An accessible mix of bite-size facts and entertaining tales about people who have met gruesome ends.

Did you know there once was a craze for consuming a powdered mummy as a cure for any ailment? That Peter the Great put a tax on beards? History needn’t be as boring as school ...

Examines a variety of mysterious deaths and disappearances including the Amelia Earhart, Chandra Levy, and Lee Harvey Oswald.

From the early days of piracy to twentieth-century mob massacres, the state has been plagued with some of the worst crimes in history. This book begins with a general overview ...