Murder category: 3028 books
Summary and Analysis of In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
Based on the Book by Truman Capote
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of In Cold Blood tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Truman Capote’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
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The Killer Within
Inside the World of Bradley John Murdoch
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
'Brad Murdoch is not just Brad Murdoch. He's a breed, a type. There are Murdochs all across northern Australia and they run to kind. White or beige Toyota Land Cruiser HZJ75 utility. Canvas canopy off the back with built-in flyscreen mesh. Six-pack foam esky for up front of the cab on long drives...
Worse Than Death
The Dallas Nightclub Murders and the Texas Multiple Murder Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
In 1984, a Moroccan national named Abdelkrim Belachheb walked into Iannis Restaurant, a trendy Dallas nightclub, and gunned down seven people. Six died. Despite the fact that the crimes occurred in a state that prides itself on being tough on criminals, the death penalty was not an option for the Belachheb...
The Professor & the Coed
Scandal & Murder at the Ohio State University
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
The true story of James Howard Snook, Theora Hix, and one of the most shocking crimes of the 1920s.
In the sweltering summer of 1929, the people of Columbus, Ohio, were enthralled by the story of Dr. James Howard Snook—an Ohio State University veterinary professor and Olympic gold medal-winning...
The Trunk Dripped Blood
Five Sensational Murder Cases of the Early 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
A trunk dripping blood, discovered at a railway station in Stockton in 1906, launched one of the most famous murder investigations in California history—still debated by crime historians. In 1913, the dismembered body of a young pregnant woman, found in the East River, was traced back to her killer...
The Adventuress
Murder, Blackmail, and Confidence Games in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
The engaging tale of a nineteenth-century black widow
Intrigue, deception, bribery, poison, murder—all play a central role in the story of Minnie Walkup, a young woman from New Orleans who began her life of crime when she was only sixteen years old.
Born in 1869 to Elizabeth and James...
by Kathi Kresol
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The shocking true crimes of Rockford, Illinois, come to light in this fascinating account of a midwestern city’s sordid history of murder and corruption**.**
Rockford, Illinois, rightly prizes its prosperous heritage, built on manufacturing concerns like the Rockford Watch Factory and the...
by Mike Dant
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
What happened in Whitechapel in 1888?
Five women living in the same small area of Whitechapel, some on the same street were brutally murdered over a period of a few weeks.. Why was the only man to be found at a murder scene never suspected?
Follow the steps of the only ripper suspect...
by Teresa Nordheim
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
“A pictorial history of deadly criminality in the Emerald City, from its founding to the Green River case” (PioneerSquare.com).
Seattle harbors a dark and violent history that stretches back to a bloody battle between natives and settlers in 1856. In the early 1900s, Dr. Linda Hazzard stole...
Murder on the White Sands
The Disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountain
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
On a cold February evening in 1896, prominent attorney Col. Albert Jennings Fountain and his eight-year-old son Henry rode home across the White Sands of New Mexico. It was a trip the father and son would not completethey both disappeared in a suspected ambush and murder at the hands of cattle thieves...
by Vanessa Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
This chilling collection brings together true-life historical murders that shocked not only the city but frequently made headline news throughout the country. Cases featured here include riots in 1791, a bank robbery in 1844, and an arson attack in 1912. Murder most foul also raises its ugly head,...
by Richard Zelade
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Austin’s past is as weird as its present—including murderous neighbors, deadly political antics, and a serial killer suspected to be Jack the Ripper.
Beneath Austin’s shiny veneer lies a dark past, filled with murder, lechery and deceit. Legislators, lawmen and lawyers killed, robbed and...
Murder in the Stacks
Penn State, Betsy Aardsma, and the Killer Who Got Away
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English at Penn State, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the university’s main campus in State College. For more than forty years, her murder went unsolved, though detectives with the Pennsylvania State Police...
Dogtown
Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The area known as Dogtown -- an isolated colonial ruin and surrounding 3,000-acre woodland in storied seaside Gloucester, Massachusetts -- has long exerted a powerful influence over artists, writers, eccentrics, and nature lovers. But its history is also woven through with tales of witches, supernatural...