True Crime - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 2
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 3: Nisida (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 3: Nisida (version 2) - 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. . This volume tells the story of the infamous prison on Nisida a small island near...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Part 2: La Constantin - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Part 2: La Constantin - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: True Crime
Dumas chronicles the court intrigues that led to the execution of Marie La Roux Constantin. La dame Constantin was known by French nobility in the 17th century as the βmidwife to the Queenβs daughters.β This title was, in reality, a dark jest as her...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military / True Crime
Martin Guerre was a French peasant that, during a long absence, was famously impersonated in the 16th century. Although the real Martin Guerre is suspected of no serious crimes, his imposter, Arnaud du Tilh, engaged in fraud and adultery while...
The Right Way to Do Wrong - Harry Houdini
The Right Way to Do Wrong - Harry Houdini
- Author: Harry Houdini
- Genre: True Crime
Harry Houdini, master illusionist and contortionist, unmasks the various ways that criminals take advantage of their victims. (Summary by Lee Ann Howlett)...
Stratagems and Conspiracies to Defraud Life Insurance Companies: An Authentic Record of Remarkable Cases - John B. Lewis
Stratagems and Conspiracies to Defraud Life Insurance Companies: An Authentic Record of Remarkable Cases - John B. Lewis
- Author: John B. Lewis
- Genre: True Crime
A thorough treatise on different ways people have tried to defraud life insurance companies, with many entertaining examples. The present . . . volume is . . . commended as a trustworthy record to those for whose use and reference it is primarily...
The History of Burke and Hare, And of the Resurrectionist Times - George MacGregor
The History of Burke and Hare, And of the Resurrectionist Times - George MacGregor
- Author: George MacGregor
- Genre: True Crime
From the preface: ".....of all the criminal events that have occurred in Scotland, few have excited so deep, widespread, and lasting an interest as those which took place during what have been called the Resurrectionist Times, and notably, the...
Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade on the Congo - Edmund Dene Morel
Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade on the Congo - Edmund Dene Morel
- Author: Edmund Dene Morel
- Genre: True Crime / Modern (20th C)
Morel explains the history and formation of the Congo Free State, owned by King Leopold II. However, Morel, a humanitarian, focuses on the atrocities commited in the Congo through the enslavement of the native population, leading to the deaths of as...
On the Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime - Hugo MΓNSTERBERG
On the Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime - Hugo MΓNSTERBERG
- Author: Hugo MΓNSTERBERG
- Genre: Psychology / True Crime
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 be an unreliable eyewitness. The last essay, on the prevention of crime, takes another direction. - Summary by...
Holmes' Own Story - Herman W. Mudgett
Holmes' Own Story - Herman W. Mudgett
- Author: Herman W. Mudgett
- Genre: True Crime / Memoirs
An account written by the infamous serial murderer H. H. Holmes in an attempt to exonerate himself while being tried for numerous crimes in Moyamensing Prison, Philadelphia. - Summary by Autumn...
Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life - Lyman ABBOTT
Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life - Lyman ABBOTT
- Author: Lyman ABBOTT
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / True Crime / Christianity - Other
A Pictorial Record of Personal Experiences by Day and Night in the Great Metropolis, with hundreds of thrilling anecdotes and incidents, sketches of life and character, humorous stories, touching home scenes, and tales of tender pathos, drawn from...
Historical Mysteries - Andrew Lang
Historical Mysteries - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: History / True Crime
Edited by Andrew Lang, Historical Mysteries is a collection of infamous unsolved mysteries from various points in history....
Weird Crimes - Seabury Quinn
Weird Crimes - Seabury Quinn
- Author: Seabury Quinn
- Genre: True Crime
Seabury Quinn presents in a series of articles within the pages of Weird Tales magazine various macabre and strange crimes perpetrated throughout history. - summary by Ben Tucker...
The Confessions of Nat Turner, The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton VA. - Thomas R. Gray
The Confessions of Nat Turner, The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton VA. - Thomas R. Gray
- Author: Thomas R. Gray
- Genre: War & Military / History / True Crime
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 himself relates the events to the author from his jail cell in November of 1831 just days before he is...
True Detective Stories from the Archives of the Pinkertons - Cleveland Moffett
True Detective Stories from the Archives of the Pinkertons - Cleveland Moffett
- Author: Cleveland Moffett
- Genre: True Crime / Modern (19th C)
In his true crime collection, True Detective Stories: From the Archives of the Pinkertons, Cleveland Moffett details some of the more fascinating stories pulled from the archives of the Pinkertons Detective Agency. The Pinkertons were one of the...
