True Crime
Holmes' Own Story
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Herman W. Mudgett
An account written by the infamous serial murderer H. H. Holmes in an attempt to exonerate himself while being tried for numerous crimes in …
Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life
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Lyman Abbott, Thomas Byrnes, Helen S. Campbell and Thomas Wallace Knox
A Pictorial Record of Personal Experiences by Day and Night in the Great Metropolis, with hundreds of thrilling anecdotes and incidents, ske…
The True Stories of Celebrated Crimes
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George Barton
Excerpt: "Raw truth often possesses greater human interest than the most polished fiction. Crime, in itself, is painful and sometimes r…
Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade on the Congo
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Edmund Dene Morel
Morel explains the history and formation of the Congo Free State, owned by King Leopold II. However, Morel, a humanitarian, focuses on the a…
Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest
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Walter Noble Burns
First published in 1927, "Tombstone" defined the legend of lawman-gunfighter Wyatt Earp. A mixture of fact and fiction, Walter Nob…
Henry More Smith: The Mysterious Stranger
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Walter Bates
Sometime in the month of July, 1812, nearly a hundred years ago now, a well dressed, smooth spoken man, less than thirty years of age, made …
Stratagems and Conspiracies to Defraud Life Insurance Companies: An Authentic R…
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John B. Lewis
A thorough treatise on different ways people have tried to defraud life insurance companies, with many entertaining examples. The present . …
A General History of the Pyrates (version 2)
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Captain Charles Johnson
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book published in Britain containing biographies of c…
You Can't Win
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Jack Black
'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…
Thirty Years a Detective: A Thorough and Comprehensive Exposé of Criminal Pract…
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Allan Pinkerton
Detective Allan Pinkerton, creator of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, shares in this book the methods that criminals use to exploit…
The Story of the Outlaw
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Emerson Hough
With historical narratives of famous outlaws; the stories of noted border wars; vigilante movements and armed conflicts on the frontier.
Joaquin, the Claude Duval of California; or, The Marauder of the Mines: a Roman…
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Henry L. Williams
Joaquin Murrieta was a famous Californio bandit, known as the "Robin Hood of El Dorado".Joaquin Murrieta was the son of worthy par…
On the Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime
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Hugo Münsterberg
Eight sketches by one of the pioneers of applied psychology, which highlight the mind of the witness on the witness stand, and how one can b…
Chicago May: Her Story
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May Churchill Sharpe
This is a cold-blooded recital of fact, a plain, unvarnished statement from a client to a lawyer. It is the history of the life of a notorio…
Great Detective Stories
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Allan Pinkerton
Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, wrote a number of "great detective stories", which he claimed were &qu…
The Beggars of Paris
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Louis Paulian
Here, as in France, begging is made a profession. And it is very important that the public should realize the fact, that ' thoughtless almsg…
Tragedy in Dedham: The Story of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case
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Francis Russell
The Sacco and Vanzetti trial was one of the most divisive events of 1920's America. As Russell writes, " If one was middle class and Re…
The Powers That Prey
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Josiah Flynt
True stories of criminals (the powers that prey) and the system (the powers that rule) by journalists who went among the criminal classes to…
American State Trials, Volume 2
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John D. Lawson
"A collection of the important and interesting criminal trials which have taken place in the United States from the beginning of our go…
Dramas of the Dock: True Stories of Crime
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Guy B. H. Logan
Guy Logan is a lesser known but prolific British true crime writer of the early 20th century. In this 1928 compilation, he relates the stori…