True Crime

The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus (Paperback)

By Ryan Jacobs

$16.00

ISBN: 9780451495693

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Published: Clarkson Potter - June 4th, 2019

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Sabotage, intrigue, murder. Over a mushroom? The Truffle Underground is one of the most unbelievable stories I have ever read about the criminal underworld stealing, faking, and even killing over truffles. This astonishing book will shock you, horrify you, but, be careful. These delicacies have a way of luring people under their spell and not letting go.

Matthew

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts (Paperback)

By Julian Rubinstein

$16.99

ISBN: 9780316010733

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Published: Back Bay Books - September 13th, 2005

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The incredible (and hilarious) true story of Hungary's most famous bank robber/hockey player.

John

Murder in the First-Class Carriage: The First Victorian Railway Killing (Paperback)

By Kate Colquhoun

$15.95

ISBN: 9781468300567

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Published: Harry N. Abrams - April 30th, 2013

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A little Eric Larson, a little Conan Doyle and a lot of the real nuts and bolts of Victorian police procedure.

Gary

Jack the Ripper and the Case for Scotland Yard's Prime Suspect (Paperback)

By Robert House, Roy Hazelwood (Foreword by)

$19.95

ISBN: 9780470938997

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Published: Wiley - May 1st, 2011

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From the Duke of Clarence to artist Walter Sickert, there have been dozens of Jack the Ripper suspects.  Well-known Ripperologist Robert House, methodically combines historical research and contemporary methods to solve this enduring mystery, which has fascinated the world since the first gruesome murder in 1888.  

Nathan

Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence (Paperback)

By Bill James

$19.99

ISBN: 9781416552741

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Published: Scribner - May 8th, 2012

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Lizzie Borden?  The Boston Strangler?  Sid Vicious & Nancy Spungen?  A glom of the table of contents reveals just how many actual murders are in the popular consciousness, and Bill James (yes - he of the Baseball Abstract) has been contemplating causes, solutions and meanings for years.  Fans of true crime books (or regular mysteries for that matter) will find these articles enlightening, provocative and as grotesquely fascinating as their subjects.

Gary