List
Historic True Crime
Collection
Many true crime books are roughly contemporary in setting. But there’s a whole subgenre of nonfiction crime narrative drawn from historical cases, many of them scandalous in their day and some of them still unsolved. A recent standout in this subgenre is Who Killed Jane Stanford? by respected historian Richard White, which explores the poisoning murder of the widow of Stanford University founder Leland Stanford. Check out White’s book, as well as these other intriguing titles, from our collection.
The Ghosts of Eden Park
The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
Published in 2019
xviii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
The Girl on the Velvet Swing
Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Published in 2018
392 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
The Poisoner
The Life and Crimes of Victorian England's Most Notorious Doctor
Published in 2014
342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
The Thieves of Threadneedle Street
The Incredible True Story of the American Forgers Who Nearly Broke the Bank of England
Published in 2016
351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Murder at Teal's Pond
Published in 2022
326 pages, 32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Before and After
The Incredible Real-life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
Published in 2019
xiv, 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Blood & Ivy
The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard
Published in 2018
xix, 347 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
The Valentino Affair
The Jazz Age Murder Scandal That Shocked New York Society and Gripped the World
Published in 2014
x, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Conan Doyle for the Defense
The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
Published in 2018
xxvii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
City of Devils
The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai
Published in 2018
xvi, 299 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Murdered Midas
A Millionaire, His Gold Mine, and a Strange Death on an Island Paradise
Published in 2019
xxvii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Murder by the Book
The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London
Published in 2018
252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
The Midnight Assassin
Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
Published in 2016
321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream
The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
Published in 2021
xiii, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Hell's Half-acre
The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier
Published in 2022
xxii, 345 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Tinseltown
Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Birth of Hollywood
Published in 2014
463 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Cry of Murder on Broadway
A Woman's Ruin and Revenge in Old New York
Published in 2020
x, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
The Wilderness of Ruin
A Tale of Madness, Fire, and the Hunt for America's Youngest Serial Killer
Published in 2015
308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane
A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder
Published in 2016
xii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Blood Runs Green
The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago
Published in 2015
xiii, 303 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society
America's Original Gangsters and the U.S. Postal Detective Who Brought Them to Justice
Published in 2018
vii, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
The Phantom Killer
Unlocking the Mystery of the Texarkana Serial Murders
Published in 2014
xix, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Deliberate Evil
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, and the 1830 Murder of a Salem Slave Trader
Published in 2022
xiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation
Published in 2016
viii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Maniac
The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer
Published in 2021
239 pages ; 21 cm
A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin
The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer
Published in 2014
xxii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Tong Wars
The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown
Published in 2016
xxvi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Terror in the City of Champions
Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society That Shocked Depression-era Detroit
Published in 2016
xiii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
The Kidnap Years
The Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-era America
Published in 2020
xxix, 430 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid
America's Original Gangster Couple
Published in 2021
x, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
The Wicked Boy
The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
Published in 2016
378 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
The Black Hand
The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History
Published in 2017
xix, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
The Good Assassin
How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia
Published in 2020
xiv, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
A Tale of Two Murders
Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson
Published in 2018
440 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
City of Light, City of Poison
Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Published in 2017
xxiii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
The Real Lolita
The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World
Published in 2018
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Who Killed Jane Stanford?
A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
Published in 2022
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