Murder category: 3028 books
by Sheila Hardy, Terry Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
During renovation work on a hunting lodge in 1996, a carpenter uncovered a plank of wood revealing a chilling penciled message: “A fearful murder was committed the first day of this month (October 1887) at Cretingham. A curate cut the vicar's throat at 12 o'clock at night.” The discovery brought...
The Anatomy Murders
Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Up the close and down the stair,
Up and down with Burke and Hare.
Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief,
Knox the man who buys the beef.
—anonymous children's song
On Halloween night 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last...
The Murder of Dr. Chapman
The Legendary Trials of Lucretia Chapman and Her Lover
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
In this “first-rate blending of true-crime, character-study and history” a 19th-century love con leads to murder and a sensational double trial (Susan Isaacs, New York Times–bestselling author of Compromising Positions).
In 1831 Lucretia Winslow Chapman was a wife and mother of five who...
To Hatred Turned
Everything Is Bigger in Texas, Including the Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
“Englade (Beyond Reason) here treats a complex Dallas murder case with a master’s touch . . . [A] web of blackmail and hired killers” (Publishers Weekly).
Reporter Ken Englade explores the complex case of Rozanne Gailiunas, a woman in Texas who, in 1983, was the victim of a grisly, unsolved...
The Oscar Slater Murder Story
New Light on a Classic Miscarriage of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Oscar Slater, a disreptuable German immigrant, living on the fringe of the Glaswegian underworld and off the proceeds of gambling and prostitution, was sentenced to death in 1909 for the brutal murder of Marion Gilchrist, a rich spinster who lived with a secret hoard of precious jewels hidden in her...
Butterfly in the Rain
The 1927 Abduction and Murder of Marion Parker
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
On December 17, 1927 in Los Angeles, twelve year old Marion Parker, daughter of a prominent banker, was called to the school office where a stranger told her that her father had been in an accident and that she must leave with him right away. Fewer than 48 hours later, she was dead.
What started...
Guilt by Matrimony
A Memoir of Love, Madness, and the Murder of Nancy Pfister
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
“An amazing story about a homicidal web of deceit fueled by mental illness. It is not a typical true-crime tale—it is in a class by itself.” —Diane Fanning, author of Bitter Remains
In 2014, an Aspen socialite was bludgeoned, wrapped in a sheet, and stuffed inside a locked closet. Fewer...
East End Murders
From Jack the Ripper to Ronnie Kray
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
As well as the murders of Jack the Ripper—perhaps the most infamous in history—nine other cases are investigated in detail: the still mysterious Ratcliffe Highway Murders of 1811; Henry Wainwright, who dismembered his mistress and rolled up her remains in a carpet in 1874; Israel Lipski, whose...
Killing Time
An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a white man in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to Angola prison and confined to his cell twenty-three hours a day. However, Thompson adamantly proclaimed his innocence and just needed lawyers who believed that his trial...
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...
Voodoo Killers
Slavery, Sorecery and the Supernatural
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
The art of murder knows many forms, but few more harrowing than murder for reasons of ritual or the supernatural. Supposedly serving a higher cause, they are often little more than acts of self-gratifying blood-lust. Voodoo Killers chronicles the disturbing history of ritualistic killing around the...
Murder in Minnesota
A Collection of True Cases
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
"My investigation of Minnesota murders over the years revealed no new motives for killing anyone. The old ones are perfectly satisfactory. . . . I hope you will find these murders interesting. I regret that I could not report the most ingenious and remarkable ones. They looked like accidents...
by Arthur Jay Harris
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
A TWO-BOOK SERIES
Six-year-old Adam Walsh disappeared from the toy department of a Sears in Hollywood, Florida, in 1981. Two weeks later and 125 miles away, a child’s severed head was found and identified as Adam. His parents, Reve and John Walsh, deeply grieved and dedicated their lives...
by David J. Vaughan
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
Set in North London in 1856, Parliament, Buckingham Palace, the press and Victorian middle-class society get caught up in Sommer's brutal murder of her own daughter. Now this forgotten, TRUE event in the annals of British crime has been rediscovered and re-told, exposing cracks in the C19th façade...