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The Fall River Tragedy
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Edwin H. Porter
The story of how Lizzie Borden supposedly murdered her parents has passed into American folklore, partly thanks to the albeit inaccurate pla…
The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer
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William James Mcglothlin
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…
Poison Romance And Poison Mysteries
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Charles John Samuel Thompson
A writer and physician, Charles John Samuel Thompson wrote several works on poisons which are still consulted today. He is especially infor…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and the Cenci (version 2)
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Alexandre Dumas
Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent …
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for…
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Arthur L. Hayward
"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…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier
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Alexandre Dumas
This is the dramatic story of Urbain Grandier, a catholic priest, who had a reputation to rival that of Casanova, which ultimately led to hi…
Weird Crimes
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Seabury Quinn
Seabury Quinn presents in a series of articles within the pages of Weird Tales magazine various macabre and strange crimes perpetrated throu…
The Great Taxicab Robbery
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James H. Collins
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 …
True Detective Stories from the Archives of the Pinkertons
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Cleveland Moffett
In his true crime collection, True Detective Stories: From the Archives of the Pinkertons, Cleveland Moffett details some of the more fascin…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Part 1: Desrues
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Alexandre Dumas
This story chronicles the crimes of Antoine-Francois Desrues (also called "Derues") from his childhood to his execution. Desrues c…
Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies
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Charles G. Mutzenberg
As this book will show, there have been a variety of clashes and feuds which have taken place in and near Kentucky over the years, primarily…
Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories
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Thomas Furlong
Hitherto unpublished facts connected with some of Mr. Furlong's greatest cases—Other interesting incidents of his long and strenuous career …
The Chronicles of Newgate Vol 1
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Arthur Griffiths
Good against evil; right versus wrong; the judicial system against the criminal world. The struggle is as old as mankind. Sometimes the line…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier (version 2)
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
This is the dramatic story of Urbain Grandier, a catholic priest, who had a reputation to rival that of Casanova, which ultimately led to hi…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 1: Ali Pacha
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Alexandre Dumas
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…
Criminal Manchester: Experiences of a Special Correspondent
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William James Mcglothlin
Follow the Manchester Evening News 'special correspondent' and his guide - recently back from a 'seven stretch' - as they take you on a tour…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 1: Joan of Naples
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Alexandre Dumas
The celebrated crimes committed during the life of Joan (Joanna I) of Naples span from personal misdeeds (adulteries and mariticide) to regi…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask
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Alexandre Dumas
In the late 1600s a man was doubly-imprisoned: his body in an iron cell and his face in an iron mask. Who the “man in the iron mask” was, wh…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 2: Countess de Saint-Geran
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Alexandre Dumas
This story details the crimes and trial surrounding the unexpected pregnancy and subsequent childbirth of the Countess de Saint-Geran in 164…
Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy …
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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
The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was a cruel and shocking act of violence directed against a man, a family…