True Crime
Poison Romance And Poison Mysteries
Read by David Wales
Charles John Samuel Thompson
A writer and physician, Charles John Samuel Thompson wrote several works on poisons which are still consulted today. He is especially infor…
The Borgias and the Cenci
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
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
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Arthur L. Hayward
"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
Read by Ben Tucker
Seabury Quinn
Seabury Quinn presents in a series of articles within the pages of Weird Tales magazine various macabre and strange crimes perpetrated throu…
Urbain Grandier
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Alexandre Dumas
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
Read by Roger Melin
James H. Collins
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
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Cleveland Moffett
In his true crime collection, True Detective Stories: From the Archives of the Pinkertons, Cleveland Moffett details some of the more fascin…
Celebrated Crimes
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
This story chronicles the crimes of Antoine-Francois Desrues (also called "Derues") from his childhood to his execution. Desrues c…
Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies
Read by Roger Melin
Charles G. Mutzenberg
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…
Fifty Years a Detective
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Thomas Furlong
Hitherto unpublished facts connected with some of Mr.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
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Arthur Griffiths
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
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
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
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
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…
Criminal Manchester
Read by Phil Benson
William James McGlothlin
Follow the Manchester Evening News 'special correspondent' and his guide - recently back from a 'seven stretch' - as they take you on a tour…
Joan of Naples
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
The celebrated crimes committed during the life of Joan (Joanna I) of Naples span from personal misdeeds (adulteries and mariticide) to regi…
The Man in the Iron Mask
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
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
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
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
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The President'S Commission On The Assassination Of President Kennedy, President'S Commission On The Assassination Of Presiden and President'S Commission On The Assassination Of President Kennedy
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
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
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
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
George Alfred Townsend
A series of articles by the New York World newspaper's special correspondent covering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, its background a…