True Crime

The Great Taxicab Robbery

by James H. Collins Read by Roger Melin 4.3
In 1912, $25,000 was stolen during a bank transfer in New York City in broad daylight. In what may appear astonishing in today's world, the …

Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals

by Arthur L. Hayward Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
"If there be a haunted spot in London it must surely be a few squareyards that lie a little west of the Marble Arch, for in the long co…

The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty

by Sir John Barrow Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The mutiny on the Bounty occurred aboard a British Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the co…

Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals

by Arthur L. Hayward Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is the second volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled …

Ali Pacha

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.6
Ali Tepeleni, Pacha of Janina, rose to power during the early 1800s in one of the Ottoman Empire’s most unruly territories (Albania). His fe…

The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer

by William James McGlothlin Read by Lynne T 4.3
John Parsons Cook was a 28 year old bachelor, from a good family but not in robust health. He studied to become a lawyer, but instead of fol…

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

by William James McGlothlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A collection of true stories of the high seas, from the nineteenth century. Shipwrecks, mutiny, life and death decision-making -- all far fr…

Criminal Investigation

by Hans Gross Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on …

Thirty Years a Detective

by Allan Pinkerton Read by Mark Harrington 4.3
Detective Allan Pinkerton, creator of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, shares in this book the methods that criminals use to exploit…

The Warren Report

by The President'S Commission On The Assassination Of President Kennedy, President'S Commission On The Assassination Of Presiden and President'S Commission On The Assassination Of President Kennedy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was a cruel and shocking act of violence directed against a man, a family…

The Smoke Eaters

by Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins Read by Lee Smalley 4.7
This book vividly brings to life the unimaginable risks of fire-fighting and the bravery and personal interactions of Captain Meaghan and th…

You Can't Win

by Jack Black Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
'You Can't Win' is an autobiography that was serialized in the San Francisco Call and Post (1925). It became so popular that it was publishe…

Black Museum

4.8
Join Orson Welles as he takes you on a captivating journey through the intriguing tales of the Black Museum. This series delves into the dar…

The Pirates Own Book

by Charles Ellms Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
The Pirates Own Book by Charles Ellms offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of some of history's most notorious sea robbers. This coll…

A General History of the Pyrates

by Captain Charles Johnson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book published in Britain containing biographies of c…

Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals

by Arthur L. Hayward Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
This is the third volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled b…

Pictures and Problems from London Police Courts

by Thomas Holmes Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Thomas Holmes served for 20 years as a police court missionary for the London courts. Police court missionaries, often sponsored by temperan…

I Worked for Lucky Luciano

by Anonymous Read by Michele Fry 4.2
A few years after the fall of Chicago’s Al Capone in 1931, Italian born gangster Charles “Lucky” Luciano took the throne as the American Maf…

Nisida

by Alexandre Dumas Read by John Van Stan 4.5
This story details the many crimes (attempted rape, assault, filicide, etc.) surrounding a significant historical confrontation between a fi…

Stratagems and Conspiracies to Defraud Life Insurance Companies

by John B. Lewis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
A thorough treatise on different ways people have tried to defraud life insurance companies, with many entertaining examples. The present . …

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