True crime

Frank and Jesse James, the infamous brothers from Missouri, rode with marauding Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War.

The 4th century BC Greek painter Parrhasius murdered his model--an old man who was his slave--to achieve, so the story goes, a more lifelike depiction of nature.

This history begins with the earliest brewers in the colony--women--revealing details of the Old Line State's brewing families and their methods.

Born in the mid-nineteenth century, Sophie Lyons was a master thief, con artist, blackmailer and smuggler.

Building upon anarchist critiques of racism, sexism, ableism and classism, this collection of new essays melds anarchism with animal advocacy in arguing that speciesism is an ideological and social norm rooted in hierarchy and inequality.

Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, the works of Agatha Christie stand as some of the most celebrated crime fiction of our era.

In January 1889, as London constables hunted for Jack the Ripper and theaters around the world presented theatrical renditions of the Jekyll and Hyde story, Jackson, Michigan, Police Captain Jack Boyle searched for the murderer of Mary Latimer.

Public mass killings are becoming more common.

This thrilling story memorializes one of the most dangerous--and successful--series of undercover operations conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Italian immigrants left their home country for the United States and, particularly, New York City.

When rumors about Geraldine Ferraro--the first woman vice-presidential nominee by a major party in U.

With the 1965 publication of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote declared he broke new literary ground.

Already part of a genre known for generating controversy, some true crime and scandal books have wielded a particular power to unsettle readers, provoke authorities and renew interest in a case.

On a summer day in 1898, a family in Dover, Delaware, shared a box of chocolates they received in the mail from an anonymous sender.

From the files of Scotland Yard's "e;Black Museum"e; (open only to police officers) come true crime stories of some of the most infamous murder cases of the 19th and 20th centuries--the Lambeth Poisoner, "e;baby farmer"e; Amelia Elizabeth Dyer, the Gentleman Vampire of Bournemouth, the Brides in the Bath Murders, the Rillington Place murders and many others.

Largely forgotten now, Frankie Yale was an influential New York mobster of the early 20th century whose proteges included future leaders of New York's five Mafia families and Chicago's outfit.

Notorious, numerous and varied, serial murderers from Australia have an eclectic record of crimes, methods and trademarks.

In 1975, Dr.

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On a September night in 1958, three New Orleans college students went looking for a gay man to assault.

The shocking series of crimes committed by lovers Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez dominated the front pages in 1949.

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Professional motorsports came to Las Vegas in the mid-1950s at a bankrupt horse track swarmed by gamblers--and soon became enmeshed with the government and organized crime.

During his 20-year career as a federal prosecutor, the author worked hundreds of criminal cases, from a botched attempted bank robbery to high profile death penalty cases.

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Historian Alan G.

In 2010, University of Kansas officials were shocked to learn that the FBI and IRS were on campus investigating Rodney Jones, former head of the Athletics Ticket Office, for stealing Jayhawks basketball tickets and selling them to brokers.

Drawing on media reports, interviews and court records, this book recounts the stories of women bank robbers in the United States, from the time of the Revolutionary War to the present.

Writers and alcohol have long been associated--for some, the association becomes unmanageable.

On November 8, 1937, a tourist from California named L.

Umberto Anastasio, better known as Albert Anastasia, was an Italian-American mobster and hitman who became one of the deadliest criminals in American history and one of the founders of the modern American Mafia in New York City.

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When it comes to historical mysteries, Texas offers numerous long-perplexing conundrums for readers.

Part food narrative, part investigation, part adventure story, Organic is an eye-opening and entertaining look into the anything goes world behind the organic label.

This book is an in-depth exploration of four fascinating true crime cases from the files of Cyril H.

"e;Contains the most fascinating true crime story I have ever read.

Many stories have been written about the exploits of Billy the Kid, the charismatic outlaw of the Old West.

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A late-nineteenth century rogues gallery of Americas foremost murderers, bank robbers, con men, forgers, embezzlers, and pickpockets.

Those interested in the history of the infamous Younger Brothers of Missouri know eldest brother Cole's story.

In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times.

Nineteen-year-old Burmah Adams, a hairdresser and former Santa Ana High School student, spent her honeymoon on a crime spree.

A New York Times Bestseller!

MoreFrontier Justice in the Wild West; Bungled, Bizarre and Fascinating Executions reveals the details of more than two dozen instances of frontier justice from the era of the Wild West.

Stories from the Civil War through WWIIIn The Greatest Spy Stories Ever Told, our editor has pulled together some of the finest writings about spies that capture readers imaginations.

With the war between the Mexican state and the drug traffickers operating within its borders having claimed over 70,000 lives since 2006, noted journalist and author Michael Deibert zeroes in on the story of the notorious Gulf Cartel, their deadly war with their former allies Los Zetas, the cartels connections in Mexican politics and what its trajectory means for Mexico's--and America's--future.

William Burns is best known as ';America's Sherlock Holmes' and became director at the Bureau of Investigation, to be immediately followed by J.

True stories of the Show Me state's most infamous crooks, culprits, and cutthroats.

His name conjures images of the Wild West, of gunfights and gambling halls and a legendary friendship with the lawman Wyatt Earp, and he is probably most famous for his time in Tombstone.

From Farmer and Sailor to Mountain Man, Crow Killer, and Town Sheriff,One man's reputation lives past all othersWhen it came to western mountain men, no one on earth ever matched the physical prowess or will to survive of John ';Liver-Eating' Johnson.