witnesses, no apparent motives, not a single clue. Or so it seems. This is a crime only...
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