Famous Detective Stories: True Tales of Australian Crime by National Library of Australia
$24.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
From the notorious Louisa Collins in 1880s NSW, who murdered two husbands with rat poison, to a blazing shoot-out featuring prominent underworld figure Antonio Martini at Taronga Zoo in the 1940s, this book features stories of true crimes that shocked and thrilled the Australian public. When pulp magazi ...Show more
Getting Carter - Ted Lewis and the Birth of Brit Noir by Nick Triplow
$39.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
The classic film Get Carter was based on a book called Jack's Return Home, and many commentators agree contemporary British crime writing began with that novel. The influence of both book and film is strong to this day, reflected in the work of David Peace, Jake Arnott, Russell Lewis, and the likes. But ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
$13.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, wh ...Show more
In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote
$26.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those i ...Show more
Crime's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary But True Tales from Over Five Centuries of Legal History by Peter Seddon
$25.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Author Peter Seddon gives life to over five centuries of bizarre, macabre and sometimes hilarious criminal cases. You'll be gripped by tales of murder, intrigue, crime, punishment and the pursuit of justice. Despite how unbelievable the stories banged up inside these pages may seem, Crime's Strangest Ca ...Show more
This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
$37.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral pa ...Show more