Crime Nonfiction (Bookshelf)

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Dumas père, Alexandre, 1802-1870

Wikipedia: Alexandre Dumas, père

• Celebrated Crimes (Complete)  (English)
• Ali Pacha
  Celebrated Crimes  (English)
• Cenci
  Celebrated Crimes  (English)
• La Constantin
  Celebrated Crimes  (English)
• The Countess of Saint Geran
  Celebrated Crimes  (English)
• Derues
  Celebrated Crimes  (English)
• Joan of Naples
  Celebrated Crimes  (English)
• Karl Ludwig Sand
  Celebrated Crimes  (English)
• Marquise Brinvillier
  Celebrated Crimes  (English)
• Marquise De Ganges
  Celebrated Crimes  (English)
• Martin Guerre
  Celebrated Crimes  (English)
• Mary Stuart
  Celebrated Crimes  (English)
• Massacres of the South (1551-1815)
  Celebrated Crimes  (English)
• Murat
  Celebrated Crimes  (English)
• Nisida
  Celebrated Crimes  (English)
• Urbain Grandier
  Celebrated Crimes  (English)
• Vaninka
  Celebrated Crimes  (English)
• Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of Dumas' Celebrated Crimes  (English)

Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938

Wikipedia: Clarence Darrow

• Crime: Its Cause and Treatment  (English)

Defoe, Daniel 1661-1731

• The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard Containing a Particular Account of His Many Robberies and Escapes  (English)
• The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton  Audio  (English)

Ferri, Enrico, 1859-1929

• Criminal Sociology  (English)
• The Positive School of Criminology
  Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901  (English)

Gosse, Philip 1879-1959

• The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers  (English)

Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf, 1847-1915

• Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students  (English)

Hayward, Arthur L.

• Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences  (English)

Irving, Henry Brodribb, 1870-1919

• A Book of Remarkable Criminals  (English)

Morrison, William Douglas, 1853-1943

• Crime and Its Causes  (English)

Ross, Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson), 1826-1907

Wikipedia: Edmund G. Ross

• History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and his trial by the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors in office, 1868  (English)

Stockton, Frank Richard 1834-1902

• Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts  (English)

Townsend, George Alfred, 1841-1914

• The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth  (English)

Train, Arthur Cheney, 1875-1945

• Courts and Criminals  (English)
• True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office  (English)

Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 1862-1931

• Mob Rule in New Orleans
  Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics  (English)
• The Red Record
  Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States  (English)
• Southern Horrors
  Lynch Law in All Its Phases  (English)

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