Murder category: 3028 books
by William Roughead
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Within lie twelve vintage tales of true crime by master essayist William Roughead. Henry James himself once urged Roughead: “Keep on with them all please, and continue to beckon me along the gallery that I can’t tread alone and where, by your leave, I link my arm fraternally in yours: the gallery...
Shadow Play
The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
This updated edition for the 50th anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s murder explores ignored witness accounts, coerced testimony, bullet-hole evidence, and other issues surrounding the political homicide, and is the basis for the new podcast, The RFK Tapes, which debuted at #1 on the iTunes chart,...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Ann Yarrow was an honor student at Guilford College, where she graduated in 1953. A devoutly religious woman, she attended Society of Friends' services in Queens, the home of her mother and stepfather. A master's degree candidate at New York University she studied sociology and psychology...
Who Killed Betty Gail Brown?
Murder, Mistrial, and Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
On October 26, 1961, after an evening of studying with friends on the campus of Transylvania University, nineteen-year-old student Betty Gail Brown got into her car around midnight -- presumably headed for home. But she would never arrive. Three hours later, Brown was found dead in a driveway near...
Death of an Assassin
The True Story of the German Murderer Who Died Defending Robert E. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
From the depths of German and American archives comes a story one soldier never wanted told. The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee’s position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape prosecution for murder, the assassin enlisted in a German...
Norfolk
Island of Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Four years after it happened, police have finally arrested a man over the baffling murder of Janelle Patton on Norfolk Island. The murder may or may not yet be solved, but Norfolk Island still has plenty of secrets.
I always thought the biggest coup for Norfolk Island would be to get on the...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2017
The murder of Mina Miller, killed by her husband in 1880 or so, is examined, with some first hand interviewing of the killer, Martin Kenkouwsky.
The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield
A Tragedy of the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James “Jubilee Jim” Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure. From his audacious attempt to corner the gold market in 1869 to his battle for control of the geographically crucial Erie Railroad,...
Warnings Unheeded
Twin Tragedies at Fairchild Air Force Base
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Mass murder and military aviation disaster. One community's experience with two fatal tragedies that occurred suddenly... but not without warning.
"A highly readable book ... from a unique source. Recommended for a wide audience." —Ron Franscell, best-selling true-crime author of...
Forgiving Troy
A True Story of Murder, Mental Illness and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
Thom Bierdz is currently on a recurring role on CBS' *The Young and the Restless-*with seven million daily viewers-reprising his role from twenty years ago. He is a fan favorite and his book opens all of the doors and windows into his personal life of tragedy and redemption, the murder of his mother,...
Party Monster
A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1999
When Party Monster was first published, it created a storm of controversy for its startlingly vivid, strikingly fresh, and outrageous depiction of the hedonistic world of the 90s New York City club kids, for whom nothing was too outré—including murder. Nominated for the Edgar Award for best true-crime...
Conan Doyle for the Defense
How Sherlock Holmes's Creator Turned Real-Life Detective and Freed a Man Wrongly Imprisoned for Murder
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
“A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it’s about so much more than crime.”—Tana French, author of In the Woods
A sensational Edwardian murder. A scandalous wrongful conviction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the...
The Good Nurse
A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the deaths...
Murdering the President
Alexander Graham Bell and the Race to Save James Garfield
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Shortly after being elected president of the United States, James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau. But contrary to what is written in most history books, Garfield didn’t linger and die. He survived. Alexander Graham Bell raced against time to invent the world’s first metal detector to locate...