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Stratagems and Conspiracies to Defraud Life Insurance Companies
A thorough treatise on different ways people have tried to defraud life insurance companies, with many entertaining examples. The present . …
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 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…
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…
Celebrated Crimes
This story details the crimes and trial surrounding the unexpected pregnancy and subsequent childbirth of the Countess de Saint-Geran in 164…
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…
Pictures and Problems from London Police Courts
Thomas Holmes served for 20 years as a police court missionary for the London courts. Police court missionaries, often sponsored by temperan…
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…
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, 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 Autobiography of Jesse H. Pomeroy
Jesse Harding Pomeroy was only 12 years old when he was arrested for the assault of 7 boys near his home in the South Boston area of Massach…
A Book of Scoundrels
An ironic history of British criminals, mostly pre-Victorian pickpockets, highwaymen and thieves. Here we meet Moll Cutpurse the Queen of th…
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…
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…
Against The Tide
Corrupt business owners, unscrupulous local politicians, impossible odds and a highly unconventional student body are just a few of the obst…
Celebrated Crimes
Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crim…
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…
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…
Criminal Investigation
Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on …