True Crime

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569804421Author Bruce MowdayFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Barricade Books IncPublisher Barricade Books IncWeight(grams) 317gDimensions(mm) 212mm...

In 1964 a woman was stabbed to death in front of her home in New York, a murder The New York Times called "a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change". The victim, Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, became an urban martyr,...

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This book offers the first in-depth study of one of the most gripping trials of inter-war Britain, that of farmer's wife Beatrice Pace for the arsenic murder of her husband. A riveting tale from the golden age of press sensationalism, the book offers...

In the tradition of The Glass Castle, Educated, and Heartland, Neal Wooten traces five decades of his dirt-poor, Alabama mountain family as the years and secrets coalesce. Neal Wooten grew up in a tiny community atop Sand Mountain, Alabama, where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692098585Author Robert AsielFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Robert AsielPublisher Robert AsielWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

A late-nineteenth century rogues gallery of America's foremost murderers, bank robbers, con men, forgers, embezzlers, and pickpockets.Written in 1886, Professional Criminals of America contains biographical sketches, including photographs, of some four...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786042623Author Corey MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

This book examines a range of criminal activities conducted in different European contexts. Offences committed by individuals and groups endowed with different resources and status are examined. Each chapter contains an implicit rejection of...

The music industry's ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers' efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, Barry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593547878Author Steve LehtoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806544229Author Steven WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

In February 2021, Joe Biden released the CIA report that concluded the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia 'was responsible' for the assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Saudi secret service lured him into the Saudi diplomatic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439254431Author Kathy StrouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Katherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly--the five known victims of Jack the Ripper--are among the most written-about women in history. Hundreds of books on the Ripper murders describe their deaths in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717800223Author Philip Sheldon FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612438658Author Wendy Joan Biddlecombe AgsarFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 240g

The story of Jack the Ripper has had continual interest since he stalked the streets of Whitechapel during the Autumn of Terror in 1888. During this time, the murders of the Canonical Five made headlines all over the world while in the modern day, the...

In 1977, Marcia Muller invaded the all-male domain of detective literature and within a decade was established as the mother of the female hardboiled private eye. She is now the author of four detective series, including the critically acclaimed...

The definitive story of the greatest art theft in history.In a secret meeting in 1981, a low-level Boston thief gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was a big score waiting to happen. Though its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806543550Author Steve JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

The Thames Torso Murders have been overshadowed by Jack the Ripper and his crimes, but were just as brutal and gruesome. They began in 1887 in London's East End, just north of the Thames River in Rainham, England. The killer took one victim that year,...

In the Margins Book Award Winner Ronald Kitchen was walking to buy cookies for his young son on a summer evening in 1988 when Chicago detectives picked him up for questioning. As the officers' car headed toward the precinct, the twenty-two-year-old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983074489Author Steve HodelFormat HardbackPage Count 590Imprint Thoughtprint PressPublisher Thoughtprint PressWeight(grams) 953g

At nightfall on June 22, 1965, a soldier walked in from the outskirts of a small town in the Dominican Republic and reported that he had just shot and killed two policemen and an outspoken Canadian Catholic priest. It was the opening scene in a mystery...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948924764Author Jeffrey MelnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 569g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569803554Author Scott M. DeitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Barricade BooksPublisher Barricade BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 214mm *...

Here is the story of Sante Kimes, a cold-blooded, calculating killer who lived according to her own mad rules, conned her way into millions with logic, cunning, and subterfuge and left a cross-country trail of bodies. Dragging her brain-washed and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911043157Author John KellieFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Carn Publishing ltdPublisher Carn Publishing ltdDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 21mm

A New York Times bestseller!Written in a flowing narrative style, Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences presents the story of the horrific and infamous murder of Kitty Genovese, a young woman stalked and stabbed...

On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English at Penn State, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the university's main campus in State College. For more than forty years, her murder went unsolved, though...

On August 23, 1907, Sister Janina waved good-bye to her priest, who was headed out for an afternoon of fishing, and retired to her convent cell to take a nap. She was never seen again. The young Felician nun lived in Isadore, Michigan, a tiny town in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425230190Author Camille KimballFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

Covering the lives and achievements of five English intelligence officers involved in wars at home and abroad between 1870 and 1918, this exceptionally researched book offers an insight into spying in the age of Victoria. Including material from...

On the evening of May 16, 1937, the train doors opened at the Porte DorA (c)e station in the Paris MA (c)tro to reveal a dying woman slumped by a window, an eight-inch stiletto buried to its hilt in her neck. No one witnessed the crime, and the killer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473592Author Amy ReadingFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261g