True Crime
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Vol 3
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Arthur L. Hayward
This is the third volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled b…
The Border Bandits
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J.W. Buel and J. W. Buel
''An authentic and thrilling history of the noted outlaws Jesse and Frank James and their bands of highwaymen.compiled from reliable sources…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 3: Nisida (version 2)
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Alexandre Dumas
Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crim…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask, Martin Guerre
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Alexandre Dumas
Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crim…
The Confessions of Nat Turner, The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton VA.
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Thomas R. Gray
This is a detailed description of the massacre that took place on August 21-23, 1831 that became known as Nat Turner's Rebellion. Nat Turner…
Extracts from 'The New and Complete Newgate Calendar', Vol. 1
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William Jackson
Volume One of the New and Complete Newgate Calendar, covering the years 1700 through 1723, relates stories of British trials, the persons ac…
The History of Burke and Hare, And of the Resurrectionist Times
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George Macgregor and George Mac Gregor
From the preface: ".....of all the criminal events that have occurred in Scotland, few have excited so deep, widespread, and lasting an…
A Book of Scoundrels
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Charles Whibley
An ironic history of British criminals, mostly pre-Victorian pickpockets, highwaymen and thieves. Here we meet Moll Cutpurse the Queen of th…
Kriminalistisches Reisebuch
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Egon Erwin Kisch
"Kriminalistisches Reisebuch" ist der erste Teil der Reihe "Berichte aus der Wirklichkeit" im Verlag "Die Schmiede&…
Haarmann. Die Geschichte eines Werwolfs
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Theodor Lessing
"Warte, warte nur ein Weilchen, bald kommt Haarmann auch zu Dir. Mit dem kleinen Hackebeilchen macht er Schabefleisch aus Dir." So…
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 …
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…
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…
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 Record of Remarkable Cases
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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…
Thirty Years a Detective: A Thorough and Comprehensive Exposé of Criminal Practices of All Grades and Classes
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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…
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…