We have all heard so much about the killers who grab the front pages, the ones whose crimes are so appalling that they exert a strange fascination on many people
Only after Harold Shipman died did the full horror of his life begin to come to light. Wensley Clarkson has uncovered startling new evidence to prove that only half the story has been uncovered
This brand-new sequel to True Crime Library¹s riveting bestseller Women on Death Row tells the astonishing stories of the women executed in America since our first volume was published plus a great deal more
As recently as the 1960s, convicted murderers in Britain were hanged by the neck until dead. Now, for the first time, you can read the full story of Britain¹s last hangman Harry Allen…
No single law ever spawned greater violence than the law enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1920 banning the sale and manufacture of alcohol. By Kenneth Allsop.
Agatha Christie: Agony of a domestic tiff Rasputin: Strange Demise of the sinning saint Captain Bligh: Just a bit of a bad temper? Sweeney Todd: Fact or fiction? But very nice pies! By Andrew Moss.
How I became the worlds’ biggest fraudster If you think City fraud is something new, by warned! It all began with Austin Bidwell. Bidwell’s ambition was to pull off a £1million sting at the expense of none other than the Bank of England.
For nearly one hundred years the tolling of the Strangeways Prison bell told the citizens of Manchester that another murderer had been hanged. By Sara Lee.
Detailed and factual accounts of women executed for their crimes, plus full-length stories of those on Death Row today – waiting to die! By Mike James.
A compelling study of poisons and poisoners. Sixteen celebrated murder cases each coupled with a study of the poison used. A modern classic of criminology. By Brian Marriner.
This casebook gives a fascinating insight into how evidence, gleaned by some of Britain’s most famous forensic scientists, solved many of the classic murder cases in the twentieth century. By John Sanders