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Indiana Gothic: A Story of Adultery and Murder in an American Family

Pope Brock - Adultery - 1999 - 392 pages
The lines between fiction and nonfiction have become increasingly blurred, but in journalist Pope Brock's first book, about murder and adultery in his family, everything is ...
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The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley

R. Alton Lee - Medical - 2002 - 310 pages
Tells the story of the infamous “Goat Gland Doctor”—controversial medical charlatan, groundbreaking radio impresario, and prescient political campaigner—and recounts his ...
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Charlatan

Catherine Jinks - True Crime - 2017 - 304 pages
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Drake's Fortune: The Fabulous True Story of the World's Greatest Confidence ...

Richard Rayner - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 240 pages
His scam was as simple as it was brazen. Before and during the Great Depression, Oscar Hartzell persuaded tens of thousands of Midwesterners to part with millions of dollars to ...
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Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind

Bruce Watson - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 472 pages
In this groundbreaking narrative of one of America?s most divisive trials and executions, award-winning journalist Bruce Watson mines deep archives and newly available sources ...
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Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case

David E. Stannard - True Crime - 2006 - 500 pages
In the fall of 1931, Thalia Massie, the bored, aristocratic wife of a young naval officer stationed in Honolulu, accused six nonwhite islanders of gang rape. The ensuing trial ...
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Fly, Colton, Fly: The True Story of the Barefoot Bandit

Jackson Holtz - True Crime - 2011 - 230 pages
Exclusive to this edition—a new update on the conviction and sentencing of the Barefoot Bandit Colton Harris-Moore. A teenage outlaw wanted in nine states for more than eighty ...
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The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief

Ben Macintyre - Biography & Autobiography - 2011 - 418 pages
From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners in the Castle, a dramatic portrait of the master thief of the nineteenth century: Adam Worth “Fascinating . . . a brisk ...
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