16 Top true crime books like The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb

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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

By: Dean Jobb

3.62

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of …

If you liked the true crime plot in The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Nation by Charlotte Gray

1. The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Nation

By: Charlotte Gray

3.44

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

A scandalous crime, a sensational trial, a surprise verdict—the true story of Carrie Davies, the ma… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul  Collins

2. The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars

By: Paul Collins

3.58

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys … read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

3. The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

By: Judith Flanders

3.65

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

"Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, … read more

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4. The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer

By: Kate Summerscale

4.67

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

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5. Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England

By: James Ruddick

4.07

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

In 1875 the beautiful widow Florence Ricardo married the handsome and successful young attorney Cha… read more

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6. Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder: The Unsolved Murder that Shocked Victorian England

By: Paul Thomas Murphy

3.83

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

On April 26th, 1871, a police constable walking one of London's remotest beats stumbled upon a brut… read more

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7. The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science

By: Sandra Hempel

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In the first half of the nineteenth century, an epidemic swept Europe: arsenic poisoning. Available… read more

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Cover of Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles

8. Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

By: Kathryn Miles

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

​Trailed is a beautifully written account of a great American tragedy--the unsolved murders of an u… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

By: Kate Winkler Dawson

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The riveting true story of the birth of modern criminal investigation. Berkeley, California, 193… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story

By: Kate Summerscale

3.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

London, 1938. In the suburbs of the city, an ordinary young housewife has become the eye in a storm… read more

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  • biography
  • history
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  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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11. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

By: Douglas Preston

3.81

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
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  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower

12. American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

By: Daniel Stashower

3.50

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Dem… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean

13. The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

By: Sam Kean

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Fr… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
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  • audiobook
"Many people agreed with one executive who sneered that [Thomas] Edison had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be."

-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

"A rival politician countered that he too supported the dissection of those who were sucking the public teat dry. He proposed starting with the royal family."

-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

Cover of 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb

14. 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

By: Bruce Goldfarb

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The story of the Gilded Age Chicago heiress who revolutionized forensic death investigation. As the… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime by Joe Pompeo

15. Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime

By: Joe Pompeo

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister a… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind by Kate Winkler Dawson

16. All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

By: Kate Winkler Dawson

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Kate Winkler Dawson tells the story of Edward Rulloff--a serial murderer who was called "too intell… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas

17. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family

By: Susan Jonusas

3.45

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more

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  • history
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  • adult
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  • audiobook
Cover of The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice by C. Alexander Hortis

18. The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice

By: C. Alexander Hortis

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was P… read more

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  • history
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  • historical
  • nonfiction
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Cover of The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb

19. The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

By: Dean Jobb

3.62

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • victorian
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London by Claire Harman

20. Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London

By: Claire Harman

3.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed biographer--the fascinating, little-known story of a Victorian-era murder that r… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America by Greg King

21. Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

By: Greg King

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Greg King and Penny Wilson turn the original crime of the century on its head in Nothing But the Ni… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

8 best-selling adult books like The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb

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Kathryn Miles

3.94

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American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

Kate Winkler Dawson

3.66

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The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

Douglas Preston

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

Sam Kean

4.00

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Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

Erika Engelhaupt

4.09

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American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

Kate Winkler Dawson

3.66

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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

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The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

Sam Kean

4.00

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