Murder category: 3028 books
by Joe McGinniss
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
The sordid, #1 New York Times bestselling true crime story of adultery, addiction, gambling debt, and murder in a privileged suburban town—from author and journalist Joe McGinniss.
The Marshalls were the model family of Tom’s River, New Jersey, living the American dream and seemingly in...
Murders of the Black Museum
The Dark Secrets Behind a Hundred Years of the Most Notorious Crimes in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police, houses the notorious Black Museum, a unique collection of exhibits, photographs, and other items connected with some of the most famous crimes of the last century. Fifty of those crimes were murders and they are explored in detail...
The Red Parts
Autobiography of a Trial
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Late in 2004, Maggie Nelson was looking forward to the publication of her book Jane: A Murder, a narrative in verse about the life and death of her aunt, who had been murdered thirty-five years before. The case remained unsolved, but Jane was assumed to have been the victim of an infamous serial killer...
The Daughters of Juarez
A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Despite the fact that Juarez is a Mexican border city just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, most Americans are unaware that for more than twelve years this city has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls, consisting of kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and...
The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts
Murder and Memory in an American City
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
“A haunted, haunting examination of mental illness and murder in a more or less ordinary American city…Mature and thoughtful…A Helter Skelter for our time, though without a hint of sensationalism—unsettling in the extreme but written with confidence and deep empathy” (Kirkus Reviews, starred...
In Love and Murder
Crimes of Passion That Shocked the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is…deadly? For the people in this book, that’s certainly the case. They acted out of love and performed some of the most hideous acts of passion in the history of romance.
This short book follows several cases of deadly passion, from the celebrated French...
Murder in Linn County, Oregon
The True Story of the Legendary Plainview Killings
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
This true crime account of a Prohibition liquor raid gone wrong illuminates “a dark and violent stretch in Linn County history” (Corvallis Gazette-Times).
On June 21, 1922, Linn County sheriff Charles Kendall and Reverend Roy Healy drove out to the town of Plainview to arrest a moonshining...
Writing to Save a Life
The Louis Till File
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and deja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé” (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family—civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis—shortlisted for the National...
Jack the Ripper: The 21st Century Investigation
A Top Murder Squad Detective Finally Uncovers the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2007
There have been countless attempts to solve the brutal murders committed over 100 years ago by Jack the Ripper, but this most famous of British criminal cases finally benefits from a clear, professional eye to analyze the evidence with all the benefits of modern investigative techniques. Former murder...
A Complicated Woman
(South Carolina, Notorious USA)
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
The latest in the New York Times Bestselling Notorious USA series...
South Carolina, where racial strife and righteous, heavily-armed indignation leads to murder. New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Rother brings readers compilation of crime stories from this former Confederate state:...
The Paradiso Files
Boston's Unknown Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
In this bold and suspenseful true-crime story, former homicide prosecutor Timothy M. Burke makes his case against one Leonard Paradiso. Lenny “The Quahog” was convicted of assaulting one young woman and paroled after three years, but Burke believes that he was guilty of much more – that Paradiso...
by John Gannon
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
On 20 January 1931, Mrs Julia Wallace was brutally battered to death in the parlour of her home in Anfield, Liverpool. In April of that year, William Herbert Wallace, Julia's husband, was found guilty of her seemingly motiveless murder and sentenced to death by hanging. Yet on 19 May 1931, the sentence...
by Alex McBride
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
From the legendary Famous Trials series of real-life courtroom dramas, two classic murder trials abridged and refreshed as Penguin Specials for modern readers, selected and introduced by Alex McBride, author of Defending the Guilty
Nineteen year-old Madeleine Smith may have been charged in...
by Alexandre Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
This text was taken from 'Celebrated Crimes', a series of essays on famous criminals and crimes by the author of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' and 'The Three Musketeers', Alexandre Dumas, and contains the text from three of the books in the series. This volume contains books on• Beatrice Cenci, an Italian...