The crime takes place late one night in the mansion of Illinois Governor-elect Maitland Ashmore. His only son, Day, is bludgeoned to death, gruesomely slaughtered in his own bed. This is a textbook murder -- no witnesses, no apparent motives, not a s...
The Almanac of World Crime chronicles the exploits of the underworld -- murder, robbery, arson, torture, rape, kidnapping, extortion, and blackmail, to name only a few -- and takes the reader on an iniquitous tour of the world's gambling halls, dope ...
A narrative encyclopedia of American criminals from the pilgrims to the present....
Brilliant crime historian and reluctant sleuth Jack Journey finds himself once again entangled with the criminal element as he takes on a search for the diaries of a long-dead Sicilian bandit that might hold the key to unraveling a huge network of o...
In this riveting book of celebrity murders Jay Robert Nash provides keen insights into the mind of the murderer, and has carefully researched each murder to bring new facts to light. He devotes a chapter to each celebrity murder spanning from the sla...
Bible-toting Earle Leonard Nelson fancied himself a man of mission. The Lamb of God, in fact, divinely empowered to cleanse the world of sin. But the priesthood that carried him across the country from San Francisco to Buffalo and ultimately into Can...