True stories books

Provides an account of the life and times of William Watkins - 'an ordinary Englishman' - who, having fathered ten...  Read More >>

The Franklin expedition was not alone in suffering early and unexplained deaths. This title makes the case that...  Read More >>

After the runaway success of You Couldn't Make It Up, Jack Crossley has compiled a second selection of anecdotes...  Read More >>

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Beyond Goodfellas...beyond The Sopranos... comes the amazing true story of Baltimore mobster Charlie Wilhelm, as...  Read More >>

In the early 1890s Wyoming's northern rangeland was torn by the Johnson County War, a violent western collision...  Read More >>

Stories from twenty-nine of America's foremost writers.  Read More >>

Private Peter Scott Janes has been in the army less than five months when he was sent to France. Within weeks he...  Read More >>

Describes actual cases for the reader to decide the results at the trial and on appeal.  Read More >>

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In the neighbourhood of Hell's Kitchen, 1959, a playground confrontation leaves two white youths bludgeoned to death...  Read More >>

Cowboy, army guide, farmer, peace officer, and character in his own right, John P. Meadows arrived in New Mexico...  Read More >>

Each chapter focuses on a different crime or trial, and explores the ways in which each became famous in its own...  Read More >>

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Here, Gibson takes a look at ten notorious serial killers, their crimes, their victims, and their communications...  Read More >>

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Danvers State gives an insider's view of what really went on at the state run insane asylum. The book provides details...  Read More >>

Danvers State gives an insider's view of what really went on at the state run insane asylum. The book provides details...  Read More >>

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When a down-on-his-luck Vietnam veteran is bludgeoned and stabbed to death in his campsite close to a railroad crossing,...  Read More >>

In this brilliant portrayal of lovers who kill and the men and women who are their unwitting victims, Ann Rule expertly...  Read More >>

This is the most extensive collection published to date of first-person oral histories on so many diverse aspects...  Read More >>

This is the thrilling story of how the author with two colleagues broke out of their POW camp in Hong Kong and made...  Read More >>

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After growing up in California in the 1920s and 1930s, Engen entered the Navy through the V-5 aviation cadet program...  Read More >>