02--Crime:  History & Famous Cases

Adams, Barbara Johnston.  Crime mysteries.  New York:  F. Watts, 1988.  95p.  Retells the stories of five famous crimes.

Allan, Philip Bertram Murray.  The prison-breakers:  a book of escapes from captivity.  London:  P. Allen, 1927.  Ann Arbor, MI:  Gryphon Books, 1971.  282p.

Ashton-Wolfe, Harry.  Crimes of love and hate.  Boston, New York:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928.  323p.

Ashton-Wolfe, Harry.  Crimes of violence and revenge.  Boston, New York:  Houghton Mifflin company, 1929.  359p.

Atkinson, Linda.  Incredible crimes.  New York:  F. Watts, 1980.  90p.  Relates five notorious crimes, including D. B. Cooper's skyjacking, the great train robbery, and the Krupp diamond case.

Berger, Gilda, & Melvin Berger.  Bizarre crimes.  Illustrated by Cheryl Chalmers.  New York:  J. Messner, 1984.  96p.  Presents ten cases of unusual and daring crimes.

Blundell, Nigel, & Roger Boar, eds.  The World's greatest unsolved crimes.  London:  Octopus Books, 1984.  192p.

Borowitz, Albert.  A gallery of sinister perspectives:  ten crimes and a scandal.  Kent, OH:  Kent State University Press, 1982.  163p.

Braithwaite, John.  Corporate crime in the pharmaceutical industry.  London;  Boston:  Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.  440p.

Camps, Francis E.  Camps on crime.  Preface by Sir Leon Radzinowicz.  England:  Newton Abbot, David and Charles, 1973.  181p.  Famous crimes.

Davidson, Louis Bennett, & Eddie Doherty.  Strange crimes at sea.  Illustrations by Gordon Grant.  Introduction by William McFee.  New York:  Grosset & Dunlap, 1966 & 1954.  248p.

Deary, Terry.  True crime stories.  New York:  Puffin Books, 1997.  110p.

Decaux, Alain.  Les assassins.  Paris:  Perrin, 1986.  424p.  Crime & assasins.

Doshay, Lewis Jacob.  The boy sex offender and his later career.  Foreword by George W. Henry.  Montclair, NJ:  Patterson Smith, 1969.  First printed in 1943.  206p.

Douthwaite, Louis Charles.  Mass murder.  Foreword by George Dilnot.  London:  J. Long, 1928.  288p.  New York:  H. Holt and Company, 1929.  313p.

Dugdale, Richard Louis (1841-1883).  "The Jukes":  a study in crime, pauperism, disease and heredity:  also further studies of criminals.  Introduction by Wm. M. F. Round.  New York;  London:  G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1884.  First edition in 1877.  New York:  Arno Press, 1970.  120p.

Farr, Robert.  The electronic criminals.  New York:  McGraw-Hill, 1975.  194p.  Commercial crimes & business intelligence.

Finger, Charles Joseph (1869-1941).  Historic crimes and criminals.  Girard, KS:  Haldeman-Julius Company, 1922.  61p.

Gaines, Ann, & Austin Sarat, eds.  Private investigators and bounty hunters.  Philadelphia:  Chelsea House Publishers, 1999.  96p.

Ghaffari, Michelle.  Mystery and mayhem:  tales of lust, murder, madness, and disappearance.  New York, NY:  MetroBooks, 1995.  120p.

Gustafson, Anita.  Guilty or innocent?  New York:  Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1985.  150p.  Examines ten of the most famous criminal cases in history, juxtaposing two at a time to show that similar cases may result in different verdicts.  The reader is asked to guess each verdict before it is revealed.

Hampden-Turner, Charles.  Sane asylum.  San Francisco:  San Francisco Book Co., 1976.  296p.  Criminals, rehabilitation & halfway houses in California.

Hirsch, Richard.  Crimes that shook the world.  Freeport, NY:  Books for Libraries Press, 1971.  First published, 1949.  224p.

Hussinat, Mohammad M.  Leisure and crime.  Jaipur:  Rawat Publications, 1997.  236p.

Hynd, Alan.  Great crime busters.  Illustrated by Albert Orbaan.  New York:  Putnam, 1967.  158p.  Recounts ten crimes prevented or solved by the work of amateur sleuths as well as professional policemen.

Hynd, Alan.  Murder.  New York:  Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1952.  246p.  Twelve true crime stories.

Iannacci, Jerry, & Ron Morris.  Access device fraud and related financial crimes.  Boca Raton, FL:  CRC Press, 2000.  154p.

Inciardi, James A.  Careers in crime.  Chicago:  Rand McNally College Pub. Co., 1975.  252p.

Jackson, Bruce.  In the life:  versions of the criminal experience.  New York:  Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.  412p.  Crime, prisoners & sexual deviation.

Kahn, Joan, ed.  Chilling and killing.  Introduction by Joan Kahn.  Preface by Jacques Barzun.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1978.  337p.  Crime stories.

Kahn, Joan, ed.  The edge of the chair:  an anthology.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1967.  560p.  About crime & detective stories.

Keating, Henry Reymond Fitzwalter, ed.  Blood on my mind:  a collection of new pieces by members of the Crime Writers' Association about real crimes, some notable and some obscure.  London:  Macmillan, 1972.  190p.

Kingston, Charles.  Enemies of society.  London:  S. Paul & Co., 1927.  255p.

Madison, Arnold.  Great unsolved cases.  Illustrated by Michael Deas.  New York:  F. Watts, 1978.  88p.  Discusses mysteries still surrounding Jack the Ripper, the Lindbergh kidnapping, and the disappearance of Flight 967.

Nowra, Louis, ed.  The Cheated.  Sydney:  Angus & Robertson, 1979.  168p.  Crime & atrocities.

O'Dare, Kain.  Philosophy of the dusk.  Illustrated by the author.  Introduction by Guy Pearce Jones.  New York, London:  The Century co., 1929.  247p.  Written out of twenty or more years of criminal life, most of them spent behind prison walls.

Phillips, Samuel March (1780-1862).  Famous cases of circumstantial evidence:  with an introduction on the theory of presumptive proof.  New York:  J. Cockcroft, 1874.  Reprint:  Littleton, CO:  F.B. Rothman, 1979.  2 volumes.

Rogers, James T.  Four tough cases of the F.B.I.  New York:  Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.  100p. 

Singer, Kurt D., ed.  My strangest case:  by police chiefs of the world.  London:  W. H. Allen, 1957.  207p.  Garden City, NY:  Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, 1958.  192p.

Solomon, Louis.  The Ma & Pa murders and other perfect crimes.  Philadelphia:  Lippincott, 1976.  157p.  Six crimes, such as the case of Lizzie Borden, which remain unsolved to this day.

Torok, Lou.  Straight talk from prison:  a convict reflects on youth, crime, and society.  New York:  Human Sciences Press, 1974.  142p.

Tracy, Paul E., & Kimberly Kempf-Leonard.  Continuity and discontinuity in criminal careers.  New York:  Plenum Press, 1996.  263p.

Train, Arthur Cheney (1875-1945).  True stories of crime from the district attorney's office.  New York:  Scribner, 1924.  First published in 1908.  348p.

Waller, Leslie.  The mob:  the story of organized crime in America.  New York:  Delacorte Press, 1973.  134p.

Whibley, Charles (1859-1930).  A book of scoundrels.  London:  W. Heinemann, 1897.  283p.

Whitton, Frederick Ernest.  Service trials & tragedies.  London:  Hutchinson, 1930.  288p.  Crimes in Great Britain Army and Royal Navy.

Williamson, William Henry.  Annals of crime:  some extraordinary women.  London:  G. Routledge & Sons, 1930.  285p.  Including Jeanne de la Cour, Maybrick, Lafarge, Christiana Edmunds, Marie de Morell, Helene Jagado, Madeleine Smith, Marie Michel, Constance Kent, Célestine Doudet & Madame Joniaux.