The compelling, tragic and often bizarre life stories of history's famous and infamous assassins, now collected in one comprehensive, easy-to-use volume.
The names are well-known, but how much do yo……続きを見る
著者:Simon Read
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2006年11月07日
In February, 1942, a woman was found strangled in a London air raid shelter. Chief Superintendent Frederick Cherrill, head of Scotland Yard’s revolutionary fingerprint division, knew just how well t……続きを見る
The Hippocratic Oath commands all doctors to 'first do no harm' - what then makes a doctor cross that line to murder? A fascinating study of doctors on the wrong side of the law.
In January 2000, wo……続きを見る
From R. Barri Flowers, award winning criminologist and internationally bestselling author of The Sex Slave Murders, comes a riveting new true crime short, The Pickaxe Killers.
Having written about h……続きを見る
From award winning criminologist R. Barri Flowers and the bestselling author of THE PICKAXE KILLERS and THE SEX SLAVE MURDERS, comes a powerful new historical true crime short, MURDER AT THE PENCIL ……続きを見る
*** Richard Lloyd Parry is the Winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize ***
In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde……続きを見る
著者:James Ellroy
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年09月07日
The New York Times bestselling crime writer and author of The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential gives us a searing, candid memoir about his obsession with women, his related search for atonement, a……続きを見る
著者:Steven J. Phillips
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年05月05日
On June 28, 1972 in a South Bronx subway station, John Skagen, a white off-duty policeman on his way home, suddenly and without apparent provocation, ordered James Richardson, a black man on his way……続きを見る
Their friendship would kill her…
Weaver and fiber artist Edith “Pen” Meyer knew her friend Sandy Merritt’s relationship with a married man was wrong. She had even urged Sandy to take out a restraini……続きを見る
著者:Lois Jones
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2005年01月04日
German native Armin Meiwes placed this ad in an internet chatroom catering to cannibals. He received 430 responses. Among them was Bernd Juergen Brandes, who arrived at Meiwes’s isolated country hom……続きを見る
著者:Sgt. Brian Foster
出版社: Black Dog Swamp Publishing Co.
発売日: 2013年06月19日
(NOTE: This book contains adult language as well as police situations which would be rated PG-13, at least.)
Welcome to the world of urban police legend and lore. Homicidal Humor offers a glimpse……続きを見る
著者:Kiesha Joseph
出版社: Prison Rideshare Network
発売日: 2012年09月14日
Benjamin Ruggiero was well known in La Cosa Nostra as “Lefty Two Guns”, “Lefty Guns” and “Lefty.” He was given the nickname, Lefty, because when he shot dice, he always roll them with his left hand……続きを見る
BAD, LIKE JESSE JAMES tells the amazingly true story of a massively corrupt federal ATF agent who operated out of Detroit, in the mid-1970s. This ATF agent ordered killings, ran Detroit’s heroin tra……続きを見る
著者:Stella Sands
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年06月29日
Annie Le seemed to have it all. A beautiful graduate student at one of the world's most prestigious universities, she was also deeply in love. But just days before she was set to get married, Annie ……続きを見る
In this controversial and seminal work of reportage, Gordon Burn reveals the strange inner dynamic of Fred and Rosemary West's relationship. Based on meticulous research, this dark history is told i……続きを見る
著者:Thomas French
出版社: Thomas French
発売日: 2012年03月08日
The night she was attacked in her Florida home, Karen Gregory let out a scream so piercing that it carried for several blocks. More than a dozen neighbors heard her, but none called the police. By t……続きを見る
There's nothing more chilling than an unsolved crime, particularly one involving direct harm to human life; be it murder or rape, these are the crimes whose effects extend furthest and cause most pa……続きを見る
著者:John Berendt
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年05月12日
THE LANDMARK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR MUSICAL COMING SOON TO BROADWAY • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the f……続きを見る
From the legendary Famous Trials series of real-life courtroom dramas, two classic murder trials abridged and refreshed as Penguin Specials for modern readers, selected and introduced by Alex McBrid……続きを見る
著者:Kiesha Joseph
出版社: Prison Rideshare Network
発売日: 2012年09月14日
Vincent Rizza is the father of Pia Rizza of the reality series VH1 Mob Wives Chicago. He was a long-serving Chicago police officer well known for his controversial activities as a member of “The Out……続きを見る
From R. Barri Flowers, award winning criminologist and international bestselling author of The Sex Slave Murders and Murder at the Pencil Factory, comes a riveting new true crime short, Dead at the ……続きを見る
著者:Amanda Lamb
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2008年06月03日
The crime was unforgivable.
The suspected murdererーunbelievable.
One man’s pursuit of justiceーunstoppable.
The death of promising young pediatric AIDS researcher Eric Miller stunned the Raleigh, N……続きを見る
The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth
With a Full Sketch of the Conspiracy of Which He Was the Leader, and the Pursuit, Trial and Execution of His Accomplices
This edition features
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Two lives senselessly struck down without provocation inside a popular Seattle park shock the city. Police find only a single clue to identify the assailant. Following this tragedy a fateful series ……続きを見る
A single gunshot on Saturday night, October 6, 1894, shattered Toronto's prevailing sense of peace and security. That gunshot took the life of Frank Westwood, a respectable young man from one of the……続きを見る
著者:Candace Dempsey
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年04月27日
The true story behind the notorious international murder--updated to cover Amanda Knox's acquittal.
In Perugia, Italy, on November 2, 2007, police discovered the body of a British college student st……続きを見る
著者:Colin Evans
出版社: Turner Publishing Company
発売日: 2008年04月21日
PRAISE FOR The Casebook of Forensic Detection
"Pithy, concise, and remarkably accurate."
-Science Books & Films
"Contains ample material to hold the attention and foster interest in science."
-Scien……続きを見る
Did Lizzie really do it? If so, why? With all the evidence pointing to her, how did she get off? This short account retells the Lizzie Borden murder story from a social and political perspective tha……続きを見る
There are tragedies in life. The young child killed by a drunk driver. The family devastated by an early morning house fire. These events sadden us and make us reflect. "There but for the grace of G……続きを見る
An updated edition of the bestselling autobiography of Charlie Kray, elder brother of the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, who are brought to the screen this autumn in a major motion picture.
Charlie ……続きを見る