Crimes category: 7162 books
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...
Creating Criminals
Prisons and People in a Market Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Market society is producing more crime around the world. More acts are being defined as crimes. Ever increasing numbers of people are classified as criminals and more are being locked up in prison. With globalization, the crime and punishment problem is no longer insulated from pressures beyond national...
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...
Defending the Damned
Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Chicago was the nation's deadliest city in 2001, recording 666 homicides. For lawyers in the Cook County Public Defender's Office Murder Task Force, that meant a steady flow of new clients. Eight out of ten people arrested for murder in Chicago are represented by public defenders. They're assigned...
Not Lost Forever
My Story of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Not Lost Forever is Carmina Salcido’s remarkable story of survival and healing following the 1986 murderous rampage by her father, Mexican immigrant Ramon Salcido in the wine country of Sonoma Valley, California. Left for dead at three years old—her throat brutally slashed—Carmina miraculously...
by Gary C. King
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
Strange but true stories of murder and mayhem. In all there are 18 chilling stories about crimes that could only be perpetrated by the twisted minds and gruesome obsessions of coldblooded killers. It's the stuff that horror movies and novels are made of, brought to you from the vault of bestselling...
23 Days of Terror
The Compelling True Story of the Hunt and Capture of the Beltway Snipers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
In October 2002, a nation still recovering from the 9/11 attacks found itself under siege once more -- by an unseen, unknown, and seemingly unstoppable enemy. For 23 days, the area around Washington, D.C., was the hunting ground for a pair of serial snipers who struck at random, killing from afar,...