True Crime category: 7770 books
Jack the Ripper
Quest for a Killer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The definitive investigation, “full of colorful details and sensational speculations—for those who enjoy whodunits with a bit of real history” (Book News).
For more than a hundred and twenty years, the identity of the Whitechapel murderer known to us as Jack the Ripper has both eluded us...
Havana Nocturne
How the Mob Owned Cuba…and Then Lost It to the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere—old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars & flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar & often romanticized, but little understood. In Havana Nocturne, T.J. English offers a multifaceted true...
Burned at the Stake
The Life and Death of Mary Channing
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
A true story of crime and punishment in eighteenth-century England, and the first trial in recorded history to employ forensic evidence.
In 1706, nineteen-year-old Mary Channing was convicted of poisoning her husband and became the last woman to be burned at the stake in Dorset. Despite the likely...
by Christopher G. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
TV images and news reports of demonstrations, deaths, demands and chaos in Thailand make Moore’s essays in Fear and Loathing in Bangkok a timely book. These are essays to read at this vital crossroads in Thai political development. The essays will deepen your understanding of what makes Thailand...
by Stephen Greenhalgh
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Blackburn and Hyndburn examines 10 detailed murder cases that encompass the late Victorian period up until 1927. They are equally as gruesome and instructive as the better known cases that inhabit the pages of any number of true crime anthologies. All these tales...
by Stephen Wade
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Doncaster has world-wide fame as a railway town. For many years the name was associated with engineering, transport and of course coal. But there is a darker aspect to its history. The sinister side is explored through the research and writing of an experienced crime historian. Sensational tales have...
In Hot Blood
A Casebook of Historic British Crimes of Passion
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This chilling compendium of historic crimes features 28 cases that shocked the nation during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among the cases featured here are the shooting of Bessie Cross, after she fell pregnant while her husband was away serving his country in 1917, and the 1869 murders...
by Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Extraordinary accounts of forensic crime detection—from poisoners in ancient Rome to modern day serial killers—by the bestselling author of The Outsider.
In 44 BC, a Roman doctor named Antistius performed the first autopsy recorded in history—on the corpse of murder victim Julius Caesar....
by Mark W. Falzini, James Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
The kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. and the subsequent arrest, trial, and execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann have intrigued true crime buffs for decades. New Jersey�s Lindbergh Kidnapping and Trial tells the story of �the case that never dies� through vintage photographs. Rare...
by John J. Eddleston
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
London’s most exclusive neighborhoods sit on sites of the some of the most sinister and scandalous crimes in British history.
Stories of violent death will always hold us in a grim but thrilling grip. The dreadful crimes related in Foul Deeds in Kensington & Chelsea are shocking examples...
Jack The Ripper
First American Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Stewart Evans is a policeman whose hobby is collecting true crime ephemera. When a second hand bookseller rang to ask him if he would be interested in a collection of letters from the Special Branch, he had no idea of the sensational revelation they would contain. One of these letters supplied an...
Ripperology
A Study of the World's First Serial Killer and a Literary Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2002
Ripperology, the sometimes obsessive interest in studying the crimes of Jack the Ripper, is a subject of timeless interest that has suffered from confusion, exaggeration, and hyperbole for over a century. Jack the Ripper was probably the first serial killer to appear in a large metropolis at a time...
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...