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The Mysterious Stranger
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 …
The History of Burke and Hare
From the preface: ".....of all the criminal events that have occurred in Scotland, few have excited so deep, widespread, and lasting an…
Practical Instruction for Detectives
Having been connected for many years with two of the largest and most successful private detective agencies in this country, both as an oper…
Celebrated Crimes
Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crim…
The Chronicles of Newgate
Good against evil; right versus wrong; the judicial system against the criminal world. The struggle is as old as mankind. Sometimes the line…
My Experiences as an Executioner
From 1884 until 1891, James Berry was an executioner. In this time he carried out 131 hangings. In this memoir he writes about the methods h…
The Chronicles of Newgate
Good against evil; right versus wrong; the judicial system against the criminal world. The struggle is as old as mankind. Sometimes the line…
Chicago May
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…
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals
This is the second volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled …
The True Stories of Celebrated Crimes
Excerpt: "Raw truth often possesses greater human interest than the most polished fiction. Crime, in itself, is painful and sometimes r…
The Marquise de Brinvilliers
The crimes of the Marquise of Brinvilliers, a French aristocrat during the reign of Louis XIV, included some of the most famous murders, sca…
The Great Taxicab Robbery
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 …
Ali Pacha
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…
The Powers That Prey
True stories of criminals (the powers that prey) and the system (the powers that rule) by journalists who went among the criminal classes to…
The Confessions of Nat Turner
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…
Joaquin, the Claude Duval of California
Joaquin Murrieta was a famous Californio bandit, known as the "Robin Hood of El Dorado".Joaquin Murrieta was the son of worthy par…
The Warren Report
The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was a cruel and shocking act of violence directed against a man, a family…
Criminal Manchester
Follow the Manchester Evening News 'special correspondent' and his guide - recently back from a 'seven stretch' - as they take you on a tour…
American State Trials
"A collection of the important and interesting criminal trials which have taken place in the United States from the beginning of our go…
The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer
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…