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The Romance of Piracy - Edward Keble Chatterton
The Romance of Piracy - Edward Keble Chatterton
- Author: Edward Keble Chatterton
- Genre: True Crime
The Library of Romance is a series of books concerning the romance of scientific facts, be it biology, chemistry, history, or politics. This volume is one of history, concerning an account of the known facts of piracy, starting with the Vikings, and...
The Chronicles of Newgate Vol 1 - Arthur Griffiths
The Chronicles of Newgate Vol 1 - Arthur Griffiths
- Author: Arthur Griffiths
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / True Crime
Good against evil; right versus wrong; the judicial system against the criminal world. The struggle is as old as mankind. Sometimes the lines are blurred as the 'good' punish the 'bad' - the warriors against crime have resorted not only to killing...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime
In the late 1600s a man was doubly-imprisoned: his body in an iron cell and his face in an iron mask. Who the βman in the iron maskβ was, why he was imprisoned, and how he was treated during imprisonment, remains a mystery that has captivated...
Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946: Vol. I - International Military Tribunal
Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946: Vol. I - International Military Tribunal
- Author: International Military Tribunal
- Genre: War & Military / Law / True Crime
Recognizing the importance of establishing for history an authentic text of the Trial of major German WWII war criminals, the International Military Tribunal, consisting of members from Great Britain, the USA, Russia, and France, directed the...
The Autobiography of a Thief - Hutchins Hapgood
The Autobiography of a Thief - Hutchins Hapgood
- Author: Hutchins Hapgood
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime
I met the ex-pickpocket and burglar whose autobiography follows soon after his release from a third term in the penitentiary. For several weeks I was not particularly interested in him. He was full of a desire to publish in the newspapers an exposΓ©...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and The Cenci - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and The Cenci - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime / Middle Ages/Middle History
Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time. In some instances facts appear distorted out of their true perspective, and in...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 2: Vaninka - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 2: Vaninka - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime
The story of Vaninka, generally regarded as the most fictionalized of Dumasβ Celebrated Crimes series, occurs during the short and eccentric rule of Emperor Paul I of Russia. Vaninka is a generalβs daughter whose love for one of her fatherβs...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 3: Nisida - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 3: Nisida - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime
This story details the many crimes (attempted rape, assault, filicide, etc.) surrounding a significant historical confrontation between a fisherman from the island of Nisida, named Gabriel, and the Italian Prince of Brancaleone. Dumas notes that...
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences - Arthur L. Hayward
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences - Arthur L. Hayward
- Author: Arthur L. Hayward
- Genre: True Crime
"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 courseof some six centuries over fifty thousand felons, traitors and martyrstook there a last farewell of a world...
Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories - Thomas Furlong
Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories - Thomas Furlong
- Author: Thomas Furlong
- Genre: True Crime
Hitherto unpublished facts connected with some of Mr. Furlong's greatest casesβOther interesting incidents of his long and strenuous career which really began on September 14, 1862, when he was detailed from his company, (Co. G., 1st Pennsylvania...
Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (The Warren Report) - The President's Commission on the Assassination of
Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (The Warren Report) - The President's Commission on the Assassination of
- Author: The President's Commission on the Assassination of
- Genre: True Crime
The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was a cruel and shocking act of violence directed against a man, a family, a nation, and against all mankind. . . . This Commission was created on November 29, 1963, in recognition...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Derues, La Constantin - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Derues, La Constantin - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: True Crime
Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crimes from European history. Includes Vaninka and The Marquise De Ganges. - Summary by Michele Eaton...
The Great Taxicab Robbery - James H. COLLINS
The Great Taxicab Robbery - James H. COLLINS
- Author: James H. COLLINS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / True Crime
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 transfer occurred in a New York City taxicab.This factual account brings true crime of the early twentieth...
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 - Arthur L. Hayward
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 - Arthur L. Hayward
- Author: Arthur L. Hayward
- Genre: *Non-fiction / True Crime
This is the third volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled by prison inspector Arthur Hayward from original sources originally published in 1735.Please note that some...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 1: Joan of Naples - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 1: Joan of Naples - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: True Crime / Early Modern
The celebrated crimes committed during the life of Joan (Joanna I) of Naples span from personal misdeeds (adulteries and mariticide) to regional warfare (like the 1345 War in the Piedmont), and ultimately unraveled her fatherβs legacy (King Robert...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 1: The Marquise de Brinvilliers - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 1: The Marquise de Brinvilliers - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: True Crime
The crimes of the Marquise of Brinvilliers, a French aristocrat during the reign of Louis XIV, included some of the most famous murders, scandals (Affair of the Poisons) and mysteries (the Man in the Iron Mask) in French history. This story recounts...
Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians - Fanny KELLY
Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians - Fanny KELLY
- Author: Fanny KELLY
- Genre: True Crime / Memoirs
"Narrative of my captivity among the Sioux Indians: with a brief account of General Sully's Indian expedition in 1864, bearing upon events occurring in my captivity" "I was a member of a small company of emigrants, who were attacked by an...
True Stories of Crime from the District Attorneyβs Office - Arthur Cheney TRAIN
True Stories of Crime from the District Attorneyβs Office - Arthur Cheney TRAIN
- Author: Arthur Cheney TRAIN
- Genre: True Crime
Former New York DA Arthur Train tells true crime stories from his time in office. - Summary by Colleen McMahon...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 2: The Massacres of the South - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 2: The Massacres of the South - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime
Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time. In some instances facts appear distorted out of their true perspective, and in...
Chronicles of crime and criminals No.1 - Unknown
Chronicles of crime and criminals No.1 - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: True Crime
Published by Beaver Publishing Company, Toronto, and subtitled "Full and authentic account of the murder by Henry Wainwright of his mistress, Harriet Lane, and an extended account of the Whitechapel murders by the infamous Jack the Ripper."...
The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth - George Alfred TOWNSEND
The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth - George Alfred TOWNSEND
- Author: George Alfred TOWNSEND
- Genre: True Crime / Modern (19th C)
A series of articles by the New York World newspaper's special correspondent covering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, its background and subsequent events. It should be noted that some statements in this contemporaneous account have since been...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask, Martin Guerre - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask, Martin Guerre - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: True Crime
Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crimes from European history. Includes The Man in the Iron Mask and Martin Guerre. - Summary by Michele Eaton...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Part 1: Desrues - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Part 1: Desrues - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: True Crime
This story chronicles the crimes of Antoine-Francois Desrues (also called "Derues") from his childhood to his execution. Desrues constructed the veneer of a virtuous reputation that hid his ever-increasing deviancy from society. Eventually, his lust...
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences - Sir John BARROW
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences - Sir John BARROW
- Author: Sir John BARROW
- Genre: True Crime / Modern (19th C)
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 commanding officer, William Bligh. On 4 April 1789, after five months in Tahiti, the Bounty set sail with its...
The Border Bandits - J. W. BUEL
The Border Bandits - J. W. BUEL
- Author: J. W. BUEL
- Genre: True Crime
''An authentic and thrilling history of the noted outlaws Jesse and Frank James and their bands of highwaymen.compiled from reliable sources and containing the latest facts in regard to these desperate freebooters.'' (from the author's sub-title)...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 3: The Marquise de Ganges - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 3: The Marquise de Ganges - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: True Crime
The assassination of Diane de Joannis de Chateaublanc (the Marquise de Ganges) is a fitting tale to conclude Dumasβ celebrated crimes series. This event was as gruesome as it was brazen and, before the final dagger strokes, both the assassins and...
God Goes to Murderer's Row - Rev. M. RAYMOND
God Goes to Murderer's Row - Rev. M. RAYMOND
- Author: Rev. M. RAYMOND
- Genre: True Crime / Christianity - Biographies
The Hound of Heaven stalks the death house in pursuit of the soul of a modern Dismas in this true story of a doomed criminal who found God in the solitude of a prison. The author, Father Raymond, was a Trappist monk from Gethsemani, Kentucky. He was...
The Chronicles of Newgate Vol 2 - Arthur Griffiths
The Chronicles of Newgate Vol 2 - Arthur Griffiths
- Author: Arthur Griffiths
- Genre: True Crime
Good against evil; right versus wrong; the judicial system against the criminal world. The struggle is as old as mankind. Sometimes the lines are blurred as the 'good' punish the 'bad' - the warriors against crime have resorted not only to killing...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and the Cenci (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and the Cenci (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: True Crime
Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time.In some instances facts appear distorted out of their true perspective, and in...
The Fall River Tragedy - Edwin H. PORTER
The Fall River Tragedy - Edwin H. PORTER
- Author: Edwin H. PORTER
- Genre: True Crime
The story of how Lizzie Borden supposedly murdered her parents has passed into American folklore, partly thanks to the albeit inaccurate playground rhyme, "Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: True Crime
This is the dramatic story of Urbain Grandier, a catholic priest, who had a reputation to rival that of Casanova, which ultimately led to his destruction. He was accused of witchcraft after a series of accusations from nuns of a nearby convent, who...
A Voyage to the South Sea - William BLIGH
A Voyage to the South Sea - William BLIGH
- Author: William BLIGH
- Genre: True Crime / Memoirs / Exploration
A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the Bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majestyβs ship The Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the Mutiny on...
The Chronicles of Crime Vol 1 - Camden PELHAM
The Chronicles of Crime Vol 1 - Camden PELHAM
- Author: Camden PELHAM
- Genre: True Crime
This catalogue of human weakness and at times downright atrocity has been brought together by Camden Pelham, a barrister-at-law of the Inner Temple during the second half of the 19th century. It is given in chronological order, the first case listed...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 3: Murat - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 3: Murat - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: War & Military / True Crime
Amidst the political winds from Napoleonβs downfall, this tale turns our attention to the flight of a former French marshal and King of Naples, Joachim Murat. Murat, unhappy with the deal he made to obtain pardon from the Austrian Emperor, takes a...
Remarkable Rogues: The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America - Charles KINGSTON
Remarkable Rogues: The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America - Charles KINGSTON
- Author: Charles KINGSTON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime
The title and subtitle pretty much say it all. Twenty biographical sketches of people you would not want your son or daughter to marry. (Summary by David Wales)...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 2: Countess de Saint-Geran - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 2: Countess de Saint-Geran - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: True Crime
This story details the crimes and trial surrounding the unexpected pregnancy and subsequent childbirth of the Countess de Saint-Geran in 1640s France. Familial jealousies harbored by her sister-in-law, the Marchioness de Bouille, intertwine with the...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime / Christianity - Other
This is the dramatic story of Urbain Grandier, a catholic priest, who had a reputation to rival that of Casanova, which ultimately led to his destruction. He was accused of witchcraft after a series of accusations from nuns of a nearby convent, who...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime
This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story of Karl Ludwig Sand, who stabbed August von Kotzebue to death in 1819. August von Kotzebue had been a...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 1: Ali Pacha - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 1: Ali Pacha - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime
Ali Tepeleni, Pacha of Janina, rose to power during the early 1800s in one of the Ottoman Empireβs most unruly territories (Albania). His ferocious imposition of will was limitless, earning him the sobriquet of βthe Lion of Janina.β As the mauling...
The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer - Anonymous
The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: True Crime
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 following that career, turned to raising race horses. In November 1855, during a visit to the Shrewsbury races,...