Crimes category: 7162 books
Poison Candy
The Murderous Madam: Inside Dalia Dippolito's Plot to Kill
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
“This tale of greed and manipulation in Palm Beach County is impossible to put down” (Vanity Fair).
In August 2009, former madam Dalia Dippolito conspired with a hit man to arrange the murder of her ex-con husband. Days later, it seemed as if all had gone according to plan. Beautiful young...
Murder, Lies, and Cover-Ups
Who Killed Marilyn Monroe, JFK, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, and Princess Diana?
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Uncover the real truth behind mass media accounts of how they died, and learn the reason for their murders.
These five deaths stopped the whole world in its tracks. We all famously recall where we were and what we were doing when JFK was assassinated, as well as the moments Elvis, Princess Diana,...
Deadly Dose
The Untold Story of a Homicide Investigator's Crusade for Truth and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
The crime was unforgivable.
The suspected murderer—unbelievable.
One man’s pursuit of justice—unstoppable.
The death of promising young pediatric AIDS researcher Eric Miller stunned the Raleigh, North Carolina, community, largely because of the horrific way he was killed. For months,...
Blood Cold
Fame, Sex, and Murder in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The riveting true account of the 2001 murder of Bonny Lee Bakley, starring Robert Blake—the Hollywood icon accused of killing his wife in cold blood
In May 2001 Bonny Lee Bakley was shot to death in a car parked on a dark Hollywood side street. Eleven months later Robert Blake—her husband,...
This Crazy Thing Called Love
The Golden World and Fatal Marriage of Ann and Billy Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
In 1955, Ann Woodward shot her husband, Billy, in their Oyster Bay, Long Island, home. While she was cleared by a grand jury, which believed her story that she had mistaken Billy for a prowler who had been recently breaking into neighboring houses, New York society was convinced that she had deliberately...
by Bernard-Henri Lévy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
In a ground-breaking book that combines a novelist's eye with rivettinginvestigative journalism, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of the world's mostesteemed writers, retraces Pearl's final steps through a murky Islamicunderworld, suffused by "an odour of the apocalypse." The investigationplunges Lévy into his own heart of darkness - and a series of stunningrevelations about who the real terrorists are.
Operation Damocles
Israel's Secret War Agaisnt Hitler's Scientists, 1951-1967
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The forgotten cloak-and-dagger history of the former Nazi scientists who were recruited by Egypt to develop long-range missiles capable of striking Israel
From 1951 to 1967 Egypt pursued a secret program to build military rockets that could have conceivably posed a threat to neighboring Israel....
No Regrets
Ann Rule's Crime Files: Volume 11
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
A ship's pilot legendary for guiding mammoth freighters through the narrows of Puget Sound, Rolf Neslund was a proud Norwegian, a ladies' man, and a beloved resident of Washington State's idyllic Lopez Island. Virtually indestructible even into his golden years, he made electrifying headlines more...
Creepy Crawling
Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals just how much the...
Bath Massacre
America's First School Bombing
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
"With the meticulous attention to detail of a historian and a storyteller's eye for human drama, Bernstein shines a beam of truth on a forgotten American tragedy. Heartbreaking and riveting."
---Gregg Olsen, New York Times best-selling author of Starvation Heights
"A chilling and...
by The Editors of TIME-LIFE
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Fallen giants, taken too soon.
Unexpected deaths are not entirely unexpected-they surround us every day. What shocks us is "the who," the how, and the why of them, especially when it comes to celebrities. Whether they fought for our rights or spoke to us through song, moved us on...
Agent M
The Lives and Spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Spying is the art of knowing who to trust-and who to betray
Maxwell Knight was perhaps the greatest spymaster in history, rumored to be the real-life inspiration for the James Bond character "M." He did more than anyone in his era to combat the rising threat of fascism in Britain...
Guy Burgess
The Spy Who Knew Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Cambridge spy Guy Burgess was a supreme networker, with a contacts book that included everyone from statesmen to socialites, high-ranking government officials to the famous actors and literary figures of the day. He also set a gold standard for conflicts of interest, working variously, and often simultaneously,...
by J. Anne Funderburg
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This work is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era (1920 to 1933). Based on FBI files, legal documents, old newspapers and other sources, it offers a coast-to-coast survey of Volstead crime—outrageous stories of America’s most...