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Cleveland Moffett's 'True Crime & Murder Mysteries Collection' compiles a series of gripping tales that delve into the dark world of crime and mystery.
Raylan Gilford served twenty-eight years, seven months, and twenty-five days straight of long-term incarceration inside the Illinois Department of Corrections.
This book explicitly chronicles 40 cases of unsolved murders and disappearances over a period of more than 160 years, tracing the evolution of criminal investigation and forensic techniques.
Allan Pinkerton's 'The Burglar's Fate and the Detectives' is a gripping true crime story that follows the journey of a notorious burglar and the relentless pursuit of justice by Pinkerton's renowned detective agency.
In his "Ghostly little book," Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world's most adapted and imitated stories.
The Duel by Joseph Conrad is Conrad's brilliantly ironic tale about two officers in Napoleon's Grand Army who, under a futile pretext, fought an on-going series of duels throughout the Napoleonic Wars.
A Personal Record (1912) both documents and fictionalizes Joseph Conrad's early life and the opening stages of his careers as a writer and as a seaman.
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, in which he writes of his theories of evolution by natural selection, is one of the most important works of scientific study ever published.
An in-the-room account of John Colt's scandalous nineteenth-century murder trial from "e;America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers"e; (Boston Review).
Meet the real Line of Duty (TM) undercover team in this previously untold and gripping story of how a Northern Irish terrorist and murderer and one of his followers, were caught in an audacious and brilliantly executed undercover sting on the English mainland, codenamed, Operation George.
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Award-winning journalist Bill Poulos delves deep into Australia's turbulent and lawless past with this collection of stories recalling crimes, murders and tragedies that once made headlines around the nation.
In her bestselling book, Slave Girl, Sarah Forsyth told of her terrible ordeal as a young woman sex-trafficked from England to the Red Light District of Amsterdam - and of her dramatic escape from forced prostitution.
'A powerful tribute to female solidarity that you won't be able to stop thinking about' GLAMOUR'An ode to how women support, protect and uphold each other in a misogynistic world.
'An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage' Patrick Radden KeefeA 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER, GUARDIAN AND IRISH TIMESSHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDSAN IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child.
Dua Lipa's Book Club Pick for August 2025One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century 'A true-crime classic and literary masterpiece' ANNE ENRIGHT'Bears comparison with In Cold Blood' KATE ATKINSON'It grabbed me by the throat' GILLIAN ANDERSON'Sharp and forensic' DUA LIPAFather's Day, 2005.
Finalist - 2020 Eric M Hoffer AwardsWinner - 2019 Readers' Favorite - Non-fiction True CrimeOn a sweltering summer night, an outcast, brutally tortured, was left to die in a field behind a Houston, Texas graveyard.
In Bram Stoker's 'True Crime: The Famous Imposters and Con Artists', the author delves into the world of deception and deceit, unraveling the intricate web of famous imposters and con artists throughout history.
On October 5, 1892, the last of the major outlaw gangs of the Old West was destroyed in a gun battle in Coffeyville, a small town in southeastern Kansas.
';The 1931 murder of Broadway Butterfly Vivian Gordon exposed an explosive story of graft, corruption and entrapment that went all the way to the top of the state.
