Defy All the Devils: America's First Kidnapping for Ransom
By: Norman J. Zierold
3.66
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
The “fascinating, hair-raising, suspenseful” account of a little boy abducted in broad daylight and…
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1. The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder
By: Claudia Rowe
3.21
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A true story of a female journalist, her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her … read more
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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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3. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
By: Kate Summerscale
4.17
Format: None pages,
The dramatic story of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction. In… read more
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4. Spoon River Anthology
By: Edgar Lee Masters
4.05
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more
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"Act well your part, there all the honor lies."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
"Remember the acorn; It does not devour other acorns."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
"the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
"The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
5. On Chesil Beach
By: Ian McEwan
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is… read more
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6. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
By: John Kelly
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
La moria grandissimabegan its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, le… read more
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7. The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
By: Kate Summerscale
4.67
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
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8. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
By: Norman Maclean
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and f… read more
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9. The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
By: Deborah Cadbury
3.18
Format: 159 pages,
In 1793, when Marie-Antoinette was beheaded at the guillotine, she left her adored eight-year-old s… read more
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10. Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
3.90
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
1888 W Africa. Newlyweds Lord and Lady Greystoke are marooned by mutineers. He builds a snug cabin … read more
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"Teach me to speak the language of men."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"P43- that the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
11. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
By: Monica Murphy , Bill Wasik
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The mos… read more
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12. Villains, Scoundrels, and Rogues: Incredible True Tales of Mischief and Mayhem
By: Paul Martin
3.73
Format: None pages, ebook
Everyone loves a good villain! From the back pages of history, vivid, entertaining portraits of lit… read more
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13. Thunderstruck
By: Erik Larson
3.77
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
The interwoven stories of two men whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal cases o… read more
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14. Victim: The Other Side of Murder
By: Gary Kinder
4.40
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Now a classic of true crime, Victim is a compelling and tragic look at how lives can be changed for… read more
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15. The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)
By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old scho… read more
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"It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then."-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)
"Wee Archie was wielding a shepherd's crook that, as Tommy remarked later, no shepherd would be found dead with, and he was wearing a kilt that no Highlander would dream of being found alive in."-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)
16. Vanished in Vermillion: The Real Story of South Dakota’s Most Infamous Cold Case
By: Lou Raguse
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The result of hundreds of interviews, Vanished in Vermillion is a cold case story that flips the sc… read more
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17. Night Watch
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.79
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more
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18. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
By: Hallie Rubenhold
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more
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"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
19. Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer
By: Harold Schechter
3.76
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell’s Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten … read more
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20. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
By: Kirk Wallace Johnson
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twen… read more
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21. 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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22. When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)
By: John E. Douglas
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town From John Douglas—th… read more
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23. Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
By: Whoopi Goldberg
4.33
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influ… read more
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"Listen. The confines of this neighbourhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself."-Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
24. The Flight Girls
By: Noelle Salazar
4.23
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A stunning story about the Women Airforce Service Pilots whose courage during World War II turned o… read more
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"Not everyone needs a relationship to feel fulfilled."-Noelle Salazar, The Flight Girls
25. The Waltham Murders
By: Susan Zalkind
3.09
Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition
A crusade to find a killer becomes a gripping, intensely personal investigation into a shocking col… read more
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26. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
By: Shawn Levy
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Since 1929, Hollywood’s brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a second … read more
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27. The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
By: John E. Douglas
4.15
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration … read more
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"I miss my dog,"-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
"I familiarize myself with every detail of their crimes and loathe what they did. At the same time, I may feel tremendous empathy and sorrow for what they went through in their young lives that contri…"-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
"Within just about every serial predator, there are two warring elements: A feeling of grandiosity, specialness, and entitlement, together with deep-seated feelings of inadequacy and powerlessness and…"-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
28. Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story
By: Ron Franscell
4.02
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
True-crime master Ron Franscell tells the grisly story of a cold case involving multiple murders co… read more
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29. The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism
By: Bill Shaffer
3.63
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An Alexander Hamilton heir, a beautiful female con artist, an abandoned baby, and the shocking cour… read more
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30. Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
By: Richard White
3.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son.… read more
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31. Defy All the Devils: America's First Kidnapping for Ransom
By: Norman J. Zierold
3.66
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
The “fascinating, hair-raising, suspenseful” account of a little boy abducted in broad daylight and… read more
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