True crime

In the tradition of her acclaimed mother, Ann Rule, author of The Stranger Beside Me, bestselling author Leslie Rule exposes the trail of a sadistic sociopath, identity thief, and killer .

The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the Soviet-era gulags to become Russia's international criminal class.

In 1931, a 12-year-old boy shot and killed the sheriff of Asotin, Washington.

Well documented by public records, actual court reports, and newspaper accounts, this book is a true story of greed, ambition and murder in the first degree.

Listening to Killers offers an inside look at twenty years' worth of murder files from Dr.

Falling somewhere between childhood and adulthood, 'Youth' is a key period of transition.

Touted in his time as one of the ';great men of the West,' Stephen Wallace Dorsey was a Reconstruction carpetbagger who went to Arkansas and finagled and bribed his way into getting elected to the US Senate after living only two years in the state before heading West to seek his fortune.

Harvey Kid Curry Logan was an outlaw, gunfighter and infamous member of the Butch Cassidy gang.

This engrossing saga begins when Generoso Pope, Sr.

After high school graduation, Carl enlisted in the U.

Texas convicts and inmates have made the Texas prison system the most colorful in the world over the past 150 years.

World famous author and former police lieutenant T.

Prepare to be shocked as the grisly details about the murder of San Marino computer geek John Sohus are revealed in Frank C.

This book is a non-fiction, painfully true account of an American whistle blower whose silencing was attempted by conflicted and vengeful bureaucrats.

This book relates true stories of adventures, both dangerous and humorous, which I encountered while working in the convenience store business.

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Some of the law officers who served the West during the last half of the nineteenth century drifted from one side of the law to the other and sold their talents to whichever side offered the most advantage.

Laura Laforce Psychic Medium can see what few others see.

A self-made Crazy Irishman who was and is fearless on bringing bad guys to justice.

Documents from the late FBI director's secret files reveal for the first time the shocking extent of FBI activities in spying on prominent Americans and political groups.

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.

In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide.

InJanuary 2007, two boys were found in the home of Michael J.

A classic about real-life WWII espionage, as conducted by its modern master*A Man Called Intrepid is the classic true story of Sir William Stephenson (codenamed Intrepid) and the spy network he founded that would ultimately stall the Nazi war machine and help win World War II.

Over 13 months in 1976--1977, four children were abducted in the Detroit suburbs, each of them held for days before their still-warm bodies were dumped in the snow near public roadsides.

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Some criminals become household names, while others--even those who seek recognition through their crimes--are forgotten.

In the midst of gangland activities during the Roaring Twenties, a thief plagued the New York City area by breaking into people's homes and stealing radios, possibly the costliest thing a family could own.

Indiana State Police Captain Matt Leach led the hunt for John Dillinger during the violent early 1930s.

For six decades, Pittsburgh-based forensic scientist Cyril Wecht has been an outspoken authority when horrible things happen to everyday people--murders, childhood deaths, tragic accidents and police brutality.

A trunk dripping blood, discovered at a railway station in Stockton in 1906, launched one of the most famous murder investigations in California history--still debated by crime historians.

This chronicle of ten controversial mid-Victorian trials features brother versus brother, aristocrats fighting commoners, an imposter to a family's fortune, and an ex-priest suing his ex-wife, a nun.

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.

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

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.

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

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