Murder category: 3028 books
by Jan Bondeson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
This book features fifty-six Victorian cases of murder covered in the sensational weekly penny journal the Illustrated Police News between 1867 and 1900. Some of them are famous, like the Bravo Mystery of 1876, the Llangibby Massacre of 1878 and the Mrs Pearcey case of 1890; others are little-known,...
The Count and the Confession
A True Murder Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Roger de la Burde was an unusual and charming man—a wealthy scientist and art collector, he claimed to be a Polish Count, wore ascots, and always bowed to women. But after he was found dead in the library of his Virginia estate, police discovered that de la Burde was not the man he had pretended...
Byleveld
dossier of a serial sleuth
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Former Brigadier Piet Byleveld is recognised worldwide as one of the best detectives of our time. If you commit murder and Piet Byl is called in, your place in jail is booked. If you harmed children anf he's on your case, you’ve sealed your own fate. And if you’re a serial killer on the loose,...
A Conspiracy of Crowns
The True Story of the Duke of Windsor and the Murder of Sir Harry Oakes
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
In July 1943 the scorched and bloody body of multi-millionaire businessman, Sir Harry Oakes, was found in a partly burned bed in his home in the Bahamas. He had died of wounds to the head caused by a weapon never found or clearly identified. Four small, identical holes in a pattern almost square had...
by Kristen Laurence
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
Are you interested in Serial Killers? Do you want to learn about some of the most infamous serial killers in history? Serial killers are some of the most interesting creatures in existence. Yes, I am classifying them as their own creature, and i'll tell you why. Serial Killers brains are altered...
by Rachel Faugno
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
“A chilling chronicle of local true-life murders that reach back into the long-forgotten seamy history of Worcester County” (Vitality Magazine).
The bucolic image of central Massachusetts belies a dark and sometimes deadly past. Grisly crimes and grim misdeeds reach back to colonial settlement...
Blood, Sweat and Fear
The Story of Inspector Vance, A Pioneer Forensics Investigator
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Heralded internationally as "Canada's Sherlock Holmes," John Vance was an innovative and groundbreaking forensic investigator. Over 42 years beginning in the 1930s, Vance helped police detectives in British Columbia to determine murder from suicide as well as solve hit-and-runs, safecrackings, and some of the most sensational murder cases of the twentieth century.
Death in Disguise
The Amazing True Story of the Chelsea Murders
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
A real-life London double murder mystery worthy of Agatha Christie's penVictorian Chelsea was a thriving commercial and residential development, known for its grand houses and pleasant garden squares. Violent crime was unheard of in this leafy suburb. The double murder of an elderly man of God and...
Don't Forget Maude
The Tale of Two Sisters
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
All choices, good ones and bad, create change. Not unlike a
ripple in a pond, the choices often have unforeseen and farreaching
effects, even beyond distant spans of time. The
kinAll choices, good ones and bad, create change. Not unlike a
ripple in a pond, the choices often have unforeseen and farreaching
effects,...
by Henry Lauren Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
For over forty years, Henry Lauren Clinton was a prominent criminal attorney in New York City. He tried some of the most celebrated cases of the 19th century in that city. Here, in his own words, are some of those extraordinary cases in detail. From murder to money to adultery, Clinton walked the...
Daughter of the White River
Depression-Era Treachery and Vengeance in the Arkansas Delta
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
The once-thriving houseboat communities along Arkansas' White River are long gone, and few remember the sensational murder story that set local darling Helen Spence on a tragic path. In 1931, Spence shocked Arkansas when she avenged her father's murder in a DeWitt courtroom. The state soon discovered...
Honorable Heritage
A Book of Family Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Most families have their share of stories and folklore. In the case of author Billy Boyd Lavender, one of the most intriguing of these stories revolves around a murder mystery from 1905the deaths of two of his ancestors and the mob lynching that soon followed those deaths.
Told from information...
The Secret Poisoner
A Century of Murder
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in many ways encapsulated the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann’s dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with authorities who strove to detect poisons, control their availability,...
Wicked Jurupa Valley
Murder & Misdeeds in Rural Southern California
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
From a murder-prone mistress to a killing farm that inspired a Clint Eastwood movie, rural Southern California has secrets that belie its bucolic setting.
The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders—a horrible 1928 national news story that inspired the 2008 movie The Changeling from director Clint Eastwood—are...