Crime category: 24427 books
by Joseph Belcastro
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
A Brooklyn native, Joseph Belcastro joined the New York City Police Department in July, 1983. He spent four years on uniform patrol, then another four years in the precincts plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit, before being transferred to the NYPDs infamous Street Crime Unit on Randalls Island. In his tell-all...
by John Fleury, Absolute Crime
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2019
In the crime-ridden Chicago of the Prohibition era, gangsters like Al Capone battled for power, but few went to the extreme lengths that Capone did on Valentine's Day in 1929.
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is one of the most notorious gang murders of all time.
This short book,...
by Katerina Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
The Queen of Grip-lit is back… ‘A terrific story, originally told. All hail the new Queen of Crime!’ HEAT ‘A web of a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader on the edge of their seat. This formidable debut is a page-turner, but don’t read it before bed if you’re easily spooked!’...
by Phil Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
A decapitated, disembowelled human carcass was strung up like a dead animal, and nine severed vulvae were found in a box with a belt made from female nipples. He admitted that not all fifteen bodies were his own kills; some were corpses that he had dug up from the local graveyard. Ed Gein just liked...
The Whisky King
The remarkable true story of Canada's most infamous bootlegger and the undercover Mountie on his trail
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
“True-crime writing at its finest.” —Dean Jobb, author of Empire of Deception
A rich and fascinating history of Canada’s first celebrity mobster, Rocco Perri—King of the Bootleggers—and the man who pursued him, Canada’s first undercover Mountie, for readers of Erik Larson, Dean...
Uncle John's True Crime
A Classic Collection of Crooks, Cops, and Capers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
You'll be on the edge of your seat reading tales of cops, robbers, criminals, and lawyers with this little tome that packs a lot of heat.
Do you like to read great stories? This book is loaded with them! We've rounded up the best cops-and-robber articles we've ever done--plus a rogue's gallery...
Forensics
What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Bestselling author of Broken Ground “offers fascinating glimpses” into the real world of criminal forensics from its beginnings to the modern day (The Boston Globe).
The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them....
Brady and Hindley
Genesis of the Moors Murders
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The shocking true crime story of child murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Great Britain’s most horrific serial killers.
During the early 1960s, just as Beatlemania was exploding throughout the United Kingdom, a pair of psychopathic British killers began preying on the very young, innocent,...
Gangsters and Organized Crime in Buffalo
History, Hits and Headquarters
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Stories abound about legendary New York City gangsters like "Lucky" Luciano, but Buffalo has housed its fair share of thugs and mobsters too. While many were nothing more than common criminals or bank robbers, a powerful crime family headed by local boss Stefano Magaddino emerged in the 1920s. Close...
True Crime: Pennsylvania
The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
The history of criminal offense in Pennsylvania is documented in this book, beginning with a general survey of crime in the state and then focusing on its headline cases.
Chicago to Springfield
Crime and Politics in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
The story of Chicago gangsters in the 1920s is legendary. Less talked about is the tale of the politicians who allowed those gangsters to thrive. During the heyday of organized crime in the Prohibition era, Chicago mayor �Big Bill� Thompson and Gov. Len Small were the two most powerful political...
by Robert G. Folsom
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
As the first chief of the Special Intelligence Unit at the Treasury Department, Elmer L. Irey accomplished what J. Edgar Hoover wouldnt and Eliot Ness couldnt. From the 1920s through the 1940s, he headed the investigations that led to the prosecution of the ruthless, murderous bosses who ruled American...
Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits
The Crime Spree that Gripped Belle Epoque Paris
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The thrilling story of the Bonnot Gang, a band of anarchist bank robbers whose crimes terrorized Belle Époque Paris, and whose escapades reflected the fast-paced, dizzyingly modern, and increasingly violent period on the eve of World War I.
For six terrifying months in 1911-1912, the citizens...
by Marvin J. Wolf, Katherine Mader
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Rotten Apples is a thoroughly investigated treasure of true crime straight from the streets of The City that Never Sleeps. This bushel of vice, victims, and vengeance spotlights sinister citizens from Boss Tweed and Typhoid Mary to Mark David Chapman and Jack Henry Abbot, plus detailed map references...