True Crime
The Borgias and the Cenci
Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent …
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals
"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 co…
Weird Crimes
Seabury Quinn presents in a series of articles within the pages of Weird Tales magazine various macabre and strange crimes perpetrated throu…
Urbain Grandier
This is the dramatic story of Urbain Grandier, a catholic priest, who had a reputation to rival that of Casanova, which ultimately led to hi…
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 …
True Detective Stories from the Archives
In his true crime collection, True Detective Stories: From the Archives of the Pinkertons, Cleveland Moffett details some of the more fascin…
Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies
As this book will show, there have been a variety of clashes and feuds which have taken place in and near Kentucky over the years, primarily…
Celebrated Crimes
This story chronicles the crimes of Antoine-Francois Desrues (also called "Derues") from his childhood to his execution. Desrues c…
Fifty Years a Detective
Hitherto unpublished facts connected with some of Mr. Furlong's greatest cases—Other interesting incidents of his long and strenuous career …
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…
Urbain Grandier
This is the dramatic story of Urbain Grandier, a catholic priest, who had a reputation to rival that of Casanova, which ultimately led to hi…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Celebrated Crimes
This story details the crimes and trial surrounding the unexpected pregnancy and subsequent childbirth of the Countess de Saint-Geran in 164…
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…
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 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…
Nisida
This story details the many crimes (attempted rape, assault, filicide, etc.) surrounding a significant historical confrontation between a fi…