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Outcry by Harold Schechter 9781439182659
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.95A professor of American literature and culture, renowned for his true-crime writing, Harold Schechter's Outcry discovers that a killer's instincts never die.When reporter Paul Novak investigates a... -
NEVERMORE by Harold Schechter 9781439183038
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Historical fact and startling literary invention converge in this stunning novel by "America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book Review). Praised by Caleb... -
Fatal by Harold Schechter 9781439182642
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.47In an era that produced some of the most vicious female sociopaths in American history, Jane Toppan would become the most notorious of them all.AN ANGEL OF MERCYIn 1891, Jane Toppan, a proper New... -
The Serial Killer Files by Harold Schechter
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345465665Author Harold SchechterFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Ballantine Books Inc... -
The Devil's Gentleman by Harold Schechter 9780345476807
RRP: £14.21Booksplease Price: £13.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345476807Author Harold SchechterFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House... -
Deviant by Professor of English Harold Schechter 9781668048177
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668048177Author Professor of English Harold SchechterFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint... -
The A-Z Encyclopedia Of Serial Killers: Revised by Harold Schechter 9781416521747
Booksplease Price: £13.92The news of shocking crimes and the books and movies they inspire have made serial killers a topic of both tabloid attention and serious study. Renowned true-crime expert Harold Schechter and... -
Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects by Harold Schechter 9781523515295
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68The false teeth of a female serial killer from 1908, the cut-and-paste confession of the Black Dahlia killer, the newly cracked cipher of the Zodiac killer, the shotgun used in the Clutter family... -
Picturehouse Poems: Poems About the Movies Harold Schechter 9781841598147
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15The variety of subjects is dazzling, from movie stars to bit players, from B-movies to Bollywood, from Clark Gable to Jean Cocteau. More than a hundred poets riff on their movie memories: Langston... -
Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster by Harold Schechter
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.30Known for meticulously researched and brilliantly detailed accounts of horrific true crime legends, Harold Schechter takes readers inside the very heart and mind of true evil. As an infant, Earle... -
The Bosom Serpent: Folklore and Popular Art by Harold Schechter 9780820445144
RRP: £18.80Booksplease Price: £18.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820445144Author Harold SchechterFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Peter Lang Publishing... -
The New Gods: Psyche and Symbol in Popular Art Harold Schechter 9780879728687
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Harold Schecter looks at the impossible tales and images of popular art - the space odysseys and extraterrestrial civilizations, the caped crusaders and men of steel, and monsters from the ocean... -
Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal by Harold Schechter 9781503944213
Booksplease Price: £10.32In the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name was... -
50 States of Murder: An Atlas of American Crime by Harold Schechter 9781523524143
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38From true crime master Harold Schechter, author of Murderabilia, comes 50 States of Murder, a geographic telling of some of the most notorious but lesser-known murders for each US State.Filled with... -
The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder That Shook the Nation by Harold Schechter 9781542047722
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.222015 Edgar Award Nominee Beekman Place, once one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, had a curious way of making it into the tabloids in the 1930s: SKYSCRAPER SLAYER, BEAUTY SLAIN IN... -
Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter 9781477808948
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.47In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy... -
Killer Colt: Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend by Harold Schechter 9781504094276
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £16.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504094276Author Harold SchechterFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher... -
The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End by Harold Schechter 9780345499646
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345499646Author Harold SchechterFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Ballantine Books Inc... -
Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of by Harold Schechter 9780345524478
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345524478Author Harold SchechterFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Ballantine Books Inc... -
Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer by Harold Schechter 9780671025458
Booksplease Price: £12.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671025458Author Harold SchechterFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon... -
Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness by Harold Schechter 9781609388539
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £13.12A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. crime. A nineteenth-century female serial killer whose victims included three husbands and six of her... -
Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer by Harold Schechter 9781542025317
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell's Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten true crime of obsession and revenge, and one of the first-and worst-mass murders in American history... -
Fiend: The Shocking True Story Of Americas Youngest Serial Killer by Harold Schechter 9780671014483
Booksplease Price: £12.52In FIEND's appalling portrait of a twisted teenager who preyed upon the children of nineteenth-century Boston, Schechter weighs in with his most unforgettable contribution yet to the annals of... -
Dr. Werthless: The Man Who Studied Murder (And Nearly Killed the Comics Industry) Harold Schechter 9781506744360
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £18.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506744360Author Harold SchechterFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S... -
Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies' Most Memorable Crimes by Harold Schechter 9781542041829
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.20Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films. ... -
Depraved: The Definitive True Story of H.H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-of-the-Century Chicago by Harold Schechter 9781439124055
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.42The heinous bloodlust of Dr. H.H. Holmes is notorious -- but only Harold Schechter's Depraved tells the complete story of the killer whose evil acts of torture and murder flourished within miles of... -
Reggie Kray's East End Stories: The lost memoirs of the gangland legend by Reg Kray
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The name Reggie Kray remains synonymous with London's East End to this day, and yet although much is known about Reg and his brother Ronnie's life of crime in the '50s and '60s, to date precious... -
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition by Carol J. Clover 9780691166292
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.45From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the... -
H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil by Adam Selzer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.55First time in paperback The first biography of the serial killer featured in Devil in the White CityReviews"Adam Selzer's masterful sleuthing, proves to us, `the Devil IS in the details." Impeccably... -
Masters of True Crime: Chilling Stories of Murder and the Macabre by R. Barri Flowers 9781616145675
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.77Spanning murder cases from the beginning of the twentieth century to today, this is a must-read for fans of true crime and will also be compelling to mystery and thriller readers. The contributors... -
The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All by Sarah Horowitz 9781728280332
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88"An unforgettable portrait of a woman who became one of the most notorious figures of her day and whose scandalous story sheds fascinating light not only on her own tumultuous time but ours as well."... -
The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science by Sandra Hempel 9780393349887
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Available at any corner shop for little money and, because tasteless, difficult to detect in food or drink, arsenic was so frequently used by potential beneficiaries of wills in the first half of the... -
The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story by Miriam C. Davis 9781613748688
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £18.57From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper-style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most... -
The Rise of True Crime: 20th-Century Murder and American Popular Culture by Jean Murley 9780275993887
Booksplease Price: £61.05During the 1950s and 1960s True Detective magazine developed a new way of narrating and understanding murder. It was more sensitive to context, gave more psychologically sophisticated accounts, and... -
The Gothic Imagination: Conversations on Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction in the Media by John C. Tibbetts 9780230118171
Booksplease Price: £90.86This book brings together the author's interviews with many prominent figures in fantasy, horror, and science fiction to examine the traditions and extensions of the gothic mode of storytelling over... -
The Kidnap Years: The Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America by David Stout
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.98A chilling true crime book that chronicles the wave of abductions that terrorized the U.S. during the Great Depression, including the most infamous kidnapping case in American history."A thrilling... -
The Man from the Train: Discovering America's Most Elusive Serial Killer by Bill James
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £14.35An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this "impressive...open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America" (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary... -
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James 9781476796253
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.88An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this "impressive...open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America" (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary... -
The Lost Tribe of Coney Island: Headhunters, Luna Park, and the Man Who Pulled Off the Spectacle of the Century by Claire Prentice 9781477825518
Booksplease Price: £10.43Shortlisted for the 2015 Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize The Lost Tribe of Coney Island is an Amazon Best Book of the Month The Lost Tribe of Coney Island is a New York Post "must read"! Coney... -
Every Cripple a Superhero by Christoph Keller
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'Fascinating ... compelling ... very funny' Sunday Times'A defiant call to arms ... affecting ... lingers long in the memory after its final page' Morning Star'A skilful act of literary witness,...