Triflers Need Not Apply by Camilla Bruce
$37.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
In 1900 Chicago, a husband dies under the most suspicious of circumstances. Anton Sorenson had a $2,000 life-insurance policy set to expire and took out a new policy for $3,000. For just one day - July 30, 1900 - both policies were in effect.Sorenson dies of a cerebral hemorrhage on that very day. Accor ...Show more
Murder under the Microscope - A Personal History of Homicide by James Fraser
$45.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
'Jim Fraser has been at the forefront of forensic science in the UK for decades... A superb story of real-life CSI.' Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes Most murders are not difficult to solve. People are usually killed by someone they know, there is usually abundant evidence an ...Show more
Philosophies of Crime Fiction by Josef Hoffmann
$40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
A considered analysis of the philosophical ideas to be found in crime literature, both hidden and explicit. Josef Hoffmann ranges expertly across influences and inspirations in crime writing with a stellar cast including Conan Doyle, G K Chesterton, Dashiell Hammett, Albert Camus, Borges, Agatha Christi ...Show more
The Worst Woman in Sydney: The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh by Leigh Straw
$40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Matriarch of the criminal underworld ...or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney? The legend of Kate Leigh, Sydney's famed brothel madam, sly grog seller and drug dealer, has loomed large in TV's Underbelly and every other account of Sydney's criminal history from the 1920s to the 1960s. But she has never had ...Show more
A Forger's Tale by Shaun Greenhalgh
$37.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
In 2007, Bolton Crown Court in the United Kingdom sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries. Working out of a shed in his parents' garden, Greenhalgh had successfully fooled some of the world's greatest museums. During the court cas ...Show more
Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris by Eric Jager
$40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation. On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled in place of his ...Show more
The Good Bloke by Charles Staunton
$38.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Charles Staunton is a good cop, a gun footballer, a loving husband and father. Until his refusal to inform on his corrupt mates sees him sent to jail and sacked from the police force. Charlie becomes a private detective and Mr Fix-it on Sydney's 'Golden Mile', respected and trusted on both sides of the ...Show more
The Mile End Murder: The Case Conan Doyle Couldn't Solve by Sinclair McKay
$24.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
In 1860, a 70 year old widow turned landlady named Mary Emsley was found dead in her own home, killed by a blow to the back of her head. What followed was a murder case that gripped the nation, a veritable locked room mystery which baffled even legendary Sherlock Holmes author, Arthur Conan Doyle. With ...Show more
The Crimes of Paris by Dorothy Hoobler
$56.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Turn-of-the-century Paris was the beating heart of a rapidly changing world. Painters, scientists, revolutionaries, poets - all were there. But so, too, were the shadows: Paris was a violent, criminal place, its sinister alleyways the haunts of Apache gangsters and its cafes the gathering places of murd ...Show more
Poison: a History - An Account of the Deadly Art and Its Most Infamous Practitioners by Jenni Davis
$23.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Poison: A History is the fascinating story of this dark, deadly, and most secretive of arts, chronicling more than two millennia of famous and infamous poisonings. Book jacket.
Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn
$28.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
An account of two people - Fred and Rose West - who lived together, raised (and killed) children, provided sexual services for anyone interested, and pretended to provide social services for single women. Investigated and told by one of the greatest journalists and writers of the last twenty years, this ...Show more
Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime by Claire Harman
$26.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
'A fascinating portrait of Victorian London' Observer'I devoured it in one sitting' Alison Weir'Excellent' Dan Snow Early on the morning of 6 May 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, the elderly Lord William Russell was discovered in bed with his throat cut so deeply that the head was almost s ...Show more