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Joan of Naples
The celebrated crimes committed during the life of Joan (Joanna I) of Naples span from personal misdeeds (adulteries and mariticide) to regi…
You Can't Win
'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…
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 …
Nisida
This story details the many crimes (attempted rape, assault, filicide, etc.) surrounding a significant historical confrontation between a fi…
Poison Romance And Poison Mysteries
A writer and physician, Charles John Samuel Thompson wrote several works on poisons which are still consulted today. He is especially infor…
Black Museum
Join Orson Welles as he takes you on a captivating journey through the intriguing tales of the Black Museum. This series delves into the dar…
The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth
A series of articles by the New York World newspaper's special correspondent covering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, its background a…
The Pirates Own Book
The Pirates Own Book by Charles Ellms offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of some of history's most notorious sea robbers. This coll…
Red Rubber
Morel explains the history and formation of the Congo Free State, owned by King Leopold II. However, Morel, a humanitarian, focuses on the a…
Extracts from 'The New and Complete Newgate Calendar'
Volume One of the New and Complete Newgate Calendar, covering the years 1700 through 1723, relates stories of British trials, the persons ac…
The Man in the Iron Mask
In the late 1600s a man was doubly-imprisoned: his body in an iron cell and his face in an iron mask. Who the “man in the iron mask” was, wh…
A General History of the Pyrates
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book published in Britain containing biographies of c…
Celebrated Crimes
This story details the crimes and trial surrounding the unexpected pregnancy and subsequent childbirth of the Countess de Saint-Geran in 164…
Great Detectives and Their Methods
Fans of historical true crime will enjoy Great Detectives and Their Methods. Published in 1928, it draws primarily from later 19th-century c…
A Voyage to the South Sea
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 Hi…
Darkness and Daylight
A Pictorial Record of Personal Experiences by Day and Night in the Great Metropolis, with hundreds of thrilling anecdotes and incidents, ske…
Holmes' Own Story
An account written by the infamous serial murderer H. H. Holmes in an attempt to exonerate himself while being tried for numerous crimes in …
Celebrated Crimes, Karl-Ludwig Sand
This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story o…
The Story of the Outlaw
With historical narratives of famous outlaws; the stories of noted border wars; vigilante movements and armed conflicts on the frontier.
Celebrated Crimes
Martin Guerre was a French peasant that, during a long absence, was famously impersonated in the 16th century. Although the real Martin Guer…