True Crime
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Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals
This is the second volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled …
The Smoke Eaters
This book vividly brings to life the unimaginable risks of fire-fighting and the bravery and personal interactions of Captain Meaghan and th…
Red Rubber
Morel explains the history and formation of the Congo Free State, owned by King Leopold II. However, Morel, a humanitarian, focuses on the a…
The Powers That Prey
True stories of criminals (the powers that prey) and the system (the powers that rule) by journalists who went among the criminal classes to…
The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth
A series of articles by the New York World newspaper's special correspondent covering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, its background a…
History of the Johnstown Flood
An account of the Johnstown Flood, the most devastating loss of civilian life in the United States prior to the terrorist attacks of Septemb…
The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt
April, 1865 -- The war ended and throughout the Northern States joy and relief reigned. Then, less than a week later, a thunderbolt: the p…
Criminal Investigation
Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on …
Extracts from 'The New and Complete Newgate Calendar'
Volume One of the New and Complete Newgate Calendar, covering the years 1700 through 1723, relates stories of British trials, the persons ac…
Holmes' Own Story
An account written by the infamous serial murderer H. H. Holmes in an attempt to exonerate himself while being tried for numerous crimes in …
Stratagems and Conspiracies to Defraud Life Insurance Companies
A thorough treatise on different ways people have tried to defraud life insurance companies, with many entertaining examples. The present . …
The Border Bandits
''An authentic and thrilling history of the noted outlaws Jesse and Frank James and their bands of highwaymen.compiled from reliable sources…
Why Crime Does Not Pay
The publishers believe that a picture of a life sketched by a master hand-somebody who stands in the world of crime as Edison does in his fi…
Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy
"The Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy: The Most Remarkable Case in the History of Crime or Criminal Law" by E. Luscomb Haskell was pu…
Celebrated Crimes
This story details the crimes and trial surrounding the unexpected pregnancy and subsequent childbirth of the Countess de Saint-Geran in 164…
Crime: The Autobiography of a Crook
This is not what one could call in any shape or form a pretty story. It is the plain unvarnished tale of a man who has been a notorious crim…
Celebrated Crimes
Martin Guerre was a French peasant that, during a long absence, was famously impersonated in the 16th century. Although the real Martin Guer…
Darkness and Daylight
A Pictorial Record of Personal Experiences by Day and Night in the Great Metropolis, with hundreds of thrilling anecdotes and incidents, ske…
Nisida
This story details the many crimes (attempted rape, assault, filicide, etc.) surrounding a significant historical confrontation between a fi…
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals
This is the third volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled b…