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  • The Great Pictorial History of World Crime

    2 Volumes

    The vast and mysterious world of criminals, from ancient times through the 21st century, is vividly captured in The Great Pictorial History of World Crime. This unique and staggering reference work chronicles every major criminal act from every era. A definitive reference source to worldwide crime, this unparalleled survey is organized into sixteen chapters:AssassinationBigamyBurglaryCannibalismCelebrity ... Read more

    $106.69 USD

  • Hustlers and Con Men

    An Anecdotal History of the Confidence Man and His Games

    Jay Robert Nash takes you into the real and fascinating world of the criminal elite—the con man. Hustlers and Con Men is an entertaining look at the boldest, most sophisticated, most wildly imaginative criminals of the past 200 years, including the Gondorf brothers, Lou Blonger, Charles Ponzi, Madam Zingara, "Paper Collar Joe" Kratalsky, and hundreds of others. Here, too, are their extraordinary ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Look for the Woman

    A Narrative Encyclopedia of Female Prisoners, Kidnappers, Thieves, Extortionists, Terrorists, Swindlers and Spies from Elizabethan Times to the Present

    A revealing survey of female criminals through the centuries includes an intriguing progression of female poisoners, kidnappers, extortionists, terrorists, swindlers and spies. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Dark Fountain

    A Novel of Horror

    Bible-toting Earle Leonard Nelson fancied himself a man of mission. The Lamb of God, in fact, divinely empowered to cleanse the world of sin. But the priesthood that carried him across the country from San Francisco to Buffalo and ultimately into Canada during the 1920s assumed grisly proportions—the brutal strangling and violation of twenty-two helpless and unsuspecting women. Landladies mostly, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Bloodletters and Badmen

    A narrative encyclopedia of American criminals from the pilgrims to the present. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Jay Robert Nash's Crime Chronology

    A Worldwide Record 1900-1983

    Jay Robert Nash, best-selling author and one of the world's foremost crime historians, has compiled in one volume thousands of the most significant and fascinating crimes of the twentieth century.This extensive worldwide chronology is a year-by-year, crime-by crime historical record, Organized by criminal activity—Murder, Robbery, Organized Crime, Miscellaneous—the entries provide dates, names, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Murder, America

    Homicide in the United States from the Revolution to the Present

    Here is a comprehensive collection of the most fascinating homicide cases in our nation's history. Jay Robert Nash brings the dark side of America to life in these briefs. Included are the most ingenious and the most notorious murders, perpetrated by a group of criminals of frightening and fascinating variety: Warren Waite, who tried to murder his way to an inheritance by spraying his mother-in ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Darkest Hours

    Here is Jay Robert Nash's exhaustive chronology of world disaster's—900 disasters, from sinking ships to famines treated in-depth, often accompanied by eye-witness accounts and illustrations. But Darkest Hour is no mere listing, no dry catalog of events. In hundreds of instances Nash's research led him behind the event itself to the intensely human story of reactions to catastrophe. He has put ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Among the Missing

    An Anecdotal History of Missing Persons from 1800 to the Present

    The endless mystery of Amelia Earhart's last flight. The mysterious disappearance of Judge Joseph Force Crater. The vanishing acts of Agatha Christie, Sherwood Anderson and Aimee Semple McPherson. The lost adventurers - Colonel Percy Fawcett, Richard Halliburton, and George Leigh-Mallory. These famous faces and hundreds more make up this fascinating and fact-filled book. Along with the cases that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Dillinger Dossier

    According to the FBI, public enemy number one John Dillinger was gunned down by agents at the Biograph Theatre in July, 1934. However Jay Robert Nash calls this report into question in this fascinating piece of investigative journalism. Nash asserts that it was Dillinger's doppelgänger rather than the man himself whose life was taken in Chicago. Full of colorful characters and rich descriptions, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Crime Story

    The crime takes place late one night in the mansion of Illinois Governor-elect Maitland Ashmore. His only son, Day, is bludgeoned to death, gruesomely slaughtered in his own bed. This is a textbook murder—no witnesses, no apparent motives, not a single clue. Or so it seems. This is a crime only a sharp, calculating mind could have planned. And only a true student of crime can solve.Jack Journey is ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Mafia Diaries

    Brilliant crime historian and reluctant sleuth Jack Journey finds himself once again entangled with the criminal element as he takes on a search for the diaries of a long-dead Sicilian bandit that might hold the key to unraveling a huge network of organized crime.First, a rare-book dealer from whom Journey has arranged to buy an old and valuable collection is found in his loft gruesomely stabbed ... Read more

    $7.99 USD