Collins Classics brings you a selection of the best-loved stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring one of literature’s favourite detectives, Sherlock Holmes.
Who introduced Dr Watson to the world’s ……続きを見る
Lane shows how globalisation has transformed the Mafia into more than simply a local phenomenon. It describes in painful detail the daily accommodation to Mafia pressure endured by priests, politici……続きを見る
On January 7, 1973, shots were fired from Howard Johnson's Motel in New Orleans, LA. Six were killed, ten wounded. After the first sniper was killed, the search continued for others. A thorough poli……続きを見る
“We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.” Punch.
Murder in ni……続きを見る
This edition does not include illustrations.
A fascinating exploration into the history of science and crime. In the tradition of ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’, FINGERPRINTS is the story of the race to di……続きを見る
著者:Bill Friedman
出版社: Old School Histories
発売日: 2014年01月31日
Here for the first time is the complete story of the careers and lives of the four successive Public Enemies Number One who were the most dangerous machinegun toting Midwestern bank robbers of the e……続きを見る
The execution of the perfect crime can leave you flabbergasted, thrilled, chilled, amazed, or just downright impressed. But let’s face it: most lawbreakers end up shooting themselves in the foot, an……続きを見る
Sono circa le nove di sera del 4 maggio 1998 quando una suora sente dei rumori di colpi di arma da fuoco provenire da un appartamento non lontano dal Palazzo Apostolico di Roma. La religiosa corre e……続きを見る
Il delitto dell'Olgiata rappresenta a tutt'oggi uno dei casi di cronaca nera più complicati ed intricati che la storia italiana ricordi. Da un punto di vista letterario potrebbe essere addirittura d……続きを見る
La storia di Gianfranco Stevanin non è quella che si potrebbe immaginare quando si sente parlare di serial killer. Stevanin infatti era un ragazzo normale, al suo paese l'avevano soprannominato Elvi……続きを見る
Jack lo Squartatore è stato il primo serial killer dell'età moderna: da quei lontani e fumosi giorni del 1888 a oggi il suo nome è diventato una leggenda, i suoi omicidi brutali oltre ogni immaginaz……続きを見る
«Noi serial killer siamo i vostri figli, i vostri mariti. Siamo ovunque» (Ted Bundy).
A che livelli di follia e perversione può arrivare la mente umana? Nessuno può dirlo, ma su un punto sono tutti ……続きを見る
Charles Manson è l'uomo che ha annegato in un mare di sangue il flower power: lui e i suoi fedelissimi della "Family" sono stati infatti i protagonisti di alcuni dei crimini più efferati della stori……続きを見る
Zodiac, il misterioso serial killer dello zodiaco, nel corso degli anni è diventato il simbolo dell'anima nera degli Stati Unito: a partire dall'estate del '68 questo assassino senza nome ha ucciso ……続きを見る
Throughout the course of history, freedom fighters have been many and varied as have the motivations and the successes of the revolutions they attempted and inspired. Whether their beliefs were corr……続きを見る
著者:David Lane
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年06月08日
In this investigation into the criminal underworld of the cities and villages of the Italian South, David Lane provides an unrivaled exposé of the operations of the Mafia today
From Naples, home of ……続きを見る
«The True Stories of The Monster Of Florence is a must read guaranteed to give newbies a clear and complete understanding of the Monster's murders and of the various investigative theories. The book……続きを見る
«Unabomber – Il terrore senza volto, non è solo un interessante e curatissimo ebook-inchiesta, ma riesce anche, nel raccontare i fatti di cronaca, ad essere avvincente e incalzante» (Pierluigi Poraz……続きを見る
Inside the Crips is the memoir of the author Colton Simpson's life as a Crip--beginning at the tender age of ten in the mid-seventies--and his prison turnaround nearly twenty-five years later.
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The second Kiszka and Kershaw crime thriller.
When masked men brutally stab one of his closest friends to death, Janusz Kiszka – fixer to East London’s Poles – must dig deep into London’s criminal u……続きを見る
Author and historian, Anna Myers, in this delightful short book, provides a gallery of extraordinary women swindlers, con artists and imposters. Some of the women you may even like, some will make y……続きを見る
Jonathan Aitken: “Robinson’s honest and hilarious first book IN IT – the warts and all diary he penned during his sentence – ruffled many feathers in the HMPS aviary. Now his sequel ON IT turns the ……続きを見る
«Per tutta la vita ho desiderato essere un rapinatore di banche, portare una pistola e indossare una maschera. Ora che è successo credo proprio di essere il miglior rapinatore che le banche abbiano ……続きを見る
Nancy found herself on a flight 32,000 feet over Tennessee. She was running from a bad marriage in Chattanooga and heading straight into the arms of her high school sweet heart, though she hadn’t se……続きを見る
“Give me everything in the till. Notes only! Don’t make me nervous or I’ll shoot!” The waitress handed me twenty dollars. I fled back to the car and John hightailed it outta there. At seventeen she ……続きを見る
On 20 January 1931, Mrs Julia Wallace was brutally battered to death in the parlour of her home in Anfield, Liverpool. In April of that year, William Herbert Wallace, Julia's husband, was found guil……続きを見る
Finally solves the mystery of the Victorian serial killer who murdered and mutilated up to 11 women in London in 1888. The most famous serial killer in history. A sadistic stalker of seedy Victorian……続きを見る
Death in Victorian times was something to be feared whilst at the same time it was treated with an unprecedented degree of observance and ceremony. Respect for the dead was a concept taken to heart ……続きを見る
Jonathan Wild (born c.1683), probably Britain's most well-known criminal of the 18th century, was known as the director of a 'corporation of thieves'. He learned his 'trade' while serving a sentence……続きを見る
A look at the dark side of life, Victorian-style, when nothing was quite as it seemed and a public execution could be an entertaining family day out. Murderers, poachers, thieves, pickpockets and va……続きを見る