Crime category: 24427 books
Rogue Mobster
The Untold Story of Mark Silverman The New England Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
When the infamous gangster Whitey Bulger went on the lam in 1995, the streets of Boston became a war zone between the Mafia and the renegades, with the Winter Hill Gang looking on. Co-written by Mark Silverman with Scott Deitche, Rogue Mobster: The Untold Story of Mark Silverman and the New England Mafia...
Death in a Texas Desert
And Other True Crime Stories from The Dallas Observer
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
Death in a Texas Desert is a fast-paced collection of 17 compelling true crime stories from the pages of the award-winning The Dallas Observer. From the "Phantom Killer" that haunted Texarkana in teh mid-1940s to the day of terror in 1991 when a crazed man began spraying bullets into Luby's Cafeteria...
by Jeff Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOKThe Tate-LaBianca murders perpetrated by Charles Manson and his followers (called the Family) truly deserves to be called a Crime of the Century. I was about ten-years-old when the murders took place in 1969, and being so young I was only vaguely aware of the events when they...
The Everything Mafia Book
True-life accounts of legendary figures, infamous crime families, and nefarious deeds
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2009
"Millions of television and movie viewers have shown that Americans continue to be fascinated by the remarkableùand often sordidùworld of the Mafia. This book takes you beyond fiction and tabloid accounts and relates the true-life accounts of all the major players in the American Mafia. From Al...
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...
The Girl with the Long Green Heart
The Classic Crime Library, #4
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
HE WAS EVERY MAN’S DREAM – AND ONE MAN’S NIGHTMARE!
Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for all he was worth. But they needed a girl on the inside to make it work.
Enter Evelyn Stone: Gunderman’s secretary, his lover...
Guilt by Matrimony
A Memoir of Love, Madness, and the Murder of Nancy Pfister
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
“An amazing story about a homicidal web of deceit fueled by mental illness. It is not a typical true-crime tale—it is in a class by itself.” —Diane Fanning, author of Bitter Remains
In 2014, an Aspen socialite was bludgeoned, wrapped in a sheet, and stuffed inside a locked closet. Fewer...
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 Ann Rule
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1983
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me comes a true crime story of a serial killer who was sentenced to die—yet lived to murder again....and again....
After committing his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate,...
Thomas H. Cook's True Crime
Blood Echoes and Early Graves
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Two gripping accounts of true crime and its devastating aftermath from an Edgar Award winner hailed as “a writer of poetic gifts” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Blood Echoes: In May 1973, three men escaped from a Maryland prison—and went on to commit one of the most horrific murders...
The Nightingale Shore Murder
Death of a World War 1 Heroine
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
This updated and expanded second edition is the true story of the unsolved murder of Florence Nightingale’s goddaughter. Florence Nightingale Shore grew up in a Victorian family that found itself mired in controversy and scandal. She became a respected Queen’s Nurse, who worked for five years...
Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants
The Female Gang That Terrorised London
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
The Forty Elephants were unique in the annals of British crime. Known also as the Forty Thieves, they were the country's only all-female crime syndicate, a gang of tough but glamorous young women who plundered the fashion stores and jewel shops of the West End, took their lovers from the among London's...
The Duke of Wellington, Kidnapped!
The Incredible True Story of the Art Heist That Shocked a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
One of art history’s most notorious crimes is solved in this true caper that reads “like a finely tuned suspense thriller” (Publishers Weekly).
In 1961, a thief broke into London’s National Gallery and committed the most sensational art heist in British history by stealing the museum’s...
War in Afghanistan is a lost cause.
Corruption a way of life in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Over USD4 bn in cash flies out of Kabul
Corruption a way of life in Afghanistan
America is performing its familiar role of propping up a dictator
Afghan Puppet, President Hamid Karzai, more corrupt then tall.
US forces were participating in a civil war in Vietnam while claiming they...