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1 month ago

Nation-Famous New York Murders By Alfred Henry Lewis. This clothbound 1914 edition may have come out after the death of Lewis, a journalist, attorney, and fiction writer in late-19th- and early-20th-century NYC. Cases include the d...

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1 month ago

The Story Of My Life By Clarence Darrow. The most famous lawyer in 20th-century America looks back on his life and career, and you really can't beat these chapter subheds ("As I look back at my school-days, I am astounded...

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1 month ago

The C.I.D. and the F.B.I. By Richard Harrison. A “study of the two great Forces,” UK and U.S. respectively, of federal investigation. Harrison’s bio includes joining “an armed gangster hunt” and testifying as an expert on fing...

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1 month ago

Should Women Hang? By Bernard O’Donnell. From the author of The World’s Worst Women comes this meditation on whether capital punishment is appropriate for the fairer sex [eyeroll emoji].  A 1956 hardcover from a UK publ...

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1 month ago

Bloodletters & Badmen: A Narrative Encyclopedia of American Criminals By Jay Robert Nash. I'm not sure what turned me onto true crime, but the presence of this hardcover at eye level in the den growing up was not irrelevant. Kinda dated; kinda not great writing; still a...

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1 month ago

The Cold Vanish: Seeking The Missing in North America's Wildlands By Jon Billman. Not sure the "thriller-paced investigation" blurb is accurate, but I really liked this one and found it very atmospheric and compelling. This one's straight from the warehouse, so try ...

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1 month ago

Crimes & Chaos By Avram Davidson. Per the back cover, “BLUNDERERS … CRIMINALS … HEROES” — so, you’ve got your major case, you’ve got your war heroes, you’ve got your organized AND disorganized crime. This 1962 PB (“...

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1 month ago

Rogues: True Stories Of Grifters, Killers, Rebels And Crooks By Patrick Radden Keefe. Twelve "enthralling stories of skullduggery and intrigue," blurbed by Rachel Maddow and told by a contemporary master in the genre.  And this one's new from the warehouse!

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4 months ago

Stories of Great Crimes & Trials From American Heritage Magazine. Introduction by Oliver Jensen. A full-color coffee-table compendium of cases from Hall-Mills to Sacco-Vanzetti to Shoeless Joe and dozens more. This 1973 edition of th...

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5 months ago

Shot, Stabbed, and Poisoned: The Story of Assassination Through the Ag By Jonathan J. Moore. Per the back cover, "takes an informative no-holds-barred look at the history of assassination, from Ancient Greece to modern times." Includes accounts of "creative weapons, from...

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1 year ago

Gaute and Odell's The New Murderers' Who's Who

Wilson's Mammoth Book of True Crime

Trillin's Killings

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1 year ago

True Crime: New Jersey

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1 year ago

Great Cases of Scotland Yard

The Darkest Places

Warren Report crackpottery

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1 year ago

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2 years ago

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