Category: *True Crime

Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads--and a $5 million reward--none of the paintings have been recovered. Worth as much as $500 million, the missing masterpieces have become one of the nation's most extraordinary unsolved mysteries.

After the death of famed art detective Harold Smith, reporter Ulrich Boser decided to take up the case. Exploring Smith's...
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I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank 'The Irishman' Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa

By: Brandt, Charles

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Steerforth: June 2016

Seller ID: 136958

ISBN: 1586422383

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Soon to be a NETFLIX film directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel, and written by Steven Zaillian.

Updated with a 57-page Conclusion by the author that features new, independent corroboration of Frank Sheeran's revelations about the killing of Jimmy Hoffa, the killing of Joey Gallo and the murder of JFK, along with stories that could not be told before.

"I heard you paint houses" are he first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that spla...
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Helter Skelter

By: Bugliosi, Vincent

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Bantam Books No Edition Stated edition: January 1976

Seller ID: 132819

ISBN: B001I0J0QG

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Book is in good condition: pages are yellowed with age, and some wear teo edges of paperback cover. No loose pages.
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The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

By: Carlo, Philip

Price: $5.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks: April 2009

Seller ID: 129660

ISBN: 0312938845

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Philip Carlo's The Ice Man spent over six weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. Top Mob Hitman. Devoted Family Man. Doting Father. For thirty years, Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski led a shocking double life, becoming the most notorious professional assassin in American history while happily hosting neighborhood barbecues in suburban New Jersey.

Richard Kuklinski was Sammy the Bull Gravano's partner in the killing of Paul Castellano, then head of the Gambino crime family, at Sparks Steakhouse. Mob boss John Gotti hired him to torture and kill the neighbor w...
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Gangsters and Gold Diggers: Old New York, the Jazz Age, and the Birth of Broadway

By: Charyn, Jerome

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Da Capo Press: December 2004

Seller ID: 137790

ISBN: 1560256435

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this rousing tribute to an unforgettable time and place, Jerome Charyn picks up where Gangs of New York left off and transports readers back to a swaggering, golden era in American life--the Roaring Twenties--when Broadway the street exploded into Broadway the legend. Charyn looks at the men and women who helped make the Big Street the most glamorous place on the planet, from Mae West to Fanny Brice, Legs Diamond to Irving Berlin, Scott Fitzgerald to Arnold Rothstein, and many more. In cinematic prose and numerous photographs, Charyn captures Broadway's vagabondage, outlaw culture, and self...
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Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper--Case Closed

By: Cornwell, Patricia

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Putnam Adult: November 2002

Seller ID: 112529

ISBN: 0399149325

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The number-one "New York Times"-bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell is known the world over for her brilliant storytelling, the courage of her characters, and the state-of-the-art forensic methods they employ.
In this headline-making new work of nonfiction, Cornwell turns her trademark skills for meticulous research and scientific expertise on one of the most chilling cases of serial murder in the history of crime-the slayings of Jack the Ripper that terrorized 1880s London. With the masterful intuition into the criminal mind that has informed her novels, Cornwell digs deeper into the ...
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The Confessions of Henry Lee Lucas

By: Cox, Mike

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Pocket: August 1991

Seller ID: 129668

ISBN: 0671706659

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III

By: Dear, William

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: October 1984

Seller ID: 131598

ISBN: 0395355362

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Who Killed My Daughter?: The True Story of a Mother's Search for Her Daughter's Murderer

By: Duncan, Lois

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Dell: February 1994

Seller ID: 131853

ISBN: 0440213428

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The best-selling young adult novelist recounts her daughter's mysterious shooting death and her own investigation into the crime, describing her use of a psychic to contact her dead child and expose the truth.

"Later I'll see you guys later "
They were the last words Lois Duncan would ever hear her daughter speak.

On a balmy midsummer's night in 1989, eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette was shot to death as she drove home along a deserted strip of new Mexico highway. The police called it a random shooting--even though it had all the earmarks of a professional hit. . ...
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Crazy for You: A Passionate Affair, a Lying Widow, and a Cold-Blooded Murder (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

By: Fleeman, Michael

Price: $4.00

Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime: February 2015

Seller ID: 131632

ISBN: 1250036380

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A LOVING FATHER
A typical morning in the Atlanta suburbs: Businessman Rusty Sneiderman drops his beloved son off at the Dunwoody Prep nursery. In the parking lot, a minivan pulls up next to his car. The driver pulls out a gun-and shoots Rusty four times in the chest.
A HEARTBROKEN WIFE
Sneiderman's devoted wife, Andrea, is devastated by the crime. Who could have done this? She is shocked when police trace the shooting to a man named Hemy Neuman-who happens to be Andrea's adoring boss.
A DEADLY OBSESSION
The prosecution accuses Andrea and Hemy of h...
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Cries in the Desert (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

By: Glatt, John

Price: $3.50

Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime: May 2002

Seller ID: 129661

ISBN: 0312977565

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the fall of 1999, a twenty-two-year-old woman was discovered naked and bleeding on the streets of a small New Mexico town south of Albuquerque. She was chained to a padlocked metal collar. The tale she told authorties--of being beaten, raped, and tortured with electric shock--was unthinkable. Until she led them to 59-year-old David Ray Parker, his 39-year-old financee Cindy Hendy--and the lakeside trailer they called their toy box. What the FBI uncovered was unprecedented in the annals of serial crime: restraining devices, elaborate implements of torture, books on human anatomy, medical equ...
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Playing With Fire: The True Story of a Nurse, Her Husband, and a Marriage Turned Fatal (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

By: Glatt, John

Price: $4.00

Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime: March 2010

Seller ID: 139304

ISBN: 0312365179

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A beautiful nurse. A lethal injection. A gruesomely charred corpse. Nothing could have shocked the sleepy community of Morgantown, West Virginia, more than the lurid details that surfaced after a house fire claimed the life of Shelly Michael's husband Jimmy. Local authorities suspected possible arson. Then they discovered that Jimmy had been dead before the fire even started paralyzed by a fatal dose of muscle relaxant

Did Shelly Michael, a respected nurse and mother, kill her second husband and torch her own home? Were the rumors true that she'd had an affair with her husband's employee...
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Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century

By: Graham, Peter

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing: January 2016

Seller ID: 130324

ISBN: 1634505182

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A New York Times Best Seller

"A worthy retrospective that feels chilling in the manner of novelist Perry." -Kirkus Reviews

On June 22, 1954, teenage friends Juliet Hulme--better known as bestselling mystery writer Anne Perry--and Pauline Parker went for a walk in a New Zealand park with Pauline's mother, Honora. Half an hour later, the girls returned alone, claiming that Pauline's mother had had an accident. But when Honora Parker was found in a pool of blood with the brick used to bludgeon her to death close at hand, Juliet and Pauline were quickly arrested, and ...
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The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Art

By: Hart, Matthew

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Plume: May 2005

Seller ID: 50076

ISBN: 0452284619

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

?Begs to be made into a movie. A true-crime tale that includes a priceless Vermeer stolen twice from the same Irish country house, and a father-and-son detective team who recovers the painting 19 years apart.?
?David Walton, "The Plain Dealer"

Famous paintings. A notorious thief. Cunning cops. And a troubled Irish history.

In the annals of fine art theft, no case has matched?for sheer criminal panache?the heist at Russborough in 1986. The Irish police knew right away that the mastermind was a brazen Dublin gangster named Martin Cahill. Yet the great plunder?including a Goya and a V...
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Dark Dreams: A Legendary FBI Profiler Examines Homicide and the Criminal Mind

By: Hazelwood, Roy,Michaud, Stephen G.

Price: $4.50

Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime: October 2002

Seller ID: 139307

ISBN: 0312980116

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Profiler Roy Hazelwood is the world's leading expert on the strangest and most dangerous of all aberrant offenders--the sexual criminal. In Dark Dreams he reveals the twisted motives and perverse thinking that go into the most reprehensible crimes. He also catalogs the innovative and remarkably effective techniques--techniques that he helped pioneer at the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit--that allow Law Enforcement agents to construct psychological profiles of the offenders who comit them.

Hazelwood has helped track down some of the most violent and well known criminals in modern...
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Mean Justice

By: Humes, Edward

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Pocket: January 2003

Seller ID: 138598

ISBN: 0671034278

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Besieged by murder, rape, and the most vile conspiracies, the all-American town of Bakersfield, California, found its saviors in a band of bold and savvy prosecutors who stepped in to create one of the toughest anti-crime communities in the nation. There was only one problem: many of those who were arrested, tried, and imprisoned were innocent citizens.

In a work as taut and exciting as a suspense novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Edward Humes embarks on a chilling journey to the dark side of the justice system. He reveals the powerful true story of retired high-school pr...
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Cults That Kill: Probing the Underworld of Occult Crime

By: Kahaner, Larry

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Grand Central Pub: May 1994

Seller ID: 139305

ISBN: 0446356379

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

By: Krakauer, Jon

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Anchor: June 2004

Seller ID: 132269

ISBN: 1400032806

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America's isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God.

At the core of Krakauer's book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakaue...
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Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles

By: Lieberman, Paul

Price: $4.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks: July 2012

Seller ID: 129667

ISBN: 1250027853

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A harrowing, edge-of-your-seat narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels, GANGSTER SQUAD chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII--the real events behind the highly-anticipated Warner Bros. film starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.

A full decade before J. Edgar Hoover's FBI even acknowledged the existence of the Mafia, the Los Angeles Police Department launched the real-life Gangster Squad with eight men who...
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The Devil's Right-Hand Man: The True Story of Serial Killer Robert Charles Browne

By: Michaud, Stephen G., M., Debbie Price

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Berkley: September 2008

Seller ID: 139309

ISBN: 0425223213

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From a New York Times-bestselling author and an award-winning journalist comes the gripping story of serial killer Robert Charles Browne and the tireless investigators who uncovered his chilling crimes. Includes photos.
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I Would Find a Girl Walking: Every Female Was Prey

By: Montane, Diana,Kelly, Kathy

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Berkley: April 2011

Seller ID: 130558

ISBN: 0425231860

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

What made me kill and kill again?
I can't answer that except like this...

Culled from interviews with the lead investigator and the victims' families, and exclusive access to the killer, this is a revealing, shocking, and unflinching portrait of Gerald Eugene Stano, a man who fancied himself one of the greatest lady-killers of them all.
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Criminal Profile: Into the Mind of the Killer

By: Petherick, Wayne

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Elwin Street: January 2005

Seller ID: 137788

ISBN: 0954630912

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

If Looks Could Kill

By: Phelps, M. William

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Pinnacle: February 2012

Seller ID: 118177

ISBN: 0786028939

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

On a day like any other in Akron, Ohio, in a parking lot like so many across America, a black-clad motorcyclist rode up to an occupied vehicle and fired a gun--and didn't miss. The shock rippling through the community led to former beauty queen Cynthia George, a respected church member and devoted mother. Married to a wealthy businessman, she seemed to lead a charmed life. But did her beauty mask a heart cold enough to kill? M. William Phelps, award-winning master of the non-fiction thriller, updates this gripping saga of illicit love and murder with startling, unforgettable new insights.

I'll Be Watching You

By: Phelps, M. William

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Pinnacle: July 2008

Seller ID: 136821

ISBN: 0786019301

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Perfect Poison: A Female Serial Killer's Deadly Medicine

By: Phelps, M. William

Price: $3.25

Publisher: Pinnacle Books: June 2003

Seller ID: 136823

ISBN: 0786015500

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

'Perfect Poison' tells the shocking true story of a female serial killer who abused her respected position as a nurse to administer death to her trusting patients.
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Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal

By: Rule, Ann

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Free Press: June 2007

Seller ID: 133975

ISBN: 0743238524

Condition: Used - Good

From Americas #1 true crime writer and New York Times bestselling author comes her most engrossing book ever: a 14-year saga of treachery, jealousy, and murder, about two women who learned the truth too late about Dr. Bart Corbin of Atlanta.
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In the Still of the Night: The Strange Death of Ronda Reynolds

By: Rule, Ann

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Free Press: October 2010

Seller ID: 137915

ISBN: 1416544607

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In this new true crime book, New York Times bestselling author Rule investigates the case of a woman whose supposed suicide may not be what it seems.
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Fiend: The Shocking True Story Of America's Youngest Serial Killer

By: Schechter, Harold

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Gallery Books: October 2000

Seller ID: 134012

ISBN: 067101448X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING -- AND YET HE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A CHILD HIMSELF.

When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was imprisoned at last. But the complex questions sparked by his ghastly crime spree -- the hows and whys of vicious juvenile crime -- were as relevant in the so-called Age of Innocence as they are today.
Jesse Pomeroy was outwardly repellent in appearance, with a gruesome "dead" eye; ...
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Death of a Doctor (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

By: Smith, Carlton

Price: $3.50

Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime: February 2002

Seller ID: 138597

ISBN: 0312977948

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Pasadena pediatrician Kevin Paul Anderson was admired and trusted by his wife and patients, and looked up to as a mentor by many of his associates. Handsome, athletic, and established, he was also a magnet for women. Deepti Gupta, a thirty-three-year-old fellow doctor, was the kind of conquest Anderson sought: pretty, anxious to do well, and eager to please. It wasn't long before they began having an affair...
But the affair soon ended when Deepti told her mentor that she was pregnant with his child. threatened with exposure as a sexual harasser and his career and marriage at risk, Anderso...
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Category: *True Crime