Crimes category: 7162 books
Midnight Assassin
A Murder in America's Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
In 1900, Margaret Hossack, the wife of a prominent Iowa farmer, was arrested for bludgeoning her husband to death with an ax while their children slept upstairs. The community was outraged: How could a woman commit such an act of violence? Firsthand accounts describe the victim, John Hossack, as a...
Six Miles to Charleston
The True Story of John and Lavinia Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
In 1819, a young man outwitted death at the hands of John and Lavinia Fisher and sparked the hunt for Charleston’s most notorious serial killers. Former homicide investigator Bruce Orr follows the story of the Fishers, from the initial police raid on their Six Mile Inn with its reportedly grisly cellar...
Dark Bayou
Infamous Louisiana Homicides
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
This collection chronicles the most mysterious, bizarre and often overlooked homicides in Louisiana history. Drawing on contemporary records and, where available, the recollections of those who provide a coherent version of the facts, these mesmerizing tales detail some of the more gruesome episodes:...
Queen of Thieves
The True Story of "Marm" Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Queen of Thieves is the gritty, fast-paced story of Fredericka Marm” Mandelbaum, a poor Jewish woman who rose to the top of her profession in organized crime during the Gilded Age in New York City. During her more than twenty-five-year reign as the country’s top receiver of stolen goods, she...
Inside the Criminal Mind
Revised and Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Long-held myths defining the sources of and cures for crime are shattered in this ground-breaking book--and a chilling profile of today's criminal emerges.
The Edge of Innocence
The Trial of Casper Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
The Edge of Innocence is a work of narrative nonfiction based on the 1964 murder trial of Casper Bennett, a man accused of drowning his wife in a bathtub of scalding water in Lorain, Ohio. Bennett’s sensational trial pitted an aggressive, mercurial county prosecutor against the author’s father,...
Rose City Vice
Portland in the 70's - Dirty Cops and Dirty Robbers
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The City of Roses, as natives of Portland, Oregon like to call it, has a long and honorable history of crime and corruption, starting as far back as the post-Civil War frontier days, leading into the mobster-infused decades of the twentieth century when prohibition, prostitution, gambling, and hard...
Murder & Scandal in Prohibition Portland
Sex, Vice & Misdeeds in Mayor Baker's Reign
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The 1917 election of Mayor George Luis Baker ushered a long era of unscrupulous greed into Portland government. While supposedly enforcing prohibition laws, Baker ordered police chief Leon Jenkins to control and profit from the bootlegging market. Baker filled city coffers and his friends' pockets...
Houston Blue
The Story of the Houston Police Department
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Houston Blue offers the first comprehensive history of one of the nations largest police forces, the Houston Police Department. Through extensive archival research and more than one hundred interviews with prominent Houston police figures, politicians, news reporters, attorneys, and others, authors Mitchel...
by James Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Welcome to Long Bay, Australia's hardest prison. For the first time, guards and inmates of the notorious South Sydney facility reveal what really goes on behind its towering concrete walls.
Opened in 1909 Long Bay Jail, originally a women's reformatory, has a dark and extraordinary history.
From...
by Belinda Neil
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Belinda Neil lived and breathed her high–octane job. She relished her roles as a homicide investigator and hostage negotiator with the NSW police force, but she never knew what her work day might bring. She could be investigating brutal murders such as the De Gruchy killings or , in her negotiator...
by Andrew Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
An insider look into the workings of Melbourne's famous crime family, from Australia's most notorious criminal lawyer - including stories on Lewis and Jason Moran, the central crime figures in Melbourne's gangland killings.
This chapter ebook is an extract from In Any Case, a compelling blue-chip...
Remembering Anita Cobby
The Case, the Husband, the Aftermath – 30 Years On
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The national bestseller: John Cobby finally tells his story, 30 years after the murder of his wife, Anita.
On 4 February 1986, John Cobby's life imploded.
He was driving up the coast looking for his missing wife, Anita, when over the radio he heard: 'The body of a naked woman has been found...
by Megan Norris
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Wealthy Melbourne businessman Chris Soteriou had a life to die for.
Handsome, filthy rich and highly driven, the successful entrepreneur’s lavish lifestyle of fast cars, designer clothes and luxury holidays was topped only by his perfect family – including a beautiful, sexy wife who swore...