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The Devil in the White City

22,226 members

701 reviews

4

6 Members: aulsmith, andomck, ahef1963, Luchtpint, ArchDucchess, NitaBirdsong

2

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

by Deborah Blum

2,304 members

129 reviews

4.1

4 Members: Emma_Holgate, ArchDucchess, NitaBirdsong, telkip

3

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

by Vincent Bugliosi

5,029 members

90 reviews

4

5 Members: dara85, Moomin_Mama, ahef1963, Emma_Holgate, NitaBirdsong

4

Before He Wakes: A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex and Murder

by Jerry Bledsoe

150 members

1 review

3.8

4 Members: dara85, Emma_Holgate, telkip, MrBResearch

5

The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-century New York

by Patricia Cline Cohen

479 members

6 reviews

3.8

4 Members: kara.shamy, Emma_Holgate, ArchDucchess, NitaBirdsong

6

Homicide : A Year On The Killing Streets

2,195 members

45 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hipdeep, Emma_Holgate, NitaBirdsong

7

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

by Kate Summerscale

3,499 members

173 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, souloftherose, NitaBirdsong

8

by Truman Capote

23,808 members

467 reviews

4.1

4 Members: dara85, Moomin_Mama, ahef1963, NitaBirdsong

9

The Monster of Florence

by Douglas Preston

2,639 members

108 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: kara.shamy, NitaBirdsong, telkip

10

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

by Simon Winchester

12,065 members

295 reviews

3.8

3 Members: kara.shamy, Emma_Holgate, NitaBirdsong

11

The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer

378 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: dara85, Moomin_Mama, Emma_Holgate, NitaBirdsong

12

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

by Jon Krakauer

8,881 members

223 reviews

3.9

4 Members: dara85, aulsmith, ahef1963, NitaBirdsong

13

783 members

20 reviews

3.8

3 Members: dara85, ahef1963, MrBResearch

14

Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder and its Detection

by Emlyn Williams

199 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: Moomin_Mama, Emma_Holgate, NitaBirdsong

15

by Thomas Thompson

268 members

6 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dara85, Moomin_Mama

16

The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century

by Harold Schechter

375 members

12 reviews

3.8

3 Members: Emma_Holgate, ArchDucchess, NitaBirdsong

17

Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America's Heartland

by Patricia L. Bryan

130 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: Emma_Holgate, NitaBirdsong, telkip

18

The 4 O'Clock Murders

by Scott Anderson

48 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, NitaBirdsong

19

The Killer of Little Shepherds

by Douglas Starr

608 members

33 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Luchtpint, NitaBirdsong

20

Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints

331 members

32 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

21

The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York

by Stephen Duncombe

65 members

½ 3.5

2 Members: aulsmith, NitaBirdsong

22

Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia

by John Gilmore

227 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: dara85, NitaBirdsong

23

Depraved: The Definitive True Story of H.H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-of-the-Century Chicago

by Harold Schechter

396 members

6 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ArchDucchess, NitaBirdsong

24

Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder (Onyx)

by Jerry Bledsoe

397 members

5 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, telkip

25

The Stranger Beside Me

2,899 members

74 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

26

A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders

by Gary M. Lavergne

85 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, NitaBirdsong

27

Honor Thy Father

444 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: hipdeep, NitaBirdsong

28

The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811

443 members

11 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ArchDucchess, NitaBirdsong

29

The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars

by Paul Collins

801 members

40 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: NitaBirdsong, telkip

30

The Onion Field

by Harold Becker

1,013 members

17 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, NitaBirdsong

31

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up

by Richard Lloyd Parry

1,006 members

52 reviews

3.8

2 Members: NitaBirdsong, telkip

32

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide

by Robert Jay Lifton

859 members

8 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, NitaBirdsong

33

On South Mountain : The Dark Secrets of the Goler Clan

by David Cruise

90 members

3 reviews

4

Member: NitaBirdsong

34

Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions

3,080 members

86 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, NitaBirdsong

35

The Executioner's Song

by Norman Mailer

2,898 members

50 reviews

4

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, NitaBirdsong

36

Happy Like Murderers

193 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Moomin_Mama, NitaBirdsong

37

Dead Air - The Disappearance of Jodi Huisentruit

9 members

1 review

½ 4.5

2 Members: dara85, NitaBirdsong

38

The Mormon Murders

by Steven Naifeh

308 members

1 review

½ 3.4

2 Members: aulsmith, NitaBirdsong

39

Sins of the brother: The definitive story of Ivan Milat and the backpacker murders

by Mark Whittaker

54 members

1 review

4

2 Members: ArchDucchess, NitaBirdsong

40

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town

by Lawrence Schiller

392 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dara85, NitaBirdsong

41

The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century

by Edward Dolnick

644 members

26 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aulsmith, NitaBirdsong

42

4,807 members

145 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aulsmith, NitaBirdsong

43

The Yale Murder

30 members

3.2

2 Members: aulsmith, NitaBirdsong

44

by Peter Conradi

83 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Luchtpint

45

The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption

by Barbara Bisantz Raymond

186 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: dara85, NitaBirdsong

46

The Killer Department

by Robert Cullen

111 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: Luchtpint

47

Murder in the Adirondacks

by Craig Brandon

50 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: NitaBirdsong

48

The Big Bankroll: The Life and times of Arnold Rothstein

27 members

½ 3.6

Member: hipdeep

49

The Cases That Haunt Us

by John Douglas

993 members

16 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, NitaBirdsong

50

After Etan: The Missing Child Case that Held America Captive

by Lisa R. Cohen

65 members

4 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, NitaBirdsong

51

House of Evil: The Indiana Torture Slaying

174 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: dara85, NitaBirdsong

52

Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates

by Stewart P. Evans

27 members

½ 4.4

Member: Luchtpint

53

Con man : a master swindler's own story

58 members

½ 3.3

Member: NitaBirdsong

54

Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris

271 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: Luchtpint

55

Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris

by Steven Levingston

156 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Luchtpint

56

The Search for the Green River Killer

by Carlton Smith

276 members

½ 3.6

Member: Luchtpint

57

The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey

by John Dickson Carr

72 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: NitaBirdsong

58

Innocent Blood: A True Story of Terror and Justice

56 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

59

From a Clear Blue Sky: Surviving the Mountbatten Bomb

by Timothy Knatchbull

44 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: NitaBirdsong

60

Everything She Ever Wanted

646 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

61

American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl, and the Crime of the Century

by Paula Uruburu

476 members

19 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NitaBirdsong

62

Secret Witness: The Untold Story of the 1967 Bombing in Marshall, Michigan

by Blaine Pardoe

8 members

1

Member: NitaBirdsong

63

Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer

by John Douglas

202 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

64

The Shoemaker : The Anatomy of a Psychotic

by Flora Rheta Schreiber

184 members

3 reviews

3.2

Member: dara85

65

Searching for the Beaumont Children: Australia's Most Famous Unsolved Mystery

by Alan J. Whiticker

18 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: NitaBirdsong

66

The Burning Bed: The True Story Of Francine Hughes - A Beaten Wife Who Rebelled

by Faith McNulty

169 members

½ 4.4

Member: dara85

67

Double Jeopardy

57 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

68

Murder and Mayhem: 52 Crimes That Shocked Early California 1849-1949

by Michael Thomas Barry

5 members

Member: NitaBirdsong

69

A Rip in Heaven

by Jeanine Cummins

365 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NitaBirdsong

70

When She Was Bad...: Violent Women and the Myth of Innocence

by Patricia Pearson

117 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: NitaBirdsong

71

Butcher, Baker: A True Account of a Serial Murder (Onyx)

by Walter Gilmour

71 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

72

Murder in Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley?

by Mark Fuhrman

249 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

73

A Twisted Faith

135 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

74

Provenance: how a con man and a forger rewrote the history of modern art

by Laney Salisbury

585 members

22 reviews

4

Member: NitaBirdsong

75

3,779 members

205 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: dara85

76

27 members

3.2

Member: NitaBirdsong

77

A Death in Belmont

by Sebastian Junger

1,112 members

42 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: NitaBirdsong

78

Doc: The Rape of the town of Lovell

170 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

79

And the Sea Will Tell

by Vincent Bugliosi

687 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NitaBirdsong

80

With Murderous Intent

by Robert Hemming

16 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: dara85

81

by Susan Tyler Hitchcock

200 members

11 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: NitaBirdsong

82

And the Dead Shall Rise

255 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: NitaBirdsong

83

True Hollywood Noir: Filmland Mysteries and Murders

by Dina Di Mambro

36 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

84

The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders

by Anthony Flacco

169 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: NitaBirdsong

85

The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren

by Jonathan Lopez

246 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: NitaBirdsong

86

The Lizard King: The True Crimes and Passions of the World's Greatest Reptile Smugglers

by Bryan Christy

118 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NitaBirdsong

87

Massacre at Mountain Meadows

by Ronald W. Walker

172 members

6 reviews

4

Member: NitaBirdsong

88

The Michigan Murders

by Edward Keyes

187 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

89

Nameless Indignities: Unraveling the Mystery of One of Illinois's Most Infamous Crimes

by Susan Elmore

36 members

2 reviews

4

Member: NitaBirdsong

90

A Case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping That Haunted a Nation

by Tal McThenia

80 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NitaBirdsong

91

Eye of the Beast: The True Story of Serial Killer James Wood (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

47 members

1 review

4.1

Member: dara85

92

by Susan D. Mustafa

32 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

93

Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris

794 members

51 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: NitaBirdsong

94

The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

458 members

28 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

95

The Woodchipper Murder

by Arthur Herzog

64 members

5 reviews

3.2

Member: dara85

96

Beyond All Reason

79 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

97

Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox to the Killer Bean of Calabar

by Peter Macinnis

266 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: NitaBirdsong

98

Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell

by Gitta Sereny

370 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: NitaBirdsong

99

On the Road to Villisca: The Hunt for the Midwest Axemen

by Hank Brewster

6 members

1 review

4

Member: NitaBirdsong

100

The Lost King of France: A True Story of Revolution, Revenge, and DNA

by Deborah Cadbury

417 members

11 reviews

4.1

Member: NitaBirdsong

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