True crime

"The Mystery of Marie Roget", often subtitled A Sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe written in 1842.

An un-named narrator describes the Count he meets at his hotel in Naples.

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Author Peter Seddon gives life to over five centuries of bizarre, macabre and sometimes hilarious criminal cases.

Olenin was a youth who had never completed his university course, never served anywhere (having only a nominal post in some government office or other), who had squandered half his fortune and had reached the age of twenty-four without having done anything or even chosen a career.

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Throughout an astonishing criminal career, Johnny Ramensky was the foremost safe-blower of his era.

Jailbreak chronicles the pick of Australian prison escapes with the most notorious prisons and most desperate escapees.

Joseph Conrad (born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish novelist, writing in English, while living in England.

This true story of greed, corruption, and scandal follows one of the most famous oil families in Texas.

Nineteenth-century Dundee was a tough, unforgiving place.

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Prince Roman is a Pole who gives up his comfortable position in the aristocracy to fight as a (virtually) unknown soldier resisting Russian oppression.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 NED KELLY AWARD, DANGER PRIZE AND WAVERLEY LIBRARY NIBTrue history that is both shocking and too real, this unforgettable tale moves at the pace of a great crime novel.

Americans have long debated the cause of the December 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor.

The story of Jack the Ripper has had continual interest since he stalked the streets of Whitechapel during the Autumn of Terror in 1888.

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The bizarre story follows a female narrator, Signora Psyche Zenobia.

The narrator, Egaeus, is a studious young man who grows up in a large gloomy mansion with his cousin Berenice.

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A former Scotland Yard detective examines real cases of murder in which accused criminals were convicted without a body found.

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"Because of the Dollars" is a short story written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924).

Benjamin Franklin's writings have inspired millions throughout the years, and his advice on how to earn and save money is timeless.

Delve into the harrowing true story of a man who was entrenched in London's criminal underworld, a tale as much about redemption as it is about crime.

"The Power of Words" is a philosophical dialogue written by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).

In the nineteenth century, Scotland was renowned as a land of misty glens, engineering innovation and inventive genius.

There lived in olden times a good and kindly man.

"The Inn of the Two Witches" is one of the best-known short stories written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924).

"Work, Death, and Sickness" is a fascinating story by Russian author Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy written in 1903.

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In the middle of World War II, Nazi military intelligence discovered a seemingly easy way to win the war for Adolf Hitler.

Barlinnie is one of the most notorious prisons in the world and for a hundred years it has held Glasgow's toughest and most violent men, swept up from the city streets.

'Under that veneer of charm there lies a most evil, violent and horrible side to your character.

Hugging the coast and crammed between two rivers, Aberdeen grew up isolated from Scotland's other urban centres.

There cannot be many cities where crime could mean anything from singing a seditious song to stealing a ship, but nineteenth-century Glasgow was a unique place with an amazing dynamism.

The wartime double agent with a transmitter in his cell to contact suffragettes; the doctor hanged as he smiled to the farewells of lovers on the scaffold; the con who defied a gangland godfather and escaped the bromide in the prison tea; aristocrats and arsonists.

Now world famous for football and music, in the nineteenth century Liverpool had a very different reputation.

COPS AREN'T SUCH BAD GUYS features a series of blogs I have written about cops and fatal shootings.

This true story of greed, corruption, and scandal follows one of the most famous oil families in Texas.

CRAIGINCHES - Life in Aberdeen's Prison is the story of this forbidding place from its early days to its recent closure, told by former prison officer Bryan Glennie.

Walter Norval was a man marked by destiny to be a career criminal in one of Britain's hardest cities.

A humorous story of a conversation with a mummy written by Edgar Allan Poe.

Robert Mazur spent five years undercover infiltrating the criminal hierarchy of Colombia s drug cartels.