Murder category: 3028 books

Cover of The Murchison Murders
by Arthur W. Upfield
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

Somewhere within Arthur Upfield's travelling dray were the clues to uncovering three acts of murder involving the grifter, Snowy Rowles. Once Upfield had published his crime thriller, The Sands of Windee, West Australian police gave chase, starting with the esteemed author of Bony...
Cover of My Brother Murdered His Neighbors
by V. M. Franck
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

On March 4, 1980 my brother Ken Andre shot and killed four of his neighbors near Coos Bay, Oregon. My Brother Murdered His Neighbors (formerly titled Trying Not to Drown) is a straightforward account of what happened to him, my sister, our loving parents and me. Through time-laced lenses, it exposes...
Cover of Blood Justice

Blood Justice

The True Story of Multiple Murder and a Family's Revenge

by Tom Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

In 1991, flight attendant Nancy Ludwig checked in to an airport hotel near Detroit. The next morning she was found gagged, raped, and tortured-her throat slit with such rage that she was nearly decapitated. Her husband Arthur never gave up hope that the future would bring enough evidence to close...
Cover of Albert Anastasia Mafia Kingpin Of The Brooklyn Waterfront 1941-1944
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014

Albert Anastasia is perhaps best known for having been murdered while he was sitting in a barber's chair. Many are unaware of his early years as a Mafia operative on the Brooklyn waterfront. In the early 1940s he established himself as an extortionist who seized $35,000-$40,000 at a time from...
Cover of Hymns of a Raving Heart: The True Crime of S. Althea Berrie
by Richard O Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014

The Rev. S. Althea Berrie of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was no stranger to controversy. In 1932, the handsome hymn writer found himself facing charges of heresy after preaching that Santa Claus was an affront to the Child in the manger. Much deeper trouble was in store when his wife wife, Fannie, died after...
Cover of The Old Man and the Gun

The Old Man and the Gun

And Other Tales of True Crime

by David Grann
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018

Now a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, The Old Man and the Gun is here joined by two other riveting true-crime tales. "The Old Man and the Gun" is the incredible story of a bank robber and prison escape artist who modeled himself after figures like Pretty...
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Martha Beck

Killer Shorts: Murderers Among Us

by Stacy Green
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016

Sex. Lies. Murder. Unloved and unwanted, Martha Beck—known as the Obese Ogress—endured abuse and endless taunts about her size. Used for sex by men from an early age, she never felt love—until she answered a Lonely Hearts ad. Raymond Fernandez, con artist and swindler, planned...
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Ghost

The True Story of One Man's Descent into Madness and Murder

by Glenn Puit
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

John Patrick Addis was a state trooper, crime scene investigator, bush pilot, ex-convict, UFO fanatic, survivalist-and a pro at manipulating women. His criminal madness stretched from Alaska to Mexico-leaving countless victims in his wake.
Cover of Greater Manchester Murders
by Alan Hayhurst
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012

Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in the history of Greater Manchester. They include the case of notorious cat burglar, Charlie Peace, who killed 20-year-old PC Nicholas Cook in Seymour Grove, and only confessed when he had already been...
Cover of Shropshire Murders
by Nicola Sly
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012

Provided here are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Shropshire. They include the Rev. Robert Foulkes, who killed his illegitimate child in 1678; the murder of Catherine Lewis by John Mapp at Longden in 1867; the horrific axe murders committed by John Doughty at Church...
Cover of Murderous Derbyshire
by John J Eddleston
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011

The people whose stories are told in this volume all had one thing in common. All of them were accused of taking the life of at least one other person, faced a trial for that crime, and were sentenced to hang by the neck until they were dead. Some, such as John Silk, who beat his mother to death,...
Cover of In the Mind of a Female Serial Killer
by Stephen Jakobi
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017

Four turn-of-the-century fiends whose “crimes, even by today’s standards, are still shocking—because they were committed by women” (Yorkshire Magazine). Their names may not be as familiar as such notorious female serial killers as Aileen Wuornos, Myra Hindley, Martha Beck, or Belle...
Cover of Cumbria Murders
by Paul Heslop, Hunter Davies
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012

Cumbria Murders brings together numerous murderous tales that shocked not only the county but also made headlines throughout the country. They include the cases of Wai Sheung Siu Miao, strangled while on honeymoon in 1928; William Armstrong, shot by the Revd Joseph Smith in 1851; Ann Sewell, stabbed...
Cover of Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Wigan
by Wharncliffe
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2007

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Wigan is a detailed guide to the town's darker side, exploring, often in gory detail, Wigan's more sinister heritage, by examining accounts of murder and suspicious deaths from the middle ages through to the twentieth century. Victorian Wigan was a town...
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