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Summary and Analysis of The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Based on the Book by Erik Larson
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Devil in the White City tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Erik Larsons book.
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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,...
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...
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...
by Lawrence Schiller
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
New York Times Review"…. the matter of O. J. Simpson remains a defining moment in late 20th-century American history, a kind of morality play like the Dreyfus affair in France roughly 100 years ago, incarnating the most intense passions of the time. That is one reason that ''American...
Lizzie Borden
The Story Behind the Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Did Lizzie really do it? If so, why? With all the evidence pointing to her, how did she get off? This short account retells the Lizzie Borden murder story from a social and political perspective that will help you to not only understand her motive for murder but how she was acquitted.
When the Husband is the Suspect
From Sam Shepperd to Scott Peterson - The Public's Passion for Spousal Homicide
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
From the bestselling author of The Defense Never Rests, a look at the modern spate of spousal homicides.
This book provides an overview of several of the most famous homicidal husband cases of recent years, including:
- Sam Sheppard, who inspired the TV series and movie The Fugitive
-...
The Serial Killers Collection
The serial killers, #4
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Albert Fish was a rapist, a child killer and a cannibal who not satisfied with the torture and murders of his young victims would write to the parents to detail all of the vile things he did to the children. One such letter in this book. Albert Fish may have been the sickest serial killer to ever...
by Mardi Link
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
In this page-turning true-life whodunit, author Mardi Link looks into the cold-case files of the murders of a wealthy Detroit-area family in their northern Michigan cabin in 1968, detailing and reviewing all the evidence to date. She crafts her book around police and court documents and historical...
Dead Men Talking
The World's Worst Killers in Their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Renowned crime expert Christopher Berry-Dee has gained the trust of some of the most infamous inmates from around the world, having corresponded with them and even entered their prison lairs to discuss their horrific crimes in detail. Subjects include John Edward Robinson, convicted in 2003 of the...
Blood Secrets
Chronicles of a Crime Scene Reconstructionist
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Blood Secrets reveals how forensic experts read the story of a murder told in the traces of blood left behind, providing crucial evidence that has helped convict criminals who might have otherwise walked free.
When Rod Englert began his career in law enforcement, virtually no police force in...
The Story of Dan Bright
Crime, Corruption and Injustice in the Crescent City
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Everybody knows New Orleans, but nobody knows this New Orleans. At sixteen years old, Dan Bright was the head of a New Orleans drug empire. As his operation grew, it was only a matter of time before he attracted the attention of the criminal justice system, which would stop at nothing―including framing...
Death Comes Knocking
Policing Roy Grace's Brighton
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Fans of Peter James and his bestselling Roy Grace series of crime novels know that his books draw on in-depth research into the lives of Brighton and Hove police and are set in a world every bit as gritty as the real thing. His friend Graham Bartlett was a long-serving detective in the city once described...
Shadow of Doubt
The Trial of Dennis Oland
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Winner, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction
Shortlisted, Arthur Ellis Best Non-Fiction Crime Book Award
On July 6, 2011, Richard Oland, scion of the Moosehead brewing family, was murdered in his office. The brutal killing stunned the city of Saint John, and news of the crime reverberated...