Crime category: 24427 books
The Napoleon of Crime
The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS
He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city.
He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. . . .
--Sherlock Holmes on Professor Moriarty in...
by Douglas P. Lyle
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Forensics For Dummies (9781119608967) was previously published as Forensics For Dummies (9781119181651). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product....
The Shadow Catcher
A U.S. Agent Infiltrates Mexico's Deadly Crime Cartels
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Living under an assumed identity and risking his life were all in a day’s work for U.S. Government Agent Hipolito Acosta. He worked regularly in high-stakes undercover operations infiltrating Mexico’s murderous immigrant smuggling rings and drug cartels.
Acosta’s investigations are legendary,...
Shattered
The True Story of a Mother's Love, a Husband's Betrayal, and a Cold-Blooded Texas Murder
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
“Kathryn Casey is one of the best true crime writers today.”
—Ann Rule
With true crime classics like Descent into Hell and Die My Love, author Kathryn Casey has peered into the darkest corners of the Lone Star State, shedding a fascinating, chilling light on a series of notorious...
The Feather Thief
Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
**As heard on NPR's This American Life
“Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air
“One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science...
Love Me to Death
A Journalist's Memoir of the Hunt for Her Friend's Killer
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Acclaimed true-crime journalist Linda Wolfe recounts a powerful true-life crime story of her own—her search for the serial killer who murdered her friend
In 1983 Jacqui Bernard was found dead. She was a philanthropist, a writer, an activist, and a friend of Linda Wolfe’s. Two years after...
Motor City Mafia
A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2006
Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit chronicles the storied and hallowed gangland history of the notorious Detroit underworld. Scott M. Burnstein takes the reader inside the belly of the beast, tracking the bloodshed, exploits, and leadership of the southeast Michigan crime syndicate...
by Jeffrey Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
In 1994, when Jeffrey Robinson, author of The Laundrymen, first brought to the world's attention the problems of dirty money -- revealing how otherwise legitimate lawyers, bankers, accountants and even governments were helping drug traffickers hide the proceeds of their crimes -- he labelled...
Gangland Boston
A Tour Through the Deadly Streets of Organized Crime
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Welcome to Boston’s criminal underworld
Author covers crime for the Boston Globe
An entire chapter dedicated to Whitey Bulger: “Whitey’s World”
150 photos from author’s own Boston crime archives and more
Organized criminals have haunted Greater Boston’s history, lurking just around...
The Sinatra Club
My Life Inside the New York Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
The Mob was the biggest, richest business in America—too dangerous and too deadly to fail. Until it was destroyed from within by drugs, greed, and the decline of its traditional crime Family values.
And by guys like Sal Polisi.
He was born in Brooklyn—the same place that spawned...
Cinderella Sims
The Classic Crime Library, #14
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
There's no glass slipper in this fairytale - just a damsel in distress, a bag of cash, and a whole lot of dead bodies.
Reporter Ted Lindsay is trying to forget his ex-wife, and New York City's tough streets are just what the doctor ordered. They're also filled with alluring women, but only...
Predator
Rape, Madness, and Injustice in Seattle
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Jack Olsen, "the master of the true crime book,"* now gives us an incisive, probing look into the creation and development of the criminal mind, as well as a shocking case of justice gone awry.
From childhood, McDonald Smith took to heart the lessons drummed into him by antisocial...
by Sue Russell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
"A graphic portrait of evil." --M. William Phelps
"One of the best true crime books of all time." --Examiner.com
"The book to read about Aileen Wuornos--a case that has fascinated true crime fans from around the world." --True Crime Book Reviews
As...
Dead of Night
A True Crime Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
The chilling true story of Oregon's most shocking killer! Jimmy Rode was serving a sentence for burglary in a Florida prison when he met serial killer Ted Bundy. It was Bundy who gave him a Seattle newspaper containing personal ads--an easy means for meeting vulnerable female victims--that launched...