True Crime

More Confederate soldiers died in Chicago s Camp Douglas than on any Civil War battlefield. Originally constructed in 1861 to train forty thousand Union soldiers from the northern third of Illinois, it was converted to a prison camp in 1862. Nearly thirty thousand Confederate...

If you were a Confederate prisoner during the Civil War, you might have ended up in this infamous military prison in Chicago.More Confederate soldiers died in Chicago's Camp Douglas than on any Civil War battlefield. Originally constructed in 1861 to train forty thousand Union...

The FBI, an agency of the US Department of Justice, has investigated many famous cases concerning spies, terrorists, and criminals. For those cases considered particularly significant, the agency has prepared detailed written studies. This paperback edition presents the FBI's monograph concerning the Great Brink's...

A rich historical novel set in Southwest Florida, the first of a series featuring Gabe MacFarland, a lawman who solves crimes that truly happened. It begins with a young man's quest to capture the Sarasota Assassination Society.In the beginning, Sarasota was a tropical outpost...

This is the second in THE FLORIDA FABLES series. The first is The Story of the Sarasota Assassination Society.The Story of the Sarasota Celery Fields and Other Mysteries continues the story of a town speeding towards its future as a tourist and agricultural paradise,...

This is the third in the Florida Fables series, all of which are tales set in and around Sarasota, Florida, and based upon true events and crimes, as told by Gawain MacFarland. His career was spent taming a lawless frontier and trying to remain...

London. 1910. A procession of well-attired gentlemen and ladies are clearlyout of place among the stalls and pushcarts of the Whitechapel District. Asthe group makes its way through the crowded streets, the tour guide stopsnow and then to point out various places where the...

London. 1910. A procession of well-attired gentlemen and ladies are clearly out of place among the stalls and pushcarts of the Whitechapel District. As the group makes its way through the crowded streets, the tour guide stops now and then to point out various...

Maria Steinnecke, a wealthy spinster, died in the central Pennsylvania borough of Carlisle on January 28, 1869. At first her death was not considered suspicious. That changed when her doctor, Paul Schoeppe, presented a will in his handwriting; it said she had left her...

Here is the true story of Bonnie Parker (1910-1934) and Clyde Barrow (1909-1934), a young sociopathic Southern couple gunned down by authorities after a two-year crime spree that left twelve people dead. This history cuts through hype and mythology and examines the outlaws' liberal...

In 1971, while working the late-shift at a Seattle crisis clinic, true-crime writer Ann Rule struck up a friendship with a sensitive, charismatic young coworker: Ted Bundy. Three years later, eight young women disappeared in seven months, and Rule began tracking a brutal mass...

In 1971, while working the late-shift at a Seattle crisis clinic, true-crime writer Ann Rule struck up a friendship with a sensitive, charismatic young coworker: Ted Bundy. Three years later, eight young women disappeared in seven months, and Rule began tracking a brutal mass...

On Halloween night in the small town of Strawberry Plains, a series of strangling incidents occur, just as children are trick-or-treating. More strangling incidents occur over the next several days, leading Sherlock Holmes-obsessed investigative journalist Wilhelmina Davies to visit multiple neighborhoods--despite bad storms and...

This book highlights the careers of two investigators from different law enforcement agencies and their search for violent wanted suspects. It's about their friendship, brotherhood, and the oath they had taken to protect the citizens of the State of Maryland. Above all, these are...

The Strength of the Wolf is the first complete history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1930-1968). Working undercover around the globe, the FBN's charismatic "case-making" agents penetrated the Mafia and its French connection. In the process, however, they uncovered the national security establishment's...

The most authoritative account ever written of how an ordinary juvenile delinquent named Charles Manson became the notorious murderer whose crimes still shock and horrify us today.More than forty years ago Charles Manson and his mostly female commune killed nine people. It was the...

When the crack era jumped off in the 1980s, many street legends were born in a hail of gunfire. Business minded and ruthless dudes seized the opportunities afforded them, and certain individuals out of the city's five boroughs became synonymous with the definition of...

The murder of the Princes in the Tower is the most famous cold case in British history. Traditionally considered victims of a ruthless uncle, there are other suspects too often and too easily discounted. There may be no definitive answer, but by delving into...

The amazing, untold story of the Holocaust from a survivor turned Nazi hunter.No one expected the Nazis to arrive with such speed, and without a shot being fired. But when they entered Krak?w in 1939, Josef Lewkowicz's life was obliterated as he and his...

A based-on source for the Warner Bros. film Richard Jewell, starring Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde, and Paul Walter Hauser​ "Meticulously reported, bracingly written, full of memorable and bizarre characters, the book casts a wary eye on the worlds of law...